Haegue Yang,
Spring Sailors – Six Synecologies Aloft, 2024. Installation
view, Of Mountains and Seas: Lahore Biennale 03, Shalimar Gardens, Lahore,
Pakistan, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. Commissioned in 2024 by the Lahore
Biennale Foundation. Photo by Muaz Asim. ©Kukje GalleryRenowned contemporary artist Haegue Yang
holds 《Haegue Yang: Lost Lands and Sunken Fields》, the first large-scale solo exhibition by a Korean artist at The
Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, from February 1 to April 27, 2025.
The Nasher Sculpture Center, known for its
world-class collection of modern and contemporary sculptures, hosts this
groundbreaking exhibition curated by Leigh Arnold. The exhibition highlights
Yang’s practice, which subverts modernist notions of sculpture, and features
over 50 works, including newly created small-scale and suspended sculptures,
densely arranged across the museum.
Haegue Yang,
Mignon Votive – Binovular Twin Blossoms Seedpod #1, 2025. Courtesy
of the artist. Photo: Haegue Yang Studio. ©Kukje Gallery.Spanning the entire venue—from the first
floor and underground gallery to the lobby and sculpture garden—the exhibition
integrates the museum’s architectural elements while exploring themes of
contrasting dialectics, such as light and shadow, suspension and grounding,
lightness and heaviness, gravity and buoyancy, and rarity and density. The
works in the exhibition, many of which are small and lightweight yet inspired
by nature, reflect Yang's innovative approach.
Haegue Yang,
Umbra Creatures by Rockhole, 2017-2018. Installation view at
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, 2019. Courtesy of kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New
York. Photo by Martin Grabner, courtesy of Universal Museum Joanneum. ©Kukje
GalleryTo commemorate the occasion, a catalogue featuring images of the exhibited works will be published. This catalogue is expected to become a key resource, shedding light on Yang’s artistic evolution with sculpture from her early career to the present in 2025.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
