
Zhang Ning(left) Yang Yafei(right)
Cometabolism Studio是由设计师张宁和艺术家杨亚非成立的设计艺术研究工作室,目前位于中国上海。张宁毕业于伦敦艺术大学坎伯韦尔艺术学院 designer maker专业。作品的方向主要探索以物品与人类行为之间的纠缠关系。作品“Ambiguous objects”曾展出于2019年伦敦设计周和荷兰设计周,并被伦敦艺术大学收藏馆和无界美术馆等机构收藏。杨亚非毕业于四川美术学院油画系后在中央美术学院进修家具设计专业,其作品常利用工业现成品模糊物品本身的定义并对公共空间的权力进行调侃,试图通过现成的工业构件将工业生产关系进行衍生。曾于2013年参加上海artbaba压路机项目,2014年参与natchmann nextgen项目并于中央美术学院中国设计德国制造展展出。
二人作为多年好友曾合作多个艺术设计项目,期望在后工业时代的遗产废墟下重新思考创作的过程。二人成立的共代谢工作室,其作品将工业构件等大规模生产工业代谢品重新激活模糊他们在空间中的功能,让艺术介入日常空间。同时通过数字生成等技术探索能模糊真实和虚拟边界的不被定义的艺术物件。
Cometabolism Studio is a design and art research studio established by Zhang Ning and Yang Yafei. Now based in Shanghai. Zhang Ning graduated from the designer maker program at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. The direction of her work explores the entangled relationship between objects and human behavior. Yang Yafei graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and Furniture Design at Central Academy of Fine Arts China. His works often use industrial ready-mades to blur the definition of objects and play with the idea of power of public space, attempting to derive industrial production relations through ready-made industrial components.
The duo have collaborated on several art and design projects as long-time friends and expect to rethink the creative process under the ruins of the post-industrial heritage. In 2020, they established Cometabolism Studio to explore the possibility of reactivating mass-produced industrial metabolites such as industrial components and blurring their function in space, allowing art to intervene in everyday space. At the same time, through digital generation and other technologies, they explore undefined art objects that can blur the border between the real and the virtual.
Exhibitions
04/2023 Reunion,Beijing Contemporary Art Expo,RaidenINST,Beijing,China 04/2023 Solo Exhibition Mock-epic,Gallery All,Shanghai,China 03/2023 ELLE DECO d3sign capsule , ZHANGYUAN,Shanghai,China 03/2022 CMF LAB , Guangzhou , China 12/2021“First of All,”Group exhibition,Shanghai,China 11/2021 Art 021,Gallery All,Shanghai,China 11/2021“The exist of Boolean”Group exhibition,Shanghai,China 10/2021 DnA Shenzhen,Gallery All,Shenzhen,China 07/2021“Cometabolism”,Mao Space,Shanghai,China 06/2021 Design Shanghai,Talents,Shanghai,China 10/2020 Have a seat, Wild Youth Art Festival, Mwoods Museum,Beijing,China 10/2019 Dutch design week, Veem, Eindhoven, NL 09/2019 London design week, London design fair, London, UK 01/2019 Unfamiliar, Camberwell college of arts library, London, UK 09/2018 London design week, ILEA collection, London, UK 07/2018 Camberwell college of arts summer show, London, UK 02/2018 Producing Future Homes and Communities, Tate Modern-Tate Exchange, London, UKAwards
04/2021 Free zine Silver Award, Hangzhou,China 12/2020 Award 360 Social Design of the Year,China 02/2019 Short-list ,world‘s finest design talents,Einundzwanzig competition 08/2019 Project “Ambiguous objects 2” be collected by Wujie Museum 11/2020 NH2020 International Emerging Designer Gold Award,Zhuhai,Guangzhou,China 08/2019 Project ‘wild’ objects be collected by UAL Collection