ShanghART Gallery sponsors a new exhibition at OCAT Shanghai, featuring artist Yang Zhenzhong’s solo show Trespassing, the third exhibition since its opening in September 2012. By illustrating the evolution of this well-know artist, OCAT Shanghai keeps developing towards the articulate presentation of Chinese and International media art.

Yang was born in 1968 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, but has been living in Shanghai for over 15 years. His career is closely intertwined with the development of new media art in China. Starting from the late 1990s and for ten years consecutively, he and other fellow artists like XU Zhen have organized more than ten seminal exhibitions that have enlivened Shanghai's art scene and made it known to the world.

Yang has throughout the years participated in exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon Biennial; his works have been also exhibited at New York’s MOMA, IKON Gallery in the United Kingdom, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, UBS and other important public and private art institutions.

The exhibition Trespassing represents Yang Zhengzhong’s first cooperation with a mainland public art institution. It comprises video installations, single and two-channel videos and installations: a total of eleven works created from the late nineties to date. Among these «Fish Bowl» (1996), «Shanghai Face» (1999), «Let’s Puff!» (2002) and other videos representative of his early career; belonging to a more recent period are the installation/scupture «Red Venus Sitting in a Corner» (2010), the mechanical devices of «Pleasant Sensation Passing through Flesh» (2012), the videoworks «Sleepwalking Is a Therapy» (2007), «Exam» (2012), «Straight Line» (2012). There are three site-specific new works made in 2013: the large-scale installations «Trespass», «Fences» and «V».

Image: © Yang Zhenzhong, ShanghART Gallery