About the Artist David Zink Yi

David Zink Yi (*1973 in Lima) is an artist of Peruvian, Chinese, and German heritage who lives and works in Berlin. His own biography serves as an important point of departure for his artistic practice. In his multifaceted body of work, he explores the body as a site of identity, memory, and transformation. Working across sculpture, video, ceramics, sound, and performance, he develops an open, interdisciplinary practice that transcends the boundaries of individual media.

Zink Yi is particularly renowned for his ceramic sculptures of cephalopods—octopuses and squid—whose mutable, fluid physicality he translates into clay. In 2013, he participated in the Venice Biennale, and in 2019 his work was presented at the Belvedere in Vienna. Today, his works are held in numerous major international collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Museum Ludwig in Cologne.