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Linhuei Chen


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Bio


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linhueichen@gmail.com

Projects

     
A Sci-Fi Story about Migration (on-going)

    ︎︎︎1953

︎︎︎Bureau of Dunes Landscape Planning 
︎︎︎A Rustling Overture

    
Village of Forgetting & Remembering
    ︎︎︎Artwork
    ︎︎︎Board game

Memory Diaspora
︎︎︎ Reminiscence Object ︎︎︎ Home Food
︎︎︎ Plantae

Metaphoric Optical Viewers
︎︎︎ Stereoscopic photos: Reminiscence Object
︎︎︎ Journey to the West (Stereoscope)

The Third Space
︎︎︎ The Third Space (Artistic Research Book)
     
Transcultural People’s Notion of Home

     His Deck Log Book     

Traces of Motherhood

How to Get Directions in the Middle of the Water

It is as if We are Looking at the Same Ocean



     





   
 



 
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Bio





Linhuei Chen (b. 1981) is a Taiwanese-Dutch artist based in Rotterdam whose nomadic practice explores migration, environmental change, and cultural transformation through a hybrid lens. Working across painting, participatory projects, and field research, Chen treats humans, non-humans, ecological systems, and cultural symbols as co-agents in constructing alternative worldviews.

Chen's work evolved from personal migration experiences to a speculative framework where planetary environmental change positions all humans as potential migrants. Inspired by Dutch dune ecosystems, she conducts ecological fieldwork integrating empirical observations with participatory knowledge gathered through board games and workshops. Drawing from Asian and Western painting traditions, Chen creates hybrid iconographies where scientific data, cultural memory, and speculative imagination generate new questions about coexistence.

Chen holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and degrees in Engineering and Law. She has received grants from Mondriaan Fonds and Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie. Her work is in the collections of Fenix Museum of Migration and Lam Museum in the Netherlands and Cultura Ministry in Taiwan. 


 

Contact: linhueichen@gmail.com (workshops, talks, collaboration proposals, collection inquiries are much welcomed)




Education

  • 2015-2019 | Ba in Fine Art (Painting), Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NL
  • 2017-2018 | Fine Art Exchange, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, the UK
  • 2008-2009| LLM in Law & Economics, European Erasmus Mundos Master Program, University of Manchester, Gent University, Bologna University
  • 1999-2003|BSc in Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan: Research project in Optical Micro-Electromechanical System Lab


Grant/Award

  • 2025 Impuls en Verdieping CBK Rotterdam
  • 2025 Stichting Stokroos seed grant 
  • 2023 Mondriaan fonds Kunstenaar Start
  • 2022 Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie 
  • Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Municipal Art Acquisitions 2022 longlist
  • 2021 Mondriaan fonds artist overbruggen
  • 2021 Contribution PPO (Permanente Professionele Ontwikkeling)
  • 2021 Donation Makersloket
  • 2021 Tijdelijke Werkbijdrage Productie, Presentatie en Research (PPR) by CBK Rotterdam
  • 2017-2018 European Union Student grant for Erasmus student
  • 2008-2009  European Erasmus Mundus Master Program Scholarship granted by Taiwanese Ministry of Education
  • 2008-2009  ING / NTIO Scholarship granted by ING
  • 2006-2007  Scholarship of short-term study in foreign countries granted by Taiwanese Ministry of Education
  • 2005 Outstanding student scholarship granted by National Cheng-Chi University
  • 2002-2003  National Science Council Scholarship for college students

Residencies


  • 2025 Artist Residency, Feng-Tian Migration Village, Hua-Lian, Taiwan
  • 2023 Goethe Institut Rotterdam Art Residency: Investigating Transcultural Care: Village of  Forgetting & Remembering, Rotterdam
  • 2022 V2 Winter Session: Metaphoric Optical Viewer, V2, Rotterdam

Lecture/talks/workshops (selected)

  • 2025/2026 Master/Mentor of Apprentice Master program at Kunstpodium T
  • 2025 CBK Rotterdam Art Office Mentorship (Mentor)

2024

  • Expert Talk: Taiwan (Casper Wits & Linhuei Chen), Rotterdam Theater
  • University Lecture: Village of Forgetting & Remembering at Department of Social & Policy Sciences , Yuan-Ze University, Taiwan
  • Rotterdam ABC Book: researching participatory workshops and illustration, Fenix museum, Rotterdam
  • 2023 Witterook Artist Residency, Breda
  • 2021 Artist talk: the Third Space and Diaspora, KABK Fine Art Seminar
Exhibitions

2025

  • Sep 14- Nov 8, 1953 (Solo), Joey Ramone Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • May 16-18, Vima Art Fair, Cyprus
  • March 27-30, Art Rotterdam Prospects 

2024
 
  • Nov 9 - Dec 21, A Si-Fi Story about Migration: a Hustling Overture (Solo), Mumu Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
  • Oct 18 - 25 Art Taipei, Mumu Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Sep 25 - Nov 3, the Third Space, International Performance Festival Feeling Curious?Rotterdam Theater, the Netherlands
  • July 6th - Aug 31st, Dutch Summer de Zomer Valt dit Jaar op een Zaterdag (group show), Joey Ramone, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • May 27-July 6 (online), July 6-20 (at location), Plan A_Untitled (group show), Mumu Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan

2023

  • Non Native Native Art Fair, artist book foundraising & workshop: Village of Forgetting & Remembering, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
  • Springboard Art Fair: Reminiscence Objects, Werkspoorkathedraal in Utrecht
  • Gaze of the Wispers (group), SinArts Gallery, the Hague

2022 

  • This Art Fair 2022, de Kromhouthal, Amsterdam, NL
  • Down the Rabbit Hole Music Festival Massive Painting Mural Installation, NL
  • The Echo to Every Footstep (group), Huidenclub, Rotterdam, NL

2021 

  • Memory Diaspora: when we all fell asleep, Young Art Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • The Third Space (Solo), boox.space, Haarlem, the Netherlands
  • Where the Exotic things are, Publieke Werken Rotterdam
  • Artist talk: the Third Space and Diaspora, KABK Fine Art Seminar
  • Improvisation performance in RE#SISTER Concert x Fem Fest 2021, Rotterdam

2020 

  • Closed Encounters, Group exhibition organized by Off-Screen, Hilton Art Lab, Rotterdam
  • TENT WELCOMES: HECTOBAR (KUNSTAVOND XL), TENT, Rotterdam

2019

  • A Mother's Soliloquy, as part of PANT Public #1 Cross-border/Cross-country, iii, the Hague
  • The Third Space, Graduation show of Royal Academy of Art, the Hague

2018

  • Studio Complex Tate Exchange (group), Tate Modern, UK
  • One Nest Stand(group): Koekje van Eigen Deeg, Nest, The Hague.
  • Me, Myself and I (group), Tent, Rotterdam

2017

  • Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) 2017- Taiwanese Jaa-Chi edition: Hanging out in night market video installation, Amsterdam
  • Nacht van het 250 jarige park, De Plantage 250-jarig jubileum in Schiedam (group), Schiedam
  • Surrealism Wild beaming (group), Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Collection
  • Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
  • Art Bank Taiwan, Ministry of Culture Collection, Taiwan
  • Fenix Museum of Migration, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Lam Museum, Lisse, Netherlands

Media/Publications

    https://metropolism.com/nl/recensie/prospects-2025-lilli-linhuei-diana-linus-gizem/
  • 2024 Art Emperor Editor’s Choices for Art Taipe 2024
    https://artemperor.tw/focus/6237
  • 2024 Rotterdam Theater Feeling Curious Magazine: The Third Space
  • 2022 Presentatie Productie Research: Tijdelijke werkbijdrage PPR Kunstenaars in tijden van corona 2020/2021, CBK Rotterdam
  • 2021 Taiwan 110 year anniversary memorial calendar 2022: Artist of the Month (September), Taiwanese artists in the Netherlands
  • 2021 Painting: Where the Exotic Things Are is included in Everything is Possible, Publieke Werken Rotterdam 2021
  • 2019 The Third Space: an artistic research on diaspora study from artist’s personal experiences