Ke-Hsuan Chen
Loss Is Pink Blue and Green
Fantasy Geology
Silent Stripes
How To Write Dao
From Rage To Ecstasy
DieShui
Ripples
Long Story Short
Floating Over the City
Reverie and Leisure
Tilted
Residency
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Ke-Hsuan Chen (b. 1992, Pingtung, Taiwan) lives and work in Berlin, Germany. Her practice spans painting and sculpture, focusing on the relationships between personal experience, urban space, and identity. Often using herself as a medium, she regards acts of picking and recording as a form of participation.
Working through abstraction and material traces, she employs stripes, grids, and fragmented landscapes as recurring visual elements often considered marginal. Her work explores discipline, alienation, and freedom, while attending to how subjectivity can be reclaimed within existing structures. In her practice, absence and presence are equally significant. As boundaries blur and meanings dissolve, like a word repeated until it loses its meaning, her work offers a poetic and critical response to contemporary urban life.
Solo Exhibition
2026 Loss is Pink, Blue and Green, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan (Artist Talk)
2025 From Rage To Ecstasy, Pharos Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 How To Write Dao, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Mesh of Time, Ten Pieces Gallery, Paris, France
2019 Reverie and Nothingness, Meng Lu, Tainan, Taiwan
2019 Reverie and Leisure, Pon Ding, Taipei, Taiwan
Two-Person Exhibition
2027 Earth and Ground, Yao Alternative Space, Taichung, Taiwan (Upcoming)
2027 Notes on Softening a City, ss space space, Taipei, Taiwan (Upcoming)
2023 Mini Ponding Jimbocho, Pharos Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Group Exhibition
2024 As if I Were There, Catalyst Art and Technology Institute, Berlin, Germany
2023 Nuance, Hermetika, Berlin, Germany
2020 Pretty Vacant, Konomanic, Tokyo, Japan
Residencies
2025 Artist on residence, Baer Art Center, Skagafjördur, Iceland
2024 Studio Kura, Itoshima, Japan
Publications
2026 From Troubled Youth to Cool Kids: Tattoo Artists 1980-2020, Documentary Book, by nodate
2024 Tshiah-hue, Zine, by nodate
2021 DieShui, Artists book, Limited edition of 40, Self-published
2019 Love of Fool, Zine, Edition of 100, Self-published
Collaborations
2025 Modern Cinema, Taiwan
2024 500 times, United Daily News, Taiwan
2022 Hyundai Artlab, New York, United States