About
Hongjie Yang's practice explores the power of transformation by bringing in wide range of disciplines into the world of art, design and technology. Venturing into parallel universes, the designer-artist based in the Netherlands blends fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak the increasingly fluid times we live in. What emerge from his journeys are otherworldly objects that liquify our dualities of existence to offer glimpses of liberating possibilities. They are an alchemy of Yang’s investigations into materials and experiments with fabrication processes. Such an approach is informed by his years of design training in the USA and then at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he received a Master in Contextual Design in 2015. Like specimens unearthed from uncharted domains, Yang’s works brings us closer to the edges of our human condition, and even into the unknown.
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Hongjie Yang's practice explores the power of transformation by bringing in wide range of disciplines into the world of art, design and technology. Venturing into parallel universes, the designer-artist based in the Netherlands blends fact and fiction, the familiar and uncanny to speak the increasingly fluid times we live in. What emerge from his journeys are otherworldly objects that liquify our dualities of existence to offer glimpses of liberating possibilities. They are an alchemy of Yang’s investigations into materials and experiments with fabrication processes. Such an approach is informed by his years of design training in the USA and then at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he received a Master in Contextual Design in 2015. Like specimens unearthed from uncharted domains, Yang’s works brings us closer to the edges of our human condition, and even into the unknown.
Select exhibitions / events:
2019 - The State of Extreme, Design Museum Holon, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2019 - Nature Morte / Nature Vivante, CID Grand Hornu, Belgium.
2019 - The Circles, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2019 - Rising Talents Awards / Maison & Objet, Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2019 - The Circles, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2019 - Talk, Forum Vertigo, Designing the Living, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019 - Talk, Design Marabout n°7, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019 - La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
2019 - Rising Talent Awards / Maison & Objet, Paris, France.
2018 - Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
2018 - Naked, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, the Netherlands.
2018 - Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2018 - JingArt, Beijing, China.
2017 - Design Miami, Miami Beach, USA.
2017 - The Salon Art + Design, New York City, USA.
2017 - Fundamentals, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2017 - Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, London Design Festival, London, UK.
2017 - Design Miami/Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
2017 - Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, D'days, Paris, France.
2017 - Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2017 - Harvest, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2017 - The Future Perfect, New York City, USA.
2016 - The Salon Art + Design, New York City, USA.
2016 - Operae, Independent Design Festival, Torino, Italy.
2016 - Power Play, Dutch Invertuals, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2016 - Dutch Invertuals Collected, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2016 - The Wild Things, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, Texture Museum, Kortrijk, Belgium.
2016 - The Life Fair, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2016 - Unsettling Green, MARTa Herford Museum, Herford, Germany.
2016 - Spazio Rossana Orlandi, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2016 - Advanced Relics, Dutch Invertuals, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy.
2016 - Talk, MU Art Space, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2016 - Talk, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2015 - Body of Matter, MU Art Space, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2015 - Thing Nothing, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2015 - Graduation Show, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
2014 - Sense Nonsense, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
2014 - Designing Scarcity, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
