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Sketchbook pages 2021-2023






Year of the Snake










Swim Studies, 2024











Hausprojekt4-colours screen printing, 2024 [...]







Lü Sketchbook






Venezia, 2023






LET’S PLAYWhenever I sit down to work, I like to include a session of play. [...]
















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yuxing li
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yuxing li (Hunan 1992) is a Chinese-German illustrator and visual artist living in Hamburg, Germany.

She works for press, publishing and cultural communications. Her visual language is bright and playful, using simple shapes and cheerful colours. In her practice, she explores relationships between people, inspired by everyday life and movements. 

She also runs workshops on image-making for children and has co-founded Kinderkunstworkshops




Education
HAW Hamburg
Folkwang University of the Arts
HSD Hochschule Düsseldorf


Clients include  The New York Times
WeTransfer
Kitsuné Musique
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Neue Narrative
Mannschaft Magazin
myself Germany
时尚COSMOPOLITAN
Mami Verlag
3° Verlag
Edition Nautilus
CORRECTIV
Konfuzius Institut 
Bayerische Staatsoper
Lichthof Theater
..


Exhibitions
Murmeln im digitalen Nebel
Versuchshaus, Lübeck, DE
2025 

Global Risoart Exhibition
onten, Tokyo, JP  
2025

Hausprojekt
Millerntorwache, Hamburg, DE
2024

BIBÓ PORTO
Ó! Galeria, Porto, PT
2023

Raus aufs Land
Raum für Illustration, Hamburg, DE
2022

Kulturelle Landpartie, Gledeberg, DE
2022 

SURROUNDINGS
GAMA RAMA gallery, Faro, PT
2022

Little Big Books
Goethe Institut, Bologna, IT
2022

CARTAS DE AMOR
Ó! Galeria, Porto, PT
2021

Heimat
Casa Tinta, Bogotá, CO
2019

Heimat, Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg, DE
2019

Golden Pinwheel Award
Shanghai, CN
2018

Ilustarte
Castelo Branco, PT
2018

ALPHABET
Alliance Française, Bologna, IT
2028

Neue Märchen
Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg, DE
2018

HIN & WEG Wandergalerie
Essen, DE
2017

The Art of Reggae, Liverpool, UK
2017 

ART WALK 
Essen, DE
2016

Comic Salon
Erlangen, DE
2014


HonorsBologna Illustrators Exhibition 
Finalist
2023

Hiii Illustration Awards
Special Mention
2021 

Golden Pinwheel Award 
Finalist
2018 

Grand Prix Ilustrarte
2018 

Hans-Meid-Preis
Selected
2017


Teaching &
Workshops
Sino-German Institute of Design & Communication Wanli University
Design Basics Course
Ningbo, CN
2023-2024

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Team Education
Hamburg, DE
2023-2025

Digital Summer Academy, Young Voice TGD
Poster Workshop 
Frankfurt, DE
2023

QueerSchool Hamburg
Collage & Print Workshops
Hamburg, DE
2022

Triebfeder Projektraum
Collage Workshop
Essen, DE
2021

Youth Education Through Illustration
Talk & Workshop
Quinta das Relvas, PT
2021 


Features
Adobe Create
2022

Contemporary Collage Magazine

2022

Creative Boom

2021

It’s Nice That
2020

之间插画
2020

PAGE

2019








Last Updated 2025.05.16




PAP PAPEL I
31 x 26,5cm 
Collage, 2024






The New York TimesIllustration for The New York Times - “What can your garden grow?”, 2025





House in Porto (5)
Part of the group show “BIBÓ PORTO“ at Ó! Galeria [...]






Mannschaft Magazin“Vom Spagat zwischen den Kulturen” 
Illustrations for an essay by Greg Zwygart about coming out in Europe and Asia, 2024







Zwischen uns15x21 cm
Collage, 2023







 “Ein Schuh, ein Schiff, ein Haus!” Heft Nr. 3

Published with Kinderkunstworkshops
Concept, illustrations and text: yuxing li
Concept and design: Xiaole Zhang
Editing: Simoné Lechner
Print: Risofort
Ermöglicht durch das Kulturamt Essen, 2022






RISO CLUB Hamburg


Curation and print for RISOTTO Studio’s RISO CLUB Hamburg Issue, 2022
View the whole set here.






Ein Schuh, ein Schiff, ein Haus!” Heft Nr. 2Activity-Book published with Kinderkunstworkshops
Concept and illustrations for the first publication with Kinderkunstworkshops “Ein Schuh, ein Schiff, ein Haus!”
Concept and design: Xiaole Zhang
Kulturamt Essen, 2021






© yuxing li 2025