Jennis Cheng Tien Li

Werke

Dissipation

Location: Onyar River Girona, Spain River Water, Wooden Crates ca. 1,5 x 0,5 x 1m each block Four large ice blocks were made from the water collected from the main river Onyar in Girona, Spain. Installed in one section of the river, creating a temporary divergence of the river flow. Part of the residency project at ETAC | Espai Transfronterer d’Art Contemporani (Bòlit Centre Art Contemporani in Girona, Spain)

The Specific Value ()

Installation The sculpture comprises of a total volume of 250 ml (the average blood volume of a newborn) of inkjet ink, printed on 832 slides of OHP transparency ﬁlm, using a regular domestic printer. The current price of printer ink for a printer model HP 22 Tri-color is ca. €528 per liter. The current price of human blood according to the German Red Cross is ca. €200 per liter.

Counterforce

Location: Schrebergarten in Weimar, Germany (Kleingartenanlage Silberblick e. V., Steinhügelweg 1) Various Sport Equipments, Scaffolding, Wooden Crib, Belts 3,64 x 3,20 x 0,73 M Format: Installation 3,64 x 3,20 x 0,73 M, Video Documentation 1’22” This project is a consequence of my research on the founding of the “Schrebergarten” and the man, Mr Schreber (not the founder), who devised apparatuses reminiscent of contemporary gym equipment and experimented on his children to support his theory on children’s excessive energy and its need to be released. This installation was constructed in winter, it transformed the gardenscape into a place where all the surrounding trees and elements seemed to begin to correspond. This work became something sculptural and surreal in the actual site and context. The mere functionalities of the original equipment have been translated into absurdity.

to.gather_zu.sammeln

Participatory Site-Specific Installation in a derelict brewery, Biedenkopf (Hessen), Germany Human Hair, Wool, Nails, Lights Ø: ca. 3,5m, Height 4,5m, Total length of spun hair 1200m

Laminated Lament

Flooring samples with various stone optics, Bianco Monte Marble, Impala Granite, Kinawa Granite, Shanxi Black Granite

To Various Degrees

Site-specific Installations Dried Mud, Water Resistant Paint, Collected Glasswares ThreeInstallations, Video 2’ 41”. This installation is based on the research about the floods cause by the river Le Tarn in the city of Albi, France. The element that ties all the installations is derived from a collection of fragments of silt left by a recent flood in the basement of Le Centre d’art le LAIT in Albi, France.One of the installation consists of various glass containers that were collected from the people who had been impacted or experi- enced by floods near the river. The painted fragments were placed in the containers filled with water, with the silts slowly disintegrates itself from the white paint, leaving the paint which retains the imprint of each fragment.

Emanare

Social Sculpture Location: Gillman Barracks, Singapore Jan 19 - 24, 2016 twelve 15ft shipping containers, one 30ft shipping container Social sculpture project employing 15 shipping containers to create a temporary exhibition experience in a parking space. The containers are arranged to form a spiral which breaks the monotony of the carpark grid. The containers are arranged so as to alternate the direction by which visitors enter each container. This inserts breathing spaces to slow down the pace. It creates also a duality of two separated coexistences and walking routes within the whole arrangement in an iconic shape of a spiral.

Widerschein

Location: Chemnitz, Germany August 27 - September 3 , 2018 Plastic Barriers, Retroreflective Tape, Headlights, Aluminium Rods, Steel, Wire Ropes 4,3 x 3,20 x 0,70 M An intervention which took place in a blocked street in Chemnitz, Germany. Inspired by the current state of countless blocked streets and construction sites found within the city. A constructed hexagon out of several street barriers camouflouged itself during the day as a construction site, got to be errected during night time. -DE- Jennis Li Cheng Tien realisiert eine installative Intervention die durch ihre Beobachtung des aktuellen Stadtbildes Chemnitz inspiriert ist. Ihre Eindrücke der vielen Baustellen, die Wege und Straßen mit ihrer Präsenz einnehmen und gar blockieren, verarbeitet sie in einer Installation. Aus den allgegenwärtigen Straßensperren bildet sie ein aufgestelltes Sechseck das statt zu blockieren Menschen durchlässt.

Momenta

Momenta 2020 Installation in public space Location: Berlin Neukölln, Germany Duration: June 19 - June 21 , 2020 2 x 2 x 2 M Traffic cones, Reflective pigment 45um, LED lamps, Open pipe clamps, Grid construction made of round bar steel, Powder coating.

OFFSHORE *AR

Offshore ist ein digitales Kunstprojekt, das von der Künstlerin Jennis Li Cheng Tien realisiert wurde. Zwei Ihrer Installationen aus dem öffentlichen Raum, Momenta (2020) und Widerschein (2018) erhalten mit Offshore eine Augmented Reality Präsenz, bei der die Kunstwerke unabhängig von Zeit und Ort erlebt werden können. Gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

Eckdaten

www.jennislichengtien.de

Installation, Lichtkunst, Partizipation, Skulptur

* 1983

Jennis Li Cheng Tien ist 1983 in Taiwan geboren und aufgewachsen in Singapur. 2010 absolvierte sie an der Bauhaus Universität in Weimar ihr Masterstudium und seitdem lebt sie in Berlin.

Lis Arbeiten schwingen zwischen Installationen und vergänglichen, zeit- und ortsbezogenen Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum. Die visuell erfahrbare Abstraktion soziologischer und anthropologischer Zusammenhänge sind Standpunkte ihrer Werke. Eben diese Betrachtung der sozialen Strukturen und Räumlichkeiten führt zu ihrer sehr eigenen Herangehensweise, in der sie die Überkreuzung aus Ansätze der Disziplinen von Architektur, Plastik und Urbanistik in ein ihr eigenes methodisches Schaffen übersetzt.

Vita

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 (selected)

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

Residencies & Grants

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

Selected Interventions / Public Performances

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

Collections

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

Selected 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