Born in 1971, Seoul, Korea Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, Korea
Currently a professor of Fine Arts at Städelschule, Frankurt am Main, Germany
Education
1999
Meisterschüler in Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1997
Exchange program, Cooper Union, New York, US
1994
B.F.A. in Seoul National University, Fine Arts College, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Leap Year, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Flat Works, The Arts Club of Chicago, US Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Sonic Germination, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Continuous Reenactments, HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Finland The Great Forgetfulness, National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland Latent Dwelling, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Changing From From to From, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Several Reenactments, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium Quasi-Colloquial, Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil
2022 Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Quasi-Legit, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, US Quasi-Legit, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea Mesmerizing Mesh, Kukje Gallery, Korea Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Sonic Guard, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany Double Soul, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 Strange Attractors, Tate St Ives, UK The Cone of Concern, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila, Philippines Emergence, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020: Haegue Yang – O2 & H2O, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Dress Vehicles/Eclectic Totemic, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
2019 Forum for Drone Speech – Singapore Simulations, National Singapore Gallery, Singapore In the Cone of Uncertainty, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US Handles, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US Intermediate Fiction, Winsing Art Place, Taipei, Taiwan When the Year 2000 Comes, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Tracing Movement, South London Gallery, UK
2018 Chronotopic Traverses, La Panacée – MO.CO., Montpellier, France Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Triple Vita Nestings, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (traveled to: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand) ETA 1994–2018. 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany VIP's Union – Phase II, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2017 Quasi-ESP, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany VIP's Union – Phase I, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Sol LeWitt Upside Down – Cube Structures Based on Five Modules, Central One Expanded 184 Times, Another Expanded 66 Times then Doubled and Mirrored #81-E, Maison Hermès Dosan Park, Seoul, Korea Ornament and Abstraction, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
mezzaterra11 - flat gallery, Belluno, Italy
2016 Quasi-Pagan Seasonal Shift, Aïshti by the Sea, Antelias, Lebanon Quasi-Pagan Modern, Galeries Lafayette Hausmann, Paris, France Lingering Nous, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal Quasi-Pagan Serial, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Quasi-Pagan Minimal, Greene Naftali, New York, US
2015 Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally Blissful, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Temporary Permanent, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany Sample Book, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium Shooting the Elephant 象 Thinking the Elephant, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Follies, Manifold: Gabriel Lester, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2013 Honesty Printed on Modesty, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore Anachronistic Layers of Dispersion, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US Journal of Echomimetic Motions, Bergen Konsthall, Bergen, Norway Journal of Bouba/Kiki, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Scotland Corrugated Totems with Glitter Dance, Vitrines sur l'Art - Museums of Strasbourg, Galeries Lafayette, Strasbourg, France Family of Equivocations, Aubette 1928 and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France Ovals and Circles, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Art Wall: Haegue Yang, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
2012 Roll Cosies, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland Ajar, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, UK Der Öffentlichkeit – von den Freunden Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Multi Faith Room, Greene Naftali, New York, US Rivane Neuenschwander, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2011 Escaping Things and Words, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany The Art and Technique of Folding the Land, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, US The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang with an Inclusion by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Teacher of Dance, Modern Art Oxford, UK Arrivals, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2010 Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York, US Voice Over Three, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Closures, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2009 Integrity of the Insider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Condensation, South Korean Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008 Symmetric Inequality, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles, US Siblings and Twins, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany Lethal Love, CUBITT, London, UK
2007 Unpacking Storage Piece, Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany Foxed in the Forest, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium Remote Room, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2006 Sadong 30, Incheon, Korea Unevenly, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005 Cremer-Preis, LWL – Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
2004 Kasse, Shop, Kino und Weiteres, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany Unfolding, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium Alterity Display, Lawrence O'Hana Gallery, London, UK Unfolding Places, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2003 Unrealistic to Generalize, Public, Paris, France
2002 Air and Water, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2000 Blaue Wiese – Farbige Sprache / Blue Meadow – Colorful Language, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bejahung und Verneinung/Approval and Negation, Kolster, Galerie für junge Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Lacquer Paintings 2000, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
1999 Hamburgefonstiv, 1822 Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1995 rraum, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Earth, Wind, and Fire: Visions of the Future from Asia, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan Isa Mona Lisa, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Lahore Biennale, Lahore Biennale Foundation, Lahore, Pakistan How did you come into the world?, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan Look What We Have: The Collection For Gelsenkirchen, Kunstmuseum Gelsenkirchen, Germany Forms of the Shadow, Secession, Vienna, Austria At the End of the World Split Endlessly, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea On the Value of Time - New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Time and space. face to face and side by side #11, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany Ring of Fire – Solar Yang & Lunar Weerasethakul, Matabe, Naoshima, Japan Pannaphan Yodmanee, Zul Mahmod, Amanda Heng, and Haegue Yang – Benesse Prize awardees from 2016 to 2022, Benesse House Museum, Naoshima, Japan
Illusions of Life, Gallery 206, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US How Not to Be Seen, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst. Works from the Bergmeier Collection, Kunstsaele/Alien Athena Foundation for Art, Berlin, Germany The Garden: incantation – incarnation, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Chen Zhen and Haegue Yang, M+, Hong Kong
2023 Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US The Open World, Thailand Biennale 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand Dialogues: Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition, EMMA, Espoo, Finland Performa 2023 Biennial, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, New York, US On the Value of Time - New Presentation of the Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Aranya Plein Air Art Project, Aranya Jinshanling Chengde, Hebei Province, China Vielheit. Stories from the postmigrant society, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy World Classroom: Contemporary Art Through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Time States - Contradiction and Accordance, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Korea Drum Listens to Heart, The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, US
2022 The Postmodern Child, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Korea In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire, Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022-23, Fort Kochi, India VIP's Union Petite, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Do we dream under the same sky, Okayama Art Summit 2022,Okayama, Japan Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, US Museum in Motion Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium Annual Special Exhibition: Second Movement, STPI, Singapore Checkpoint, Border views from Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, US Planet B. Climate Change and the New Sublime, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, Italy Moved by Schlemmer: 100 Years of Triadic Ballet, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US Sound as Sculpture, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
2021 M+ Commission, M+, Hong Kong A Higher Calling, White Space, Beijing, China EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability, M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Public Art Programme of Expo 2020 Dubai, Dubai Exhibition Centre, UAE 2021 DMZ Art & Peace Platform, Paju Guard Post, Korea Global Groove: Art, Dance, Performance and Protest, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany The Voice of Things. Highlights of the Centre Pompidou Collection vol.II, West Bund Museum Shanghai, China The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US To Have and To Share, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany BMA Collection Highlights Ⅲ: Wanderers on the Boundary, Busan Museum of Art, Korea APMA, Chapter Three, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Noire Lumière, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, Korea Things Things Say, Barcelona Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain Arts Crafts, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Ground/Work, The Clark Institute, Massachussets, US Pine's Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Scènes dans une bulle de cristal – Seen in a crystal ball, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Siembra, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
2019 OUTBOUND, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore Arts Crafts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria Homo Faber, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea Hidden Beauty, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timișoara, Romania The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Work, Work, Work, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, US 40,000 – A Museum of Curiosity, 14th Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany An Opera for Animals, Para Site & Rockbund Art Museum, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China And Berlin Will Always Need You: Art, Craft and Concept Made in Berlin, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Mere Constructions, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Minimalism: Space. Light. Object., National Gallery Singapore, Singapore A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture. 1918 - 2018, Palais d'Iéna, Paris, France Beautiful world, where are you? Liverpool Biennial 2018, Tate Liverpool, UK Superposition: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia ReCycle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France GERMANY IS NOT AN ISLAND: Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany Acquisitions 2012–2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Generations: Künstlerinnen im Dialog Part 1, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2017 Again and Against, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen, Leopold-Hösch-Museum, Düren, Germany The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon Junge Sammlungen 04: The Vague Space. Sammlung Christian Kaspar Schwarm, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany Ongoing Installations - Haegue Yang: Four Times Sol LeWitt Upside Down, Version Point to Point, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada Children's Games, ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy WheredoIendandyoubegin – On Secularity, 9th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Göteborg, Sweden Artists against Aids, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany Duett mit Künstlerin, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Whither the Winds,The Malmö Art Academy, at the Occasion of Lund University's 350th Jubilee, Lunds konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Medusa, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 2017 California-Pacific Triennial: Building As Ever, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US MIDTOWN, Maccarone, Salon 94 and Salon 94 Design, New York, US LESSON Ø, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para Site, Hong Kong (traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art (MCAD), Manila, Philippines; Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand) The Present Order – Part Two, Galerie fur Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany Karin Sander: ZEIGEN. An audio tour through the collection of the GfZK Leipzig, Galerie fur Zeitgenoessische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany Duddell's x Biennale of Sydney. Abstraction of the World, Duddell's, Hong Kong ICA Collection: New Acquisitions, ICA Boston, Boston, US Condo, dépendance at Maureen Paley, London, UK
2016 Heterotopias. Avant-Gardes in Contemporary Art, Aubette 1928 and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, France Looks Good on Paper, STPI, Singapore The Grand Balcony, Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada Ad Intérieurs, à l'Univers des collectionneurs, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France Das Loch, Künstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany Exquisite Corpse, Galerie Chantal Crousel at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, US Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Idiosyncrasy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum, The Cáceres Visual Arts Centre, Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain Presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Gerlach en Koop, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands Daily Formalism, Mabsociety, Shanghai, China Yoko Ono: LUMIÈRE DE L'AUBE, The Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada from here to there, Kurimanzutto travels to Jessica Silverman Gallery, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US
2015 Mobile M+: Live Art, M+, Honkong The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Office Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, US La vie modern, 13th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France Remember Lidice, Edition Block GmbH, Berlin, Germany Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US As We Never Imagined: 50 Years to Art Making, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockhom, Sweden Future Light, MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, in the frame of Vienna Biennale 2015: Ideas for Change, Vienna, Austria Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, US Feminismen, Nordsternturm Video art Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany Suppleness and Rigidity – The Art of the Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, UAE Fit for Purpose, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland About Color – Eine Ausstellung zur Faszination der Farbe, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014 Double Life,Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, US Collage art – Weaving Stories Blending Images, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, ICA Boston, US Music Palace – The Power of Music seen by Visual Artists, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium The Great Acceleration, Taipei Biennial 2014, Taipei, Taiwan Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014, Seoul, Korea Don't You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium Objectology - Design and Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea Histories I – Works from the Serralves Collection,Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Light Night, Wallspace, New York, US Salon distingué – Hausrat in guter Gesellschaft,Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland Eine Ausstellung zur Faszination der Farbe, Kunstraum Wiesbaden, Germany The Hawker, Dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK KUB Collection Showcase – New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria The Distance Between You and Me, Fahrbereitschaft, Haubrok projects, Berlin, Germany
2013 Confusion in the Vault, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Nachbilder, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany The Tyranny of Objects, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France You promised me, and you said a lie to me, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia Coming to Terms, Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, Canada Unknown Forces – Gestures beyond Surfaces, Tophane-I Amire Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Dog Days II, MOTInternational, London, UK Utopie beginnt im Kleinen, Kleinplastik Triennial, Fellbach, Germany The Collection, 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Cannaregio 3831, Venice, Italy 15 for 150: 15 contemporary artists mark 150 years of the Tube, London Underground, UK Vielleicht sehe ich auch zu tief in die Dinge hinein, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany I KNOW YOU, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Vom Eigensinn der Dinge, KAI10/Raum für Kunst. Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US How to write I, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, UK NUR HIER. Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Auswahl der Ankäufe von 2007 bis 2011, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany New & Now, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2012 No Borders, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK Lieber Aby Warburg. Was tun mit Bildern? Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany No Desaster, Sammlung Haubrok Bei Falkenberg, Hamburg, Germany Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France 360°: Die Rückkehr der Sammlung, Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea Dream Walking in the Magical reality, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
West China Art Biennale, TianYe Art Museum,Yinchuan, China Inside Out and from the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, US Annual collection show, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 15 Jahre Galerie der Gegenwart, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany City within the city, Gertrude Contemporary Museum, Melbourne, Australia If there would be a face, this would be a cat, Dependence, Brussels, Belgium Intérieur jour, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Sense and Sustainability. Urdaibai Art 2012, Urdaibai Natural Reserve, Gernika, Bermeo, Spain Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany The Spiral and the Square. Exercises in Translatability, SKMU, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway Orchesterwechsel – 10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Schloss Dyck, Jüchen, Germany An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria The Touch of Life, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden How Physical, The Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2012, Tokyo, Japan DLA Was / For You, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2011 City within the City, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea (traveled to Gertrude Contemporary, Melburn, Australia, 2012) Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia (traveled to: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea) The Grand Domestic Revolution – User's Manual, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, The Netherlands Monument Valley (Jaegerspris revisited – a Hommage to Johannes Wiedewelt), UFO, Berlin, Germany Berlin 2000-2011: Playing among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan D'un autre Monde, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France Kunst und Philosophie, n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on Translatability, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (traveled to Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway; SKMU, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway) Folding: The Art of Simplicity, KCDF Gallery, Seoul, Korea Open Days, Le Consortium, Dijon, France Nach Abschluss der Reise, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US Air Hole: Another Conceptualism from Asia, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2010 Watchmen, Liars, Dreamers, Le Plateau, Frac île-de-france, Paris, France 10000 Lives, 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Workers Leaving the Workplace, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Urban Origami, PM Gallery & House, London, UK The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (traveled to: Garage CCC – Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia) The Pursuer, Greene Naftali, New York, US Like Eskimo Space, 1857, Oslo, Norway Squatting. erinnern, vergessen, besetzen, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany Open Light in Private Spaces, Biennale for International Light Art Ruhr.2010, Unna, Germany After Architects, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland Intro Motion Ditch, Art Sheffield, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK Self as disappearance, Centre d'Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France Oh! Masterpieces, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2009 Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch Berlin / To Show: a Audio Tour through Berlin, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany UNDER COVER I – special editions in books, boxes & rolls, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany From the Gathering, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Horizontale Durchlässigkeiten / Transparent Layers, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland Sequelism Part 3: Possible, Probable, or Preferable Futures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US(traveled to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US) Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic (traveled to: Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) Pop Up!, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
2008 If we can't get it together, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada 27 november – 21 january, 2009, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium 50 Moons of Saturn, 2nd Torino Triennale, Turin, Italy The Twentyfirst, Silver Shed, New York, US Time Perspective: Acquisitions of the Federal Republic of Germany's Contemporary Art Collection, 1998-2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Pontos de Vista, Galeria Mata, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Brave New Worlds, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Farewell to Post-Colonialism,The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany (weitere Station / traveled to: 176 Gallery, London, UK) Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in Art, MART – Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy LESS, haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany Life On Mars, 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, US Global EurAsia, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany run run, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, commissioned by Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland Open / Invited e v+ a 2008 – too early for vacation, e v+ a – exhibition of visual art, Limerick, Ireland Der grosse Wurf – Faltungen in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Haus Lange / Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany Von dem was dann noch bleibt, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany Interfacing Practices, Galerie Magnus Müller, Berlin, Germany freunde und bekannte, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany Wessen Geschichte, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), Anyang, Korea Off Pages, The Bookmakers SQ.MT., Turin, Italy If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your Revolution, Edition II, Episode IV: Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium Tomorrow, Artsonje Center & Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Micro Narratives, 48th October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia Virtuoso Interpretor – Formalismus als Formalismuskritik, Cluster, Berlin, Germany RE-DIS-PLAY – Nicht-Kunst-Sammlungen von Künstlern und Kuratoren, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany Flash Cube, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Made in Germany, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover; Sprengel Museum, Hanover and Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
PRAGUEBIENNALE 3, Prague, Czech Republic Brennschluss, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse 2007, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany Dependance at Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany Modelle für Morgen: Köln(Models for Tomorrow: Cologne), European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Mandla Reuter, Flaca, London, UK Break through to Grey Room, Casabarata, Kasbah Museum, Tangier, Morocco STADTanSICHTen. Seoul: Räume, Menschen, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Germany (traveled to: ifa-Galerie Berlin, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin, Germany)
2006 Political Design, Design of Politics, Zero One Design Centre, Seoul, Korea Personal Affairs. Neue Formen der Intimität, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Edition II: Feminist Legacies and Potentials in Contemporary Practice, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Como Viver Junto – How to Live Together, 27th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil Pigment Piano Marble, Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina e-flux Video Rental, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2006; Arthouse Texas, Austin, US, 2006; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, US, 2007; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France, 2007; CAMJAP, Lissabon, Portugal, 2008; and Fondazione Giuliani, Rom, Italy, 2010 Haubrokworks – Sounds of Silence, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
2005 Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Punkt und Linie, Fläche und Raum, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany Schnur im Nebel, Doppelzimmer, Gießen, Germany
2004 Steaming away from the Places, Sangmyung University Museum, Seoul, Korea D-Freezone. Site 2: Korean Express, in the frame of 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea This is not a Love Letter, Marronnier Art Center (currently: Arko Art Center), Seoul, Korea Black Friday. Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany Liquidation totale, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium XS: An Invitational Exhibition, f a projects, London, UK Documents, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Arts (currently Seoul Museum of Art), Korea Chasm, 3rd Busan Biennale, Korea Mix Max, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2003 From Dust to Dusk – International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Make It New, Portikus / Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Demirrorized Zone, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Türme Babylons, Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz, Germany
2002 Subtiles élégances, La Galerie, Centre d'art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, France The Fall, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark Kunst und Technik, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany Cité des Ondes, Cienquième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art Électronique, Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Wiesbadener Kunstsommer, Wiesbaden, Germany Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea New Tendencies in Korean Art: Paradise Among Us, Marronnier Art Center (currently: Arko Art Center), Seoul, Korea Blink, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany Ssamzie Studio 3, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2001 1 Site – 2 Places, project room, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany KunstPraxis, Siemens Arts Program, Munich, Germany Invisible Touch, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea We're not here to give you pleasure, rraum 02, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (traveled to: rraum 03, Protoacademy, Edinburgh, Scotland; G39, Cardiff, UK; Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France) VIP's Union, VIP Lounge, 6th Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany Tirana Biennale 1: Escape, Tirana, Albania Zu Gast, Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany Frankfurter Kreuz: Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Lunchtime of Necktie Force, The Posco Museum, Seoul, Korea
2000 Art or Design, Seoul Arts Center, Korea Café Helga & Galerie Goldankauf, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany Anno Zero, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
1998 Stuttgart, 17.7.1956 – Salem (Wis.)/USA, 3.3.1977, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Seoul in Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Arts (currently Seoul Museum of Art), Korea Where I Am, Lisbon World Exposition, Galeria Municipal da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal
I-20, with Caroline Krause, Galerie Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1997 YAAM, Berlin, Germany The Cooper Union, New York, US
1996
Cold against Cold, Heat against Heat, Städelschule project room, Frankfurt, Germany
The Propaganda of Good Taste, Städelschule cafeteria, Frankfurt, Germany
Selected Awards
2022
The 13th Benesse Prize, Singapore Biennale
2018
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, awarded by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award (Presidential Citation) in the Visual Arts category, Korea
Selected Public and Private Collections
AmorePacific Museum of Art, Yongin, Korea
Bristol's Museums, Galleries & Archives, Bristol, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
Explum, Murcia, Spain
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle an der Saale, Germany
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
M+, Hong Kong
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin, Germany
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Serralves Foundation, Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, Portugal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Tate Collection, London, UK
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany