Isaac Chong Wai: The horizon we can never touch (2014)

Each performer takes turns posing as the model, according towhom the others adjust their height. The work highlights the subjectivity ofnorms and standards, and how easily they can shift: Who is leading thegame? Who do we all follow to meet so-called standards?


For this iteration, the performance will take place along the 50-meter-long glass façade of the Mies van der Rohe building.


The work was previously presented at the Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing (2025), at HKW, Berlin (2017) and the Immigration Office Gallery in Bremen (2015).


Isaac Chong Wai (*1990) is an artist based in Berlin and Hong Kong whouses drawing, glass, photography, video and performance as mediators toexplore contemporary global phenomena. His work transforms the emotions,tensions and memories of human interactions into performative materiality and immersive experiences. Straddling the boundary between theindividual and the collective, he explores the vulnerability of the body and the inherent violence in social systems and historical trauma.

• Isaac Chong Wai: The horizon we can never touch (2014)
  
• Sun, 14 September 2025, 3.30 – 4 pm
  
• Location: Neue Nationalgalerie terrace