Kexin Hong



Kexin Hong was born in China, lives and works in the Netherlands, as a multidisciplinary artist, she employs a variety of media including, video, sculpture, and digital fabrication as tools to explore political issues on digital platform and sociology.

Kexin Hong is fascinated by the boundaries between reality and virtuality, as well as the real and the imaginary; Her research delves into the impact of post-colonial trauma on the self- projection mechanisms among individuals in the post-truth era. It investigates how these self- projection mechanisms are manipulated by politically motivated power structures in the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, thereby constructing a multitude of projective realities. Kexin perceives these virtual realities as an ouroboros, perpetually self-referential, created based on our subjective emotions and deeply intertwined with collective social and cultural histories.
In other words, she intends to investigate how political images achieve a fictional “authenticity” while affirming themselves in reverse. 


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Press Coverage



2022 Metropolis M - Review https://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 Cover https://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.



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



2018 “Situational Anomie in 4’50”, NonDual, United Kingdom

2018  Performer, “Blue Apple” Nowness Art Film, Guangzhou K11, China

2018  Performer, “Asia one” by CAO FEI

2019   Rebirth , Art Book, Bananafish Gallery, Shanghai,China

2019   Rebirth , Fluid Borders Art Fair,New Zealand

2019   0am/12pm ,Tiaoshui Gallery, Shanghai, China

2020  GLOW ShenZhen 2020 VI design, Guangzhou k11, China

2021   Rear/Real , Tproject Hangzhou Sangshang Art, China

2022   Upstream Gallery BYOB group exhibition, Amsterdam

2022   Spatial Negativity and Hijacks through Hybrid Materiality, Salzuberg, Austria

2023   Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear,  Refraction Group Show, BAK, Utrecht

2023   Staff Only , Portal Park Online Rescidency, MaMA, Rotterdam,Netherlands

2023   Queerdom film project - cooperation with Shulea Cheag, Salzuberg, Austria

2023   Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear ,W139 , Amsterdam,  Netherlands