The Hayward Gallery presents Haegue Yang: Leap Year, the first major UK survey of the internationally celebrated artist.
The Hayward Gallery will present Haegue Yang: Leap Year, the first major UK survey of the internationally celebrated artist from 9 October 2024 to 5 January 2025. Considered to be one of the leading artistic voices of her generation, Yang’s work is both spellbinding and boundary-pushing, probing into contemporary ideas of cross-cultural pollination, modernism and folk traditions, and personal and political histories.
Leap Year will illuminate Yang’s multifaceted, interdisciplinary and highly inventive practice from the early 2000s to today, echoing the Hayward Gallery’s mission, as part of the creative engine of the Southbank Centre, to champion artists from across the world whose ideas challenge and spark new ways of thinking.
Arranged into five thematic zones, the exhibition will include three major new commissions and several new productions to present a visual and sensory experience through installation, sculpture, collage, text, video, wallpaper and sound.
Yang’s artwork often transforms everyday domestic items and industrial objects, from drying racks and light bulbs to nylon pom-poms and hand-knitted yarn, into distinctive sculptures and multimedia installations that engage the senses.
Leap Year will feature key works from some of her most notable series including Light Sculptures, Sonic Sculptures, The Intermediates, Dress Vehicles, Mesmerizing Mesh and the Venetian blind installations.
Yang (born 1971, Seoul) lives and works in both Berlin and Seoul. Her multisensory environments encourage perception beyond the visual, creating immersive experiences that highlight issues such as labour, migration, and displacement. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Helsinki Art Museum (2024); National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (2023); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2023); and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023).
Dates & times: 9 Oct 2024 – 5 Jan 2025
Tue – Fri, 10am – 6pm
Sat, 10am – 8pm
Sun, 10am – 6pm
Closed Mon
Standard entry from £19 / Members free
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
Further Information: Haegue Yang: Leap Year | Southbank Centre
*Image: Haegue Yang, The Randing Intermediates – Underbelly Alienage Duo (Earth Alienage Rising Sporing, Sea Alienage Fanned-Out Bang), 2020. © Haegue Yang. Courtesy kurimanzutto, Mexico City _ New York