Kaifan Wang (b. 1996, China) is a Berlin-based painter whose practice is shaped by a nomadic way of thinking that threads through questions of migration, memory, and cultural translation. His work draws on the experiences of the Chinese diaspora, treating movement less as physical displacement than as a continuous negotiation of meaning across geographies, histories, and visual languages.
Working across oil, oil stick, and acrylic, Wang develops a gestural and layered pictorial language in which abstraction becomes a site for reflecting on fragmented identities and shifting cultural signifiers. His compositions often balance fluid, gravitational marks with resistant, interrupted gestures, echoing the tensions embedded in migratory experience and the interplay between Chinese and Western abstract traditions.
Wang studied in Shanghai and Florence before completing his Fine Arts Diploma and Meisterschüler at the Universität der Künste Berlin in 2022, where he currently lives and works.