Ming Yuan 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.

 

showing at quovadis:

October 10, 22.15 - 22.45 PM

On Sour Candy 

Sound Performance