Bao Dachen, 1993 born in Wuhu, China, is an artist and filmmaker currently based in Rotterdam and Chongqing. He is a co-founder of self-organized Chongqing Work Institute (CWI), a research-based collective operating from 2018.


Education

2020-2022     MFAD, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2015-2018      MFA, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, CN
2011-2015       BFA, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, CN


Residencies

2019     Residency at Kooshk, Tehran, IR
2016     Exchange Program, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, JP


Selected Exhibitions & Screenings

2022
The fourteenth Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, NL
Assimilating, Have You Seen That River, Imaginary Z, Hangzhou, CN
Was There a Paradise, or Was the Garden a Dream?, V2_Lab for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, NL
The Shadow of the Void, AAIE Center For Contemporary Art, Rome, IT
May the Art World Tear Us Apart Til We Meet Again, Bierumer School, Groningen, NL
TENT Online Cinema, Rotterdam, NL
Man-Made Landscape - Hotel Asia Project, Times Art Museum, Chengdu, CN

2021
Plot the Soil - Reconstructuring the Country China, The Institute for Collaborative Innovation in Chinese Visual Studies, Hangzhou, CN
RESEARCH LABS, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL

2020
Floating, School of Visual Arts, New York, US
On The Road - Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists & Forum of Young Art Critics, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
Urban Literature In Process, Hefei Contemporary Art Museum, Hefei, CN
Temporary Symptoms, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN

2019
Here Lead To All Roads, Yell Space, Shanghai, CN
Inter-World-View, Museum of Contemporary Art of CAAM, Hangzhou, CN
Yangze River Map, Hefei Contemporary Art Museum, Hefei, CN
Organhaus-Kooshk Residency Exchange Program, Deegar Platform, Tehran, IR
Triangle Spring Open Studios, Triangle NYC, New York, US
Secret Link, jiéjiè, Waterway, and Data link, Chong Qing Work Institute (CWI), Chongqing, CN
30-Min Forecast, N3 Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, CN
Time Mirror - Chongqing International Experimental Visual Biennale, Tank Loft Arts Center, Chongqing, CN

2018
Chongqing Forest - A Sample of the Asian Ethical Urban, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN
Rear Drifting, HBSTATION, Guangzhou, CN

2017
Social Theater: Participation and Sharing, The 5th Chongqing Biennale of Young Artists, SFAI Art Museum, Chongqing, CN
Position And Disposition, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN
Song Of The Vortex, Organhaus, Chongqing, CN
Production#1-HW Factory Project, Organhaus, Chongqing, CN
The 4th China Prints Exhibition, National Print Art Museum Of China, Shenzhen, CN
Inter-Youth: Art Exhibition of International Art Institutes, Museum of Contemporary Art of CAAM, Hangzhou, CN

2016
Reflection - Tokyo X Sichuan, Yuga Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Vienna/Chongqing International Artists Workshop, LP Art Space, Chongqing, CN
Links - Locality And Nomadism, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN
How Long Is The Way To The Factory, Organhaus, Chongqing, CN

2015
IMPACT 9 International Printmaking Conference, Museum of Contemporary Art of CAAM, Hangzhou, CN
On The Road - Nomination Exhibition of Chinese Young Artists & Forum of Young Art Critics, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
Negative Film of Future, Horizon Art Museum, Hefei, CN
Local Work, Radical Space, Shanghai, CN
Labor Is Golden, Organhaus, Chongqing, CN
The Fifth Guanlan International Print Biennial, National Print Art Museum Of China, Shenzhen, CN


Lectures, Talks & Presentations

2021     Artist Talk, Varia, Rotterdam, NL
2019     Report Lecture Season #3, Chong Qing Work Institute (CWI), Chongqing, CN
              Mountain City Defense System, Museum of Contemporary Art of CAAM, Hangzhou, CN
2018     Report  Lecture Season #1, Chong Qing Work Institute (CWI), Chongqing, CN
              Distance / Observation, Yi Art Institute, Hefei, CN
              Artist Talk, HBSTATION, Guangzhou, CN
              Geography & Movie Writing, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, CN
              Projects Talk, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, CN
2017      Dialogue: Field, Production, Boundary1#, Organhaus, Chongqing, CN