21/07/2026
𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐬 🌼 Ji Wu Ji Wu 吴吉 presents works from his painting series Mitsein, which addresses human existence as a fundamentally relational condition. For him, the point of departure is not the isolated subject, but an understanding of the self as something continuously shaped through encounters with other people, cultures, memories, spaces, and the world. Shaped by his experience between China and Europe, Ji Wu explores identity not as a fixed state, but as something open and mutable. In his paintings, architectural fragments, sculptures, human figures, and angel motifs meet within layered pictorial spaces. Real experiences, memories, dream states, and imagination overlap without following a linear narrative. The angels do not appear as religious symbols, but rather as witnesses, companions, or protectors.
Ji Wu, born in China, has been studying Fine Arts in Jorinde Voigt’s class Klasse Prof. Jorinde Voigt at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg hfbk hamburg since 2023. From 2016 to 2021, he worked as a stage painter at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in China. Prior to that, he completed a BA in Stage Art at the Central Academy of Drama in China from 2012 to 2016.
🌟 Ji Wu, Mitsein, 2026. oil on canvas, each 40 cm x 30 cm
exhibition view: Dotgain