Kexin Hong
Kexin Hong (b. China) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Working across moving image, installation, and essay film, she delves into the psychosocial and political forces shaping our sense of reality.
Her work navigates the fragile relationship between collective trauma and memory, questioning how historical wounds reconstruct our self-perception and the very architecture of how memories are formed
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FUND:
2026 Mondriaan Fund NL
2025 Creative Industries Fund NL
2025 Crazy Peach Art Foundation (Top Grant Recipient)
2024.06 Amsterdams fonds voor de kunst
RESIDENCY
2023 Queerdom film project - cooperation with Shulea Cheang, Salzuberg, AT
2023 Portal Park Online Residency, MaMA, Rotterdam, NL
2023 The Hmm FYI Project, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, NL https://thehmm.nl/education/participants-digital-makers-program/
2022 Temporary Takeover Educational residency, Casco Institute, Utrecht, NL
EXHIBITION
2026 Chinese Film Festival Hamburg official selection, Hamburg,DE
2025 ATM6: Transvaluation, Asia Triennial Manchester, UK
2025 bore Group Exhibition, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2025 Someday that space in time, 1st attic presents Chinese Short Film Program, Droog, Amsterdam, NL
2025 HIVE film Festival, Berlin,DE
2025 Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival, New York, USA
2025 The Void Reenactment, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Berlin,DE
2025 Imaginary Rescripting Artist Talk, Living Room Session, Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, NL
2025 LI-MA Presents- New Arts on Screen, 171 art space,Arnhem, NL
https://li-ma.nl/article/li-ma-presents-new-art-on-screen-at-171project-space/
2024 Voicing Responsibility, SEA Foundation,Tilburg,NL
2023 “ Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear”,
The Hmm @ REBOOT , Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL https://live.thehmm.nl/the-hmm-at-rebo0t
2023 “ Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” ,W139 , Amsterdam, NL
2023 “ Staff Only”, Portal Park Online Rescidency, MaMA, Rotterdam, NL
2023 “ Staff Only”, Portal Park Online Rescidency, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam,NL
2023 “Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear” Refraction Group show, BAK, Utrecht,NL
2022 Spatial Negativity and Hijacks through Hybrid Materiality, Summer Academy, AT
2022 Upstream Garllery BYOB group exhibition, Amsterdam,NL
2021 “Rear/Real” , Tproject Hangzhou SangShang Art, CHN
2020 GLOW ShenZhen 2020 VI design, Guangzhou K11, CHN
2019 “0am/12pm” ,Tiaoshui Gallery, Shanghai, CHN
2019 “Rebirth”, Bananafish Gallery, Shanghai,CHN
2019 “Rebirth” , Fluid Borders Art Fair,New Zealand
2018 “Situational Anomie in 4’50”, NonDual, UK
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
2025-present Valiz
2023.12— 2024.8 FREITAG Amsterdam Store Social media Creative Design
2019.10 Shanghai Bund Art Museum HIGHLIGHT photographer
2019-2021 Art Director theOUTPUT official Shanghai https://www.instagram.com/theoutputofficial/
• Spearheaded a team of 12 to successfully conceptualize and present visual content and campaign proposals for Absolute Vodka, targeting China's youth cultural market. Initiatives included brand research, audience analysis, virtual persona
development, brand content positioning, visual direction establishment, and 3D imaging.
• Orchestrated and designed the visual campaign script for Salomon's collaboration
with OUTPUT's represented artist-Timo Helgert, for the XT-6 campaign. Responsibilities included storyboard scripting, content communication, layout design, and more.
• Lead Graphic Designer for GLOW ShenZhen 2020 Art Festival.
Designed the festival's main visual posters, key visual boards, exhibition panel designs, and visual navigation layouts.
• Innovatively coordinated and designed the main visual contents for the Kering Group's exhibition booth at the Shanghai Import Expo. Responsibilities encompassed video editing and spatial curation planning.
PRESS COVERAGE
2022 Metropolis M - Reviewhttps://www.metropolism.com/nl/reviews/49964_graduation_shows_2023_hku_ma_fine_arts
2021 Numero China - Personal Interview https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/K5yEvNbyeyJcpGXcRaKzgw
2020 The WOW Magazine Issue3 -Interview https://www.instagram.com/p/CFZLY-jAVKc/
2018 NYLON China April Magazine Coverhttps://weibo.com/6298663816/GcQ8H4ttV
NYLON selects 99 young people with the most NYLON genes from the fields of fashion, music, humanities, arts, sports, etc., to represent Nylon and showcase their talents and collective spirit.