About
Hongjie Yang (b. 1989, CN) is a designer and artist based in the Netherlands. He studied design in the USA and then at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he received a Master in Contextual Design in 2015. Yang’s practice seeks out aesthetic alternatives by bringing in a wide range of disciplines into the worlds of art, design and technology. Venturing into parallel universes, he
blend fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak of our modern world where past and future are fluid and ambivalence prevails. They inspire his objects that blur nature, time and modernity to hint at the edges of our human condition.
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Hongjie Yang (b. 1989, CN) is a designer and artist based in the Netherlands. He studied design in the USA and then at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he received a Master in Contextual Design in 2015. Yang’s practice seeks out aesthetic alternatives by bringing in a wide range of disciplines into the worlds of art, design and technology. Venturing into parallel universes, he
blend fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak of our modern world where past and future are fluid and ambivalence prevails. They inspire his objects that blur nature, time and modernity to hint at the edges of our human condition.
Select exhibitions / events:
2019
The State of Extreme, Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Nature Morte / Nature Vivante, CID Grand Hornu, Belgium.
The Circles, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Rising Talents Awards / Maison & Objet, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
The Circles, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Talk, Forum Vertigo, Designing the Living, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Talk, Design Marabout n°7, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Rising Talent Awards / Maison & Objet, Paris, France.
2018
Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
Naked, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, the Netherlands.
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
JingArt, Beijing, China.
2017
Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
The Salon Art + Design, New York City, USA.
Fundamentals, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, London Design Festival, London, UK.
Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, D'days, Paris, France.
Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
The Future Perfect, New York City, USA.
2016
The Salon Art + Design, New York City, USA.
Operae, Independent Design Festival, Torino, Italy.
Power Play, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Dutch Invertuals Collected, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The Wild Things, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, Texture Museum, Kortrijk, Belgium.
The Life Fair, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Unsettling Green, MARTa Herford Museum, Herford, Germany.
Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Advanced Relics, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
Talk, MU Art Space, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Talk, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2015
Body of Matter, MU Art Space, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Thing Nothing, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2014
Sense Nonsense, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Designing Scarcity, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
