Tiange Yang is a curator and writer based in Beijing, now curator-at-large at the Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art in Nanjing. Yang is pursuing his Ph.D. in art history at Peking University. The exhibitions that Yang has curated include Leisure of Auteur and Amateur, How many times, I have left my everyday life, Diving Deep for Light into Darkness, Contamination, Not for Perfection, but for Contamination, Buddhist Youths: United Collective Indifference, and There are volcanoes under the sea at art museums and galleries including Cloud Art Museum, Beiqiu Museum of Contemporary Art, Inside-Out Art Museum, Goethe-Institut, Hua International and etc.. Yang is the recipient of the inaugural “Mo Yuan: Art History Research and Writing Grant Program" in the field of contemporary Chinese art writing, awarded by the New Century Art Foundation. Yang researches issues of the body and the construction of identity and the nationalist formations in twentieth-century China and the contemporary world.

Curatorial Practice Localized: My Work after the First SCL, 2018-2023

In 2018, I participated in the inaugural Shanghai Curators Lab. Now I work as a curator in China, while maintaining deep friendship with some of my former classmates from that program. In this presentation, I will first share the exhibition we made and the process of it at the first SCL and a follow-up project directly related (an exhibition that Yasemin Keskintepe and I co-curated a year later). Additionally, I will offer some of my own insights on art museums, galleries, and my curatorial practices in recent years within the context of China. The sharing will include the difficulties, choices and insistence involved in curatorial work for young curators in China, amidst such challenging factors as cultural censorship, the lack of standardized art museums, the dominance of the commercial market, and the barriers and isolation due to the pandemic.