At the end of 2019, Chen started the series of Bauhaus Gal. “The motivation for the project comes from a photo album called "Bauhaus Mädels." The cover of the book is carried with a small line "A Tribute to Pioneering Women Artist,” and the title page says, "Girls Want to Learn Something." This book records the files of some female students who once studied at the Bauhaus. It contains their portraits with simple life experiences. For the first time, women appear in a bold and avant-garde posture, and their appearance is extremely forward-looking, far beyond their era. It coincides with the wave of female independence that is emerging all over the world today. Chen Ke said, "from them, I seem to identify the shadow of me at the age of 20 and also see the difficult grew-up process of women with their surroundings. I want to translate these faces to record the transience and eternity of life, the speed and slowness of time.”

These portraits are based on the zeitgeist-charged archive photos of the Bauhaus. Chen prefers the classical conventions when delineating the faces of these pioneering young women of modern times. Immersed in their own world and in deep thought, they are completely oblivious of the gazes from the outside. While transforming into painting, these archive images undergo “physical implants” so that the painter can relive certain moments in life and recollect involuntary memories such as smell, light and touch, thereby reviving those black and white figures in these historical records. Her awareness of medium from years of painting practice helps her to establish a link between the ancient spirit and contemporary sentiments.