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Nicolas Cheng holds a PhD from the University of Gothenburg, HDK-Valand and an MFA from Konstfack, Sweden. His artistic research work is published under the title: World Wide Workshop: The Craft of Noticing (ArtMonitor, 2019). Recent publications include a critical craft anthology: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water (arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2020), Cheongju International Craft Biennale: Craft City Lab (Beumdeuk Han Publisher, 2021) and The Studio 5th Wall (Konstfack, 2022). His artistic practice is interwoven with studio-based work, artistic research, co-curated exhibition projects and long-term collaboration work - Conversation Piece. ​His works were exhibited at, among others, Die Neue Sammlung; Triennale di Milano; RIAN Designmuseum; Design Miami/Basel; The Dowse Art Museum; Nasjonalmuseet - Oslo; Saint-Étienne Design Biennale and Museum Arnhem. Nicolas was artist in residence at the Blumhardt Foundation International Residency invited by Objectspace (2020); Dunedin School of Art Residency, Aotearoa New Zealand (2020) and Fabrica Research Centre, Italy (2007-08). Some of his recent works are included in the permanent collections of Pinakothek der Moderne; Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch; Stichting Françoise van den Bosch and others. ​

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SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2020  Animacy; Objectspace, Auckland, NZ

2019  World Wide Workshop: The Craft of Noticing; RIAN Designmusuem, Falkenberg, SE

2019  Craft Remediation; Barklund & Co., Stockholm, SE

2017  Gold Rush; Kunstburo Reillplast with Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Arts, Munich, DE

2017  Friction - Resonance; Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm, SE

2015  Terrior; Cultural Embassy, Amsterdam, NL

2014  dé·cor dé·cor; Galerie de Zaal, Delft, NL

2014  Beyond Repair; Bukowskis, Stockholm, SE

2013  Chinoiseries; Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Brussels, BE

2011  Façades; Design Miami/Basel - Design On/Site, Basel, CH

2011  On The Doorway; Ventura Lambrate during Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2022  Consume By, Museum Arnhem, Arnhem, NL

2022  DETOX - Clean it up, Östergötlands Museum, Linköping, SE

2022  The Studio 5th Wall at Platina, Stockholm, SE

2022  Preziosa FJW 2022, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, ITT

2022  Schmuck 2022, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, DE

2022  Schmuck - Jewelry 2012 - 2022, Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, DE

2020  DETOX - Clean it up, Rejmyre Art Lab, Rejmyre, SE

2019  21 Grams, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, NL

2019  MasterMakers, curated by Mark Edgoose, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, AU

2019  21 Grams, BeCraft - World Crafts Council, Mons, BE

2019  Schmuckismus, curated by Karen Pontoppidan, Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich, DE

2019  Non-Stick Nostalgia, curated by Kellie Riggs, MAD - The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US

2019  Group Show, Maurer Zilioli Contemporary Art, Munich, DE

2019  21 Grams, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, DE
2019  Everyone Says Hello, curated by Lars Sture, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, NO

2018  Device People, Droog Design, Amsterdam, NL

2018  These are a few of her favorite things, curated by Gjertrud Steinsvåg, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim, NO

2018  Mari Funaki Award Exhibition 2018, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, AU

2018  Device People, initiated by Gijs Bakker, ALCOVA, Milan, IT
2018  The Language of Things: Meaning and Value in Contemporary Jewellery, curated by Sian Van Dyk, The Dowse Art Museum, NZ

2018  21 Grams, curated by Ruudt Peters, Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metalwork Triennial, CN

2018  From Walter to Valerie, Valerie Traan Gallery, Antwerp, BE
2017  Some Like it Hot, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2016  CULT, curated by Current Obsession and Fredric Baas, Stedelijk Museum‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL

2016  Koru 5, Kuopio Art Musuem, FI
2016  The Imminent Domain: Designing the Life of Tomorrow, Singapore National Design Centre, SG

2016  (IM)PRINT, co-curated exhibition, Easy!Upstream Contemporary Art Space, Munich, DE

2016  Schmuck 2016, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, DE
2016  Chest of Drawers, curated by Liesbeth den Besten, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam, NL

2015  Body Alchemy, curated by Ruudt Peters, Hangzhou Contemporary International Jewelry and Metalwork Triennial, CN

2015  HAND+: Expansion & Co-existence, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, KR
2015  Koru 5, Vaasa Art Musuem, FI
2015  Tool - Jewelry - Weapon, part of The 8th Annual International Deleuze Conference, Konstfack, Stockholm, SE

2015  Koru 5, Imatra Art Museum, FI
2015  Le Rolling Club, curated by Florence Ostende and Jean-Luc Moulène, Saint-Étienne Design Biennale, FR
2015  From The Coolest Corner, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, DE
2015  Lagomland, curated by Karen Pontoppidan, Bayerischer Kunstgewerbeverein, Munich, DE

2014  Confrontations - New Traditional Jewelry, Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, NL

2014  A Sense of Place, Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
2014  From The Coolest Corner, Röhsska Museet, Göteborg, SE

2014  Confrontations - New Traditional Jewelry, SIERAAD Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL
2014  Mari Funaki Award Exhibition 2014, Gallery Funaki, Melbourne, AU
2014  Jewellery Session 2/13, Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, IL

2014  From The Coolest Corner, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, EE

2014  Autarchia, Austerità, Autoproduzione, Triennale Design Museum, Milan, IT

2014  Kino, during Schmuck 2014, Galli Theater, Munich, DE
2013  Bucks 'N Barter, co-curated exhibition, SIERAAD Art Fair, NL
2013  From The Coolest Corner, Design Museum Helsinki, FI
2013  The Wilde Things. The so contemporary jewellery collection of Mrs. Wilde, curated by Evelien Bracke, Z33 - House of Contemporary Art, Hasselt, BE

2013  Design Miami/Basel, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Basel, CH

2013  This End Up, curated by Iris Eichenberg, SNAG - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, CAN

2013  From The Coolest Corner, Design Museum Denmark, Copenhagen, DK

2013  Dialogue, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h and SNAG - Harbourfront Centre, Montreal/Toronto, CAN

2013  Tendenser 2013 ·Tenderness, curated by Glenn Adamson, Galleri F15, Moss, NO

2013  Bucks 'N Barter, co-curated exhibition, during Schmuck 2013, Munich, DE
2013  From The Coolest Corner, Nasjonalmuseet, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, NO

2013  The Imminent Domain, curated by Fumio Nanjo, Asia Society, HK

2012  Design Miami, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Miami, US

2012  Creative Ecologies+, curated by Amy Chow, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, HK

2012  PAD London, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, UK
2012  This was 2007, Brussels Art Days, BE
2012  Object of Vertu, VILLA Knokke, BE
2012  Design Miami/Basel, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Basel, CH

2012  A Matter of Act, Cultural Embassy, Amsterdam, NL
2012  Nordic Masters 2012, organised by ArtShortcut, Helsinki, FL
2012  The State of Things, curator by Karen Pontoppidan, Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum, Munich, DE

2012  PAD Paris, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, FR
2011  HKYDTA, Inno Design Tech Expo 2011, HK
2011  Design Miami, represented by Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Miami, US

2011  WOODS, Gallery Libby Sellers, UK

2011  Open Design Italia - Selected, Bologna, IT

2011  WOODS & GOODS, Brussels Art Days, BE

2011  True Colours - New Traditional Jewelry, The Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, NL

2011  AMBERIF 2011 - Story Telling, Gdańsk, PL

2011  LOOK, curated by Ruudt Peters, Galerie Caroline Van Hoek, Munich, DE

2011  Talente 2011, Internationale Handwerksmesse, Munich, DE
2010  True Colours - New Traditional Jewelry, Villa Bengel, Idar Oberstein, DE

2010  Open Design Italia 2010, Modena, IT
2010  B-side Jewelry Art Festival, Atelier Ada Breedveld, Amsterdam, NL
2010  True Colours - New Traditional Jewelry, SIERAAD Art Fair, Amsterdam, NL

2010  Galerie Marzee Graduation Show, Nijmegen, NL

2010  BROOCHMANIA, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, NL
2010  The Savage Mind, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Milan, IT

2010  Creative Flow, Formex Spring 2010, SE
2009  Collection/Selection, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, IT

2009  Made@home by ATcasa, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, IT

2009  Squatting Corpus, curated by Ruudt Peters, Munich, DE
2008  Cordially Invited, Fabrica, Palazzo Borromeo, IT

2007  The 60th anniversary of Design Academy Eindhoven, Museo Luciano Minguzzi, IT

2007  YOU ARE HERE, Fabrica, Pedras e Pessegos, Porto, PT
2006  Kamer 465, Dutch Design Centre, Utrecht, NL
2006  Under the Knee, Saint-Étienne Design Biennale, FR
2006  Tabula Rara 2006, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, IT
2006  Graduation Galleries, Design Academy Eindhoven, NL
2006  De Woonbeurs Amsterdam, RAI, NL

 

LECTURES, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS

· Konstfack Research Week 2023, SE

· HSD - Hochschule Düsseldorf, University of Applied Sciences, DE

· Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, IL

· FJW Preziosa Conference, Florence, IT

· Linköping University, Linköping, SE

· The Wallace Arts Foundation - Pah Homestead, Auckland, NZ

· AUT - Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, NZ 

· Otago Polytechnic - Dunedin School of Art, Dunedin, NZ 

· Massey University, Wellington, NZ 

· Objectspace, Auckland, NZ

· RIAN Designmusuem, Falkenberg, SE

· Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg, DE

· Central Saint Martins, London, UK

· The JMGA Biennial Conference, Melbourne, AU

· RMIT University, Melbourne, AU 

· Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, DE

· Sint Lucas School of Arts Antwerpen, BE

· Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, SE

· Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, DE 

· HDK - Academy of Design and Crafts, Gothenburg, SE

· Asia Society Hong Kong Center, HK

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