Wenjie Yu is an artist who experiences the world with insecurities. He regards absolute honesty and courage in art as his priority. His artworks originate from the expression of inner experiences generated by the body and spirit in the process of experiencing and exploring the world.
These inner experiences give rise to illusions, memories, associations, fantasies and feelings, while these elements are constantly broken and reorganized into visual fragments. These fragments lose the limitations of time and space but maintain a similar spatiotemporal distance from his present experience.The cracks that appeared naturally between these visual fragments are displayed in his artworks by either strengthening the direct presentation or weakening the transition zone. Therefore, grand and micro narratives always coexist in his works. His art works are both delicate and sensitive, manifested in the destruction and reshaping of materials during the making process, showing a kind of "fragile yet firm" innocence and romance.
His media includes painting, sculpture, installation, moving images, performance, and sound. He combined history and the future in a leap way, showing that the present is both past and future. His inspiration system is huge and complex, so it is difficult to detect a specific clue of inspiration in his practice. He is a hybrid and diverse artist who is at translating objects from his spiritual world directly to the real world through his artworks. He maintains principles while constantly changing rapidly. Believing that "not being changed by the world is actually changing the world.”
Education
2020-2022 Royal College of Art - Sculpture, Master of Arts, London, UK
2016-2020 China Academy of Art - Experimental Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, CN
Exhibitions
2024 ART TAIBEI, Taipei
2024 Wind whispe, Bluerider ART, Taipei
2024 Ways of being, Once Gallery& SunS Living Gallery, Beijing
2024 Hope is the thing with feathers, Bluerider ART, Shanghai
2024 Everything grows and grows, Z Space& Once Gallery& SunS Living Gallery, Beijing
2024 Unraveling landscape, The SWATCH Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2024 Art Central artfair, Hongkong
2024 Dark sky park, SHaN SHaNG Art Space, Xiamen, CN
2023 Sheer Edgy, Hankyu, Ningbo, CN
2023 Chain reaction, Bonian Art Space& WAS Art Centre, Shanghai
2023 Escape of light, Gallery OM, Shanghai
2023 The infinite game: Dicing, Hexagong Gallery, Hongkong
2023 In the midst of a melting garden, RuptureXIBIT, London
2023 Unknown classical, Li Gallery, Shanghai
2023 Youth art biennale, Shijiazhuang& Suzhou& Xi'an, CN
2022 Beijing contemporary art EXPO, Beijing
2022 The infinite game: hide and seek, WAS Art Centre, Ningbo, CN
2022 ART021 international contemporary artfair, Shanghai
2022 SWAB international contemporary artfair, Barcelona
2022 Lapped Seams & Silver Linings, Standpoint Gallery, London
2022 We won't stop showing...., SET SET SET, London
2022 Garden of the new diety, Li Gallery, Shanghai
2021 Guangzhou contemporary art fair, Guangzhou, CN
2021 Guangzhou international public art fair, Guangzhou, CN
2021 Star start, Rearwindow Gallery, Hangzhou, CN
2021 GETICY, DePot Space, Shanghai
2021 The running water takes me to a farther lake, Meisyakan, Ningbo, CN
2021 Brighten up the night, Yuan Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2021 Amis the froth a leap rang of its spark of water and of life, YELL Space, Shanghai
2021 No one and you, Online
2021 In the empty box, Tianwu Space, Shanghai
2021 WiP-RCA, Online
2020 HAHAHA, Tank Museum, Shanghai
2020 Culture EXPO, Culture Centre, Ningbo, CN
2019 Live Together, CAA Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2018 The picnic of image, CAA, Hangzhou, CN
2018 2001, A Space Odyssey, L'amour Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2018 Absolute Magnitude, L'amour Museum, Hangzhou, CN
2017 International Moving Image Festival - Here and There, CAA Museum, Hangzhou, CN