Mi Mi Ke YAO JUI-CHUNG Solo
DURATION: 2022-09-10 ~ 2022-10-07
VENUE: apartment der kunst of art
ADDRESS: schönfeldstraße 19 80539 münchen
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We are pleased to announce a solo exhibition with Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-chung 姚瑞中 at the occasion of the open art in Munich 2022. A long-planned project that is finally coming to fruition. Born in 1969 in Taipei/Taiwan, Yao Jui-chung is now internationally recognized as one of the most innovative Chinese-speaking artists of his generation. He has exhibited worldwide. In 1997 and 2022, he represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale. He has participated in the Yokohama Contemporary Art Triennale, Asia Pacific Brisbane Triennale, Taipei Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, Beijing Photo Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Media City Seoul Biennale, Asia Triennial Manchester, Asia Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Jakarta Biennale, and Sydney Biennale.
Yao specializes in photography, installation and painting. The subjects of his works are varied, but they all explore the absurdity of human existence on an everyday, spiritual or political level.
He says: "The 3-month residency here at Villa Waldberta / Munich Art Residence gives me peace, strength and new inspiration. My ideas bubble up, so that here for the exhibition in the Apartment of Art / Apartment of Art a whole new series of paintings has been created, which incorporates Western legends, everyday scurrilities, Shang-hai Jing (Chinese mythology about 2500 years ago) and historical ornamentation.“
Typical of his painting is the use of Western and traditional Eastern elements, often touching on religious and spiritual themes, but also, as in the series created for the Apartment of Art, drawing inspiration from everyday experiences and creating a world of mythical creatures, oddities, spiritual hybrid beings and spiritual demons.
Thus a surrealistic, partly ironically humorous to the grotesque leading wonderland of local current impressions and experiences and ancient Chinese mysticism.
The title of the exhibition Mi Mi Ke refers onomatopoeically from the Chinese to the English pronunciation for Munich and means mysticism in Chinese.
A happy coincidence this year also meant that Yao Jui-Chung and I, at the invitation of the Cremebach Collective, were given the opportunity at Documenta 15 to talk about our 25 years of shared experience of joint work, our international cultural exchange and the spirit from which it arose.
Yao Jui-Chung's works are in renowned institutions and private collections, including Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Collection, Cornell University, USA; Bibliothèque National de France, Paris, France; Art Museum of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea.
Yao Jui-Chung is currently a guest in the artist-in-residence program of the City of Munich at Villa Waldberta, our collaborative partner for this project, and will be present for the opening.
P.s.: On this occasion we will also show documental (not in the form of the original installation) Yao's video "Tank Man", which deals with the Tien An Men massacre in 1989 on Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
Lars Koepsel