Yasha Young

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Yasha Young (Berlin, 2018)

Yasha Young is a German - American curator and gallery owner . From 2013 she developed and managed the Urban Nation project , which was the basis for the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art in Berlin , which she opened in September 2017 . She was director of the museum until the end of 2019.

Life

From 1998 to 2013 Young headed the Strychnin gallery, which she founded, with locations in New York, London and Berlin, the focus of which was initially on Lowbrow and then on Urban Contemporary ( Urban Art ). During this time she curated more than 150 exhibitions.

As part of her job, Young worked as a curator. She is a member of the Keep A Breast Foundation , an international campaign for the prevention of breast cancer, which she supports through curatorial projects such as: For example, the “Tokyo Love Show” project was instrumental in establishing the foundation's Japanese branch by inviting over 100 artists to Tokyo.

From 2008 to 2011 Young was a member of the selection committee of Artfair , an international fair for contemporary art in Cologne. From the beginning of 2010 to 2012, Young was the chief creative director of the international art fair Blooom for new media and design.

Yasha Young closed her Strychnin gallery in 2014 to avoid possible conflicts of interest with the Urban Nation project.

She has been a member of the Warsteiner Blooom Award jury since 2010.

In 2016 she was appointed as a so-called Fellow in the Federal Government's Cultural and Creative Industries Competence Center, which is part of the Federal Government's Culture and Creative Industries initiative.

She has been a lecturer at the Popakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2017 .

Since the museum opened, Yasha Young has been a sought-after speaker at symposia and conferences on the subjects of art, museums and technology / new media around the world. a. Confluence / Further Future, RemixSummit, ZKM, TEDTalk etc.

Young as speaker at ZKM Karlsruhe, 2018
Urban nation

Yasha Young was the founder, director and curator of Urban Nation in Berlin and its sub-project Project M in 2013 . Since then Urban Nation has been inviting international greats and emerging talents of Urban Contemporary Art (UCA) to Berlin to design facades and house walls. Urban Nation will u. a. financed by the Gewobag foundation “Berliner Leben”. Urban Nation actively promotes international exchange through curated projects, such as WallPOETRY in Reykjavík as part of the Iceland Airwaves music festival. Under the motto “Connect. Create. Care. " Yasha Young and Urban Nation created an international network that connects artists through exhibitions, panels and social projects, sets impulses in Berlin and promotes public engagement with this central art form of the 21st century.

Urban Nation u. a. with OneWall and Projekt M are the basis of the Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, which opened on September 16, 2017 under her direction. The opening speech was given by the Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters.

Numerous events preceded the opening. From 2013 onwards, numerous national and international projects and collaborations took place - e.g. B. the Berlin Festival Lollapalloza, the Iceland Airwaves Festival or the Berlin One Walls, where numerous artists painted house walls made available across Berlin.

The museum is the point of contact for Urban Contemporary Art, as a holistic center in the sense of this art form, for artists, their exhibitions, debates, research, teaching, cross-media work and archiving and serves the public presentation of the collection, which already comprises more than 120 works. As the centerpiece of the museum, the collection is growing steadily, primarily through donations from artists as part of the successful M series.

In 2018, the Urban Nation residency program FRESH AIR, developed by her and located directly in the museum, opened.The Artist in Residence grants offer artists and cultural workers from the field of urban and new contemporary art the time, space and resources to experience an artistic To dedicate oneself to the project and to develop professionally through a mentoring program.

In September 2019 Yasha Young organized the Urban Nation Biennale 2019 at which 27 artists presented 27 works that deal with the future of our planet.

Publications

  • (Ed.): Art that Creeps. Gothic fantasies and the Macabre Menagerie of Art. Korero Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-9558336-7-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former homepage gallery strychnine
  2. ↑ Kito Nedo: T-shirts for picture buyers. Flirt with youth cultures while remaining objective. Yasha Young and her Friedrichshain gallery Strychnin. In: the daily newspaper . October 6, 2007, accessed June 4, 2015 .
  3. ↑ "We float between the Landschulheim and the catwalk". The gallery owner Yasha Young on the opportunities for young artists and the difficulties for Germans on the US market. In: The world . January 10, 2009, accessed June 4, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Bloom Award by Warsteiner: THE JURY
  5. ↑ Fellows and Partners Competence Center for the Culture and Creative Industries of the Federal Government
  6. ↑ The Art Conference x Urvanity 2018 - Women in the Urban Art Industry Against All Odds
  7. ↑ Globaltrack in an interview with Yasha Young / Urban Nation, 2014
  8. ↑ Widewalls in an interview with Yasha Young, 2015
  9. ↑ http://www.stiftung-berliner-leben.de/
  10. ↑ "We want to show young people in the neighborhood perspectives," says the foundation chairman Hans-Michael Brey. - Berliner Zeitung, September 14, 2017
  11. ^ Wall Poetry in Reykjavik. In: iceland monitor . October 5, 2015, accessed March 4, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Airwaves Brings Lyrical Wall Art Series To Reykjavík. October 1, 2015, accessed March 4, 2016 .
  13. ^ Speech by the Minister of State for Culture Grütters at the opening of the "Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art". In: Federal Government . September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Yasha Young: "Street Art is the most democratic art". In: Deutsche Welle . September 15, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  15. ↑ "We show what happens on the street". (No longer available online.) In: Handelsblatt . September 17, 2016, archived from the original on September 18, 2017 ; accessed on September 16, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Berlin's Urban Nation museum hails graffiti as art form. In: bbc . September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Openings: Art Mile - Urban Nation Museum (Berlin). In: arrestedmotion . September 16, 2017. Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Street art gets a permanent home in the new Berlin museum. In: ustoday . November 7, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2017 .
  19. ↑ A nucleus of urban art. In: Morgenpost . February 18, 2012, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  20. ^ Urban Nation: A Living Museum in Berlin. In: Kommunikationberatung Medienbaronin. February 6, 2019, accessed on February 6, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ Urban Nation Biennale 2019 - 27 artists, 27 goals for the future of our planet. September 20, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Young, Yasha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American curator, museum director, gallery owner and art agent
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century