Ming Yuan

Ming Yuan (b. 1997, Chengdu) is an artist based in Frankfurt am Main working across painting, sculpture, sound, and essay. Drawing on historical materialism and her own diasporic experience, Yuan examines how ideology and morality take shape in objects, from luxury packaging to ritual display. Frames, ribbons, and cases become protagonists that test the codes of class, ornament, and identity.

MFA at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, since 2019; graduation 2025 additionally studying with Professor Simon Dybbroe Møller at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Sculpture Charlottenborg, Copenhagen.

Selected projects: ALIBI (ongoing series on empty luxury boxes and the gift economy), 2025; participation in A Single Hurt Color, Hua International, Berlin, 2025. 

Writing and sound works presented in independent and project spaces in Germany and China.