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Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From

Exhibition
27 May – 24 Sep 2023
The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room with two models.

Haegue Yang, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations, 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

‘Historical figures inhabit my head like creatures in a mystic landscape. They are my tools to carve this landscape, finally becoming mountain peaks and rivers in my idiosyncratic way.’

HAEGUE YANG

  • About
  • Events
  • Activations
  • Exhibition Brochure
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About


Haegue Yang is known for her open, fluid approach to art-making. Her prolific practice synthesises diverse media and subject matter with the ambitious desire to connect disparate locations, periods and styles. Constantly on the move, the Seoul and Berlin-based artist continually seeks out unexplored narratives, processes and materials, combining industrial objects and intensive, craft-based techniques to produce immersive and engaging artworks.

The exhibition title, drawn from a poem by Chinese-British conceptual artist Li Yuan-chia, evokes the notion of migration between locations. The exhibition features four works that express different strands of Yang’s multivalent practice, linked by her abiding interest in mobility and transformation. Each work explores physical, social and conceptual movement: from the activation of the sculptures, Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations 2020 to the layered imagery of shifting water and weather patterns in the wallpaper, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics 2020.

Yang describes her approach to art as a form of abstraction that is filled with personal and mystical connections. Her references are drawn from multiple histories and artistic figures and allude to a range of scientific, cultural and political sources. Yet her work remains open to interpretation, avoiding definition and embodying endless possibilities for generating evocative forms.

Curators: Russell Storer, Head Curator, International Art and Beatrice Thompson, Associate Curator, Asian and Pacific Art


Events

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  • Films

    Dear Pyongyang (2005)
    Directed by Yang Yong-hi

    Sat 24 Jun 2023, 2pm

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • For Kids & Families

    Art Steps for Haegue Yang
    School Holiday Activity

    The artist's work pictured stationary in an empty room with two models.

    Daily, Sat 1 – Sun 16 Jul
    60 min sessions at 11am & 12.30pm

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Special Events

    Art with Friends and Family
    School Holiday Activity

    Three sculptural works embellished in bells sitting on a tiled floor against a lively wallpaper

    Fri 7 Jul 2023, 11am

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Young people

    Art Lab Butterfly Effect
    Digital Grid Drawing

    Live Stream

    Sat 22 Jul 2023, 10am

  • Films

    Death by Hanging (1968)
    Directed by Nagisa Ōshima

    Sat 26 Aug 2023, 2pm

    Wheelchair Accessible
  • Talks & Lectures

    Scientific views: Professor Joan Leach on Haegue Yang

    Fri 15 Sep 2023, 11am

    Wheelchair Accessible

Activations


Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations will be activated by members of our team each Saturday at 11am, 12pm, and 1pm

27 May – 24 Sep 2023

In Sonic Intermediates – Three Differential Equations 2020 Yang pays tribute to three of her artistic predecessors. Each sculpture is inspired by the life and work of a pioneering modernist artist—Naum Gabo (1890–1977), Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) and Li Yuan-chia (1929–1994)—each of whom explored new directions in sculpture and moved between various locations. The sculptures, coated in tiny bells and set on casters, fill the space with a subtle rattling sound when activated. The resonance of the bells evokes shamanistic ritual, as if summoning these artists to an encounter in the present.

Exhibition Brochure


Detail of artist's work.

Haegue Yang, Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics (detail), 2020, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 2023 © the artist

The selection of local elements was made in consultation with Paul Girrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples. Featuring Barbara Hepworth’s Two Figures, 1968, National Capital Authority © Bowness

A digital copy of the exhibition brochure Haegue Yang: Changing From From To From is available online.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


Haegue Yang, Triple Chalkies, 2015, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, gift of Dick Quan and John McGrath 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. © the artist

The National Gallery acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, the Traditional Custodians of the Kamberri/Canberra region, and recognises their continuous connection to culture, community and Country. We would like to thank Paul Girrrawah House, Ngambri (Walgalu)/Wallaballooa (Ngunnawal)/Pajong (Gundungurra)/Wiradjuri (Erambie) peoples, for sharing his deep knowledge of Country with Haegue Yang, which inspired and informed her selection of the local elements incorporated into the design for Non-Linear and Non-Periodic Dynamics.

The National Gallery of Australia thanks the galleries of the artist:
Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Kukje Gallery
kurimanzutto, Mexico City / New York
Studio Haegue Yang, Berlin: Liene Harms, Chieko Idetsuki, Cheongjin Keem, Nicolas Pelzer, Katharina Schwerendt, Tsukasa Yamamoto
Studio Haegue Yang, Seoul: Hwiwon Chun, Heeyun Im, Insun Kim, Myoungjung Kim, Junseok Lee, Jiyoung Noh, Sihyun Ryu, Solkyu Yang, Heejung Ye


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