Yang Jazoo

Born in South Korea
Live & work : Berlin <-> South Korea

Jazoo Yang is a Korean mixed media artist based in Berlin. She often distorts public spaces to profound ends. With a mixture of concept-focused art and an intriguing visual palette, she questions the relationship between ourselves and the spaces that we inhabit. Her more recent practice has focused on the transformation of housing in the city and the gentrification that is pushing local residents from their homes. The 'Materials Series' is an amalgamation of the diverse, the distant, and the disregarded. Formed of the lost fragments of urban life that she rescues before their inevitable disappearance – remnants of a building’s outer walls, scraps of wallpaper from an interior, the remains of antique tiles – these often silent, ignored objects are here transformed from the mundane, and framed to acknowledge the immensity of the intimate.

Furthermore, while developing projects related to the issues of redevelopment, Yang keeps an interest in what the original senses of human beings might be like within the rapid changes of a city. The speed of city life runs much faster than that of the human body, thus enforcing its speed on the people living in that city. This situation...

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2018 Le Polau-Artist in Residence, Saint Pierre Des Courps, France

2017 – 2018 GlogauAIR-Artist in Residence, Berlin

2016 Ilmac Culture Foundation-project production grant/ Residency, Busan, South Korea

2014 Space CAN Beijing-project production grant/ Residency, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, Chaina

2013 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture- grant

2012 Space AGIT-project production grant/ Residency, Busan, South Korea


EXHIBITIONS
2019 Castlemaine State Festival 2019 _ Castlemaine, Australia

2018 NuArt Festival_ Stavanger, Norway

2018 Stolen Time, Solo show _ Maison de l’Architecture de Franche-Comte, Besançon, France

2018 Bien Urbain Festival_ Besançon, France

2017 Silver Sehnsucht, Group show, _ The Silver Building, London

2017 The 1st Jeju Biennale 2017 _ Jeju Island, South Korea

2017 Increasingly Deeper Layers of The Past _ Gallery Boaninn, Seoul

2017 Unexpected wall, Solo Show_ Busan Culture Foundation, South Korea

2017 Transit Republic, Group Show _ Gallery Arena 1, L.A.

2017 Stolen Time, Solo Show _ Ilmac Culture Foundation, Busan, South Korea

2016 CROSSING BORDERS/CROSSING BOUNDARIES, Group Show _ STREET ART MUSEUM, St Petersburg, Russia

2016 Art Accen...