Haegue Yang

Born:
1971
Residence:
Berlin, Germany
Nationality:
South Korean
Trust:
APT Berlin
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  • We explore the unexpected influences of five artists maintaining Berlin's art capital status

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  • Their inspirations include yoga, the pope and contemporary opera. We look at the artists maintaining the German capital's status as a creative hub

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  • As The Marciano Foundation opens in Los Angeles, we look at 11 exceptional private collections open to the public — from a chain of art malls to a museum built into a rock face

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  • The private collection-turned-public museum may not be a new phenomenon, but it is one that keeps growing. Museums grab headlines with splashy new buildings by star architects or impressive renovation projects of historic industrial buildings. But beyond their often-impressive exteriors, each private museum functions as an extension of its founder’s personality and taste, in how the collection is presented, and how the museum engages with its surrounding community.

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  • The Biennale of Sydney has announced the first group of 21 artists for its 21st edition in 2018 from March 16 until June 11. Mami Kataoka, Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, revealed an initial selection consisting of four Australian artists, ten artists from throughout Asia...

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  • The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has awarded $100,000 to the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville, in support of an exhibition that will address human impact on the environment.

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  • Event is a celebration of high culture and continues to develop in terms of quality

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  • Hamburger Kunsthalle presents Haegue Yang's (b. 1971) 'Quasi-Pagan Serial' at Hamburger Kunsthalle through May 1, 2017 in Hamburg.

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  • A solo exhibition titled 'An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds', showcasing the works of acclaimed Korean artist Haegue Yang, for this edition of Sonae//Serralves Commission, is on view at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto.

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  • As I write this, I’m on a long-haul flight from London to Brisbane, the sub-tropical capital of the state of Queensland, Australia.

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  • Absolut announced the nominees for its 2017 Absolut Art Award today.

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  • K-pop rapper, singer, and actor T.O.P will curate the upcoming Sotheby’s Hong Kong evening Contemporary Art Autumn Sale on October 3.

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  • For all collectors attending Art Basel this month, the Unlimited Section of the fair is an absolute must see. The sheer size of some of the works presented by art galleries can often be breathtaking, while the roll-call of artists’ participating reads like a Who’s Who of the art world.

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  • Nationalism can be a dirty word.

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  • ARCOmadrid has announced plans for its 35th anniversary edition in Spain – and for its expansion into Portugal with ARCOlisbon.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Gallery Weekend arrives just as the first green leaves appear to relieve the city’s relentless gray.

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  • The 11th iteration of Gallery Weekend Berlin is about to kick off on Friday with some 47 participating galleries, and a slew of further openings and events around the city. A quick browse of the list of artists in this year's official program reveals that some of the strongest exhibitions to open this weekend are by women artists.

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  • At Haegue Yang’s exhibition at the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, “Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant,” the visitor will encounter installations and sculptures composed of bright brass bells, electric fans, light bulbs, and Venetian blinds, all involved in a dance of movement, light, texture, and sound. Based on these works alone, one could be forgiven for thinking that Yang’s work is primarily concerned with the senses: sight, sound, smell, and touch. But this is just one layer of Yang’s work, a surface reading, and while no less true, of course, and no less satisfying, a deeper plunge into the work and its references and dialogues reveals a vast ocean of meaning underneath.

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  • In Haegue Yang’s installation works, movement and sound are of prime importance to how the viewer experiences the work. This video offers us the opportunity to see some of the sculptures and installations from Yang’s current solo exhibition in situ at The Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul. Comprised of materials like brass bells and electric fans, we can watch the moving elements of these sculptures in motion and experience the sounds they make. The artist urges the audience to experience the works for themselves, without becoming too concerned about the meaning and intention behind them.

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  • To inaugurate its new Paris gallery, Gagosian is presenting “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly, which have an allusive and elusive relationship with the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • Walter Benjamin defines the “aura” of nature, in contrast to historical objects, as mediated by space, time and human sense perception and “the

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  • In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes contemporary prints by artists from the post-1980 American art scene gathered in Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derrière L’Étoile Studio (Part Two), forty years of work brought together in the exhibition Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby, a show of paintings made in the open air by Turner and Constable and their peers at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, Journal of Bouba/kiki by Korean artist Haegue Yang that shows the product of her three-month residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, and a retrospective of Antoni Tàpies’s sculptures and objects at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao.

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  • If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution proudly presents its second publication in the field of performative art practices entitled Conversation Pieces.

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  • Art Sheffield is a biennale and, in the two years since their last campaign, the exuberant team behind the steel city’s Contemporary Art Forum have

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  • The New Museum presents the first New York solo exhibition by Haegue Yang (b. Seoul, 1971). One of the leading artists of her generation,

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  • Cold winter days provide the perfect opportunity to explore Sydney's art galleries. Here are three exhibitions worth seeing.

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  • On Friday, August 5, 2011, the Aspen Art Museum hosted its seventh annual ArtCrush summer benefit, raising an all time best of $1.7 million in support of the museum’s contemporary art programming.

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BIOGRAPHY

Yang’s work explores the affective power of materials by destabilizing the distinction between the modern and pre-modern, and her vocabulary of visual abstraction with sensory experiences combine industrial fabrication and folk craftsmanship. Yang’s ongoing research is empowered by underlying references to art history, literature, political biography and history as well as somewhat hidden social structure for reimagining a possible community, through which she re-interprets some of her recurrent themes: migration, postcolonial diasporas, enforced exile and social mobility.  Notable exhibitions include Lingering Nous, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto (2016); The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire (commissioned by M+), Hong Kong (2015); Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally Blissful, Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts UCCA, Beijing (2015); Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Family of Equivocations, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg (2013); Accommodating the Epic Dispersion, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Arrivals, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011); Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York (2010); and Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2008). Furthermore, her work has been included in the 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015); the Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, (2012); the 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010); and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).


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