Artist Talk: Haegue Yang

Coinciding with the opening of her Nasher exhibition 'Lost Lands and Sunken Fields," Haegue Yang discusses her work and practice in conversation with Nasher Curator Leigh Arnold.
00:00 Welcome and Introduction from Anna Smith, Nasher Curator of Education
02:12 Conversation
1:10:00 Q&A with audience
Over the past three decades, Haegue Yang (born 1971, Seoul, South Korea) has developed a prolific and hybrid body of work that folds quotidian objects and folk traditions into the canon of modern and contemporary sculpture-making. Informed by in-depth exploration into vernacular techniques and related customs and rituals, along with her continual movement through disparate cultures, Yang’s work is both homage to and critique of the modernist project toward singular Western domination. Lost Lands and Sunken Fields will occupy both levels of the museum’s galleries and garden, engaging a dialectic of contrasts: light and dark, aerial and grounded, buoyant and heavy, spare and dense, interior and exterior.
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About Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1971. Since the mid-1990s, Yang has lived and worked in Seoul and Berlin and currently teaches at her alma mater, the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her immersive multimedia environments combine diverse materials and cultural traditions with references ranging from scientific phenomena and sociopolitical narratives to art history. Her dual or hybrid materiality of a range of industrial objects and intensive, craft-based techniques, leads to unexpected connections between divergent worlds of contemporary mass production, ancient civilizations and natural phenomena.
Yang actively exhibits at the international biennales while her work is represented in prominent institutional and private collections all over the world, including the Guggenheim New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, to name a few. A prolific artist, Yang has been the subject of many solo shows and projects at the aforementioned institutions and others, including the New Museum, New York (2010); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018); SMK - National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2022); Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023); and S.M.A.K., Ghent (2023). The Hayward Gallery, London is currently presenting a survey of Yang’s work over the last three decades.
Her work has also featured in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2009), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (2012), the Taipei Biennial (2014), Sharjah Biennial 12 (2015), Istanbul Biennial (2019) the Biennale of Sydney (2018), the Singapore Biennale (2022), and most recently the Lahore Biennale (2024).