Vemo Hang and Yi Wen: When Nature Becomes a Visual Language

Between nature and artifice, between spontaneous order and human intervention, the exhibition brings into dialogue the practices of Vemo Hang and Yi Wen, two artists who approach the natural world as a living, complex, and constantly evolving system. Presented by AroundSpace Gallery, the show explores nature not only as a subject, but as a method and a language.
Born in Shanghai and now based in Berlin, Vemo Hang works across sculpture, painting, and digital media. Her works - often wall-based installations or three-dimensional forms in vivid colors - combine industrial materials with organic suggestions. Solidified brushstrokes, ambiguous volumes, and vibrating surfaces construct an unstable balance between architecture, body, and landscape, inviting the viewer’s gaze to shift with changes in light and perspective. Based in Hangzhou, Yi Wen develops a painting and mixed-media practice grounded in close observation of the natural world. Shells, fossils, eggs, and microorganisms become abstract structures, transformed through a saturated palette and an almost scientific precision. In her images, space and time are reversed: the infinitesimal detail enters into dialogue with the cosmos, revealing invisible connections. Together, the two artists demonstrate how painting and sculpture can still function as radical tools for questioning the relationship between humans and nature. Their works do not describe the world, they recompose it, restoring its fragile harmony and deep interdependence.