Xinhan Yú (Nanking CHN, 1996)
Graduated in Pittura Arti Visive in the Two-year Specialisation Course in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 2022. He currently resides in Bologna.
In Yu's interventions, there is always a taste for spectacle, humor and the grotesque, and his provocations resonate with Chinese youth; he hides irony and metaphors in his imaginary plot, flirting with the problems of new-age Chinese society in a crude but playful way. The desire for revenge, the need to act and the desire to circumvent a system that oppresses and inhibits are the motivations that stimulate the works of XinHan Yú, an artist of Chinese origin who uses different mediums as a tool for social criticism; a means to exhume a memory, personal and collective, of a reality that needs to be brought to light. His current practice revolves around power structures, institutions of violence and Chinese Internet pop culture symbols.
Solo:
Playground, curated by Yulia Tikhomirova, Nelumbo Open Project, Bologna, 2021
Playground - Trovarsi la Guerra in Giardino, curated by Gate 26A, in collaboration with TIST.situations, Gate 26A Gallery, Modena, 2022
Duo:
嗡嗡 Brum Brum, with Stefano Riboli, curated by Alessia Pietropinto, Spazio 15, Brescia, 2022
Xinhan Yú X Mandalaki X Antonini Milano, curated by N.51 Concept Gallery, Borromeo Palace, Milan, 2024
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Arte = Capitale, curated by Magazzeno Art Gallery, Ravenna, 2024
The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and Everywhere, curated by
Plague Space, Krasnodar, 2023Double& Duality, curated by Numero 51 Concept Gallery, Milan, 2023
ReA! Art Fair, curated by ReA! Team, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, 2023
An increasing black dent in the night sky, curated by Spassetun Galery Space, Moscow, 2023
Exhibition of 22/23 Sessions finalists of the Laguna Art Prize, Arsenale North, Venice, 2023Perspectives, curated by CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea, 2023
Mitologie Digitali, curated by Silvia Vannacci, Contemporary Matters and Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum, Prato / Taizhou, 2022
Epilogo: Identità dissimili, curated by Luca Caccioni, Fondazione Carisbo, Bologna, 2022
Start-up, curated by Valerio Dehò, Fair Bologna, 2022
Vasca Corta, curated by Gabriele Tosi and Filippo Tappi, Localedue Art Space, Bologna, 2021
Sino-Italian Biennial Young Art: La Terra Quieta, curated by Hong Lingyi and Livia Giulliani, International Young Artists Association, online show, 2021
The Independent Spirit, curated by Wei Hongshan, Enlai Gallery, Beijing, 2019
Fissione e Mutazione, curated by Shuiding Gallery, Xiamen, 2019
Awards:
The 13th Edition Combat Prize, Vincitore Premio Galleria, Livorno, 2022