Information
E-mail ohyixiao@gmail.com
Instagram @yixiao.d
Yixiao Du (b. 1995) is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, illustration, and installation.
Yixiao Du’s practice explores alienation, identity, and emotional fragility in contemporary society through visual storytelling. Her work is deeply informed by her experience as a Chinese Mongolian diasporic artist navigating cross-cultural environments. Through a raw and emotionally charged visual language, she examines the complex entanglements of identity, cultural dislocation, and the subtle pressures of sociopolitical systems on the inner self.
Rooted in critical reflection, Du’s work reveals how systemic violence seeps into intimate life and challenges invisible hierarchies that shape identity and voice. Her practice becomes a subtle yet insistent form of resistance—tracing how memory and affect reclaim agency within oppressive structures.
Education
2022 - 2025 Guest Student, Freie Kunst Klasse Prof. Heike Kati Barath, Hochschule für Künste, Bremen, DE
FEB 2024 - JUN 2024 ERASMUS, Fine Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, PL
2021 - 2024 M.A., Painting & Illustration, Studio 9D, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, DE
2017 - 2021 B.A., Illustration, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, DE
2013 - 2017 B.A., Art History, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN
FEB 2024 - JUN 2024 ERASMUS, Fine Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, PL
2021 - 2024 M.A., Painting & Illustration, Studio 9D, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, DE
2017 - 2021 B.A., Illustration, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, DE
2013 - 2017 B.A., Art History, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, CN
Solo Exhibitions
2024
The Untold Tale of Shanghai Greens
Tai Art Center
Shanghai, China
2024
The Orchid
Galerie L
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
2021
Chinese Bad Girls
Galerie Flut
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
The Untold Tale of Shanghai Greens
Tai Art Center
Shanghai, China
2024
The Orchid
Galerie L
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
2021
Chinese Bad Girls
Galerie Flut
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2025
Update - Auswahlausstellung des Kunstpreis der Atelierkate 2025
Atelierkate Lesum
Bremen, Germany
2025
Das waren Zeiten!
Galerie Erstererster
Berlin, Germany
2025
Wer ist der Spion?
Galerie Erstererster
Berlin, Germany
2025
Ostertorsteinweg 41 - Echt letzte Ausstellung
OVIERZIG
Bremen, Germany
2024
Artists as Independent Publishers (AAIP)
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK)
Vienna, Austria
2024
Artists as Independent Publishers (AAIP)
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum of Contemporary Arts
Bremen, Germany
2024
DEMO
Studio of Narrative Drawing
the Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk
Gdańsk, Poland
2024
Out of My Place
Goyki3 Art Inkubator
Sopot, Poland
2023
Transparency is also a Kind of Covering
Galerie Flut
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
2022
Humor als Strategie in den Künsten
Dauerwelle Veranstaltungsschiff der HfK
Bremen, Germany
2021
Illustriminati
ZUNK Space
Bremen, Germany
Update - Auswahlausstellung des Kunstpreis der Atelierkate 2025
Atelierkate Lesum
Bremen, Germany
2025
Das waren Zeiten!
Galerie Erstererster
Berlin, Germany
2025
Wer ist der Spion?
Galerie Erstererster
Berlin, Germany
2025
Ostertorsteinweg 41 - Echt letzte Ausstellung
OVIERZIG
Bremen, Germany
2024
Artists as Independent Publishers (AAIP)
Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna (MUMOK)
Vienna, Austria
2024
Artists as Independent Publishers (AAIP)
Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum of Contemporary Arts
Bremen, Germany
2024
DEMO
Studio of Narrative Drawing
the Academy of Fine Arts Gdańsk
Gdańsk, Poland
2024
Out of My Place
Goyki3 Art Inkubator
Sopot, Poland
2023
Transparency is also a Kind of Covering
Galerie Flut
University of the Arts
Bremen, Germany
2022
Humor als Strategie in den Künsten
Dauerwelle Veranstaltungsschiff der HfK
Bremen, Germany
2021
Illustriminati
ZUNK Space
Bremen, Germany
Grants and Stipends
2025 Kunstpreis der Atelierkate Finalisten 2025
2021 DAAD STIBET I Scholarship/DAAD-Award, Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes
Residency
2024
Art Flow 6th Residency, Art Flow Art District
Shanghai, China
Art Flow 6th Residency, Art Flow Art District
Shanghai, China
Film Screenings
2022
A-Very-Long-Dog
Trick-GIF-Film-Session: Trickfilm-Programm mit Filmgesprächen
Premiered in City46, Bremen, Germany
2020
Plague Doctor
Exhibitor Don't Panic - Short Film Competition
Bremen, Germany
2019
Plague Doctor
Animated Film Evening
Alten Pumpwerk Bremen, Germany
A-Very-Long-Dog
Trick-GIF-Film-Session: Trickfilm-Programm mit Filmgesprächen
Premiered in City46, Bremen, Germany
2020
Plague Doctor
Exhibitor Don't Panic - Short Film Competition
Bremen, Germany
2019
Plague Doctor
Animated Film Evening
Alten Pumpwerk Bremen, Germany
Publications
2021
Restrictions - Collaborated Comic/Zine
Raum404/Kulturnetz e.v., with the support of der Senator für Kultur Bremen
Bremen, Germany
2020 - 2021
Endlose Horizonte
Artists Publication
Edited by Prof. Heike Kati Barath, Prof. Stephan Baumkötter, Prof. Katrin Von Maltzahn
Bremen, Germany
Restrictions - Collaborated Comic/Zine
Raum404/Kulturnetz e.v., with the support of der Senator für Kultur Bremen
Bremen, Germany
2020 - 2021
Endlose Horizonte
Artists Publication
Edited by Prof. Heike Kati Barath, Prof. Stephan Baumkötter, Prof. Katrin Von Maltzahn
Bremen, Germany