Wei Yang (b. 1994, Liuzhou) is an artist living between Liuzhou and Frankfurt am Main. Through painting, sculpture, and performance, Yang explore human experience as a geographic and diasporic entity. By layering memories of intimacy, belonging, and friendship, he creates hybrid images drawn from folklore, myth, marginalized histories, and personal landscapes. These serve as sites that question grand narratives and archival neglect.
Yang's work has been shown at Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante (2024); Carme Contemporary Culture Center, Valencia (2024); Gold+Beton, Cologne (2023); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022); Tank Shanghai (2019); and Tabula Rasa Gallery, Beijing (2018). In collaboration with Zishi Han, their project Hairpin Beneath has been exhibited at Tropez, Berlin (2024); Memphis, Linz (2024); Pols, Valencia (2024); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2024); West Den Haag, The Hague (2024); Delfina Foundation, London (2023); and Pickle Bar, Berlin (2023). They have upcoming duo exhibitions include SculptureCenter, New York; Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen; and San Mei Gallery, London in 2025.
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Education
2020 - 2022, Master of Fine Art and Design, Sandberg Insituut, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2021 - 2024, Class Judith Hopf, Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt, Germany
Award
2024
Forårsudstillingens Solopris, Copenhagen, Denmark
McKinsey Award 2024, Frankfurt, Germany
Upcoming
2025
In Practice, SculptureCenter, New York, the United States
Solo show, Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, Denmark
Solo show, San Mei Gallery, London, the United Kingdom
2024
San Dian Shui, Tofu Collective, Copenhagen, Danamrk
Exhibition Experience
2024
Silenced ~ reactivated, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain
Tropez, Berlin, Germany
Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, Austria
pols, Valencia, Spain
Spring exhibition 2024, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pickle Bar presents, Slavs and Tatars, West Den Haag, the Hague, The Netherlands
2023
Tearoom Relay - Pit Stop, Delfina Foundation, London, the United Kingdom
THANK YOU!, Pickle Bar, Berlin, Germany
Symposium, Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt, Germany
IYKYK - Is it a game or is it Art? Of Course!, Gold+Beton, Cologne, Germany
2022
When Things Are Beings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Unboxing, Boo 2 project space, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2021
Haus Wien 2.0, Vienna, Austria
2019
The Guangxi Garden Party, 27 Yard, Beijing, China
Almost Art Project 5, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China
TOOL / TOUR, Bentu One, 77 Cultural Park, Beijing, China
2018
Almost Art Project 4, Tabula Rasa Gallery, 798 ArtDist, Beijing, China
Residency
2024
Transversal Aesthetics / silenced ~ reactivated, Idensitat, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
Open Studio/Workshop
2024
Wandering Landscape Open Studio, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Valencia, Spain
2023
Workshop: Wandering Landscape: Make a Chain Come True, Xmuseum, Beijing, China
Screening
2023
No Deckel, Bistro Aida, Frankfurt, Germany
Almost personal, Á Space, Hanoi, Vietnam
Scholarship
2022-2023
Deutschlandstipendium
2021
Profile Fund of the Rietveld Academie
Schuurman-Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting
2020
Holland Scholarship
Publication
2024
Wandering Landscape (Valencia, Spain)
2023
Making hi-stories
2022
When Things Are Beings