Ma Yongfeng is an artist, researcher, filmmaker, and curator based in Berlin whose transdisciplinary practice operates at the intersections of artistic research, political ecology, moving-image studies, and critical curatorial practice. Through research-driven methodologies, he investigates the political agency of images, the ecological conditions of contemporary life, and alternative modes of knowledge production beyond disciplinary boundaries. His work spans moving image, exhibition-making, site-specific interventions, socially engaged practices, and long-term transdisciplinary inquiry, approaching artistic practice as an epistemic mode of inquiry rather than a mere illustration of theoretical frameworks.
Rather than separating the roles of artist, researcher, filmmaker, and curator, Ma develops an integrated practice in which exhibitions, video & films, curatorial platforms, and public interventions function as interconnected environments for experimentation, situated inquiry, and knowledge production. Combining artistic experimentation, institutional critique, collaborative investigation, and curatorial practice, his work explores how artistic research can generate new conceptual frameworks for understanding ecology, politics, technology, and contemporary forms of coexistence.
Ma has presented solo and group exhibitions at major contemporary art institutions in China and internationally, including MoMA PS1 (New York), MOCA (Los Angeles), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Uferhallen (Berlin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Kunstverein Baden, the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre at Western University (Canada), the John Hansard Gallery at the University of Southampton (UK),Macao Museum of Art, and McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai).
Ma Yongfeng is an artist, researcher, filmmaker, and curator based in Berlin whose transdisciplinary practice operates at the intersections of artistic research, political ecology, moving-image studies, and critical curatorial practice.
Biography
Ma Yongfeng is an artist, researcher, filmmaker, and curator based in Berlin whose transdisciplinary practice operates at the intersections of artistic research, political ecology, moving-image studies, and critical curatorial practice. Through research-driven methodologies, he investigates the political agency of images, the ecological conditions of contemporary life, and alternative modes of knowledge production beyond disciplinary boundaries. His work spans moving image, exhibition-making, site-specific interventions, socially engaged practices, and long-term transdisciplinary inquiry, approaching artistic practice as an epistemic mode of inquiry rather than a mere illustration of theoretical frameworks.
Rather than separating the roles of artist, researcher, filmmaker, and curator, Ma develops an integrated practice in which exhibitions, video & films, curatorial platforms, and public interventions function as interconnected environments for experimentation, situated inquiry, and knowledge production. Combining artistic experimentation, institutional critique, collaborative investigation, and curatorial practice, his work explores how artistic research can generate new conceptual frameworks for understanding ecology, politics, technology, and contemporary forms of coexistence.
Ma has presented solo and group exhibitions at major contemporary art institutions in China and internationally, including MoMA PS1 (New York), MOCA (Los Angeles), Kunstmuseum Bonn, Uferhallen (Berlin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), Kunstverein Baden, the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre at Western University (Canada), the John Hansard Gallery at the University of Southampton (UK),Macao Museum of Art, and McaM Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai).