Jiechang Yang

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Jiechang Yang

1956 born in Foshan, Kanton, China

Lives in Paris, France

Education

Born in 1956 in Guangdong Province, Yang Jiechang currently lives and works in Heidelberg and Paris. After graduating from the Guangzhou Fine Arts Academy in 1982, he took up a rigorous study of the Tao with the Taoist master, Huangtao. Simultaneously he became active in the contemporary art scene in China which was then undergoing rapid development. One of his aims is to promote autonomous regional and marginal expression. Yang Jiechang gained international recognition through the exhibition of his large monochrome ink paintings, severe in their abstraction and spirituality, in "Les magiciens de la terre" in the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1989. Nevertheless, his œuvre comprises a variety of media: painting, video, installation, and interventions.

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Océan, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, FR
2009 The Spectacle of the Everyday, Xe Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
2009 Against Exclusion – 3rd Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia
2009 Qui a peur des artistes? Une sélection d'oeuvres de la François Pinault Foundation, Musée de Dinard
2008 3rd Guangzhou Triennal, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, PR China
2008 No - Shadow Kick, Duolum Museum, Shanghai. PR China (Solo)
2008 Biennale di Venezia, Tibetan Pavilion, Edicola Notte, Rome, Italy (Solo)
2007 Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2007 Made in China, Louisianna Museum, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2006 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
2006 Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La Force de l'Art - Paris Triennial, Grand Palais, Paris, FR
2006 La revoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
2006 Taste, 5th ShenzhenInternational Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzheng, People's Rebublic of China
2006 Infiltration - Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, People's Rebublic of China
2006 Tomorrow Cloudy Sky HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong. (Solo)
2005 Memorandum, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, FR (Solo)
2005 On the Edge, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, USA
2005 Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Province, PR China
2005 Emergency Biennial, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France and Grosny, Chechnya
2005 Layered Landscapes, with Yan Lei, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
2004 Le moine et le démon, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, FR
2004 All under Heaven Collection Ullens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Anvers, BE
2004 Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, PR China
2004 The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, PR China
2003 Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2003The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, PR China
2002 Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, PR China
2002 Pause - Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
2001 French May, Hong Kong University Museum, Hong Kong (Solo)
2001 20 Main Chinese Painters, National Gallery Beijing, Bejing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu; Canton Art Museum, Kanton, PR China
2000 Paris pour Escale, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, FR
2000 Continental Shift, Musée d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Liège, BE
1999 Another Turn of the Screw, Galerie de l’Académie Centrale de Beaux-Arts, Peking, RP China (Solo)
1998 2nd International Biennial Shanghai, Shanghai Art Museum, PR China
1997 In Between Limits, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
1994 Cut the Fingernails from My Body, Espace d’art contemporain Le Faubourg, Strasbourg, France (solo)
1993 Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1993 Coalition, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
1992 Construction in Process Nr. 4 - My Home is your Home, The Artists' Museum, Lodz, PL
1991 The Artists' Museum, Lodz, PL
1990 Salon de mars, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France (Solo)
1990 Voyage en Mexique, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (Solo)
1989 Les magiciens de la terre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
1989 Chinese Avant-garde Art, Fine Arts National Gallery, Peking, PR China

Group Exhibitions