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This interview was conducted in Guangzhou on 19 Jan 2008.


Biography:

Martina Köppel-Yang is an art historian and curator based in Paris, Germany and China.

Köppel-Yang studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in the mid-1980s and received her Ph.D. in East Asian Art History and Sinology from the University of Heidelberg.

A member of the advisory board for Yishu Journal for Contemporary Chinese Art, Köppel-Yang has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art and in 2003 published Semiotic Warfare: A Semiotic Analysis of the Chinese Avant-Garde, 1979–1989. In the past 15 years, Köppel-Yang has curated numerous exhibitions relating to contemporary Chinese art. Together with her husband, Yang Jiechang, she established Mühlgasse 40: Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art, in Heidelberg, Germany (2003).


簡歷︰

楊天娜,德國美術史學家及策展人,從事中國當代藝術評論及策劃的工作。八十年代曾留學中央美術學院,後在海德堡大學獲得美術史博士學位。

楊天娜任《典藏國際版》顧問,同時撰述了不少關於當代中國藝術的文章。其個人著作有《Semiotic Warfare: The Chinese Avant-garde 1979-1989》(香港:東八時區,2003)。自九十年代中開始,楊天娜在德國及中國积极策劃多項關於中國當代藝術的展覽;2003年更與丈夫楊詰蒼在海德堡成立Mühlgasse 40當代中國藝術中心。

Context

In 2006, Asia Art Archive began a focused archiving project called 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990'. This project aimed at developing a comprehensive collection of primary research materials including books, periodicals, newspapers, exhibition brochures, invitations, video recordings, correspondence, and other relevant documents. 

As part of this project, AAA digitised more than 80,000 items of material from personal archives to include artists Mao Xuhui, Wu Shanzhuan, Zhang Xiaogang, and Zhang Peili; curators and critics Fei Dawei, Lu Peng, and Zheng Shengtian; as well as the archives of Tokyo Art Gallery. As part of the research process over 75 in-depth interviews with key artists, curators, and critics were conducted. From a portion of these interviews, AAA created a documentary film about experimental art in South China (Guangzhou) in the 1980s entitled From Jean-Paul Sartre to Teresa Teng: Contemporary Cantonese Art in the 1980s.

AAA’s 1980s archiving project culminated with the launch of a comprehensive website portal called www.china1980s.org in September 2010.

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Interview with Martina Köppel-Yang (Transcript, Simplified Chinese and English), 訪問:楊天娜(抄本, 簡體中文及英文)