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28/1/2003

Jun Yang

Galerie Martin Janda, Wien

Five landscapes, a film. For his second solo show at the Galerie Martin Janda Raum Aktueller Kunst, from January 29th to March 15th 2003, Jun Yang is showing six pieces created for the show and to be seen for the first time in Vienna.

In his latest film "Camouflage. LOOK like them TALK like them" (2002/2003), Jun Yang thematizes the situation of illegal immigrants and legal foreigners. The piece originates from newspaper articles of concrete occurrences which Jun Yang works into the form of a conversation with an imaginary person called X.

The film stands at the beginning of a series of thematic pieces which, for the first time, does not deal with autobiographical questions. The two wall pieces take up aspects of the video work as separate, minimalistic stories.

Three large models will be shown in the main room of the gallery: landscapes with train, with miniature houses, and with rivers. One of these landscapes, "Qi Lai! Qi Lai! Qi Lai! (Arise! Arise! Arise!)", shows the reconstruction of the town where Jun Yang was born. Loudspeaker masts stand between the houses, filling the town with the sound of music and texts. "Once I was travelling through Germany on the train and we were talking about the landscape. If my parents told me I'd been born here, I would believe it. I could shoot a film of the landscape in China and it would look exactly the same as in the Vienna Woods or in Mühlviertel. On which landscape structures does one concentrate and how are they reinforced as images? The perfect image of a village - that does not become directly visible in the built landscape, but is spoken about in the texts coming from the megaphones." (Jun Yang, interviewed by Sabine B. Vogel, Kunstbulletin 1/2003)

Opening: Today, Tuesday, 28th January 2003, 7 pm

Tue - Fri 1 - 6 pm, Sat 11 am - 3 pm

Image: Detail: Jun Yang, Quilai! Quilai! Quilai! (Arise! Arise! Arise!), 2001 landscape with soundinstallation, 240 x 120 x 120 cm

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Jun Yang
1975
born in China, lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
1994-96
"Gerrit Rietveld Akademie" - free media department, Amsterdam
1996-2000
""Akademie der Bildenden Künste" , Vienna
1998-2000
"Schindler Artist in Residence Award, Los Angeles", MAK Center for Arts and Architecture LA, Museum Angewandte Kunst Wien
2001
"Österreichisches Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst" Artist in Residence, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2002
PS1 Studio Program, New York

Selected Soloshows:
1999
Raum Aktueller Kunst Martin Janda, Wien (A)
2000
AT MY STAGE, Galerie Vallois/ Project Room, Paris (F)
Emerging artists, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (A)
Kunstverein Wolfsburg(D)
2001
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (D)
Museum für angewandte Kunst Galerie, Wien (A)
Art Statement, Galerie Martin Janda, Art Basel (CH)
2002
MAC - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille (F)
Index, Stockholm, Schweden (SWE)

Selected Groupshows:
2001
Encounter, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (JAP), (Kurator: M. Kataoka)
in the meantime..., De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam, (NL)
Int. Festival of documentary film, Marseille (F)
New Heimat, Frankfurter Kunstverein (D)
Zacheta, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warschau (PL)
2002
Import/Export, Villa Arson, Nizza (F)
Get out!, Galleria Arsenale, Bialystok (PL)
Maverick, Kunsthaus Baselland (CH)
Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (D)
Der globale Komplex, OK-Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz (A)
und Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (A)
Werkleitz Biennale, Werkleitz, (D)
Nicolaii Contemporary Art Centre Copenhagen, (DK)
2003
Overbeckgesellschaft, Lübeck (D)
PS 1, New York (USA)

Galerie Martin Janda
Raum aktueller Kunst
Eschenbachgasse 11
1010 Wien
T +43/1/585 73 71
F +43/1/585 73 72

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