Chaya Shen
Born in Taiwan, live and work in Köln. Her work focus on woman’s body, the materiality, and the surrounding interrelations. She conducts research, appropriating constructed apparatus and measurements around body-technology relations and beyond. Her projects encompass installation, performance, sound and writing.
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stuff you might be interested:
1this is the concert series that my friends and I organize
2and introduce you my lighthearted little murmuring garden
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Residency/
2025 Burg Hülshoff- Center for Literature, Münster, Germany
Group Exhibitions & Perfmance/
2025 Urban Stage:Chaya Shen @ Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany
2025 The Body Under Moonlight @ Moon Gallery& Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2024 It’s a Tomb!@Mark Pyramid, Monheim, Germany
2024 “Performing Patterson Partituren” in Fluxus und darüber hinaus: Ursula Burghardt, Benjamin Patterson @ Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2023 Leaky Archive / Not Allowed To Rot @ Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany
2023 FILE exhibition ANIMA+ @ São Paulo, Brazil
2023 soft rotation#1 @ 674FM, Cologne, Germany
2023 Workshow @ Case, Cologne, Germany
2021 LOOP! animation exhibition @ Online
2020 Isle of Breakdown animation exhibition @ Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Bo-Jian animation exhibition @ Taipei, Taiwan
2019 The Kuandu International Animation Festival outdoor showcase @ Taipei, Taiwan
Lecture& Publication/
2025 Die Behandlung, Tenderness of the In-between @ Conflict, Justice, Decolonization, ICCS, Taiwan
2025 What is care? Tenderness of the machine - Code & Context @ Technology Arts Science TH Köln, Cologne, Germany
2025 LORE magazine @ Burg Hülshoff/ Center for Literature, Germany
2024 Human touch/ Human’s touch - Magic Wand @ [ ] ground zero, Cologne, Germany
Screening/
2021 Taichung International Animation Festival—The Best Taiwanese Animated Short Films Brochure, Taichung, Taiwan
2021 Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantástico de Brasília, Brazil
2021 GBFF Virtual Experience , Wisconsin
2020 Indie-AniFest , Seoul, South Korea
2020 FLICKFAIR Film Festival , Los Angeles, California
2020 Festival Internacional de cine de Ensenada, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2020 NEOS Fest, Puebla, Mexico
2020 The Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 The Kuandu International Animation Festival , Taipei, Taiwan
Education/
2022- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln(KHM)
2017-2021 BA in Animation, Film and New Media, Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA)