Cong Cong

Born in Dalian, China

Living and studying in Karlsruhe, Germany

He has been studying at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe since 2021.

In Leni Hoffmann’s class, currently in his seventh semester.

Structure, content and the freedom of the imagination I prefer to use collage, combining different levels of saturation and colour nuances to make space visible. For me, painting means constructing structures, filling them with content and engaging in a continuous creative process. I use lines to break up large areas of colour and seek that one, captured moment in the tension between balance and imbalance.

It is precisely the simplicity of these colour fields and the reduction of colour that open up a vast space for the viewer’s own imagination. When the canvas is no longer overloaded with representational details, it transforms into an ‘open vessel’. These visual voids are like half-open doors, inviting the viewer to step inside with their own memories and emotions. As the picture does not dictate a definitive answer, it becomes an individual reflection of time, space and emotion for each person.

Scholarship

Scholarship for gifted international students

Exhibitions

2024 >>A real Z<< at Bulacher Kreuz, Karlsruhe, Germany

2023 Galerie Klüber, group exhibition, WEINHEIM, Germany 

2023 Summer Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe 

2023 “Gone to see a man about a dog”, group exhibition at Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 “Nobody asked for it”. Joint exhibition, Kassel, Germany

2022 Summer Exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 “Un prezzolino da ciclo”, “144=441”, Wuppertal, Germany

2022 “Art Karlsruhe”, Karlsruhe, Germany

2022 “Art North”, Copenhagen, Denmark