︎Latent Possibilities︎Alibi︎The Gift ︎Intermezzo ︎Cunning, Veil︎Austerity, Tea, Ritual ︎Moaning of My Needles

︎Ethereal Dissonance, Aspiration Unbound

︎Your Silence will Not Protect You

︎In Venice, Pink Lamps

︎The Perfect Smile: Six Teeth Shown

Ming Yuan (b. 1997, Chengdu) is an artist based in Frankfurt am Main, working with painting, sculpture, sound, and essay. Her practice explores how ideology and morality materialize through form, often shaped by her own diasporic experiences navigating class, race, and gender. Grounded in historical materialism, Yuan uses iconography, pattern, and symbolism to examine shifting notions of identity and power.

Recurring tensions between ornament and minimalism, rebellion and conformity play out across her work, where frames hold as much weight as images, and surfaces become sites of contradiction. Drawing on religious rituals, packaging aesthetics, and class fluctuation memory, Yuan treats visual language as a field where personal and economical histories collide. Her recent series on gift boxes and ribbon bows investigates the moral paradoxes of the gift economy and the aesthetic codes of class desire.

︎ mingmingyuan@yahoo.com

Education
2024-2025, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Sculpture Charlottenborg, Fine Art, Professor Simon Dybbroe Møller, Copenhagen, DK
2020-2025, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Fine Art, Professor Hassan Khan, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2018-2019, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Innovation Management, Amsterdam, NL
2015-2019, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Business Administration, Berlin, DE

Solo Exhibitions
2025
Alibi, Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Rüsselsheim Opelvillen Schleuse, Rüsselsheim, DE
2024
The Gift, Von Der Hoeden Contemporary, Hamburg, DE
Intermezzo, Galerie Perpetuel, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2023
Ethereal Dissonance, Aspiration Unboun, Saasfee Pavillon, Frankfurt am Main, DE
A Sanctury of Blatant Female Frippery, Rear Window, Berlin, DE
2022
Moaning of my Needles, PLATESPACE, Beijing, CN
The Perfect Smile: Six Teeth Shown, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main, DE

Group Exhibitions
2025
DLA Piper, Winx Tower, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Stirring Still, Minor Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2024
Dippers, Q Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Mckinsy, Taunus Tower, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Watercooler Talks, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2023
Thank You!, Pickle Bar, Berlin, DE
Wir Müssen Noch DVDs Abgeben, Zentrale, Berlin, DE
2022
Little Virgil Issue 6 Realease, BLÅGÅRDSGADE 29A, 2200 KBH N, Copenhagen, DK
Thorn Apple Project II, Until You Reveal, We Continue the Game, Leipziger str. 58, Berlin, DE
Soundarc, Gasthof, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Communion, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2021
Autonatura, 50.1320N, 8.6023 E, DE

Performance
09.06.2024, June Listening, Radio X, Frankfurt am Main, DE
03.06.2024, Austerity, Tea, Ritual, Listening Session, Frankfurt am Main, DE
10.02.2024, Dripsody, Water Cooler Talks, Frankfurt am Main, DE

Publication
Latent Possibilities, 2025, Some Years Ago, I was A Punk
Communion II, 2024, Moaning of my Needles
Heisse Luft, Selected Models, 2024, Tea, Minimalism and the Divine Gaze
Staedlschule Portfolio Edition IV, 2023 link
Ashtray Journal, Issue 1, 2021

Funding and Prize
Frankfurt Kulturamt Funding
Mckinsey Prize
Digiprax Funding
Hessische Kultur Stiftung
Kulturförderung Stadt Frankfurt am Main

Articles and Links
Review, SchirnMag
Archive, Contemporary Art Daily Library
Interview with Vivien Kämpf, Passe-Avant
Review, PW Mag
Archive, Kuba Paris