Haegue Yang (Korean: 양혜규; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where she now teaches as a professor of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul.
Haegue Yang, Four Times Sol LeWitt UpsideDown, Version Point to Point, 2016–2017. Remai Modern, Saskatoon.
With the statement “I believe that out of the alienation one can mobilize the unusual strength to sympathize with the others,” Yang seeks to embrace vulnerability, thus exploring themes that may include “individual and national identity, displacement, isolation, and community.” Yang also ensures an ambiguity to avoid “tying herself to one [identity] based on gender, race or geography.”[1] Therefore, Yang's work often places disparate household objects, including yarn, light fixtures, and fans, into alternative configurations, exploring meanings they can take on outside of their typical functional uses.[2]: 7 She is particularly well known for her installations incorporating venetian blinds that transform galleries through their filtering of light, segmentation of space, and large scale that requires audiences to find multiple viewpoints in order to see the work. Her installations using materials like bells, moving theater lights, and scent diffusers engage multiple senses by incorporating lights, smells, sounds, and tactile materials that reorient and recalibrate viewers' perception.[2]: 8 With the additional exploration of her mural-like graphic wall pieces, juxtaposition and abstraction are included for an enhanced dramatic, immersive scenery. Yang draws from a wide array of references, including her own biography, historical events, film, and literature, to create installations like Sadong 30 (2006) and performances like The Malady of Death (2010-ongoing). A number of her works consider movement both within the exhibition space with moving sculptures such as Dress Vehicles (2012), and on a global scale with outdoor commissions like Migratory DMZ Birds on Asymmetric Lens (2020). Overall, the materiality, references, and engagement in Yang's art create a "communicative way of sharing life," by allowing individuals within an intervening space to "imagine events with others."[3]
Yang is a particularly prolific contemporary artist–her 2018 catalogue raisonné, published in conjunction with her solo show "ETA" at Museum Ludwig, lists over 1,400 works.[4]: 99 She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Republic of Korea Cultural and Art Award (Presidential Citation) in the Visual Arts Sector in 2018. Her work has been collected by museums like The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in South Korea, Museum of Modern Art, and Museum Ludwig.
^Lescaze. "An artist whose muse is loneliness". The New York Times.
^ abHeidi Zuckerman Jacobson, "Chosen Loneliness," in Yang Haegue: Wild Against Gravity, exh. cat. (Oxford, Aspen: Modern Art Oxford and Aspen Art Press, 2011), 7-16.
^Larsen, Lars Bang. Community Work: Space and Event in the Art of Haegue Yang. BAK, Basis voor actuele kunst.
HaegueYang (Korean: 양혜규; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A...
Nkanga 12 October 2019 - 5 January 2020 Naum Gabo 25 January - 3 May 2020 HaegueYang: Strange Attractors, 24 October 2020 - 3 May 2021, later extended until...
Congolese artists. Steiner exhibited Koki Tanaka in 2017, Jun Yang in 2019, and HaegueYang in 2017 and 2020. Since September 01, 2021, Steiner is director...
Raouda Choucair as well as contemporary artists such as Julie Mehretu, HaegueYang, Taro Shinoda, Jac Leirner, and Adrian Villar Rojas, among others. In...
June Paik Chang Ucchin Seund Ja Rhee Lee Ufan Lee Dong Youb Suh Yongsun HaegueYang Choi Jeong Hwa Amy Sol David Choe Seonna Hong Tschoon Su Kim Junggeun...
Bornstein, Georges Braque, Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Jimmie Durham and HaegueYang. The Mendel collection, now known as the Mendel Art Gallery Collection...
(since 2022) Gabriel Orozco Roman Ondak Adrián Villar Rojas Danh Vo HaegueYang In 2001 Flash Art Magazine considered Kurimanzutto between the 100 most...
Praunheim, 1998 Sasha Waltz, 2015 Hendrik Weber, 2014 André Werner, 2000 HaegueYang, 2017 The Thomas Mann House, the house of Thomas Mann and his wife Katia...
"HaegueYang at the Aspen Art Museum | Artist Focus". Wall Street Journal. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 2023-03-14. Oksenhorn, S. (August 20, 2012). Yang at...
Bayrle taught at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. His students included HaegueYang, Jana Euler, Tomas Saraceno, Martin Liebscher, Marko Lehanka, Georg Peez...
commissioning new work. Previous commissions include solo exhibitions with HaegueYang, Eva Berendes, Jennifer West, George Henry Longly, Giles Round, Sean...
Dawood, Mounir Farmanfarmaian, Amalia Pica, Yelena Popova, Walid Raad, HaegueYang and others, as part of the first Vienna Biennial, Museum Angewandte Kunst...
Echakhch, David Jablonowsky, Charlotte Moth, John Smith, James Welling, HaegueYang); Cyprien Gaillard, Obstacles to Renewal; Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Interpretation;...
Barclay, Goldin+Senneby, Wade Guyton, Mai-Thu Perret, Walid Raad, and HaegueYang, among others • “Kami, Khokha, Bert and Ernie: World Heritage” by Hinrich...
film critic, Fribourg International Film Festival artistic director HaegueYang, South Korean visual artist Zhao Tao, Chinese actress Jung Sung-il, South...
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