Yang Jiechang

Born 1956, Foshan, Guangdong Province, PR China.
Lives and works in Paris, France and Heidelberg, Germany

In 1997, Britain’s 99-year lease on Hong Kong’s New Territories (bordering Yang Jiechang’s birthplace, Guangdong Province) expired, and Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese. For International 06, Chinese artist Yang has performed a small act of reverse colonising, bringing a very ancient Chinese art – that of acupuncture – to Liverpool. He literally looks at the city as a body, seeing for example the streets of empty, boarded-up houses as Liverpool’s decaying limbs or rotting teeth; he makes a map of the city as traditional acupuncturists make a map of a body – and he applies needles to free the flow of energy. Can this ancient Chinese practice help to heal and revitalise the modern British city of Liverpool?

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Tomorrow Cloudy Sky, HanArtTZ Gallery, Hong Kong

2005 Memorandums, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
Hei Ji Sheng Xiang, Shenzhen Painting Institute, Shenzhen, PR China
Who Occupies the Space?, Isola d’arte, Milan, Italy

2003 Lookchat, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
For Emily, 4A Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2002 Der längste Tag, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Nürtingen, Germany

2001 French May, Hong Kong University Museum, Hong Kong
Enlightened Blackness, Alice King Gallery, Hong Kong
Double View, Galerie Jeanne Bucher, Paris, France
100 Layers of Ink, Cherng Piing Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Institut Français, Institut Français, Frankfurt, Germany

2000 You – Double View, Project Room, ARCO 2000, Madrid, Spain


Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Laboratoires pour un avenir incertain, La force de l’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Micro-Macro Politics, Macao Art Museum, Macao
Infiltration – Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, PR China
Taste: 5th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen, PR China

2005 Beyond: Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, PR China
Layered Landscapes: Yan Lei and Yang Jjiechang, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, USA
Biennial of Emergency, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France/Grozny, Chechen Republic
Experimental Ink, Museum of the University of Science, Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan

2004 Stop Over Hong Kong, HanartTz Gallery, Hong Kong
Le moine et le démon, Museé d’art contemporain de Lyon, Lyons, France
A l’est du sud de l’ouest, Villa Arson/Credac Sète, France
GAP, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Odyssey(s) 2004, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, PR China
All Under Heaven, Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium

2003 Zone of Urgency, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennial, Shenzhen Painting Institute, Shenzhen, PR China
The Fifth System, 5th International Shenzhen Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, PR China

2002 Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, PR China
Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
First Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, PR China

2001 China: 20 Years of Ink Experiment, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Centre de Refuge, Centre International de Poésie, Marseilles, France

2000 Paris pour Escale, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
A Portrait, Gallery agnès b., New York, USA