Ho Rui An
Ho Rui An is an artist and writer working in the intersections of contemporary art, cinema, performance and theory. Through lecture, essay and film, he examines the systems of governance in a global age.
He has presented projects at the Bangkok Art Biennale; Asian Art Biennial; Gwangju Biennale; Jakarta Biennale; Sharjah Biennial; Kochi-Muziris Biennale; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Singapore Art Museum; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; and Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Japan. Ho was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2018. In 2019, he was awarded the International Film Critics’ (FIPRESCI) Prize at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany.
Ho was also the artist-in-residence at CHAT in 2021. During his residency, he researched the shifting relations between labour, capital and technology by examining the development of the textile industry and its many afterlives within the Greater China region over the past century.