I co-founded Living Room (a list of members could be found on our instagram page), an art collective, in Hamburg in 2022, led by the collective practices of Reza Afisina and Iswanto Hartono from ruangrupa. Our approaches colide together where we work with others on relational aesthetics, collective hosting and experimental publishing.

As a core member of the group, I focus on leading events, curating gatherings and developing publications as platforms for exchange.

In 2023, we compiled and published a collection of 14 zines, later presented at several art book fairs.

For me, Living Room is less a project than a way of inhabiting a space together. It contains care, hospitality, and creating a flexible framework where conversations and collaborations but also the unexpected and conflicts could happen. Through maintaining a space, cooking, working and inviting others to join us, we build a space where learning is shared rather than taught.

Earlier 2025, Living Room was awarded the German Federal Award for Art Students. With one large-scare installation at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, decided to close its chapter of the collective.

I, however, will cherish these past three years deeply in my heart forever and again with all the gratitude.

hosting

For almost each quarter, Living Room curated and organized programs with various workshops, talks, film screenings…

The two-day program of our first “Living Festival” was led by our members together with other artists and collectives who practice collaboratively within German art schools and institutions.

Here are some fragments left of what has happened…
(credits to Pohan Khu who has taken most of the pictures, Yitong Chen and Kenneth Lin for designing and everyone else who has contributed to the events.)

Bundes

This installation focused on reconstructing a “living room”, not as a neutral domestic scene, but as a space saturated with memory and subtle traces of prior gatherings. A place where the sofa remembers bodies, the lights have been turned on too many times, and the shelves are filled with annotated zines and marked posters.

The installation offers a quiet after-image of collectivity: a space that feels recently vacated, yet still warm. We are not not inviting the audience to participate in what will happen, but to inhabit what has already happened.