ARTIST

 

Gao Yutao

Born in 1988 in Hunan Province, he currently lives and works in Shanghai. 

In 2019, he received a postgraduate degree from the Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, Germany, and was awarded the title of honorary university student by Professor Katharina Fritsch. 

His works touch on memory, time and everyday objects, and he creates photographs, installations, videos and works on paper based on his own interests. In his creation, he tries to explore how to replace the plain functionality of everyday things in a poetic artistic way. He reassembles and arranges ordinary things. In a completely unexpected way, it re-confronts everyday and familiar things, making them create new relationships and new emotions. His works have been exhibited in important art institutions at home and abroad, including Hangar Art Center in Belgium, K21 Art Museum in Dusseldorf, Fukwang Art Museum, Solingen Art Museum, the Grand Palais in Paris, France, and Xihai Art Museum in Qingdao. He won the TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Upstart Award in 2023, the 6th Brussels Contemporary Photography Festival in Belgium in 2022, was shortlisted for the 73rd International Bergis Art Prize in Germany in 2019, and was shortlisted for the Three Shadows Photography Award in China in 2016.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

2014-2019

Master of Liberal Arts, Dusseldorf Academy of Arts, Germany

He studied under sculptor Katharina Fritsch and was awarded the title of teacher and student

2007-2011

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, new media art major


Awards / Grants (Selected)

2023TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Upstart Award
2022The 6th Contemporary Photography Festival in Brussels, Belgium
2019Shortlisted for the 73rd International Bergis Art Prize
2016Shortlisted for the 8th Three Shadows Photography Awards


Exhibitions (Selected)

2023

A Way of Crossing Space,Levant Art Gallery,Shanghai


TOP20 Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition,Zhejiang Art Museum,Hangzhou

2022In the Shadow of the Trees,6th Brussels Photo Festival,Hangar Art Center,Ixelles,Belgium

Shanghai Bound Art Season,Levant Gallery,Shanghai
2021The Corner of Abundance,Julia Ritterskamp Art Space,Dusseldorf,Germany
2020

In order of appearance,K21 Art Museum,Dusseldorf,Germany

2019Paris Photo,Priska Pasuqer Gallery,Grand Palais,French Cellars,Fuquwan Art Gallery,Essen,Germany
2018“Digital Gods”,DIgital Art & Music Festival,Weltkunstzimmer,Dusseldorf,Germany