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.

He studied Fine Arts with a focus on oil painting at Zhongbei College, Nanjing Normal University from 2019 to 2023. Around 2020, his practice began to shift from traditional painting toward mixed-media experiments on canvas. Influenced by Frank Auerbach, Anselm Kiefer, and German Neo-Expressionism, Yanlin developed a material language through rust reactions, self-made pigments, and layered surfaces.

From 2021 onward, Yanlin expanded his practice into moving image, sound, and installation. His first short film, completed in 2023, marked a transition from canvas-based work toward poetic film. In parallel, he developed Unterschlupf, a site-specific installation combining spatial experience, sound, and visual fragments, completed in early 2024.

Since 2025, Yanlin has continued his artistic education at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden), where his current focus has shifted toward poetic film and interdisciplinary moving-image practice under the mentorship of Professor Nicole Vögele.