Arrangement av Tenthaus 31 May - 23 June, Fri.- Sun., 13:00 - 17:00.https://www.tenthaus.no/.../daddys-dinner-by-jinbin-chen...
Tenthaus presents:
Daddy’s Dinner by Jinbin Chen, Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo, and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui.
In the past three years, Tenthaus have marked the Pride Month of June through works of Nayara Leite, Maya Økland and Ventura Profana. This year, we present ‘Daddy’s Dinner’, by Jinbin Chen, Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui. Through their collaborative perspectives, we bring the discourse of migration, displacement, queerness and belonging onto the family dinner table.
Daddy’s Dinner by Jinbin Chen, Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo and Bobby Yu Shuk Pui
The project consists of two exhibitions produced by Tenthaus - one at Tenthaus (Oslo) and another mirrored at 413BETA (Seoul) as part of [The OVEN: URGENCY] project. The exhibitions present a collection of new artworks, incorporating films, sculptures, paintings, installations, and objects arranged within family-oriented spatial settings.
The three artists migrated to Norway from Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan. They explore how gendered and hierarchical family roles in East Asian patriarchal cultures impact identity and family values. Despite geopolitical differences, their shared experiences of patriarchal dynamics, which they call ‘dinner-table politics,’ reveal complex family power struggles.
‘Dinner-table politics’ metaphorically represents the power dynamics and relationships in intimate settings, where food-sharing depicts love and care. Conversations and tensions at the dinner table often prioritize man-speaking, exposing underlying anxieties and power imbalances shaped by societal norms, cultural traditions, and individual personalities
'Daddy's Dinner' is a poetic exploration of the ties that bind us.
The exhibition features an artist talk on 1 June at 14:00 at Tenthaus, moderated by Norwegian Craft project and communication manager Marthe Yung Mee Hansen
The exhibition is curated and produced by Tenthaus, supported by Oslo Kommune, Norske Billedkunstnere, Kulturdirektoratet, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation (Taiwan).
video still of “Daddy’s Dinner”, cinematographer: Rickard Aall
BIO
Jinbin Chen https://jinbinchen.com/
Jinbin Chen (b. 1994, Guangdong, China) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. Chen received his MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2021 and his BFA from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 2019. Selected solo exhibitions include ”Porthole”, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (2023); “Prophecies of the Post-Angel Era”, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway (2023); “Returnees”, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (2022); “Omega and (Anti-)Decay Atlas”, Northing Space, Bergen, Norway (2022); “The Heimlichkeit of the Home”, Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Oslo, Norway (2021). Chen has participated in recent group exhibitions “Swallow Mountain, Drain Sea”, Linseed Projects, Shanghai, China (2023); “Myth of the Cherry Tree”, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo, Norway (2023) and “Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures”, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway (2023).
Chen’s work is held in the collections of Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Denver Art Museum, Denver, The City of Oslo Art Collection, Oslo, and The National Museum Norway, Oslo.
Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo https://jaanyuankuo.com/
Jacky Jaan-Yuan Kuo (b. 1994, Taipei, Taiwan), currently lives and works in Oslo, Norway. He employs an array of artistic mediums – installation, text, sculpture, photography, sound recording, and collaboration – to delve into indiscernibility, empirical indulgence, and transgenerational representations. His recent works revolve around inner structures of contemporary family spaces, where gender and spatial theories, family rituals, and their underlying psychodynamics take center stage. He explores how domestic lifestyles and interiors presuppose power dynamics and mechanisms of observation between family members, transforming residential space into a stage, a realm of ‘domestic drama’.
Kuo graduated with an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2021 and a BFA from Fu Jen Catholic University in 2017. His recent works have been included in exhibitions at 413 BETA (Seoul, 2024), Tenthaus (Oslo, 2024 & 2022), Oslo Kunstforening (Oslo, 2022), Oslo Negativ (Oslo, 2022), Aki Gallery (Taipei, 2022), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, 2022), Podium (Oslo, 2021), and Northing Space (Bergen, 2021). In 2025, his upcoming exhibition participation includes a solo show at Billedkunstnerne i Oslo (Association of Visual Artists Oslo) and a group show at Norsk Billedhoggerforening (Association of Norwegian Sculptors).
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui https://yushukpui.com/
Bobby Yu Shuk Pui is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Hong Kong and Oslo.
Bobby’s practice is focused on building intimate relationships and collaborations, where physical, tangible and affective phenomena associated with body politics and the future are created by the media of video, text, installation, sculpture, and performance.
Bobby received a BA from Hong Kong Baptist University and an MFA from Oslo National Academy of Fine Art in 2021. Previously her work has been included in exhibitions at Kunstnernes Hus, K4, and Podium—all three spaces in Oslo. Her work has also been presented at Parasite, Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and numerous film festivals.In 2023 she won Best Director at the 17th Freshwave Film Festival in Hong Kong. This summer she will be included in a group exhibition with Situations, New York. In 2025 she is scheduled to have solo exhibitions at UKS, Oslo and Open Source gallery, New York.