gdm is thrilled to announce Kongkee's first institutional presentation in Taiwan. Works from the artist's acclaimed Dragon's Delusion and Future Jataka series will be featured in WE Are Becoming at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), curated by WU Dar-Kuen and GUO Jau-Lan.
WE Are Becoming
Exhibition period: 8 May - 16 August 2026
Venue: C-LAB, Taipei
Drawing on Qu Yuan’s Li Sao and reimagined into a cyberpunk universe, Dragon’s Delusion is a meditation on technology, mortality, and the insatiable human pursuit of transcendence. Kongkee creates a sanctuary where past and future blur, inviting audiences to step into a mythic cityscape glowing with desire and dislocation.
Centered on the concept of “Becoming”, the curatorial team moves away from the pursuit of fixed cultural identities and instead explores a state of ongoing formation—one that is fluid, intertwined, and continuously reconstructed through art. The exhibition proposes that as we retell stories together, we are no longer who we were yesterday; each return reshapes what “we” means.
Bringing together artists from nine countries—Taiwan, the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Lithuania, and Peru—the exhibition presents 29 cross-media works. Audiences are invited to enter an ever-evolving cultural field and reconsider the role and possibilities of art in contemporary society.
Text courtesy C-LAB
Images: Kongkee, Future Jataka, 2025 (installation view, gdm Hong Kong). Photo: Felix Wong.
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Kongkee (Kong Khong-chang), born in Malaysia in 1977 and raised in Hong Kong, is a visual artist and animation director. In 2022, his major solo exhibition “Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk” premiered at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and toured to Wrightwood 659 in Chicago and Tai Kwun in Hong Kong.
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Kongkee | WE Are Becoming at C-LAB
