Jennis Li Cheng Tien

born 1983, Tainan, Taiwan. 
Singapore national

Lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION

2008   
MFA, Public Art and New Artistic  Strategies, Bauhaus-University Weimar

2000   
Diploma, Interactive Media Design, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2016   
›obpossession‹, Super bien!, Berlin

2015   
›Open Studio: Jennis Li Cheng Tien‹, Centre D‘art le Lait, Albi, France

2013   
›To repeat but not replicate‹, BABEL KUNST, Trondheim, Norway

GRANTS & RESIDENCIES

2022
Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR,
Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur & BBK Bundesverband, Germany

2021
Funding, NEUSTART KULTUR - Modul C: Innovative Kunstprojekte,
Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur & BBK Bundesverband, Germany

2020
Artist Residency Grant, AIR Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria

2018
Artist Residency Grant, DIALOGFELDER, Chemnitz, Germany

2015
ETAC Grant & Artist in Residence, Centre D‘art le Lait, Albi, France
ETAC Grant & Artist in Residence, Bòlit Centre d‘Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2013
SI Arts Grant, Singapore International Foundation, Sinagpore
Artist in Residence, LKV Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway

2012
Artist in Residence, ADDAYA Centre d’Art Contemporani, Mallorca, Spain

2011
Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt art iT Scholarship, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2020
Commissioned Installation, ›SIGNALS‹ 48H Neukölln, Berlin

2018
IG Nacht, DIALOGFELDER, Chemnitz, Germany

2017
›Refaire Surface - Suspended spaces‹, Centre d‘art Le LAIT, Albi, France

2016
Art Basel, Art Fair, Hong Kong. Booth Mizuma Gallery
›SCOUT‹, Gillman Baracks, Singapore

2015
›What It Is About When It Is About Nothing‹, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
›Corrent continu II: Solatge‹, Bòlit Centre d‘Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2014
›PARADÍS TERRENAL‹, Galerie RDV, Nantes, France
›Festival Miradas de Mujeres‹, Women in Visual Arts Festival, Spain

2013
›Berlin . Status (2)‹, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
›UTOPIA‹, Senatsreservenspeicher Berlin, Berlin

2012
›The Garden of Eden‹, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
›AUSSTELLUNG 6: Architecture‹, Berlin Art Junction GIZ House, Berlin
›Positioning Osmotic Impulses‹, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
›SPRUNG‹, BRINK Festival, Wuppertal, Germany
›AUSSTELLUNG 5: Perception‹, Berlin Art Junction GIZ House, Berlin

2011
›Fast & Furious‹, Hallen am Wasser, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin
›Bauhaus Now‹, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA
›Mnemonics‹, Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin,
›Denkmalpflege – Ausser Haus‹, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS 

2020   
›Momenta‹, Neukölln 48H, Berlin, Germany
2018   
›Widerschein‹, DIALOGFELDER, Chemnitz, Germany
2016   
›obpossession‹, Super bien!, Berlin
›Emanare - Social Sculpture‹, SCOUT Gillman Baracks, Singapore
2015
›Dissipation‹, intervention in public space, Girona, Spain

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Colección Pi Fernandino, Madrid, Spain
Mikey and Lou Samson Collection, Singapore

CATALOGUES & PUBLICATIONS 

2015
Exhibition Review, ›Perceiving Identity‹, What it is about when it is about no thing, CUBES 77, Singapore
Exhibition Catalogue, ETAC Art Grant, Bòlit Centre d‘Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain
Exhibition Catalogue, ›Solatge‹, Bòlit Centre d‘Art Contemporani, Girona, Spain

2012
Exhibition Book, ›Berlin . Status (2)‹, Sven Drühl and Christoph Tannert, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2011
Artist Catalogue, ›JENNIS LI CHENG TIEN: EINS‹, ISBN: 978-3-941318-32-8