杨健
简介Biography
杨健，1982年生于福建，2007年在厦门大学艺术学院获得硕士学位。2009年至2010年，入选荷兰皇家美术学院的国际驻地艺术家项目，并于2010年获得荷兰Stichting Niemeijer基金会赞助支持；2015年获得第三届华宇青年奖“评委会特别奖”；2021年入选瑞士文化基金会艺术家驻留项目。其创作涉及多种媒介，近期个展包括：间歇泉，空白空间（草场地），北京，中国（2023）；间歇泉-杨健，陶谷公园，南京，中国（2023）；更快更高更强-杨健个人项目，C5CNM，北京，中国（2021）；杨健：一个大隐喻，微线体空间，武汉，中国（2019）；在不可能相遇的时间和利维坦的注视下，空白空间，北京，中国（2018）；普通图像，纽约视觉艺术学院艺术中心SNAP，上海，中国（2017）；杨健：建造废墟，泰康空间，北京，中国（2017）。近期的群展包括：榴莲·榴莲：作为方法论的区域艺术研究，广州美术学院美术馆，广州，中国（2023）；塔与案，青策计划2022，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国（2022）；飞去来器——OCAT双年展·2021，OCAT深圳馆，深圳，中国（2021）；Elise Gagnebin-de Bons & David Hominal & Yang Jian, CIRCUIT当代艺术中心，洛桑，瑞士（2021）；暗光，昊美术馆（上海），上海，中国（2020）；拼拼凑凑的利维坦，Bridge Project，洛杉矶，美国（2020），Luhring Augustine Bushwick，纽约，美国（2019）；“声名狼藉者”及其不可解的存在方式，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海，中国（2019）；三个屋子：此刻的边际，Gallery Damdam，柏林，德国（2019-2020），卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心（ZKM），卡尔斯鲁厄，德国（2019），新时线媒体艺术中心，上海，中国（2018-2019），白南准艺术中心，首尔，韩国（2018）；8102：与现实有关，OCAT上海，上海，中国（2018）；第六届广州三年展2018——诚如所思：加速的未来，广东美术馆，广州，中国（2018）；转向：2000年以来的中国当代艺术，上海民生当代美术馆，上海，中国（2016）。杨健现工作生活于南京。
Yang Jian, born in 1982 in Fujian, received his master’s degree from the School of Art, Xiamen University in 2007. From 2009 to 2010, he was selected for the international artist residency programme at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and in 2010 received support from the Stichting Niemeijer Foundation, the Netherlands; in 2015 he was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the third Huayu Youth Award; in 2021 he was selected for Pro Helvetia’s artist residency programme. His practice spans multiple media. Recent solo exhibitions include: Geyser, White Space (Caochangdi), Beijing, China (2023); Geyser – Yang Jian, Taogu Park (陶谷公园), Nanjing, China (2023); Faster, Higher, Stronger – Yang Jian Solo Project, C5CNM, Beijing, China (2021); Yang Jian: A Great Metaphor, Weixianti Kongjian (微线体空间), Wuhan, China (2019); Under the Gaze of Inconceivable Time and Leviathan, White Space, Beijing, China (2018); Common Image, SNAP, School of Visual Arts Art Center, Shanghai, China (2017); Yang Jian: Building Ruins, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2017).
Recent group exhibitions include: Durian Durian: Regional Art Research as a Methodology, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China (2023); Tower and Case, Emerging Curators Project 2022, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2022); Boomerang – OCAT Biennale 2021, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2021); Elise Gagnebin-de Bons & David Hominal & Yang Jian, CIRCUIT Contemporary Art Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland (2021); Dark Light, HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), Shanghai, China (2020); A Patchwork Leviathan, Bridge Project, Los Angeles, USA (2020), Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA (2019); “The Disreputable” and Their Inexplicable Mode of Existence, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2019); Three Rooms: The Edge of the Present, Gallery Damdam, Berlin, Germany (2019–2020), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019), Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China (2018–2019), Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (2018); 8102: On Reality, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2018); The 6th Guangzhou Triennial (2018) – As We May Think: Feedforward, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2018); Turning: Chinese Contemporary Art Since 2000, Shanghai Minsheng Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016).
Yang Jian currently lives and works in Nanjing.
代表作Selected Works
展览履历Exhibitions
- 2023间歇泉空白空间
艺见洞察ArtMatters Insights
代表作与创作Selected Works & Style
根据平台艺术家档案数据，艺术家杨健（Yang Jian，1982年生于福建）的创作涉及影像、装置、综合材料和摄影等多种媒介，其作品主题广泛触及社会评论、城市景观、消费主义、全球化及权力等议题。
**代表作方面**，其近年创作了一系列以亚麻布上丙烯与消防水带为主要材料的作品，例如《156130》（2022）、《130150》（2022）、《151117》（2022）、《122120》（2022）、《88111》（2022）等。此外，也包括《驯服黑洞》（2021，亚麻布上丙烯，塑料膜，橡胶，水泥，石子，电线，消防水带）、《土 . 鹿 . 高楼》（2021，广告布上丙烯，透明树脂，土，木板，铁线）以及装置作品《塔》（2022，木头，铁球，铝部件）等。
**创作特点方面**，杨健的艺术实践被归类为实验性、观念艺术与社会介入。他常将消防水带、橡胶、水泥、泥土等非常规的、具有强烈社会属性和质感的材料，与传统绘画媒介（如亚麻布、丙烯）并置结合，以此作为其观念表达的载体。这种对材料的敏锐选择和批判性运用，是其视觉语言的一大特征，旨在切入对权力结构、城市化进程及全球化背景下个体生存状态的审视与评论。
Yang Jian is a Chinese conceptual artist (b. 1982) known for an experimental, socially engaged practice that spans video, installation, photography, and mixed‑media painting. His work consistently interrogates themes of power, consumerism, globalization, and the urban landscape through a critical lens.
**Representative works** often combine unconventional materials with painterly gestures. Examples include:
- *156130* (2022) – acrylic on linen with fire hose
- *驯服黑洞 (Taming the Black Hole)* (2021) – acrylic on linen combined with plastic film, rubber, cement, gravel, wire, and fire hose
- *土·鹿·高楼 (Soil·Deer·High‑rise)* (2021) – acrylic on advertising canvas with transparent resin, soil, wood board, and iron wire
- *中子星尘 (Neutron Star Dust)* (2022) – acrylic on linen with fire hose
His recent works frequently incorporate fire hose as both a physical material and a charged symbol, often stretched like canvas or embedded into paintings. This quasi-industrial element, together with fragments of construction debris or natural matter, creates a tension between organic memory and imposed order—a hallmark of his approach.
**Creative style:** Yang Jian’s practice can be described as experimental and conceptually driven, rooted in social critique. He avoids a single medium, shifting fluidly between object-making, moving image, and photography to examine how systems of authority shape daily life. His works are often quiet yet unsettling, using found or humdrum materials to build layered metaphors about globalization, late‑capitalist spectacle, and the erasure of individual agency. In the painting‑sculpture hybrids of recent years, the physical weight of cement, rubber, or fire hose disrupts the pictorial surface, turning each piece into a site where materially fragile ideas confront brute structural force.
展览与收藏Exhibitions & Collections
根据平台当前的艺术家档案，杨健的展出机构信息整理如下：
**个展机构（部分）**
* 空白空间（草场地），北京
* 陶谷公园，南京
* C5CNM，北京
* 微线体空间，武汉
* 纽约视觉艺术学院艺术中心 SNAP，上海
* 泰康空间，北京
**群展机构（部分）**
* 广州美术学院美术馆，广州
* 上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
* OCAT 深圳馆，深圳
* CIRCUIT 当代艺术中心，洛桑，瑞士
* 昊美术馆（上海），上海
* Bridge Project，洛杉矶，美国
* Luhring Augustine Bushwick，纽约，美国
* Gallery Damdam，柏林，德国
* 卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心（ZKM），卡尔斯鲁厄，德国
* 新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
* 白南准艺术中心，首尔，韩国
* OCAT 上海，上海
* 广东美术馆，广州
* 上海民生当代美术馆，上海
关于收藏方面，平台档案中暂无明确的收藏机构记录。
Based on the available structured artist profile, here is what is known about Yang Jian's exhibition history and collections.
**Exhibition History**
Yang Jian has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across China and internationally. Key solo shows include:
- *Geyser* at White Space (Caochangdi), Beijing, China (2023)
- *Geyser – Yang Jian* at Taogu Park, Nanjing, China (2023)
- *Faster, Higher, Stronger* at C5CNM, Beijing, China (2021)
- *Yang Jian: A Big Metaphor* at Weixianti Space, Wuhan, China (2019)
- *Under the Gaze of the Impossible Encounter and Leviathan* at White Space, Beijing, China (2018)
- *Ordinary Images* at SNAP, Shanghai, China (2017)
- *Yang Jian: Building Ruins* at Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2017)
Notable group exhibitions include:
- *Durian Durian: Regional Art Research as a Methodology* at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Guangzhou, China (2023)
- *Tower and Case* (Emerging Curators Project 2022) at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2022)
- *Boomerang – OCAT Biennale 2021* at OCAT Shenzhen, China (2021)
- *Elise Gagnebin-de Bons & David Hominal & Yang Jian* at CIRCUIT Centre d'art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland (2021)
- *Dark Light* at HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2020)
- *Pieced Together Leviathan* at Bridge Project, Los Angeles, USA (2020), and Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York, USA (2019)
- *The Disreputable and Their Incomprehensible Existence* at Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2019)
- *Three Rooms: Margins of the Present* at Gallery Damdam, Berlin, Germany; ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China; and Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (2018–2020)
- *8102: On Reality* at OCAT Shanghai, China (2018)
- *The 6th Guangzhou Triennial 2018 – As We May Think: Feedforward* at Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (2018)
**Collections**
The artist's profile does not include a specific list of institutions that collect Yang Jian's work. While his extensive exhibition record suggests he may be represented in public or private collections, no confirmed information about collecting institutions is provided in this source.
