Haegue Yang creates installations that include photographic, video, and sculptural elements and are informed by the artist's philosophical and political investigations. Responding to the places where she exhibits, Yang creates site-specific new work that incorporates both the architecture of the exhibition space and materials gathered from the region. Her highly refined and yet completely particular sense of materiality, combined with an elegant sense of space and atmosphere, contribute to her enveloping and resonant installations.
Read MoreHer work has been show in numerous international exhibitions and institutions including: KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2017); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2016); UCCA Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2015); Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2015); Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A (2015); Tate Modern, London, UK (2012); Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany (2011); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (2011); New Museum, New York, USA (2010); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2009); South Korean Pavilion, 53rd Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009); Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain (2008).
Her works have been acquired by numerous institutions, including Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, United States; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; M+, Hong Kong, China; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States.
Haegue Yang has been awarded the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig's Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2018.
Her first mid-career survey exhibition at Museum Ludwig, Cologne is opened in April 2018 and another extensive survey show will open in May 2019 in the United States, before its tour across North America.
Text courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel.