Yang Di graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf in 2020, receiving the graduation prize and master student honours in the same year.
His artistic practice is often based on video and installation. Based on narrative material from popular culture, novels and films, he explores the effects of power on people and imagines the crisis of future life. His creations are closely related to the spiritual dilemmas brought about by technology. He believes in the failure of today’s “experience”and envisons to explore how to redefine human identity in a society in flux.
His works have been exhibited in many museums and institutions such asK21 Museum Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany,MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art,Rom,, Huayu Youth Prize ,China, Xihai Museum of Art,, Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, andChengdu Contemporary Image Museum,, etc. He has also received commissions from the 798cube Museum Beijing, and the Bloom Art Space, Düsseldorf, in the year of 2023. He has also worked as a curator, curating the China-German video exhibition "Travelling in the Absence of the Body" at the Duolun Museum of Art in Shanghai（2024）.
b.1990, China, lives in Suzhou
Education
2020 Diplom, Meisterschüler honored student of Martin Gostner
2019-2020 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Student, class dominique gonzalez-foerster
2015-2020 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf Student,class Martin Gostner
2008-2012 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China
Selected Exhibitions
2025 PHOTOFAIRS SHANGHAI, Shanghai
2024 Dimension of Images, 20th Sea Horizon Painting and Sculpture Exhibitions, China Artmuseum, Shanghai
2024 Drifting Memorial, Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou
2024 Buzz Of The Universe, Gravity Art Space, Shanghai
2024 Art021Hongkong Videos, Hongkong
2024 What happened after Nora left, United art centre, Beijing
2024 That's How We Grow Up, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai
2023 Westbund Art&Design art Fair, Shanghai
2023 Art021 Shanghai Contemporary art fair, Shanghai
2023 HHOOMMEE, CHAxART, Rotterdam
2023 Enrichment, Yang Di & Dong Xiaochi Double Solo Exhibition, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai
2023 White Hole: The Mystery of Oracle Bone Script and Contemporary Meaning, 798 CUBE Art Museum, Beijing
2023 Café Crush,solo exhibition at BlOOM Art Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 The eighth Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai
2022 The Intimate Revolt, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Beijing
2022 Sailing-New Contemporary Art Exhibition, Xihai Art Museum, Qingdao
2022 The Hidden Everyday, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
2022 Science Fiction and Hallucination, MAXXI-National Museum of 21st Century Art, Roma
2022 A Light and A Heavy Body, Caochangdi Young Artists Group Exhibition, Beijing
2021 Sanya Art Huayu Youth Award 2021, Finalist, Sanya
2021 I Recognise the World-Born in the Eighties and Nineties, Yinchuan Contemporary Art Museum, Yinchuan
2021 Science-ex/timeless travels, Kuenstlerhaus-dortmund, Dortmund
2021 Through the Window, Fernweh Artgallery, Beijing
2021 Weiche Landung, Bloom, Düsseldorf
2021 Coming to Voice, Graduates of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts 2020, K21 Museum Düsseldorf
2020 A Tale of Two Cities, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu
2019 Die Grosse, Klasse Gostner, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
2019 Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin', Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf
2019 Bilnd Spot, Langfeng Artgallery, Shanghai
2018 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Medienkunstmesse, Essen
2017 Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2017 Aus jedem Dorf ein Hund, Kuenstlerhaus-dortmund, Dortmund
2017 Kunst Nacht Kempten, Kempten Museum, Germany
2013 InductorII, Experimental Art Exhibition, Songzhuang Art Festival, Beijing
2013 Experimental Film and Video Art Forum, Yuan Art Museum, Beijing
2013 Cell Factory, Chengdu Museum, Chengdu
Award
2022 Reisestipendium, NRW Kunstverein und Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
2021 Huayu Youth Award 2021 Finalist
2020 Absolvierendenpreis der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2012 Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts graduate creative Academy Awards, Chongqing, China
Curation
2024 Reisen in Abwesenheit des Körpers, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art