Chen Chieh-Jen｜Biennale of Sydney｜White Bay Power Station, Sydney

Artist Chen Chieh-Jen has been selected for the 25th Biennale of Sydney in 2026, presenting five video artworks from March 14 to June 14. Echoing the theme “Remomery”, Chen uses a way of revisiting and reconstructing to bring the reclaiming histories back that have been erased or repressed. His works offer a profound exploration of control and concern between human society and artificial intelligence. By focusing on the specific groups, including the homeless, migrant workers, and gig workers, as well as the darker aspects of artificial intelligence, starting a discourse on the interpretation of history, the present, and even the future.

Chen Chieh-Jen was born in 1960 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Chen Chieh-Jen currently lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan. Chen's works are confronted with the rapid technological development and refer to every present situation in which people perceive the world. Chen frequently receives overseas invitation, and his works were collected by several significant art museums, such as Vienna Secession, Austria. Art Sonje Center, Seoul; Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris; M+, Hong Kong; Mori ArtMuseum, Tokyo, etc. He had also been invited to participate in dozens of contemporary art biennials and more than a hundred exhibitions in Venice, Sao Paulo, Lyon, Liverpool, Gothenburg, Istanbul, Moscow, Sydney, Taipei, Shanghai and so on.

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