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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.



Email: mingmingyuan@yahoo.com
Instagram: @etherealtinnitus
Bandcamp: yuanming


Education
2024-2025
         Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Charlottenborg School of Sculpture
        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
         Soft Collision, 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
2024
         June Listening, Radio X, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2024
         Austerity, Tea, Ritual, Listening Session, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2024
         Dripsody, Water Cooler Talks, Frankfurt am Main, DE

Publication
2025
        Austerity, Tea, Rituals, Latent Possibilities Vinyl Album
2025
        Some Years Ago, I Was A Punk, Latent Possibilities
2024
        Draw a sword to  water, Durational Cinema For Troubled Times with Éric Baudelaire
2024
        Moaning of my Needles, Communion II
2024
        Tea, Minimalism and the Divine Gaze, Heiße Luft by Hassan Khan and students
2023
        Untitled, Staedelschule Portfolio Volume IV
2022
        Untitled, Ashtray Journal, Issue 1

Funding and Prize
2024     Digiprax, Funding
2023     McKinsey, Prize
2023     Digiprax, Funding
2023     Hessische Kultur Stiftung, Funding
2021      Frankfurt Kulturamt, Funding

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