Yijie Gong

Artworks as limited editions and works on canvas

The colour landscapes of the Düsseldorf newcomer have an incredible depth effect!

Vita and exhibitions of the artist

Yijie Gong (*1988, Hohhot, China) lives and works in Düsseldorf. She first studied art at Tianjin University from 2007-11 and then at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 2012. She graduated in 2019 as a master student (diploma with honours) of Prof. Andreas Schulze.
Since then, Yijie Gong's work has been continuously presented in solo and group exhibitions, including at BoNian Space in Beijing, Löwenpalais in Berlin, Cubus Kunsthalle in Duisburg, Kunstraum Villa Friede in Bonn and K21/ Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf. The artist's presence in renowned exhibition halls and museums demonstrates her growing reputation and success in the art world.

Yijie Gong's ‘Colour Landscapes’

Yijie Gong creates her very own visual language with her works. Many of her paintings refer to landscape experiences, and Gong sees her works accordingly as ‘colour landscapes’. The artist ‘builds up’ her colour landscapes in numerous layers, as she describes them herself.
In her paintings, Yijie Gong works with oil paint on canvas. Green and blue in various shades can often be found in her works and are often combined with red, orange or yellow tones. Gong composes her works with great care and fine-tunes the relationship between the colours. The artist's preoccupation with the effect of colour is central to her work.

Contemplative works with depth

Yijie Gong's works have an incredible depth and expansiveness. These effects are created on the one hand by the overlapping of light and dark colours. Without any clear demarcation, the colour fields merge into one another in varying intensities and become three-dimensional clouds of colour.
The softness, the blurring and the depth effect in Gong's works create a pull into which the viewer can be drawn - beguiling and contemplative, stimulating and calming at the same time.