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Alison Yip
creative background
July 5 - August 2, 2025


Franz Kaka is pleased to announce Alison Yip’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, creative background.



The nettles that are growing around the willow's branches represent pain

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“Salesgirls could be had for $5 a week and machines could not compete with that.”

“… articles such as paper, orange-peel, and other rubbish have been maliciously placed in the slit provided for the admission of the coin….”

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as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves

          jewellery, frozen beef, rice, whisky, hamburgers, pornographic magazines, videocassettes and batteries

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        had unique names, smoked cigarettes, and, once given artificial voice boxes,
had the ability to tell jokes—even about sex

        making you wonder if you are tired, dizzy, or have just spent too many hours
in here
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"Unlike other creations, all are alike and can be depended on for their actions"


I am threatened with a notice to appear before a magistrate for trespassing in a
field and destroying the hay


Text by Aurelia Guo




Alison Yip is a Canadian artist currently based in Cologne, Germany. Yip holds a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary. She continued her studies at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany and received an MFA from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Chris Andrews, Montreal, CA; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA; Kantine, Brussels, BE;  Damien and the Love Guru, Zurich, CH; Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, DE; Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund, DE; and Lady Helen, London, UK.