Brook Yanlin (b. 2000, China) is a visual artist and filmmaker whose practice moves between painting, film, sound, and installation. His works often begin where language becomes insufficient, tracing memory, trauma, silence, and the fragile relation between the body and its surroundings.

From 2019 to 2023, his easel painting began with acrylic and gradually expanded through continuous experiments with different materials and their possibilities within painting; materials, surfaces, and traces increasingly shifted from being means of painting to becoming part of the work itself. From 2021 onward, he began exploring photography, moving image, sound, and installation, completing the series Rusty Memory in mid-2022. In late 2022, he began experimenting with filmmaking and completed his first short poetry film, Autumn’s End, in 2023. Later that year, he further explored installation practices in which the entire space became part of the work, completing the site-specific installation Unterschlupf in early 2024.

Since 2025, Yanlin has continued his artistic studies at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden). Under the guidance of Professor Nicole Vögele, his current creative focus has shifted toward poetry film and interdisciplinary moving-image practice.