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YANG JIECHANG
God, 2022
Ink and acrylic on canvas
25 x 25 cm | 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 in
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YANG JIECHANG
Heaven and Earth in One Stroke (Whip), 2017-2018
Ink and acrylic on Xuan-paper, mounted on canvas, 235 x 122 cm
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YANG JIECHANG
b. 1956, based in FR and DE

Yang Jiechang grew up during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the beginning of his artistic career coincided with China’s political opening in the late 1970s and 1980s. His first appearance in Europe and the trigger for his emigration was his participation in the seminal exhibition Magiciens de la terre in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989.
Yang Jiechang participated in the Biennales in Guangju (Korea, 2002); Guangzhou Triennial (2003, 2005, 2013), Venice (2003), Liverpool (2006), Istanbul (2007), Moscow (2009), Lyon (2009), Shanghai (2012) and presented a Carte Blanche at the Musée Guimet, Paris, in 2022. His works are in the collection of LACMA, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum; Berkeley Art Museum; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Pinault Foundation, France; Annie Wong Foundation, Vancouver; Ullens Foundation, Switzerland and many more. He is the subject of the documentary film ‘Yang Jiechang’s Gu and Qi’ directed and produced by Britta Erickson and of Carte Blanche à Yang Jiechang by Felicitas Yang the subject of an in-depth monographs Yang Jiechang: 道可 道非 No Way All Ways, edited by Britta Erickson (distributed internationally by D.A.P.), as well as of I often Do Bad Things. Yang Jiechang: Texts and Works 1982 - 2016, edited by Martina Köppel-Yang (Verlag Kettler, Dortmund 2017).
YANG JIECHANG, Golden Day (Tale of the 11th Day Series), 2011-2012
Ink and mineral colours on silk, mounted on canvas, 
(Detail) 8 panels, each 244,5 x 141 cm
YANG JIECHANG
Golden Day (Tale of the 11th Day Series), 2011-2012
Ink and mineral colours on silk, mounted on canvas,
(Detail) 8 panels, each 244,5 x 141 cm
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YANG JIECHANG, INSTALLATION VIEW, 2018, sehr romantisch, SETAREH
YANG JIECHANG
INSTALLATION VIEW, 2018
sehr romantisch, SETAREH
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Past exhibitions
SEHR ROMANTISCH
Curated by Heinz-Norbert Jocks
SETAREH
20.12.20-21.01.21 ART PRESS
YANG JIECHANG

"Deviations of a Lettered Artist"
Interview by Jean-Hubert Martin

A year ago, Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jeager presented an astonishing show of Yang Jiechang, confronting the very different styles in which the artist works: traditional Chinese, calligraphic and gestural. The idea was born from a dialogue between him and Jean-Hubert Martin, whoe revealed him to the Western audience on the ocassion of the "Magiciens de la Terre" exhibition in 1989. The interview tool place in March 2020, read more here: "Deviations of a Lettered Artist".

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KATE ANDREWS
HOVERBEAM, 2021
Oil on canvas
110 x 90 cm
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KATE ANDREWS
HOVERBEAM, 2021
Oil on canvas
110 x 90 cm