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Tao     Hai     Yue


TAO Haiyue is a multimedia artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. She grew up in a southeastern coastal city Hangzhou, China during a period of reform and rapid urbanization. After studying Sculpture in Shanghai, she pursued an MFA in Public Art at the Weimar Bauhaus University in Germany. In 2015, Tao Haiyue and her partner founded YUUE, a product design studio in Berlin, Germany, with a mission to explore the border between art and design. She has been honored with the title of "Top 50 The best designers in Germany" by the AD Magazine Germany.

Being actively engaged in interdisciplinary creative practices in the field of art and design. Her art practice centers around investigating contemporary issues, including individual and collective memory, migration and conflict. "I try to explore how groups share, inherit and construct memories." In different cities, she looks for elements or objects with special collective meaning as her creative inspiration. Her works have been exhibited in China, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In October 2021, Tao Haiyue founded the "Normal Normal" object collection project in Berlin, Germany. It aims to rediscover the beauty of everyday objects, challenge cultural exoticism.





Tao
Hai
Yue
born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany




Education

2006-2011 Double Bachelor's Degree in Sculpture and Economics, Shanghai Normal University, China

2010 Exchange Program of University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland

2012-2014 MFA program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
Selected Exhibitions

“Learning from the earth”, ART SAFIENTAL Biennale, Switzerland


“Streetlight”, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA

“Was bleibt?”, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany

“Illuminate the Darkness”, Viehauktionshalle, Weimar, Germany

“We are all public now”, Other Music Academy, Weimar, Germany
“What can I not know about you” group exhibition at Gallery ALU, Gallery Java and Gallery Roman Petrovic in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

“Mostar City Lab”, Public Art Exhibition, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
“(Un)Disciplined Body” group show at former SEDBezirksparteischule in Erfurt, Germany

“Summer of 2006” group show at Shanghai Hongqiao Contemporary Art Museum, China

Spring Arts Salon2011, Shanghai, China

“Open Expression ”Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition , Shanghai Mingyuan Culture and Art Center, China

“MALI Awarded Works Exhibition” group exhibition at Wuxing Gallery, China

“12th Art Exhibition of Zhejiang Province”, Zhejiang Art Museum, China

“Absurd Truth” group exhibition at Shanghai XuHui Art Gallery, China


Grants & Awards 

Alps Art Academy, Scholarship Awardee, Tenna Switzerland

Top 50 The best designers in Germany, AD Germany

Bauhaus goes south-east Europe, DAAD Foundation, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

The 11th National Art Exhibition Finalist, China

MALI Art Award, First Runner-up, China


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