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Jia

嘉 Jia was born in 1979 in Beijing. She lives and works between Berlin et Beijing.

Jia

In its underlying critical negation of propositions of recent art history embraced uncritically by the preceding generation of Chinese contemporary artists, Jia’s work, in its conceptual features, often treats ideas originally developed in Western culture such as text-based conceptual art; and the transposition of the readymade to photography as it derives from the Düsseldorf School.

But in its formal aspect, the work most often reinterprets Chinese paradigms, such as compositional patterns in Chinese calligraphy, and projection systems of the traditional Chinese landscape.

This general tension of cultures between the work’s formal and conceptual elements serves a more specific critique of conditions in both China and the West. Most often, the artist chooses for the work an outwardly “pretty” aspect in order to address an atrocious reality.

Photo © Daniel Biskup

Selected Exhibitions


2018
Language: Art for Leonard Peltier, Los Angeles Water School, LA

2017
Caution, Children! Humboldt Box, Berlin

2017
Lost Highway, Taubert Contemporary, Berlin

2017
Luther and the Avantgarde, Altes Gefaengnis, Wittenberg

2016
SCHNITTMENGEN, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin

2016
The Chinese Version, Steve Turner, LA

2014
Contrasts and Utopias, The 4th edition of the End of the World Biennial, Argentina & Chile

2014
Environmental Impact, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Jia at the Strasbourg Biennale


  • 3 works presented
  • Venue : Hôtel des Postes