Kong Shengqi

Kong Shengqi's works, carved in wood, soft and clear, bring out of the material fantastic and organic creatures, with round faces and naive features, sometimes almost childish and sometimes terrifying. Her obvious love for the material that is wood and her way of sculpting particularly evokes the arts of the natives of North America, which can be found in Alaska or on the Inuit lands of Canada.

Biography

Young Chinese artist born in Beijing in 1989, Kong Shengqi chose to settle in France from 2015 after studying architecture in China. She initially followed a second cycle “space design option” at the Institute of Arts in Toulouse before entering École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where she obtained a DNSAP with the congratulations of the jury in 2018 and will be part of the admissions jury for the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris the following year. She is also the laureate of Beaux-Arts de Paris x Altarea project in 2020 and Beaux-Arts de Paris x Moët Hennessy project and Prix Gide – Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2021. She currently lives and works in Paris.

Kong Shengqi’s works, carved in wood, soft and clear, bring out of the material fantastic and organic creatures, with round faces and naive features, sometimes almost childish and sometimes terrifying.

Her obvious love for the material that is wood and her way of sculpting particularly evokes the arts of the natives of North America, which can be found in Alaska or on the Inuit lands of Canada.

In the “project” report dedicated to her last exhibition, Margaux Brugvin specifies that her sculptures “are thought to be used in forms of invented rituals. One looks through the cavity of a screaming face to discover the slits of two eyes on the other side of the sculpture. For the latter, Kong Shengqi’s sculptures evoke sacred objects, human or animal deities on which the visitor is free to project their own references and interpretations and come to explore “their childhood fascinations and terrors, the mystery of what happens inside bodies, inside every living being, the biological or mystical forces that govern every entity and make up our world of which we do not understand that so few things. »

Professional project and prize

2021 Laureate Project Beaux-Arts de Paris x Moët Hennessy

2021 Laureate Gide Prize – Beaux-Arts de Paris

2021 nominated Fellowship of the Friends of the Beaux-Arts de Paris

2020 Laureate Paris Fine Arts Project x Altarea

2019 Member of the admissions jury Beaux-Arts de Paris

2018 DNSAP with the congratulations of the jury, Beaux-Arts de Paris

2015 – 2016 2nd cycle space design option, Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse

2012 – 2014 Architect Approach Architecture Studio

2012 Assistant to the curator of the exhibition Sebastien Leon Agneessens, UCCA

2012 Bachelor of Architecture The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

Career

Personal exhibitions

2021
 « Abracadabois » Exposition personelle Yishu 8 - Chez Tante Martine, Paris
« Théâtre d'été » Exposition personelle Résidence du Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen

2018
« L'éviscération » Exposition personnelle La Chapelle de l'école des beaux-arts, Paris KONG Shengqi Expositions née en 1989 à Pékin

2017
« La peau de la prémonition » Exposition personnelle Café Héloïse de l'école des beaux-arts, Paris

Collective exhibitions

2022

"Corps & Âmes", Gallery LOFT, Paris
« -196 °C ἄζωτος » exposition collective, Le Préàvie, Le Pré-Saint-Gervais
« émergences.fr » Exposition collective Bozar - Palais de Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles

2021
« Parade Petites bouchées Movement La mer » Exposition collective La Maison Fraternelle, Paris
« Figures » Exposition collective Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
« Et vous dansez sans le savoir » Exposition collective En plein air dans la ville, Pré Saint-Gervais
« Avec ma faim de loup » Exposition collective Le PRéàVIE, Pré Saint-Gervais
« 100% l'EXPO » Exposition collective de Festival 100% Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris
« Vivez Joyeux » Exposition collective Le PRÉÀVIE, Pré-Saint-Gervais

2020
« Combination » Exposition en Duo Villa Kultur de Danemark, Copenhague
« Théâtre anatomique » Exposition collective dans les vitrines des Galeries de St-Germain Galerie Loft, Paris

2019
« FELICITÀ » Exposition collective des félicités Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
« Finale » Exposition collective des diplômés Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris

2016
« LabBooks - éd. 2016 » Exposition collective de LabBooks la médiathèque des Abattoirs, Toulouse

Résidence & Workshops

2021
Artiste en résidence ASSOCIATION ART 8,  Paris

2021
Artiste en résidence,  Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen

2017
« Woodcut and Printmaking » Master class de Gutenberg Arts
Danmarks Tekniske Museum,  Elseneur

2016
« Endeavor, le basculement  » avec Niels Trannois
Exposition collective à l'isdaT, Toulouse

2015
« RE – Emprunt, remix et rééditing dans les arts actuels » avec Joanne Leighton
Restitutions à l'isdaT & les Abattoirs, Toulouse

2011
« Renouveau du quartier résidentiel de Akabane » Atelier Nobuaki Furuya, WASEDA Université, Tokyo

2011
« Horizontal Town in Seoul-- the Collective Domain with diversified intensity » Kyung Hee Université, Seoul

2010
« Wood structure » avec Institut fur Baukonstruktion Lehrstuhl 1, Universitael Stuttgart à CAFA , Pékin

2009
« Crossing Now-Dialogues for Emergency Architecture » avec RINTALA EGGERTSSON ARCHITECTS et Norwegian University of Science and Technology Musée d'art national de Chine, Pékin