Yang Shen (b. 1993) works across porcelain, oil pastel, and silkscreen. Her practice explores the fragility of memory and emotion through material and form.
Exploring the relationship between intimacy and public space, she handcrafts porcelain that are placed in public contexts, where their fragility embodies the tension between permanence and vulnerability.
Shen’s series of oil-pastel drawings and silkscreen prints examine memory as a mutable and fragmentary continuum. Through abstraction and delicate linework, recollections unfold into layered compositions that question what we remember and how those impressions become embedded over time.
Shen studied Public Art at the BAUHAUS-University Weimar, where she deepened her understanding of the interrelation between artistic process and the environments in which art exists.
Current Projects:
Waterdrops | Andreas Murkudis | Potsdamer Str. 81 | Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition:
2024 River Youth, River Flow | Kreativfonds | Weimarhallen Park | Weimar, Germany
2024 When Liquid Becomes Form | BAUHAUS-Universität Graduation | Leutraquelle - Ilm Park | Weimar, Germany
2023 I LOVE YOU JENNIFER HOLLIDAY | Wohnlabor Klassik Stiftung / 100 JAHRE BAUHAUS | Weimar, Germany
2016 Through The Looking Window | Loft Studio | Brooklyn, New York
Group Exhibition:
2024
Chicken Goddess | By the Means at Hand A project by Vlatka Horvat for the Croatian pavilion | Venice Biennale
Chicken Goddess | By the Means at Hand A project by Vlatka Horvat for the Croatian pavilion, Venice Biennale | IRRESPACE | Weimar, Germany
About Making A Nest To Leave Anyway | Between Two, Never Whole (Analog Photography + Metal Installation) | ACC Galerie | Weimar, Germany
2023
Over And Over | Over And Over (Analog Photography) | Haus der Statistik | Berlin, Germany
ERASE LOVE | Alone Coffee (Video Installation) | Steubenstraße 20 | Weimar, Germany
Goethe Kultur Symposium | Glas in der Natur (Sound) | TrustFM | Goethe-Institute x Klassik Stiftung | Weimar, Germany
2022
NORDOST SÜDWEST | Dear Gabriella (Yarns Installation) | Robotron Kantine | Dresden, Germany
DIRECTLY AT THE SUN | Dear Gabriella (Audio Installation) | Blumenhaus | Weimar, Germany
2021
Radio Aahaa | Besides, Have We Truly Ever Failed? (Radio) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Small Thing - Besides, Have We Truly Ever Failed? | NEVERNEVERLAND | Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Klangkunstfestival - Sound Walk Lindenauer Hafen | Leipzig, Germany
Roger Eno & Brian Eno: Mixing Colours - ‘A Quiet Scene’ | Europe & Los Angeles
2019
I Don’t Know If I Can Make It To The Other Side | Publieke Werken Rotterdam | The Netherlands
Funding:
2024 Kreativefonds
Publication:
PORT Magazine | Dear Gabriella (Writings) | (06.2023)
LADIES DRAWING CLUB | Dear Gabriella (Paintings) | (04.2023)
BAUHAUS-UNIVERSITÄT
Degree: MFA Public Art
[10/2022 - Graduated: 07/2024]
Sandburg Instituut/Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Degree: MA Fine Arts
[09/2021 - 01/2022]
Parsons The New School of Design
Degree: BFA Fashion Design: Textile
[Graduated: 05/2016]
Contact:
press@yangmshen.com