YANG ZHENZHONG

YANG ZHENZHONG
Light and Easy (edition of 10)
photography
120 x 182 cm
2002
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Publication

Here is my project for do-it:

Every morning
When you wake up
Go to your bathroom
Face to the mirror with smile
And say:

"I will die"


Yang Zhenzhong Let's puff Two Channels Video Installaions Click here to view the sample movie


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Yang Zhenzhong Cycle Aerobics Photo 1999 YZZ 5


Stills from: Yang Zhenzhong 922 rice corns Video 2000 8 minutes

1968	Born in Hangzhou
1990	Graduated from the Fashion Design Department of the Zhejiang Institute of Silk Textile
1993	Studied in the Oil Painting Department of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
	Lives and works in Shanghai

Solo Exhibition

2002	Light As Fuck, Bizart, Shanghai
2001	I will Die, Brussels, Belgium
1998	Jiangnan / Yang Zhenzhong, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada


Selected Group Exhibitions

2005	Follow Me! Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millenium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
	Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
	Shanghai Constuctions, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
	Biennale! Artist Fim and Video, temporarycontemporary, London, Great Britain
2004	Shanghai Surprise, lothringer dreizehn, Munchen, Germany
	Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munchen, Germany
	Die Chinese: Fotografie und Video aus China, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
	Is it Art? - Black Show, Noanoa Center, Xian
	Is it Art? - White show, Shanxi Provincial Art Museum, Xian
	Zooming into Focus:Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the haudenschild Collection, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	China Now, MoMa film at the Gramercy Theatre, New York, USA
	Chine:Generation Video, MEP-Maison Europeene de la photographie, Paris, France
	The Logbook-An Art-Project about Communication and Cultural Exchange, Longmarchfoundation, Beijing, China
	Yoko Ono Horizontal Memories,Asrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Germany
	"Rogue Nations": Cuban & Chinese Artists, Macla Movimiento de Arte CulturaLatino Americana
	Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
	A I'ouest du sud de I'est, Centre Regional d'Art Contemprain Languedoc-Roussillon,Sete, France
	Light as Fuck-Shanghai Assemblage, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
	Concrete Horizons-Contemporary art from China, Adam art gallery, Victoria University of wellington, Wellington
	At the still point of the turning world, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) Centre in Liverpool, U.K.
	China Now, Alles onder de hemel, Muhka, Antwerpen, Belgium
2003	Prague Biennale-Porject:Chinese Art Today, National Gallery, Praha, Czech Republic
	Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	The First Guangzhou Triennial, Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Open Sky, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
	Spring Story, Siemens Shanghai Mobile Communication Ltd. Shanghai (part of Siemens Art Program "What are they doing here?")
	urbanart2003, Shanghai, P.R. China, City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (PDF)
	Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Ibos, France
	Department, Contemporary art exhibition, Hangzhou
	Games, Hartware Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany
	Ok. Video, Jakarta Video Art Festival 2003, Jakarta
	City_net Asia 2003, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
	White Tower mountain, Hangzhou
	"Zooming into Focus" - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	The Skyline at work, New York, USA
	Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2003, Japan
	Second Hand Reality Contemporary Art Exhibiton, Today Art Gallery, Beijing, China
	1st Prague Biennale, Prague, Czech
	Out of the Red - La generatione emergente, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Milan, Italy
	Le Bestaire Fabuleux, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Korea
	Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris
	50th Biennale di Venezia (Z.O.U.), Venezia, Italy
	+System, Short videos from the world 2002-2003, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
	The minority is subordinate to the majority, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
	Chinese Maximalism, Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
2002	"Theater Formen 2002" internationals theater festival, Hannover/ Braunschweig
	Fantasia, East Art Center, Beijing and Seoul, Korea
	Homeport Shanghai, Fuxing Park, Shanghai
	Mantic Ecstasy-Photography & Video, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing
	La Photograpjie Traversee , Phonema and Image - '96 Video Art
	c'est pas du cinema, Studio national, Le Fresnay
	Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu: Glad to meet you (Twin exhibition), Jin Sha Jiang Rd., Shanghai
	Under Construction - New Dimensions of Asian Art, The Japan Foundation Asia Centre & Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
	CoverAsia, National Gallery of the Cayman Islands, Grand Cayman Island
	The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
	Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
	VideoROM, Le Toit du Monde - Centre Multidisciplinaire Pour la Culture Actuelle, Vevey. Switzerland
	VideoROM 2.0 Giancarla Zanutti Gallery, Milan, Italy
	4th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea
	24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bizart, Shanghai
	Fantasia, East Art Center, Beijing
	Art in General's, 4th Annual Video Marathon, 12 hour screening, New York,USA
2001	Fantasia, Temporary Space, Seoul, Korea
	The First Valencia Biennal, Valencia, Spain
	Living in Time, Contemporary Artists form China, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
	Homeport, Bizart, Shanghai
	Mantic Ecstasy-Photography & Video, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou
	China - Germany New Media Art Week, Beijing
	Red Hot, Beijing
	ARCO, Asian Party, Global Game (curated by Hou Hanru), Madrid, Spain
2000	Useful Life, Temporary Space, Shanghai
	Uncooperative Approach, (Fuck Off), Shanghai
	Our Chinese Friends, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
	La Photograpjie Traversee, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
	Video-Circle, Hongkong, Berlin
	Inertia & Mask- Works on Paper, Shanghai Oil Painting & Sculpture Institute, Shanghai
	2000 China Internet Video and Photo Art
	BIG Torino 2000, Torino, Italy
	Home, Shanghai
1999	The Same but Also Changed-Photography Exhibition, 859 Tian Yao Qiao Road, Shanghai
	Idea Concept, Shanghai
	BM99, Bienal da Maya, Maya, Portugal
	Xchange, Paris
	Art for Sale, Shanghai Plaza, Shanghai (curator and Artist)
1998	Jin Yuan Lu 310, Shanghai
1997	Chinese Video and Photography, Max Protech Gallery, New York
	Contemporary Photo Art from China, NBK/ Berlin; Darmstad, Germany; USA
	Demostration of Video Art'97 China, Beijing
1996	Phonema and Image ?'96 Video Art, Hangzhou
1995	4x100sqm, Group Activity, Hangzhou
	45 Degrees as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work Organized by Geng Jianyi with Artists from Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing
1994	The Date 26 Nov. 1994 as a Reason, Conceptual Collaboration Work Organized by Geng Jianyi with Artists from Hangzhou-Shanghai-Beijing
1992	The First Biennial Art Exhibition, Guangzhou

Publications/Catalogues
	Please check Britta Erickson's Bibliography

Works (Selection)
1994	Happy Birthday (Agreed to the date 26 Nov.1994 as a reason) Aspecially-made Cake with Wax, Eggs, Flour, Sugar, Spice, Pigment. Hangzhou Nanshan cemetery, look for a stranger who was born on the same date, and hold a birthday ceremony for him in front of his tomb.
	Christmas Gift Wax, Pigment 30×27×12.5cm 1994.12.25. On Christmas Day.1994, a Christmas’ gift--a wax-molded breast was presented to a dead infant who was exhibited in the pathological specimen room of a hospital.
1995	Medicine(45 Degree as a reason) 1995.3. [Prescription] Monkey sperm 9 portions, fermented rice 15g, scallion root 10g, poppy shell 15g, oleander leaf 5 pieces, and tobacco 3g. [Application & Function] Take after each meal: for toothache, one dose cures. [Method] Refer to demonstrate.
	Shower video 1995.8 To fanfare music in the background, a fully-dressed young man stands under a shower, rubbing soap on every last bit of his body - head (cap), feet (trainers), legs (jeans), body (shirt) - before rinsing and drying himself assiduously.
	Lucky Family I 100×60cm Photography, Computer Processing 1995 Lucky Family II 60×60cm Photography, Computer Processing 1995 Lucky Family III 60×60cm Photography, Computer Processing 1995 Lucky Family IV 60×60cm Photography, Computer Processing 1995 4×100㎡ Cooperatine activities 1995.11.
1996	Fish bowl Video Installation 1996.9 Three monitors (21"), a video machine, a concave glass fish bowl, iron. The concaved spot of the fish bowl has enough space for locating a monitor and has a half height of three piled up monitors. The fish bowl is filled with water and with small water pumps. The video-recording contents: shooting closely a mouth which repeatedly produces the words: "we are not fish".
1997	Sleepwalking Is A Therapy Video 30minutes 1997.8. Fix a video camera on a remote control car, and the camera is moving ands shooting on the floor of an apartment house, the image and sound are not handled.
1998	Balance Video Installation 1998.3. Three monitors, a video machine, a little camera, a move-sensor Three monitors show the artist welcoming everyone entering the gallery with a big smile. On the central monitor, he slips away when visitors approach and the visitors themselves end up on the screen, caught by a camera placed at an angle, and therefore all shown leaning to the right. So the visitors have to lean to the left to make themselves upright on screen. "Jiang Nan", Access Gallery/Vancouver
	Trace Video Installation 1998 9" TV set, VCR, 180min VHS tape Video and sound-close-up of a plaster being torn off hairy skin. The scene is repeated while its color is gradually shifting through the entire color spectrum. Together with the monitor, 2 photos of this very piece of skin, before and after the application of the plaster, and the used plaster itself are installed on a light table.
1999	Shanghai face, Video Installation 1999 Contents: Place a mask in front of a camera ... film the Shanghai crowd from the bridge over the intersection of Nanjing and Xizang Road. Then project the video through a glass pan filled with water onto a screen on the ceiling. The installation is set up in such a way that the vibrations emitted from the soundtrack will disrupt the surface of the water which in turn disrupts the projected image.
	Cycle Aerobics Photography 1999.9. What You Can Tolerate Cannot be Wiped off by Your Tolerance Video 1999.10. The video shows an agitated young man entering a metro station. He has held on for too long and is now looking for the toilets. He walks through the crowd, feeling more and more uncomfortable. He makes enquiries and ends up finding the public urinal, relieving himself at last!
2000	922 Rice Corns Video 2000 CONTENT: A cock and a hen are picking a heap of rice on the ground. Their head's nicking movements will evaluate the exact number of corns. SOUND: Male and female voiceover counting accordingly. SUBTITLES: Rice counters: the left for the cock, the right for the hen, and the middle for total. A living snake(viper) color copy size: A3 2000
	I Will Die Video 2000-2001 People of different ages and status said: “ I will die.”
	On the Pillow Photography 2000.10 If You Have A Parrot, What Words Do You Like to Teach Him (Her)?
2001	Vedio installation 2001 Don't Move Video Installation 2001 12 TV-set, 12 video-set, 12 wooden box

Articles:
	"Compelling Images of a Distant Life. Video as Expansion of Reality.", by Martina Köppel-Yang

1968	出生杭州
1990	毕业于浙江丝绸学院服装系
1993	中国美术学院油画系
主要个展和联展:

2004	轻而易举！上海拼图2000－2004艺术展，国立当代美术馆，奥斯陆，挪威
	过去与未来之间－来自中国的新摄影及录像，美国纽约国际摄影艺术中心
	A l'est du sud de l'ouest, 法国尼斯国家当代艺术中心
	Concrete Horizons: 中国当代艺术，威灵顿亚当艺术画廊，新西兰
	At the Still Point of the Turning World, 利物普FACT艺术中心，英国
	今日中国，纽约现代艺术博物馆
2003	自制天堂， Le Parvis当代艺术中心，法国Ibos
	打开天空－上海多伦现代美术馆当代艺术展，上海多伦现代美术馆
	系，杭州
	游戏，Hartware媒体艺术协会，多特蒙德，德国
	西门子艺术计划－他们在这干什么？，上海
	亚洲城市链接，汉城
	白塔岭，杭州
	聚焦，圣地亚哥，美国
	地平线，美国，纽约
	讨厌绘画展，比翼艺术中心，上海
	二手现实，北京今日美术馆
	2003雅加达录像艺术节，雅加达，印度尼西亚
	越后妻有三年展，日本新泻
	布拉格双年展，布拉格，捷克
	走出红色，意大利，米兰Trevi Flash美术馆
	Le Bestaire Fabuleux, 汉城Daelim当代艺术馆
	那么，中国呢？巴黎蓬皮杜艺术中心
	紧急地带，第50届威尼斯双年展, 意大利
	多制式，2002-2003世界短片录像节，上海比翼艺术中心，中国
	少数服从多数，上海比翼艺术中心，中国
	中国极多主义, 世纪坛艺术馆，北京
2002	施工中：亚洲当代艺术展，日本国际交流基金/东京歌剧城画廊，日本东京
	都市营造，上海双年展，上海美术馆
	广州三年展，广东美术馆，广州
	范明珍和范明珠（双胞胎展览）-你好你好，上海金沙江路1508号2楼
	第四届光州双年展, 韩国, 光州
	24:30当代艺术交流展, 上海比翼艺术中心，中国
	Art in General's, 纽约第四届录像马拉松
	狂想曲, 北京远洋艺术中心
2001	第1届巴伦西亚双年展，西班牙巴伦西亚
	生活在此时：中国当代艺术展，柏林汉堡火车站当代美术馆
	附体摄影录像展，杭州、上海、北京
	亚洲派对，全球游戏，ARCO基金会，西班牙马德里
	中德新媒体艺术活动周，北京
	红火，火红，北京
	我会死的，布鲁塞尔艺术节，比利时
2000	我们心中的朋友，魏玛包豪斯学院美术馆，德国
	La Photograpjie Traversee，亚尔国际摄影集会，法国
	家？，上海
	Big Torino世界青年艺术节，都灵双年展，意大利都灵
	惰性与伪装纸上作品展，上海
	录像圈，香港，柏林
	2000中国网络影像艺术展
	Photographie，韩国
	有效期，上海
	不合作方式，上海东廊艺术画廊
1999	玛雅双年展，玛雅，葡萄牙
	物是人非摄影展，上海
	观念 . 概念展，上海
	交换展，巴黎，法国
	超市艺术展，上海
1998	晋元路310号，上海
	江南展，温哥华
1997	中国录像和摄影展，纽约Max Protech画廊
	中国当代摄影艺术展，新柏林艺术协会
	97中国录像艺术观摩展，北京
1996	现象.摄影.96录像艺术展，杭州
1995	4x100m2小组活动，杭州
	45度作为理由
1994	1994.11.26作为理由
1992	90'现代艺术双年展，广州

主要作品:
1994	生日快乐(1994.11.26.作为理由) 特制蛋糕（蜡、鸡蛋、面粉、白糖、香料、色素）在南山公墓寻找一当日出生的人，在他的墓前，为其做生日议式。
	圣诞礼物蜡、色素 30×27×12.5cm 94.12.25. 94年圣诞节，将一蜡制乳房作为礼物送给某医院病理科标本室的死婴。
1995	药(45度作为理由) 1995 [处方]猴子精液9份，酒酿15克，葱根10克，罂粟壳15克，夹竹桃叶5片，烟丝3克。 [用法与功效]饭后口服。根治牙痛，一剂见效。 [配制方法]参考演示。
	洗澡录像 1995 着衣洗澡、现场录像、加速处理、后期配音全家福I 100×60cm 摄影、电脑合成 1995 全家福II 60×60cm 摄影、电脑合成 1995 全家福III 60×60cm 摄影、电脑合成 1995 全家福IV 60×60cm 摄影、电脑合成 1995 4×100㎡小组活动 1995.11.
1996	鱼缸录像装置 1996.9. 三台电视机(21")、一台录像机、一只玻璃鱼缸、2.5×2.5cm方钢。鱼缸做成凹字形，凹处大小恰可放入电视机。三台电视机垂直叠放。鱼缸注满水，放入4个小气泵。录象内容：近摄一反复说“我们不是鱼”的嘴。
1997	梦游疗法录像 1997.8. 摄像机（Panasonic Super VHS)固定在一辆遥控模型汽车上，在一公寓房内地板上运动拍摄。连续拍摄不切换，共三十分钟，现场录音。
1998	平衡录像装置 1998.3. 三台电视机、一台录像机、一小监视器、一运动感应器当观众靠近作品时，中间电视机中的录像画面由微笑的艺术家肖像变成监视器所摄的倾斜现场，观众只有倾斜自己的身体，才能看到自己在电视机中正的形象，如果观众在电视机前保持不动，画面将又跳回微笑的艺术家肖像。
	印迹录像装置 1998.5. 电视机(29')、录像机、180分钟VHS录像带, 录象内容为一块伤筋膏药从皮肤上撕下的片断，重复拷贝，色调渐变。灯箱桌上是两张用药前后的皮肤照片，和膏药的实物，均被灯光透射。
1999	上海的脸录像装置 1999 录像内容: 摄像机前挂一小面具，在上海人流最拥挤的南京路和西藏路路口环形天桥上，绕行拍摄。投影录像透过水投射到天花板上的投影屏上，声音信号通过电子转换器震动玻璃缸中的水。影像间歇的随着水的波动而破碎变形。
	自行车保健操摄影 1999.9.
	你所忍耐的不能被你的忍耐消除录像 1999.10. 录像内容：跟踪拍摄一男子在人流拥挤的闹市区急走，到处寻找厕所，最后终于解决了内急。
2000	九百二十二颗米录像 2000 内容：一只公鸡和一只母鸡吃完一堆米，通过数他们点头的次数，得出这一堆米有多少颗。配音：一个男声数公鸡点头的次数；一个女声数母鸡点头的次数。字幕：左边的字幕随公鸡点头的次数同步跳数；右边的字幕随母鸡点头的次数同步跳数；中间的字幕数值是总数。
	五步蛇彩色复印 A 3×50×2 2000
	我会死的录像 2000-2001 各种年龄、身份的人对着镜头说：“我会死的。”
	在枕头上摄影 2000.10
	如果你养了一只鹦鹉，你教它说什么？录像装置 2001
2001	不要动录像装置 2001 12台电视机，12台录像机，12个木箱十二台电视机呈小弧形并置于马恩塑像之前，闪烁的荧屏远远望去像是黑夜中微颤的烛光。十二段录像分别为摄像机以十二种不同的运动方式拍摄一男子的脸部，此人则闭着眼睛不停地说：“不要动，不要动……”，十二个声道的声音同时打开，在现场此起彼伏。