
Photography:Mishael Fapohunda
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































