 Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in: |
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| France | 22 |
| China | 19 |
| Italy | 6 |
| Germany | 6 |
| Switzerland | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Galerie Jeanne Bucher, France |
16 |
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Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, China |
5 |
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Hanart TZ Gallery, China |
4 |
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Galerie Alice Pauli, Switzerland |
3 |
Biography: 
16.11.1956 Born in Foshan, Guangdong (CN)
Yang Jiechang - selected exhibitions as pdf-File
Excerpts from Hou Hanru´s text "Towards a World of Poets"* :
Yang Jiechang is probably the most unpredictable and chaotic artist in his generation. For the last thirty years, he has constructed an immense body of work. It covers a large span of media and languages from ink-wash painting, Chinese calligraphy, drawing, photography, installation, performance, sound, music, multimedia to simply everyday actions while the formats vary from huge and oversized to tiny and quasi immaterial. However, he has never tightened himself to any fixed and established style, norm and issue. Instead, he always reacts to the given context and momentum of each events in which he participates and produces new concepts and forms to put forward his systematically critical, provocative and even subversive thoughts and expressions. He simply comes up with a new surprise every time.I(...) In the last century, "reforming" Chinese traditional painting (ink painting) has been an unsolved and somehow unsolvable obsession for the Chinese art world. It has been widely considered as a part of the national mission of cultural modernisation. This issue became even more crucial and urgent in the Chinese avant-garde movement of the 1980s. Trained as an ink painter and calligrapher, Yang Jiechang started his artistic career in involving himself with the debate. After gaining perfect skills of traditional painting and calligraphy and a deep knowledge of Chinese art history and theory, he sought to escape from the double confinement of the academic rules and the norms of the dominant Socialist Realism still prevailing in the art world, in order to obtain the real freedom and joy that art can offer. He spent a considerable amount of time in a Taoist temple in Luofu Mountain in Guangdong province and learned Taoism with a master. Instead of any fixed form of "traditional expression", he has learned that the real spirit of the tradition is to be found in the actions of the everyday which is in infinite change. Unlike many of his contemporary avant-gardists who claimed the death of the Chinese ink painting, Yang Jiechang simply continues to merge himself in the field and explores exhaustively all possibilities that the tradition can offer and invent totally new ways to utilise it. Ink painting and calligraphy have hence remained the red string that conducts all his artistic adventures for the last three decades. And, it will continue to be so. In his numerous work, he incorporates all genres that ink painting contains and push them to the most radical degree of their possibilities.
(...) In addition, all these explorations of the expressions with ink are often expanded to take over the entire space of the exhibition as if their expansions could be totally beyond any boundary. Frequently, he incorporates any imaginable kind of media to bring this effort of expansion infinitely further: performance, installation, photography, video and even rock and roll!
Fundamentally, Yang Jiechang's work is seeking for a complete merge of art and life. It takes place, at first, in the real in a literal sense of the term: art is a process of living experience that can only be sensed through the body itself. (...)
In many of his recent works, he introduces human skulls and body parts. Rather than showing the terror of death, he manages to turn them into suspiciously playful and ironic forms that provoke astonishment and laughter. For him, putting the body in an "abnormal" state and catch the extraordinary experience is certainly the best way to understand the very reality of his existence. This can be understood in a particular perspective related to his own life experience, which is, to different extends, shared by a great number of his contemporaries. As one of the first generation of Chinese contemporary artists settled abroad since the late 1980s, the question of cultural identity has been a central concern in his life and work. Like many of his colleagues, Yang Jiechang has never been entirely relying on his Chinese background. Instead, he adopts a completely open attitude towards all kinds of cultural influences that he encounters in his new living conditions consisting of a multi-national family, global city life and transcontinental travels. It's in the very process of confronting, embracing and exchanging with other cultures and different living realities that he has been constantly trying to reinvent his own identity.
* Yang Jiechang - No-Shadow Kick, Beijing/Hong Kong/ Bangkok/ Shanghai 2008
Lives and works in Paris (FR) and Heidelberg (DE)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 79
until 11.8.
Solo shows 19
2012
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| Yang Jiechang: King of Canton - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
2011
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| Tale Of The Eleventh Day - Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris |
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| Yang Jiechang - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Tale of the 11th Day - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Stranger than Paradise - La Criée - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes |
2010
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| yang jiechang - im rahmen der deutschlandpremieren - Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf |
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| yang jiechang - deutschlandpremieren - Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf |
2009
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| Yang Jiechang - On Ascension - Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris |
2008
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| Yang Jiechang - No Shadow Kick - Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
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| Yang Jiechang: Artists Continue to Try Hard - Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY |
2007
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| The Most Beautiful Country of China - New Works by Yang Jiechang - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Yang Jiechang - Grace Li Gallery, Zurich |
2006
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| Yang Jiechang - Tomorrow Cloudy Sky - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
2005
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| LOHKCHAT - Isola Art Center, Milan |
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| YANG JIECHANG - Mémorandums - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
2003
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| Lohkchat! - Centre A - Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, BC |
2002
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| Der längste Tag - Kunstverein Nürtingen e.V., Nürtingen |
2001
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| YANG JIECHANG - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
1991
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| Yang Jie-Chang - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 59
2012
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| 39 Steps up the Corridor - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Moln/clouds - Skissernas museum - The Museum of Public Art, Lund |
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| Suspicion, Night breezes, Neverending Voyage - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la galerie - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
2011
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| Accrochage de groupe des artistes de la galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Accrochage de groupe des artistes de la galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| The World Belongs to You - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Tracing the Milky Way - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
2010
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| James Ensor - Hareng Saur: Ensor et l'art contemporain - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| The Vision of Contemporary Art - Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| The Burden of Representation: Abstraction in Asia Today - Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, SAR |
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| Erotic - Hadrien De Montferrand Gallery, Beijing |
2009
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| Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Nachbarschaft - Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt |
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| Territoria 4, Il grande balzo - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
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| 10e Biennale de Lyon - The Spectacle of the Everyday - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| time versus fashion - Kunstverein Nürtingen e.V., Nürtingen |
2008
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| Parcours des mondes - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la Galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la Galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| OPEN / INVITED e v+ a 2008 - ev+a, Limerick |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la Galerie - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Accrochage des artistes de la galerie - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
2007
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| Festive - Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| ’85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
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| Le Corps et son double - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Yan Pei-Ming, Gu Dexin, Yang Jiechang - Red Mansion Foundation, London (England) |
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| 10th International İstanbul Biennial - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| le dessin d'esprit - Galerie Beatrice Binoche, Saint Denis |
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| Metamorphosis - The Generation of Transformation in Chinese Contemporary Art - Tampere Art Museum, Tampere |
2006
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| La tentation de l´Orient - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Who´s afraid of China? - - BizArt, Shanghai (closed) |
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| Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Liverpool Biennial 2006 - Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool (England) |
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| Accumulation - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Surplus Value - Tang Contemporary Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| Microcosm - Chinese Comtemporary Art - Macau Museum of Art, Macao |
2005
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| The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Emergency Biennal 2005 - Emergency Biennal, Bolzano |
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| Accrochage de groupe - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Accrochage - Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne |
2004
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| Open - Grace Li Gallery, Zurich |
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| À L'OUEST DU SUD DE L'EST / À L'EST DU SUD DE L'OUEST - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
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| À L’OUEST DU SUD DE L’EST / À L’EST DU SUD DE L’OUEST - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| All under heaven - China now! - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2003
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
2002
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| The 1st Guangzhou Triennial - Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong |
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| Paysage, Vue de l´esprit - Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris |
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| Variations of Ink - Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY |
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| 4th Gwangju Biennale - PAUSE - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
2000
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| Fuori uso 2000 The Bridges - Fuori uso, Pescara |
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| Continental Shift - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
1998
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| Contemporary Art From China - Art Beatus - Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
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| 4696/1998 Group Show Contemporary Artists from China - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Out Of The Centre- Pois Keskuksesta - Pori Taidemuseo / Pori Art Museum, Pori |
| Dealer Directory 11 |
China
| | Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing
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| | Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, SAR
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| | Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR
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France
| | Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris
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| | Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne
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Thailand
| | Tang Contemporary Art - Bangkok, Bangkok
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USA
| | Chambers Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Goedhuis Contemporary - New York, New York City, NY
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Collections 4
China
| | UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
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Germany
| | MKG - Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg
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Italy
USA
| | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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