Isaac Chong Wai uses performance, video, installation, photography and drawing as mediators to investigate contemporary global phenomena. His work transforms the emotions, tensions, and memories from human interactions into performative materiality and immersive experiences. Treading the line between the individual and the collective, he examines the vulnerability of the body and the inherent violence within social systems and historical traumas and imagines alternative microcosms of human relations.
Chong participated in the Main Exhibition of the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. His recent solo exhibitions were shown at Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (Nordhorn, 2025) as part of being selected as Winner of the Art Award of the City of Nordhorn 2024 in Germany, Liste Art Fair Basel (Basel, 2023), Museum Schloss Moyland (Moyland, 2023), Una Boccata d’Arte (Sicilia, 2022), Bilsart (Istanbul, 2021), and Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong, 2019). Chong’s works have also been featured in group exhibitions at Deichtorhallen Hamburg (Hamburg, 2025), Bangkok Kunsthalle (Bangkok, 2025), Kunsthalle Barmen (Wuppertal, 2024), Bangkok Art Biennale 2024 (Bangkok, 2024), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2024), ifa-Galerie Stuttgart (Stuttgart, 2024), UTS Gallery (Sydney, 2024), the 22nd Biennial of Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2023), Brücke-Museum and Schinkel Pavillon e.V. (Berlin, 2023), daadgalerie(Berlin, 2023), Hamburger Bahnhof–Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Museum (Berlin, 2023), eseacontemporary (Manchester, 2023), Taikang Space (Beijing, 2023), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), Kindl Museum (Berlin, 2022), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (Bonn, 2022), Neues Museum StaatlichesMuseum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg (Nürnberg, 2022), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2020), IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, 2020), Museum of Contemporary Art (Taipei, 2019), and M+ (Hong Kong, 2018), amongst others.
Chong currently lives and works between Berlin and Hong Kong.
