Dragon’s Delusion: Preface
Kongkee
2023
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Image Courtesy of Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Past / Present / Future / Bleeding / Tearing / Drifting
2023
Three-channel video installation on LED
Dimensions variable
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Image courtesy of Tai Kwun
Lux Theatre
Video courtesy of Kongkee
Thyself
Kongkee
2023
Lenticular Print
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Image Courtesy of Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Taotie
Kongkee
2022
Neon, Site-specific Installation
3000mm × 1215mm
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Image courtesy of Tai Kwun
You Can Never Step in the Same River Twice
Kongkee
2022
Video installation with sound, 1'56", looped
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Courtesy of Tai Kwun
Kongkee, a.k.a. KONG Khong-chang is a Hong Kong animation director and visual artist. Renowned for his daring use of colours as well as his cyberpunk aesthetics, Kongkee’s artworks often feature familiar elements and symbols from Hong Kong—particularly architecture and street scenes that resemble the city as it appeared to him in his formative years. With everyday life as a starting point, Kongkee creatively incorporates fantastical elements to create a fictional city that mirrors reality in the form of animation, neon and site-specific installation which visitors can see in the current exhibition Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk.
Kongkee’s portfolio includes Pandaman, Ding Ding Penguin, and Travel to Hong Kong with Blur created in collaboration with Britpop band BLUR in 2015. Kongkee started developing the comic series Mi Luo Virtual in 2013, which was later animated and transformed into a short film Dragon’s Delusion: Preface that won the grand prize of the 22nd DigiCon6. His most recent work is Flower In The Mirror, an interactive video installation commissioned by M+ Museum in 2021. In 2022, his major solo exhibition Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk debuted at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and toured to Wrightwood 659 Museum in Chicago.