Yuan Yuan

The architecture seen in this painting is a subway station near the artist’s studio in Berlin. Every time Yuan Yuan enters the station, a vision of a botanical garden emerges in his mind. Many of the subway stations in Berlin have enormous glass ceilings, which makes them look like greenhouses without plants. Deriving from this whimsy, the artist has transformed them into such a painterly space in a natural manner.

Painting is Yuan’s only chosen form; for Yuan, art is an enclave in reality, a borderland where controversies and clashes are allowed. As soon as the artist starts working on his art, he becomes the voice of the enclave. Yuan Yuan moved to Germany in recent years and has established his permanent studio in Berlin. Just like other artists from all over the world who reside in Berlin, he is attracted by the unique, free cultural atmosphere, the specific socio-political history, and the independent, forward-thinking mentality of the city. Arriving in Berlin, Yuan looks forward to a new level of artistic creation, the starting point of which is marked by the exhibition ‘Irregular Pearl’.