Tao Hai Yue (b. 1988, Hangzhou, China) is an artist based in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. She studied Sculpture in Shanghai and received her MFA in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She is currently studying in Tobias Rehberger's class at Städelschule in Frankfurt.
Her practice explores the shifting relationships between people, objects, and their surroundings, often drawing on experiences of migration, displacement, and cultural dislocation. In different cities, she looks for elements or objects with special collective meaning as her creative inspiration. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she brings together everyday objects, found materials, and fabricated elements into precarious and temporary arrangements. Through subtle interventions, familiar things take on unexpected roles, questioning notions of belonging, stability, and adaptation.
Her practice explores the shifting relationships between people, objects, and their surroundings, often drawing on experiences of migration, displacement, and cultural dislocation. In different cities, she looks for elements or objects with special collective meaning as her creative inspiration. Working primarily with sculpture and installation, she brings together everyday objects, found materials, and fabricated elements into precarious and temporary arrangements. Through subtle interventions, familiar things take on unexpected roles, questioning notions of belonging, stability, and adaptation.
Tao
Hai
Yue
born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Education
Class of Prof. Tobias Rehberger, Städelschule, Germany
MFA program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
Double Bachelor's Degree in Sculpture and Economics, Shanghai Normal University, China
MFA program “Public Art and New Artistic Strategies”at Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
Double Bachelor's Degree in Sculpture and Economics, Shanghai Normal University, China
Selected Exhibitions
Städelschule Rundgang, Frankfurt, Germany 2026
Yang Sheng: Dialogue with the Body, C*SPACE, Berlin, Germany 2025
“GIR D’AIR”, Fundaziun Nairs, Scoul, Switzerland, 2024
“Creative Shelf”, C*SPACE, Berlin, Germany, 2023
“HHÖØMMÈĘ”, CHAxARTxRTM, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
“Normal Normal |Exhibition of curated common objects by Tao Haiyue”, CHAxARTxAMS, Amsterdan, Netherlands, 2023
“Learning from the earth”, ART SAFIENTAL Biennale, Switzerland, 2022
“Streetlight”, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2018
“Was bleibt?”, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany, 2017
“Illuminate the Darkness”, Viehauktionshalle, Weimar, Germany, 2014
“We are all public now”, Other Music Academy, Weimar, Germany, 2014
Yang Sheng: Dialogue with the Body, C*SPACE, Berlin, Germany 2025
“GIR D’AIR”, Fundaziun Nairs, Scoul, Switzerland, 2024
“Creative Shelf”, C*SPACE, Berlin, Germany, 2023
“HHÖØMMÈĘ”, CHAxARTxRTM, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2023
“Normal Normal |Exhibition of curated common objects by Tao Haiyue”, CHAxARTxAMS, Amsterdan, Netherlands, 2023
“Learning from the earth”, ART SAFIENTAL Biennale, Switzerland, 2022
“Streetlight”, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago, USA, 2018
“Was bleibt?”, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany, 2017
“Illuminate the Darkness”, Viehauktionshalle, Weimar, Germany, 2014
“We are all public now”, Other Music Academy, Weimar, Germany, 2014
“What can I not know about you” group exhibition at Gallery ALU, Gallery Java and Gallery Roman Petrovic in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013
“Mostar City Lab”, Public Art Exhibition, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013
“Mostar City Lab”, Public Art Exhibition, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013
“(Un)Disciplined Body” group show at former SEDBezirksparteischule in Erfurt, Germany, 2012
“Summer of 2006” group show at Shanghai Hongqiao Contemporary Art Museum, China, 2011
Spring Arts Salon 2011, Shanghai, China, 2009
“Open Expression ”Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition , Shanghai Mingyuan Culture and Art Center, China, 2009
“MALI Awarded Works Exhibition” group exhibition at Wuxing Gallery, China, 2008
“12th Art Exhibition of Zhejiang Province”, Zhejiang Art Museum, China, 2008
“Absurd Truth” group exhibition at Shanghai XuHui Art Gallery, China, 2008
“Summer of 2006” group show at Shanghai Hongqiao Contemporary Art Museum, China, 2011
Spring Arts Salon 2011, Shanghai, China, 2009
“Open Expression ”Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition , Shanghai Mingyuan Culture and Art Center, China, 2009
“MALI Awarded Works Exhibition” group exhibition at Wuxing Gallery, China, 2008
“12th Art Exhibition of Zhejiang Province”, Zhejiang Art Museum, China, 2008
“Absurd Truth” group exhibition at Shanghai XuHui Art Gallery, China, 2008
Artist Residency
Fundaziun Nairs, Artists in Residence 2024, Scoul, Switzerland
Alps Art Academy, LEARNING FROM THE EARTH, Tenna Switzerland
DAAD Foundation, Bauhaus goes south-east Europe, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Alps Art Academy, LEARNING FROM THE EARTH, Tenna Switzerland
DAAD Foundation, Bauhaus goes south-east Europe, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Grants & Awards
Alps Art Academy,
Scholarship Awardee, Tenna Switzerland
Top 50 The best designers in Germany, AD Germany
DAAD Foundation, Scholarship Awardee, Germany
The 11th National Art Exhibition Finalist, China
Top 50 The best designers in Germany, AD Germany
DAAD Foundation, Scholarship Awardee, Germany
The 11th National Art Exhibition Finalist, China
Catalogue & Publications
“Please show me how to do Bauhaus”
Exhibition Catalogue, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
“Was bleibt?”
Exhibition Catalogue, Marke.6, Neues Museum, Germany
Table.Media, “Tao Haiyue – Kunst gegen die Norm” by Svenja Napp, Mar 8, 2023
AD Germany, Top 50 Die besten Designer Deutschlands, October Issue, 2016
Exhibition Catalogue, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany
“Was bleibt?”
Exhibition Catalogue, Marke.6, Neues Museum, Germany
Table.Media, “Tao Haiyue – Kunst gegen die Norm” by Svenja Napp, Mar 8, 2023
AD Germany, Top 50 Die besten Designer Deutschlands, October Issue, 2016
Workshops & Talks
Art writing
IDEAT Magazine, Radical Future: Olafur Eliasson 未来公共艺术何以链接社区与公众? , January, 2021
IDEAT Magazine, Ecolife: Olafur Eliasson 撬动社会的隙缝，December, 2017
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin : Lars Bjerre 那个有着古怪幽默感的丹麦人, March Issue, 2015
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin: Tim Eitel 他想做绘画的炼金术士, May Issue, 2015
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin: Joachim Sauter 新媒体艺术的 “空间复兴“ 者, July Issue, 2015
IDEAT Magazine, Ecolife: Olafur Eliasson 撬动社会的隙缝，December, 2017
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin : Lars Bjerre 那个有着古怪幽默感的丹麦人, March Issue, 2015
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin: Tim Eitel 他想做绘画的炼金术士, May Issue, 2015
VISION Magazine, Artist interview, Based in Berlin: Joachim Sauter 新媒体艺术的 “空间复兴“ 者, July Issue, 2015
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