Yilei Wang (b. 1983, Shanghai) is a curator, visual designer, and one of the founders of Northing - Centre for East-Asian Art and Culture in Bergen. She holds an MA in visual communication from The Academy of Art and Design in Bergen. Her graduation work was selected as the "Newcomer of the Year" by RAFF Design Week (now Bergen Design Festival).
At the end of 2019, she co-founded Northing Space, a multi-disciplinary art venue promoting contemporary East-Asian art and culture, together with architect Ben Wenhou Yu. Yilei and Ben have curated most of the exhibitions in the annual programs of Northing Space. Alongside the gallery space, they also run an art publishing project called Kinakaal Forlag (Chinese Cabbage Publisher), which continues to bridge Nordic and East-Asian art and literature in the form of printed matters. Books published by Kinakaal Forlag have won the “Most Beautiful Books of the Year” award in Norway four times, with Yilei designing three of the four winning books. The joint exhibition "Flex Point," curated by Northing in collaboration with Entrée (Randi Grov Berger) in 2023, received a very positive review on Kunstkritikk, praising that “The architect Ben Wenhou Yu and the designer Yilei Wang […] have created an incredible institution, one that you wouldn't expect to exist in a city the size of Bergen.” In 2024, to celebrate their first quinquennium, Northing changed its name to Northing - Centre for East-Asian Art and Culture.
