Enter Art Fair

For this year‘s Enter Art Fair we present two young positions: Yijie Gong and Malte van de Water. 

The young Chinese artist Yijie Gong first studied art education at Tianjin University in China from 2007-2011, and then art at the renowned Academy of Art in Düssel- dorf from 2012-2019, where she graduated as a master student of Professor Andreas Schulze. Yijie Gong lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. Many of her picto- rial ideas are based on landscapes, she draws on Chinese painting techniques and thus creates a link to her own roots. With her contemplative color field paintings, she creates scene-like spatial experiences with a suggestive depth effect that makes the color visually and almost physically tangible.

Malte van de Water studied at the Kunstakademie Münster from 2010-2018 with Professor Michael van Ofen, whose master student he was, and at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien from 2018-2019. He currently lives and works in Düsseldorf. His works are a link between digital and analog art. The moving compositions in complex color combinations are created on the computer and then transferred to canvas. Malte van de Water is a master of playing with shapes, figures, lines and shadows; through the titles he chooses for his works, he playfully creates stories and leaves room for the imagination.