Yu, Walter

1989 in Beijing
lives and works in Berlin

Studies
2007 – 2011 Beijing Foreign Studies University, Bachelor of Germanistik
2011 – 2017 Universität der Künste zu Berlin, Meisterschüler of Prof. Valérie Favre

Exhibitions(selected)

Soloshows
“Doubled Landscape”, AYE Gallery, Beijing, 2022
“Heimkunde”, Bürgermeisterhof, Salzwedel, 2022
“Serielle Poesie”, Centre Bagatelle, Berlin 2021
“Odyssy”, Scholarship AArtist in Residency, Foreign Federal Ministry of Germany, Berlin 2018

Groupshows
Fit durch Wunder, Laura Mars Galerie, Berlin 2020
In weiter Ferne so nah, Haus am Lützowplatz(HaL Museum), Berlin 2020
Synergie, Depo Darm Gallery, Athens 2019
Menschen und Natur, Kunstverein Freundschaftsinsel, Potsdam 2019
Fiction, Köppe Contemporary Gallery, Berlin 2019
Unscharf, Art Museum Göppingen, Göppingen 2019
Horst Jannsen Award, Art Museum Oldenburg, Oldenburg 2017

Awards
Residency program “Physis”, 2013
Walther Stöhrer Award for Graphic 2015
Award of Ulrich und Burga Knispel Foundation 2016
Scholarship “AArtist in Residence” Foreign Federal Ministry of Germany 2018
Förderpreis Junge Kunst Berlin 2019
International Obernkirchen Sculptor Symposium 2021
Residency and Scholarship Salzwedel 2022

Nominations
Horst Janssen Award 2017
Art Award “Ortung” of the city Schwabach 2017
Residency of the city Viersen 2018
Unscharf, Award of the evangelischen Landeskirche Württemberg 2019
Scholarship of Karl Schmidt Rottluff Foundation 2019
Koschatzky Art-Award 2021