Conference (in English) Art, Digital & Metaverse on October 17, 2022, from 18:00 to 20:00, in our auditorium.
Karen Levy
Co-owner DSL Collection, Co-founder AIKA
Karen is a committed figure in the world of art and technology. She built solid expertise by working for several years at the auction houses Sotheby’s and Phillips. She opens metaverse spaces dedicated to art.
Yang Jiechang
Yang Jiechang is known for his mastery of traditional Chinese media, such as ink painting, meticulous silk painting and calligraphy. Yet he uses a variety of artistic media: painting, installation, video, performance and sculpture, which he seeks to integrate with traditional Chinese painting, aesthetics and thought in a contemporary context.
Yang Jiechang was born in 1956 in Foshan (Canton, People’s Republic of China). From an early age, he studied calligraphy and traditional Chinese painting, which he continued at the Canton Academy of Fine Arts between 1978 and 1982. He taught there until he left for Europe in 1988. He began his artistic career in Europe with the exhibition Magiciens de la terre (Centre Pompidou, Paris) in 1989, where he took part as one of the three Chinese artists invited by Jean-Hubert Martin.
Living between Paris and Heidelberg (Germany), he has taken part in numerous exhibitions around the globe, such as Paris pour escale (ARC, Paris/2001), the Shanghai Biennale (1998), the Gwangju Biennale (2002), the Venice Biennale (2003), the Guangzhou Triennial (2003/2005), La Force de l’Art - 1st Paris Triennial (2006), the Liverpool Biennial (2007), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), the Moscow Biennale (2009), the Lyon Biennale (2009), French May (Hong Kong 2001/2015), Carambolages (Grand Palais, Paris 2016), Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (Guggenheim Museum, New York/ 2017, Bilbao/2018, San Francisco Art Museum/ 2018), Passion de l’art, (Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France/2017), The Street, (MAXXI, Rome/2018), La Rue, Où le monde se crée (La Panacée MOCO, Montpellier/ 2019), A Fairy Tale in Red Times (NGV Victoria Museum of Art, Melbourne/2019), Longing for Nature. Reading Landscapes in Chinese Art (Museum Rietberg, Zurich/2020), Ink City, (Taikwun Contemporary, Hong Kong/2021), Carte Blanche to Yang Jiechang (Musée Guimet, Paris/2022).
Jean-Sébastien Beaucamps
Jean-Sébastien Beaucamps is co-founder and CEO of laCollection and co-founder of the NFT Factory. He has always been fascinated by new technologies and their impact on businesses and traditional sectors. Today he combines his more than 15 years of expertise in digital transformation and blockchain technologies - built in sectors such as media, finance, B2B services, and insurance, as a strategy consultant or investor - with his personal passion for art and culture. He launched La Collection in 2021, with the British Museum as its first partner (now working with cultural institutions in Europe and the United States). Jean-Sébastien helps cultural institutions mobilize the next generation of artists and discover a museum, an artist, or even a work or cultural object. Through the NFT Factory, Jean-Sébastien helps the French ecosystem adopt this new technology and its full potential.
Dr. Martina Koppel-Yang
Martina Köppel-Yang is an independent researcher and curator. She has worked in the field of contemporary Chinese art since the mid-1980s and has written extensively on the subject. Her doctoral thesis, Semiotic Warfare – The Chinese Avant-garde 1979 – 1989, a Semiotic Analysis (Hong Kong: timezone 8, 2003), is a reference work on Chinese art of the 1980s. She is a member of the advisory board of Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong).