| Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1975, China. Lives and
works in Vienna, Austria
Solo exhibitions
Msgr Otto Mauer-Preis, 2005, Foyer der
Jesuiten, Vienna, Austria
Kunstverein Langenhagen,
Langenhagen, Germany
Büro Friedrich. 2004. Berlin, Germany
Galene Martin Janda, 2003, Vienna, Austria
Musée d Art Contemporain, Marseilles,
2002, France
Index. 2002. Stockholm, Sweden
Structures of Life - Version D00', 2001,
Galerie für zeitgendössis-che Kunst,
Leipzig, Germany
Museum für angewandte Kunst, 2001,
Galerie. Vienna. Austria
Emerging Artists Kunst der Gegenwart,
2000, Sammlung Essl, Klostemeuburg,
Austria
Kunstverein Wolfsburg (curated by B.
Steiner), Wolfsburg, Germany
Group exhibitions
Remapping Mozart, 2006, Vienna,
Austria
This Land Is My Land..., 2006,
Kunsthalle Nurnberg Nüremberg,
Germany
The Experience of Art, 2005, (curated by
Maria de Corral), 51st Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
Projekt Migration, 2005, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
We are the World, 2005, Museo
Nacional Centra de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid, Spain
Ficciones documentales, 2004,
Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain;
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Why Not Live for Art?, 2004, Tokyo
Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
PS. 1, 2003, New York, USA
Writing IDENTITY - on Autobiography in
Art, 2003, Galerie für zeitgendössische
Kunst Leipzig, Germany (co-curator with
Barbara Steiner)
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany
Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz. Germany
in the meantime..., 2001, De Appel
Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New Heimat, 2001, Frankfurter
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
man muss ganz schön viel ler-nen um
hier zu funktionieren, 2000, Frankfurter
Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany
Biennale di Torino, 2000, Turin, Italy
Work in public space
Landhaus Innsbruck, 2005 Innsbruck.
Austria
Tien Tsin, 2004, restaurant, Vienna,
Austria
ra'an, 2003, restaurant, Vienna, Austria
ra'mien, 2002, restaurant, Vienna, Austria
Selected awards
Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für
bildende Kunst 2001
Msgr. Otto Mauer-Preis. 2005, Austria
Futher Reading
Maria de Corral, The Experience of Art,
exh. cat.,Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2005,
pp. 250-5, 259
llina Koralova, in the meantime, exh.
cat., Amsterdam: De Appel, 2001, pp. 3-7
Lebt und arbeitet in Wien 11, exh. cat.,
Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2005, pp. 182-7, 207
Roland Nachtigäller, Daheim in der Fremde -
Fremde in der Heimat, exh. cat., Nordhorn:
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, 2005, pp. 22-9, 50
Jun Yang and Barbara Steiner (eds.), Art
Works-Autobiography, London: Thames &
Hudson, 2004
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Jun Yang's work reflects his background
as an immigrant, an experience shared
in various ways by millions of people in
the age of globalisation. Born in China,
but migrating to Europe as a child, the
artist went through various stages of
naturalising' himself, a process in which
he discovered not simply what it is to be
an immigrant (legal or illegal), but also
how one is acculturated into a 'European
citizen' and what it costs to be a
European (born or naturalised), or in fact
to be a social being in general.
His work thus addresses specific issues
of otherness, but usually from a much
wider angle that bears on everyone's
life. Camouflage - Talk Like Them, Look
Like Them, for example, is a
documentary film starting from a fictive
interview with an illegal immigrant and
ending with a deep analysis of
citizenship which moves from fashion, to
speech acts, up to the politics of terror.
Drawing on his own experience of
the 'right' things to say and to do, and
the hope of security, safety and
prosperity which brings immigrants to a
new land, Yang plays with his name and
appearance, and explores ideas of
landscape, home, architecture and
social structure - mostly with quirky
humour and intimacy.
Manray Hsu
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Type: | person |
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