Dakang Wang
Biography
Dakang Wang (b. 1997, China) lives and works in Karlsruhe. He has been pursuing a master’s degree in media art at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design since 2020, having earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2019. In 2018, he completed an Erasmus exchange semester at the Offenbach University of Art and Design.
In his artistic practice, Wang works primarily with photography, installation, and sound. His works explore materiality, industrial landscapes, and family archives, with a particular focus on the history of mining and its long-term social and ecological impacts. His works have been exhibited at venues including the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe and the Städtische Galerie Rastatt, as well as in several art walks and group exhibitions.