River Hongjie He (b.1998, Chongqing, China) is mainly engaged in photography and textile creation, drawing inspiration from nature, philosophy, multiculturalism, symbols, and personal experience.  In an era oversaturated with digital imagery, she finds herself retreating to the essence of tradition and craft—seeking resonance in the tactile, the organic, and the ancestral. The boundless flow of information does not liberate but instead urges her to return to origins, to nature, and to the animistic belief that all things possess a soul.

A still image is never truly still; it holds hidden emotions, unspoken messages, and layered narratives that extend beyond the visual. While imagery dominates perception, she is drawn to its unspoken dimensions—touch, texture, and materiality—where symbols in nature reveal themselves through form. A thread is never just a thread; a knot, never just a knot. Every woven fiber carries meaning, echoing the rhythm of landscapes, the breath of wind, the weight of silence.

Each textile piece becomes a verse, a fragment of an untold poem—hinting at memories, rituals, and unseen forces. Photography captures the fleeting, while textiles anchor the ephemeral, weaving together the intangible stories that exist between nature and human experience. In her practice, the raw and the spiritual intertwine, translating the silent language of the natural world into something to be seen, touched, and felt.

EDUCATION

2022-2024 MFA Fine Art, KMD, University of Bergen

2016-2020 BA Broadcasting and Television, Media and Communications Administration, CUZ

PRODUCTIONS

2025 Rip, wool, digital hand weaving, 100 x 100 cm

2025       The Futile, wool, digital hand weaving, 103 x 30cm

2024       Our Roots, wool and chenille, digital hand weaving,

340(h)105(l)x100(w) cm

2024       Farewell, wool and polyester, digital hand weaving,

103 x 140cm, 103 x50(*2)cm, 70 x 40 cm

2024       I’m Not Sure I’m Ready to Play, wood cover, hand case binding,

200 x 200 mm

2023       Words in Silence, wool, digital hand weaving, 270(h) x103(w) cm

2023       Falls I (Square)/ Falls II(Panorama), wool and polyester,

digital hand weaving, 106 x 106cm, 106 x 425cm

2023       Interfere, wool and polyester, digital hand weaving, 106 x 402cm

2022       Farewell Photography Art Book

2021       Transparency, installation, glass, physical joint, 30 x 60 x 50cm

2021       Deviated zone, video projection, 1’04’’ play in loop,16:9

2020       Dancing danger, digital work, VR painting

2019       Pine, wind, water and moon, digital short film, 1’24’’

2017       Exquisiteness, Hangzhou Craftsman documentary of Nagong

Custom,  short documentary, 6’30’’                    

PUBLICATIONS

2023       SKD: Collaborative poetry by KMD and literature faculty,

Bergen Art Book Fair

2022       Farewell: Photography Art Book

2024       I’m Not Sure I’m Ready to Play: Collaborative Art Book

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024       ‘Moving Patterns’, Gallery 52, Osvegen 52, Bergen, NO

2024       ‘This is Personal’, Bergen Kunsthall, Rasmus Meyers allé 5,

Bergen, NO

2024       ‘Walk Each Other Home’, KulturX Gallery, Småstrandgaten 3,

Bergen, NO

2024       ‘Reverie’, KulturX Gallery, Småstrandgaten 3, Bergen, NO

2023       ‘I can carry people around’, Bergen Kjøtt, Stutevikstorget 1,

Bergen, NO

2023       ‘Eg har kome for å drepe deg/I came here to kill you’, Norwegian

Textile Industry Museum, Salhusvegen 201, Hordaland, NO

2023       ‘Map of obsession’, Strømgaten 1, Bergen, NO                 

2023       The Grand Spring Exhibition, KMD, Møllendalsveien, Bergen, NO

CURATING

2024       ‘Moving Patterns’, Gallery 52, Osvegen 52, Bergen, Norway

2024       ‘Reverie’, KulturX Gallery, Småstrandgaten 3, Bergen, Norway

2023       ‘Map of obsession’, Strømgaten 1, Bergen, Norway    

AWARDS

2017       Hangzhou Craftsman Micro video Excellent Work Award

2016       9th “Vision Cup” Chinese University TV Award

OTHER 

2023-2024       KulturX Gallery Exhibition Coordinator

2021-2022       VOGUE CHINA Producer assistant

2020-2022       Freelance Commercial Photographer