Jennifer Yue Yuen Yu
Jennifer Yue Yuen Yu is an artist and independent curator currently based between Germany and Hong Kong. Recently completed her Master of Fine Arts in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (July 2025), her multidisciplinary practice explores the poetics of bodies in transition—ecological, cultural, and personal. Rooted in the heterotopia through water—from wells to rivers and into the ocean—her work interweaves migration narratives, material memory, and biological research to examine how identities form, dissolve, and adapt within unstable environments.
Yue‘s methods are grounded in site-responsive installation, participatory research, sculptural thinking, and performative documentation. Working with both natural and domestic materials, she integrates sound, printmaking, casting, and moving images to construct multi-sensory environments. Her works resist fixed forms, instead embracing slow accretion, erosion, and modular assemblage as temporal strategies for artistic survival.
Yue‘s work has been exhibited internationally, including in Germany, the Netherlands, Tunisia, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong. Recent exhibitions include From the Siphonophore Paradox: fluid bodies, modular lives (Jena, Germany, 2025), High Tide, Low Current (Bremen, Germany, 2025), and Yours Strangers (Den Haag, Netherlands, 2024).
Yue received support from the Frauenförderfonds of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2024), Kulturförderung from Studierendenwerk Thüringen (2024), the Cultural Development Fund (2022), and the Grant for Emerging Artists from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2021).
Siphonophore Paradox
A recent research-based project investigates the siphonophore paradox, exploring the blurred boundaries between individuality and collectivity within aquatic lifeforms. Through this entanglement of the human body and the siphonophore, her work opens speculative spaces for rethinking identity, kinship, and interdependence in watery worlds. Moving toward the concept of fossilizing living bodies—fluid beings caught in forces beyond their control—she traces how diasporic identities and ecological histories intertwine to shape embodied experience.
