In the first of three articles – which have taken far longer than they should have done to write – we look back over the past year of Korean events in London and elsewhere. At this point in the year we always ask ourselves the question as to whether there is any sign of the Korean … [Read More]
Artist: Haegue Yang (양혜규)
Haegue Yang: Leap Year, at the Hayward Gallery
Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range of media – from paper collage to performative sculpture and immense sensorial installations. Equally as wide-ranging, her inspiration draws on diverse histories and customs, including East Asian traditions and folklore, modernism, contemporary art history and nature. Yang uses a variety of crafts, techniques and materials in her work, … [Read More]
A review of the Korean cultural year 2021
Each year when I come to write this review, I wonder whether Korean culture in the West has reached its high water mark. And every year so far I’ve come to the same conclusion. Korean music and film, TV and food continue to win admirers, and we can expect to see it continue to thrive … [Read More]
Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors, at Tate St Ives
I’m not quite sure how I managed not to hear about an 11-month-long show billed as “the UK’s largest exhibition to date by celebrated South Korean artist Haegue Yang”… but you’ve still got a few months to pop down to Cornwall to see it, and I guess it’s really only in the last couple of … [Read More]
A review of the Korean cultural year 2019
A review of some of the highlights and trends in the Korean cultural year, primarily in London but also with half an eye to anything we might have seen elsewhere in the UK. The review is a personal one, inevitably skewed towards the events we managed to get to. Introduction This time last year I … [Read More]
Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement, at South London Gallery
A major show by Haegue Yang in Peckham: Haegue Yang: Tracing Movement 8 March – 26 May 2019 South London Gallery | 65-67 Peckham Rd | London SE5 8UH | www.southlondongallery.org Tue – Fri 11am-6pm | Sat – Sun 10am-6pm. Late opening: Wed + last Fri of the month until 9pm The acclaimed South Korean … [Read More]
Haegue Yang at SOAS as part of the SOAS / Sotheby’s Series
Notice of the first SOAS talk of the Autumn season: Artist talk: Haegue Yang at SOAS as part of the SOAS / Sotheby’s Series 4 October 2018, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS Register via Eventbrite Organised by SOAS Centre of Korean Studies and Sotheby’s Institute of Art Haegue Yang (b. … [Read More]
Haegue Yang + Suki Seokyeong Kang at Liverpool Biennial
Liverpool Biennial is the UK biennial of contemporary art. Taking place over 15 weeks across the city in public spaces, galleries, museums and online, Liverpool Biennial commissions artists from around the world to make and present work in the context of Liverpool. The 10th edition Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to … [Read More]
Event news: Haegue Yang + Kim Yong-ik in conversation
As part of the KCC’s Artist of the Year exhibition, a talk between the artist and Haegue Yang, who represented Korea at the 2009 Venice Biennale. In Conversation: Haegue Yang and Kim Yong Ik Korean Cultural Centre UK | 1-3 Strand | London, WC2N 5BW Tuesday 3 October 2017, 5pm – 6:30pm | Book your … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Korean artists at APT8
The Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) has been hosting the Asia Pacific Triennial since 1993. The exhibition features artists from all over the region, and Korea has been represented from the start. The triennial is spread over two buildings (the QAG itself and the nearby Gallery of Modern Art which opened in 2006) which collectively are … [Read More]
Buy a Haegue Yang print for £150, courtesy of the London Underground
I completely missed this little project when it was launched in May last year. But yesterday morning on my daily commute to work I noticed an advertisement for it in Westminster tube station which I hadn’t spotted before. As the escalator carried me away to the Jubilee line, I turned to browse the lists of … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Who is Alice? – Works from the MMCA collection at Spazio Lightbox, Venice
In previous years, the Venice Biennale has featured a number of Korea-related shows as collateral events scattered around the islands, giving a dedicated visitor the opportunity to walk through the backstreets and explore the vaporetto network while enjoying new artworks. In 2013 most of the Korean artists were gathered together in one place, in an … [Read More]
Who is Alice? – MMCA’s Biennale Collateral event
The Venice Biennale always has some Korean artists participating in collateral events, but this is the first time I can think of that there has been a major government-sponsored initiative. This special exhibition features works from the permanent collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Exhibition announcement courtesy of the MMCA. Who … [Read More]
Haegue Yang inaugural artist for Der Öffentlichkeit in Munich
Installation artist Haegue Yang has been commissioned as the first artist to fill the Middle Hall of Haus der Kunst in Munich. The installation will be on display until September 2013. The first minute or so of the following video introduces the work, and the official press release follows. Haegue Yang / Der Öffentlichkeit — … [Read More]
Haegue Yang: Dress Vehicles, in Tate Modern Tanks
For a few days Haegue Yang will be appearing in the performance space of the Tate Modern Tanks. Sung Hwan Kim’s installation continues until the end of October. Haegue Yang: Dress Vehicles The Tanks at Tate Modern: Exhibition 11 September – 16 September 2012 Timed choreographed performances to be announced Part of the series The … [Read More]
South Bank workshop disappoints
Not sure we’ll be getting a write-up of Haegue Yang’s day at the South Bank. I got this from someone who was going to write it up: “Haegue’s workshop yesterday was so disappointing… I made two simple origami figures and knitting without anything related to Haegue’s work really. I don’t have anything to write about … [Read More]