Yafeng Duan

Yafeng Duan (*1973) was born in Hebei in northern China, in the shadow of the Great Wall. For the artist - now based in Berlin - nature is the mirror of the soul, and the source from which she draws is a spiritual one. Artistic creativity is a vehicle for approaching and exploring reality and transferring it through painting into non-spaces. Her pictures testify to her notion of a breath of energy, which spreads out into a great void and, thanks to the constitutive factors of yin and yang, solidifies into all manifestations of existence, only to pass away again. Text in English, Chinese and German. Yafeng Duan, daughter of an artist, studied traditional Chinese painting at the CAFA - Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing, China from 1999-2001. In 2005 she moved to the Bauhaus University Weimar; From 2009 to 2011 she studied western painting with Robert Lucander, University of the Arts Berlin. The artist lives and works in Berlin.