Hotel Asia Project

Artists:

BABU

BABU was born in 1983 in Kitakyushu, Japan. He has visited various places to create street art and has created works in various media including film, paintings, drawings, sculpture, and tattoos by referring to street culture.

Chen Sai Hua Kuan

Sai graduated from the LASALLE College of the Arts in 1997. In 2007, he received a Master in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He has received numerous awards including Artist-in-residency Award at Yale-NUS (2020), Knstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin Germany (2015-2016), and Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan (2013); The People’s Choice Award, ‘Mostyn Open 18’, Wales, United Kingdom (2013); The Visiting Artist Program of Earth Observatory Singapore, Singapore (2012); Best of WRO, 14th Media Art Biennale WRO 2011 – Alternative Now, Wroclaw, Poland (2011); Ar1st-in-residency Award, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom (2011); Best film of FAFF2010, Fundada Artists’ Film Festival, Wakefield, United Kingdom (2010); Winner of International Compe11on, “Tower Kronprinz: Second Advent”, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia (2009). Sai’s artworks have been widely collected by private collectors and institutions in Singapore and abroad, including Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), He Xiangning Art Museum (China), Chengdu EcoGarden (China), VehbiKoc Foundation (Turkey) and Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (South Korea).

Sai’s practice includes sculpture, installation, sound, film and drawing, all of which encircle the notion of play, uneventful and overlooked everyday experience. Sai often transforms and de-constructs the ordinary things/everyday situations to open up a fresh interpretation surrounding them as a way of challenging the habituated eye. He sees his works as the outcomes of conditional activities determined and enabled by site and context, which go beyond object making and studio practice.

Pan Lu / Bo Wang

Pan Lu and Bo Wang has been working together on various artistic projects since 2012, delving into themes such as space, image, environment, colonialism, the Cold War in the entangled histories and presents in East Asia. Their collaborative works including Postcards from the Future (2014) and Ode to Infrastructure (2016) as multimedia installations. Additionally, they co-directed Traces of an Invisible City: Three Notes on Hong Kong (2016), Miasma, Plants, Export Paintings (2017) and Many Undulating Things (2019). PAN Lu currently serves as an Associate Professor at Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.  Bo WANG is an artist, filmmaker and researcher based in Amsterdam. 

SECOND PLANET

SECOND PLANET is an artist unit founded in 1994 by Keiichi Miyagawa and Hisao Sotoda. It has conducted projects that emerge the invisible socio-economic system embedded in the urban space and that humorously confuse the existing framework of an art institution and/or art history.

Gen Sasaki / Keiichi Miyagawa

Keiichi Miyagawa has been running an artist-run-space called GALLERY SOAP since 1997. He is also a member of artist collective “SECOND PLANET”. Gen Sasaki (b. 1980) is an artist based in Kitakyushu and a member of GALLERY SOAP since 2004. Hotel Asia Project is organized by them with Chinese curator Ni Kun and others.

Chulayarnnon Siriphol

Chulayarnnon Siriphol was born in 1986. Both a filmmaker and an artist, he employs moving images and his body as his main medium. His works are wide and varied in genre, ranging from short film, experimental film, documentary to performance video and video installations. From adaptations of local mythology and science fiction to transformation of analog body to digital spirituality, he questions contemporary issues and political ideology through his own sense of sarcasm.

Tong Wenmin

Tong Wenmin (b. 1989, Chongqing, China) received her BFA at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2012. TONG has recent solo / duo shows at Macalline Art Center, Beijing; Essence Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing; OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan; WHITE SPACE, Beijing; Thousand Plateau Art Space, Chengdu; Organ Haus Art Space, Chongqing, and recent group shows / art festival at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; Salzburg Museum der Moderne, Salzburg; Gamle Strand, Copenhagen; Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer; HE ART MUSEUM, Foshan; OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen; By Art Matters, Hangzhou; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Koganecho Area Management Center, Yokohama; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; A4 Art Museum, Chengdu; House of Egorn, Berlin; BARRAK, Okinawa; Responding: International Performance Art Festival and Meeting 2018, Tokyo & Fukushima; Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide; Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Tel Aviv. She won the Grand Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award in 2018, the First Prize of the 8th New Star Art Award by Deji Art Museum in 2018, Nomination Prize of The 5th Contemporary Sculpture Award in 2017, the Accolade Artist by Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art in 2016. She has also been selected for MQ Artist-in-Residence Program: Art & Ecology Studio, Vienna (2024); The Swiss Arts Council Artists Residency, Switzerland (2023); Offshore Residency, Dinawan Island (2019) and other residencies project. TONG currently works and lives in Chongqing.

Tong Wenmin’s work often focuses on the intersection between individual perception and the external environment, stimulating visual poetry and inspiring action through behaviors that at first seem counter-intuitive. Through often simplified or regulated movements, her work hints at the allegorical character of the body and action within a semantically rich context.

Yu Guo

Yu Guo was born in Tongjiang, Sichuan in 1983, he graduated from Department of Oil Painting of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2016, currently lives and works in Chongqing. Yu Guo’s art practice involves painting, video and writing. Base on the space practice, Yu Guo emphasizes the combination of body and media materials to keep the minutes of the creation process. Recently his works focused on the interweaving of images with texts, as well as the interplay between visible and invisible of social fact. He also participates in various joint projects. Yu Guo is a member of the Chongqing Work Institute. His major group exhibitions include: A Geography of Resistance, Taikang Space, Beijing, CN (2019); Cosmopolis #2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (2019); Here We Live, KADIST, San Francisco, US (2019); Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Chengdu, CN (2018); Hinterland Project, Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN (2015); Approach to Realities, Kunstraum Landeshauptstadt Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, GER (2014).