CV

Born in Shanghai, Yimeng Wu
grew up in China and Germany. With
six years she started to practise
traditional chinese painting. After
having studied Visual Communication
at the University of Arts Berlin,
Folkwang University Essen and ENSAD
Paris, she's working as a freelance
designer, artist & culture mediator
based in Berlin.

Yimeng believes in the fusion of art
& design as well as the juxta-
position between east & west. The media
she employs range from illustration
and bookdesign to spacial installation.
Her approach is both conceptual as
well as intuitive. She's searching
for traces, phenomena of local urban
culture in globalized China.

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Work Experience

since 2003

 teacher for traditional
chinese painting
2006-2008 freelance designer for
Töchter + Söhne,Berlin
2006 INSIDE A, Berlin

2007 Project Assistant
Goethe Institut Shanghai, China
since 2009 research member of "Coexistenz of Signs" typografical research project by Design2Context (Prof. Ruedi Bauer, Zürich)

assistant teacher at
Nanjing Arts Institute, China(workshop held by André Baldinger)

freelance designer for agencies like:
Milla & Partner Stuttgart
Meta Design Beijing
2010 lecturing at UDK Berlin:
workshop "invisible
places in the city"
2011 lecturing at Luxun Academy
of Fine Arts, Dalian China
workshop "urban codes of dalian" for Prof. Ruedi Bauer

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Exhibitions

2004

 "Gelee Royal", Galerie
Kollmeier, Essen
2006 Rundgang, Class Imboden,
Udk Berlin
2008 Illustrative 08, Zürich
2008 "China Go", Boutique Gegen-
alltag, Museumsmeile,
Vienna
2008 "Mirroing China", On Off
Forum, Berlin
2009 Lili-Prize Exhibition, UDK
2010 CITY MOVES, galery CON.form
architects, Berlin
(supported by Goethe
Institut)

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Awards & scholarships

2008 DAAD scholarship for diploma
thesis research in Shanghai
2008 Nomination for "the Young
Illustrators Award"
Illlustrative 2008
2008 Stiftung Buchkunst "The most
beautiful German Books 2008"
2009 "Lili Gestalterinnen Preis"
for excellent diploma work
2011 DAAD graduant scholarship

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Clients:

Shanghai Dance Festival, Goethe
Institut Shanghai, Studentenwerk
Berlin, Aedes Verlag Berlin,
Shaolin Tempel Deutschland,
Beijing Foreign Languages Press,
DAAD,Confuzius Institute Berlin,
German Design Council

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