Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Korea) received her B.F.A. from Seoul National University, Fine Arts College in 1994 and her Meisterschüler from Frankfurt am Main, in 1999. She combines domestic and industrial materials with sensory effects such as light and sound, to render them into installations and performative abstractions. Her works are simultaneously conceptual and sensorial, ambivalent yet revelatory, operating in the realms of politics, history, and culture.
Read MoreMost prominent presentations of her works were held at venues including Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), Serralves Museum, Porto (2016), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2016), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2015), Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (2013), Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012), Tate Modern Tanks, London (2012), Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2011), the New Museum, New York (2010), the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2009), and the Korean Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). She has participated in group exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015), Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015), and dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012). Yang’s work is part of the most highly esteemed contemporary art collections, including Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Text courtesy Kukje Gallery.
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