Huang Yong Ping

Born in 1954 in Xiamen, Fujian province (China), HUANG YONG PING died in Paris (France) in 2019. He was one of the most famous, controversial and provocative Chinese Avant-garde artists. Kamel Mennour and Huang Yong Ping have been working together since 2009.

Founder of the group Xiamen Dada in China in the 1980s, Huang Yong Ping was invited by Jean-Hubert Martin to participate in the seminal exhibition “Les Magiciens de la Terre” at the Centre Pompidou and at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris in 1989. Internationally acclaimed artist, his work has been presented in numerous personal exhibitions at the Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, at the Musée océanographique de Monaco, at the Astrup Fearnley Museet of Oslo, at the Barbican Art Center of London, at the MAXXI in Rome, at the Red Brick Museum in Beijing, at Power Station of Art in Shanghai. A great travelling retrospective was held between 2005 and 2008 at the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis, MASS MoCA in North Adam (Massachusetts), and at the UCCA in Beijing. In 1999 he represented France at the 48th Venice Biennale with Jean-Pierre Bertrand.

His work is currently exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until March 2022 and at M+ Hong Kong until October 2022.

Winner of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize (Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany) in 2016, Huang Yong Ping was the artist invited by the Ministère de la Culture for the 7th edition of Monumenta, with his work Empires presented in the Nef of the Grand Palais in Paris, from May to June 2016.

Huang Yong Ping’s works are in the collections of: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Centre Pompidou, DSL Collection, Fondation Cartier, Galeries Lafayette Foundation, Gröningen Museum, Guan Yi collection, Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Ludwig Museum, MoMA, M+ Museum, MCA Chicago, Pinault Collection, Qatar Museums, Red Brick Museum, Rubell Family Collection, Sigg Collection, Walker Art Center and Yuz Museum, among others.

Works

Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2021
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2021
Exhibition view, Garage Museum, Moscow - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Garage Museum, Moscow, 2019
Huang Yong Ping, Empires, 2016
Installation: metal, mixed media
H 28,7 x L 133 x l 64,3 m
Monumenta 2016, Nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Photo. archives kamel mennour
© ADAGP Huang Yong Ping
Courtesy the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London and Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais - © Mennour
Empires - Monumenta 2016, Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Xiamen Dada - © Mennour
Xiamen Dada, 1986
Exhibition view, Musée Océanographique de Monaco - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Musée Océanographique de Monaco, 2010
View of the installation, 48th Venice Biennale - © Mennour
View of the installation, 48th Venice Biennale, 1999
Installation view, Guggenheim Museum, New York - © Mennour
Installation view, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018
Cage - © Mennour
Cage, 2014—2017
Huit chevaux de Léonard de Vinci déchirant un porte-avions - © Mennour
Huit chevaux de Léonard de Vinci déchirant un porte-avions, 2004
Péril de Mouton - © Mennour
Péril de Mouton, 1997
Exhibition view, MAC Lyon - © Mennour
Exhibition view, MAC Lyon, 2013
View of the installation, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art - © Mennour
View of the installation, Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, 2012
Exhibition view, MAC Lyon - © Mennour
Exhibition view, MAC Lyon, 1997—2013
Caverne - © Mennour
Caverne, 2009
Exhibition view, MAXXI, Rome - © Mennour
Exhibition view, MAXXI, Rome, 2015
A football match of June 14 2002 - © Mennour
A football match of June 14 2002, 2002
11 June 2002 – The Nightmare of George V - © Mennour
11 June 2002 – The Nightmare of George V, 2002
Exhibition view, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha - © Mennour
Exhibition view, Qatar Museums Gallery Al Riwaq, Doha, 2016
Huang Yong Ping, Empires, 2016
Installation: metal, mixed media
H 28,7 x L 133 x l 64,3 m
Monumenta 2016, Nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Photo. archives kamel mennour
© ADAGP Huang Yong Ping
Courtesy the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London and Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais - © Mennour
Empires - Monumenta 2016, Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Huang Yong Ping, Empires, 2016
Installation: metal, mixed media
H 28,7 x L 133 x l 64,3 m
Monumenta 2016, Nave of the Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Photo. archives kamel mennour
© ADAGP Huang Yong Ping
Courtesy the artist, kamel mennour, Paris/London and Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais - © Mennour
Empires - Monumenta 2016, Grand Palais, Paris, 2016
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2016
Sans titre 3 - © Mennour
Sans titre 3, 2016
L'Arc de Saint-Gilles - © Mennour
L’Arc de Saint-Gilles, 2015
Neuf chevaux - © Mennour
Neuf chevaux, 2016
Walking Up Language - © Mennour
Walking Up Language, 2005—2006
Dessin préparatoire pour Empires - © Mennour
Dessin préparatoire pour Empires, 2015
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2012
Sans titre - © Mennour
Sans titre, 2014
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2012
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2016
Sans Titre (Arche 2009) - © Mennour
Sans Titre (Arche 2009), 2010
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2016
Quatre Pattes - © Mennour
Quatre Pattes, 2015
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2016
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2009
Irruption - © Mennour
Irruption, 2010
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2009
Cinq serpents - © Mennour
Cinq serpents, 2016
L'Arc de Saint-Gilles 2 - © Mennour
L’Arc de Saint-Gilles 2, 2015
Prie-Dieu - © Mennour
Prie-Dieu, 2010
Sans titre 2 - © Mennour
Sans titre 2, 2015
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2009
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2012
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2012
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris - © Mennour
Exhibition view, kamel mennour, Paris, 2016

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