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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
Bayerische Staatsoper
Lichthof Theater
Mami Verlag
Konfuzius Institut
myself Germany
时尚COSMOPOLITAN
CORRECT!V
Edition Nautilus
3° Verlag
..
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 Wanli University
Ningbo, CN
2023-2024

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hamburg, DE
2023-2025

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

QueerSchool & Junge VHS
Hamburg, DE
2022

Triebfeder Projektraum
Essen, DE
2021

Youth Education Through Illustration
Quinta das Relvas, PT
2021 

LichtwarkSchule
Hamburg, DE
2019
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