Kexin Hao (CN, 1993) is a visual artist and designer born in Beijing and based in The Netherlands. Her practice is a marriage of design and performance. Kexin likes to challenge the boundaries between art and “non-art” space. She thinks beyond the disciplines of design, performance, game, clubbing, and fitness, which results in a rich hybridity in her art-making. Using a daring visual language, Kexin’s works is a constant swing between intimate close-up on personal stories and zoom-out to collective narratives; between a past of political heaviness and a flashy modernity rendered in humour and sarcasm. In her recent practice, Kexin investigates in the themes of body, rituals, health, labour, and collective memory.
Kexin received granted residencies at iii (instrument inventors initiative) and V2_; and has shown her works at Rewire festival, TEC ART, GOGBOT Festival, L.E.V. Festival(ES), as well as places such as MAMA, V2_, Worm, W139, PIP, Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum(CN). She has participated in various educational programs by giving workshops and artist talks at Sandberg Institute, ArtEz, Städelschule Architecture Class Frankfurt, and Klasse Digitale Grafik (HFBK) Hamburg.
郝可欣,2021年毕业于海牙皇家美术学院平面设计系,是一位在北京长大现在生活在荷兰鹿特丹的设计师和艺术家。她的实践常常结合平面设计和表演/公众艺术。在中国和欧洲各地发起和参与各类活动和创意项目的经历,不仅仅跨越着地理的界限,也在纵横着艺术领域之间的边界:平面设计、影像艺术、行为表演和音乐等等。如此的实践,游走于美术馆、教室、音乐节和俱乐部之中,也在挑战着艺术空间和非艺术空间之间的边界。郝可欣的作品使用大胆的视觉语言和听觉体验,混合着亲密的个体经历和宏大的集体叙事,用幽默化解历史的沉重。她近期的作品主题主要围绕着身体、仪式、档案和集体记忆。
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2012 - 2016
B.A Business | B.A German
University of International Bussiness and Economics
2017 - 2021
B.A Graphic Design
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2021.6
Graduacted with Distinction | Graphic Design, Royal Academy of Art
2021.7
Department Award | Graphic Design, Royal Academy of Art
2021.7
Nomination | iii Research Residency Award
2021.9
Young Blood Award | GOGBOT Festival
2021.10
Gold Award, Multidisciplinary Design, Young Blood Award | Lu Junyi Design Live
Dd Yearbook '21
TodaysArt Visits KABK, TodaysArt, The Hague
It's Nice That | The Next Generation 2021 continued…
SPREAD MAG issue 5: Movement
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2022
﹝group exhibition﹞ALL GAME NO PLAY, STIFF Festival (CR)
﹝performance﹞Turning Towards Fluidity: A Tournament of the Unknown, W139 (NL)
﹝performance﹞Design Bond 纽带 | China Calling 2022, Dutch Design Week (NL)
﹝group exhibition﹞Stimuleringsfonds 10 year anniversary (NL)
﹝publication﹞3 Body Sessions, video essay for Studium Generale ArtEZ Arhnem (NL)
﹝group exhibition﹞L.E.V Festival, MATADERO (ES)
﹝group exhibition, performance﹞Test_Lab, final presentation Summer Session Residency 2022 at V2 (NL)
﹝residency﹞Summer Session residency, V2_ (NL)
﹝artist talk﹞身体力行的宣传委员,陆俊毅design live, online (CN)
﹝artist talk, performance﹞Never Ready – A Congress on the Visuality of the Internet. University of Fine Arts Hamburg (DE)
﹝solo exhibition﹞Body Matters, CHAXART (NL)
﹝group exhibition﹞TecArt (NL)
﹝group exhibition, performance﹞Rewire Festival: Proximity Music, Sensing After Thought. Amare (NL)
﹝group exhibition, workshop﹞2 Body Practice, W139 (NL)
﹝residency﹞production residency, iii (NL)
﹝performance﹞Midnight Wellness Retreat, Performance Bar Rotterdam (NL)
﹝group exhibition﹞Have A Seat! Moving away from consuming tales Participatory presentation, MAMA Rotterdam (NL)
﹝workshop﹞Typographic Night at Page Not Found (NL)
﹝talk﹞用“身体”和“情境”贯穿的作品集, 最毕设 线上直播分享会 (CN)
2021
﹝group exhibition﹞yà运会, 麓湖·A4美术馆 Luxelakes·A4 Art Museum (CN)
﹝workshop﹞Recipes for A Technological Undoing, Extra-Curricular program Gerrit Rietveld Academie & Sandberg Instituut (NL)
﹝screening﹞STIFF Student International Film Festival (CR)
﹝workshop﹞Embodied lives, Embodied tales, Honors Program at Artez Arnhem (NL)
﹝workshop﹞BARTALK#25: Control (NL)
﹝group exhibition﹞GOGBOT Festival (NL)
﹝duo exhibition﹞PIP Expo (NL)
﹝screening﹞Non Native Native Fair, Worm (NL)
﹝talk﹞Discussion and exercises in cultivation, Stroboskop (PL)
﹝screening﹞Body Building: On the Formation of the Individual, Political, and Empowered Self, Stroboskop (PL)
2020
﹝talk﹞Katakombe, event#2, Städelschule Architecture Class (DE)
﹝hybrid event﹞MOONMOON Trip, WORM Pirate Bay (NL)
﹝hybrid event﹞"What Do We Talk About When We Don't Talk About Food..." Verhalenhuis (NL)
﹝performance﹞Live in between vol. 2: Trans-dialogue, CinemAsia (NL)
﹝hybrid event﹞Trance Zine Pavilion Launch, Gerrit Rietveld Academy(NL)
﹝duo exhibition﹞Moonmoon Calendar X Taoist Meditation Trip, Space 101 (NL)
﹝hybrid event﹞Alternative Chinese New Year 2020 (NL)
2018
﹝screening﹞DaBang Concert | Mukbang Screening, Cinetol (NL)
2022
Exhibition identity, Back To Normal, group exhibition initiated by Alternative Art Guide
Visual identity & website design, Cockroach Collective, 3rd year photography collective and exhibition
2021
Publication design, Symposium 2019 + 2020, Musuem2050
Event visual identity, MOVE! by Spectrum.space, The Spectrum
Art book Chinese typography, Het Spaarzame Schilderen, Robbin Hyker
Thesis publication design, FAKE CHINA 假中国, Isabel Pontoppidan, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Website design, Hgtomi Rosa, Hgtomi Rosa, Stroom Den Haag
Package design, Nr.39 met Rijst, Benjamin Li, MAMA Rottedam, LAM Museum
2020
Motion graphic Campaign, MOONMOON Trip, Honey Kraiwee, UBIK, Worm Pirate Bay
Exhibition campaign, It is very difficult to be an island of perfection in a sea of misery, but please do not doubt our sincerity, Simon Wald-Lasowski, W139
Exhibition campaign, B for Bisexuality, Daphne Oude Geerdink, JIP Haaglanden