Hi! I'm Yixiao Du, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist exploring painting, animation, illustration, and installation. I focus on themes of tenderness, identity, and emotional fragility through poetic and experimental visual storytelling. As a Chinese diasporic artist, my work delves into cultural conflict, memory, and the subtle impacts of social and political structures on personal identity. My art style is raw and emotionally charged, blending hand-drawn animation, rough-edged drawings, and fragmented stories to create spaces of shared vulnerability and transformation. I see my practice as a form of quiet resistance, tracing how memory and emotions reclaim agency within complex societal systems.

Yixiao Du

Hi! I'm Yixiao Du, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist exploring painting, animation, illustration, and installation. I focus on themes of tenderness, identity, and emotional fragility through poetic and experimental visual storytelling. As a Chinese diasporic artist, my work delves into cultural conflict, memory, and the subtle impacts of social and political structures on personal identity. My art style is raw and emotionally charged, blending hand-drawn animation, rough-edged drawings, and fragmented stories to create spaces of shared vulnerability and transformation. I see my practice as a form of quiet resistance, tracing how memory and emotions reclaim agency within complex societal systems.

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Hi! I’m Yixiao Du, a Berlin-based multidisciplinary artist exploring painting, animation, illustration, and installation. I focus on themes of tenderness, identity, and emotional fragility through poetic and experimental visual storytelling. As a Chinese diasporic artist, my work delves into cultural conflict, memory, and the subtle impacts of social and political structures on personal identity.

My art style is raw and emotionally charged, blending hand-drawn animation, rough-edged drawings, and fragmented stories to create spaces of shared vulnerability and transformation. I see my practice as a form of quiet resistance, tracing how memory and emotions reclaim agency within complex societal systems.

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Language

Chinese
Fluent
English
Fluent
German
Advanced

Work Experience

Graphic Interventions Artist at The Influencers Taubenheim, Open Space³ Domshof
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Created graphic interventions on the external facade as part of a public art project.
Bag Illustration Designer at Bremenports GmbH
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020
Designed the winning bag illustration for Bremenports, a design competition that highlights creativity and brand identity.

Education

B.A. at Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2017
B.A. at Integriertes Design, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2021
M.A. at Illustration & Animation, Studio 9D, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2024

Qualifications

DAAD STIBET I Scholarship/DAAD-Award
January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
Member of Illustratoren Organisation e.V.
January 1, 2024 - December 31, 2024

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education, Professional Services, Other