Yanting Xiong

born in shanghai
lives in berlin

Yanting Xiong (she/her) is an architect working at the intersection with visual art and beyond. Born and raised in Shanghai, along the flow of the Yangtze River, her work attends to the complex and fluid relations between human and environment. Her practice is grounded in the process of making, through which she investigates questions of gender, materiality, ecology, and labor.

Her practice takes shape through three forms of making. Making of place: spatial practice through garden and architecture, acting as containers for living and inquiry. Making of objects: an encounter between body and material through drawing and installation. Making of texts: writing and publishing as experiment, opening space for voices that resist and imagine otherwise. Across these practices, she creates fragments, gestures, and ecologies that challenge rigid boundaries and reimagine belonging. Yanting currently lives and works in Berlin, fostering roots in her garden.

Index

2026 rhizoo gardening, female making practices, Luckenwalde, spatial practice
2026 on ecological sculpture, Berlin, research and installation series
2026 Nichigetsu Restaurant with Studio Inhalt, Berlin, wood production and interior installation
2025 She didn’t know how strong she ‘are’, installation, Global Gallery, Grabowsee, residency
2025 Plant on crack, Berlin, research and drawings
2025 Ilmer Thies Architekt*innen, Berlin, design consultant
2024 Plant Magic Issue 2 - Weeds, in between speaking and remaining silence, Berlin, publication
2024 Plant Magic Issue 2 - Weeds, Zabriskie Bookshop, Berlin, lauching reading performance
2024 Ilmer Thies Architekt*innen, material circulation research for the renovation of Jelmoli Shopping Mall, Zurich, design research and book publishing
2021-2025 Ilmer Thies Architekt*innen, Berlin and Zurich, full-time architect
2021 Kollaborative Intelligenz. Reallabor Hagenmarkt, Wie Zirkulieren Ideen?, Braunschweig, online talk and Publication
2020 Critical Publishing with Colorama Print, Braunschweig, workshop
2019 City Captive Atmospheres, Studio Nicolas Dorval-Bory, Porto Academy, Porto, summer school design workshop
2019 Encounters with alternative economies and IT, with silk weaving, temples and complex human settlements, with DAAD travel fellowship, south india, field trip and publication
2019 Critical Mapping Praxis: Zum Beispiel Gorleben. Über Die Vergangenheit, Gegenwart Und Zukunft Des Widerstands Gegen Hegemonialmächte, Braunschweig, mapping performance
2018 Property and Ownership I – Über den Gebrauchs- und Tauschwert des Wohnens, Stuck e.V., Berlin, publication
2017 Atelier Xük, Shanghai, architect, design study and competition
2016 Overflowing and Mutualism, in common space of Tianlin Worker’s village, Tongji University Press, Shanghai, design research and publication
2016 Summer Workshop tea house design, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, collective design workshop
2016 Ordinary Metropolis — Shanghai: a Model of Urbanism, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, exhibition co-curator