Born 1971, Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
and Seoul, South Korea
Education
2015 Atelier Calder. Artist residency. Saché, France.
1999 Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule. Meisterschüler title. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1997 Cooper Union. Exchange program grant. New York.
1994 Seoul National University (B.F.A.)., South Korea.
2025
Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Upcoming)
Migros, Zurich, Switzerland (Upcoming)
2024
Haegue Yang: Leap Year, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Haegue Yang: Flat Works 2004-2024, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Haegue Yang: Mesmerizing Mesh - Paper Leap and Sonic Germination, dependance, Brussels, Belgium
2023
Haegue Yang: Changing From From to From, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Haegue Yang: Continous Reenactments, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Haegue Yang: Several Reenactments, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
Haegue Yang: Quasi-Colloquial, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Resonating Habitat, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Haegue Yang: Mesmerizing Mesh, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Haegue Yang: Quasi-Legit, Kukje Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Double Soul, SMK / National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Haegue Yang: Mesmerizing Mesh – Paper Leap and Sonic Guard, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
2021
Tanks Qiao Zhibing, Shanghai, China
2020
MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020: Haegue Yang – O2 & HO2, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Haegue Yang: Strange Attractors, Tate St. Yves, Cornwall*, UK
Haegue Yang: The Cone of Concern, MCAD, Manila, Philippines
Ground/work, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA
Haegue Yang: Emergence, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto*, Canada
Haegue Yang, Dress Vehicles | Eclectic Totemic, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
2019
In the Cone of Uncertainty, The Bass Museum of Modern Art, Miami*, USA
Handles, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Intermediate Fiction-Haegue Yang, Winsing Art Place, Taipei, Taiwan
Haegue Yang: When the Year 2000 Comes, Kukje Gallery, Seoul*, South Korea
De Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Triple Vita Nestings, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Tracing Movement, South London Gallery, London, UK
Forum for Drone Speech – Singapore Simulations, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2018
Chronotopic Traverses, La Panacée-MO.CO, Montpellier*, France
Triple Vita Nestings, IMA, Brisbane, Australia
Tightrope Walking and Its Wordless Shadow, Triennale di Milano, Milan*, Italy
Haegue Yang: VIP’s Union – Phase II, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
ETA 1994-2018. 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Museum Ludwig, Cologne*, Germany
2017
Quasi-ESP, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Haegue Yang: The VIP’s Union, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Maison Hermès Dosan Park, Seoul, South Korea
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Quasi-Pagan Seasonal Shift, Aïshti by the Sea, Antelias, Lebanon
2016
Quasi-Pagan Modern, Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, 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, USA
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, South Korea
2014
Follies, Merfach, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Accommodating the Epic Dispersion – On Non-cathartic Volume of Dispersion, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Anachronistic Layers of Dispersion, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Honesty Printed on Modesty, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore*
Journal of Echomimetic Motions, Bergen Kunsthall, 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, USA
2012
Accomodating the Epic Dispersion, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany
Ajar, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
The Tanks: Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, UK
Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Roll-Cosies, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland
Multi Faith Room, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Haegue Yang, Rivane Neuenschwander, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
2011
Escaping Things and Words, Haegue Yang, Rivane Neuenschwander, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
The Art and Technique of Folding the Land, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado*, USA
The Sea Wall: Haegue Yang with an inclusion by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Teacher of Dance, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford*, UK
Arrivals, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz*, Austria
2010
Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York, USA
Voice Over Three, Artsonje Center, Seoul*, South Korea
Closures, Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2009
Integrity of the Insider, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Condensation, South Korean Pavilion, 53rd Biennale, Venice*, Italy
2008
Symmetric Inequality, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao*, Spain
Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles*, USA
Siblings and Twins, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M.*, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Lethal Love, CUBITT, London, UK
2007
Unpacking Storage Piece, Haubrokshows, Berlin*, Germany
Foxed in the Forest, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Seven Basel Lights, Art Statements with Galerie Barbara Wien, Basel*, Switzerland
Remote Room, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2006
Sadong 30, Incheon*, South Korea
Unevenly, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht*, 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 a.M.*, Germany
2001
Sonderfarben, Kommunale Galerie, Darmstadt*, Germany
2000
Blaue Wiese – Farbige Sprache, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Bejahung und Verneinung, Kolster, Galerie für junge Kunst, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Lacquer Paintings 2000, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
1999
Hamburgefonstiv, 1822 Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt a.M.*, Germany
1995
rraum, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2024
Undo PLANET: Memory (Im) Material Flow, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Isa Mona Lisa, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Of Mountains and Seas: Lahore Biennale 03, Sharlimar Gardens, Lahore, Pakistan
How Did You Come into the World?, Taguchi Art Collection + Hirosaki Museum Contemporary Art, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori, Japan
Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst. Works from the Bergmeier Collection, Kunstsaele/Alien Athena Foundation for Art, Berlin, Germany
Forms of the Shadow, Secession, Vienna, Austria
At the End of an Endlessly Splitting World, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, South Korea
Illusions of Life, Museum of Modern Art, Gallery 206, New York, USA
Le Jardin: incantation – incarnation, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Ring of Fire, Solar Yang, Lunar Weerasethakul, Matabe, Naoshima, Japan
2023
The Open World, Thailand Biennale 2023, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
A Story of a Merchant, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Dialogues: Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection Exhibition, EMMA, Espoo, Finland
Portals and Omens: New Work from the Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
We are in this together. Selections from the Permanent Collection. The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
The Collection: Dialogues. Volume 2: Time is an Illusion, Collegium, Arévalo, Spain
On the Value of Time - New Presentation of the Contemporary Art Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Aranya Plein Air Art Project, Aranya Jin Shan Ling, Aranya Jinshanling Chengde, China
Multiplicity. Stories from Postmigrant Society, Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Meran, Italy
Mouvement et Lumière, Fondation Villa Datris, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan*
2022
In Our Veins Flow Ink and Fire - 5th Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Fort Kochi, Kochi, India
The Postmodern Child, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
VIP's Union Petite, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Todos Juntos (All Together), kurimanzutto, New York, USA
Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore Art Museum
Sound as sculpture, the Warehouse (Rachofsky House), Dallas, USA
NILS STAERK, Copenhagen, Denmark
Welt in der Schwebe. Luft als künstlerisches Material, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Moved by Schlemmer. 100 Years of Triadic Ballet, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Shifting the Silence, SF MoMA, San Francisco, USA
Planet B: Climate Change and the New Sublime, Palazzo Bollani, Venice, Italy
Part II. Charles Darwin and the coral reefs
Part III. The tragic death of Nauru Island
Do we dream under the same sky ?, Okayama Art Summit 2022, Okayama, Japan.
On the Nature of Things, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Annual Special Exhibition: Second Movement, STPI, Singapore
Checkpoint, Border Views From Korea, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Museum in Motion, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Creating Urgency: Modern and Contemporary Korean Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
2021
The Lines Fall Where They May, STPI – Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore
A Higher Calling, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
Public Art Programme Expo 2020 Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
EURASIA − A Landscape of Mutability, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
DMZ Art & Space Platform 2021, South Korea
The Paradox of Stillness, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
APMA, Chapter Three, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
To Have and to Share – Who Owns the Collection?, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Germany
2020
Noire Lumière, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Ground/Work, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA
One Espace at a Time, Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2020, Seoul, South Korea
Gwanju Biennale 2020: Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, Gwangju, South Korea
Pine’s Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Arts Crafts, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Arts Crafts, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Things Things Say, Barcelona Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
2019
Arts_Crafts, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Hidden Beauty, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Art Encounters Biennial 2019, Timișoara, Romania
The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial 2019, Turkey
Homo Faber, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea
40,000. A Museum of Curiosity, Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany
Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, USA
Work, Work, Work, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland, USA
Materials and Objects, Tate Modern, London, UK
And Berlin Will Always, Berliner Festspiele, Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
An Opera for Animals, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Mere Constructions, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA
2018
Minimalism, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
Wild West, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Suspension – A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture. 1918–2018, Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France
The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank Collection, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany
Abenteuer Freundschaft, Kunstsaele Berlin, Germany
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
A Time Capsule Revisited: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984-2017)
GMoMA Collection Highlights, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Beautiful World, Where Are You?, Liverpool Biennial 2018, Tate Liverpool, UK
Generations: Künstlerinnen im Dialog Part 1, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Sydney Biennale, SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equalibrium and Engagement, Sydney, Australia
2017
Again and Against, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
The Trick Brain, Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
Junge Sammlungen 04: The Vague Space. Sammlung Christian Kaspar Schwarm, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Children’s Games, ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
WheredoIendandyoubegin – On Secularity, 9th Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), Göteborg, Sweden
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Jim Thompson Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Wither the Winds, The Malmö Art Academy, at the occasion of Lund University’s 350th Jubilee, Lundskonsthal, Lund, Sweden
Duett mit Künstlerin, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Wherever the Wind Carries, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Medusa – Bijoux et tabous, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
California-Pacific Triennial: Building As Ever, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, USA
MIDTOWN, organized by Maccarone, Salon 94 Design, and Salon 94, Lever House, New York, USA
Lesson Ø, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea
Duddell’s x Biennale of Sydney. Abstraction of the World, Duddell’s, Hong Kong, China
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Para Site, Hong Kong, China
Haegue Yang, mezzaterra11 – flat gallery, Belluno, Italy
Condo, dépendance at Maureen Paley, London, UK
2016
Heterotopias. Avant-gardes in Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and Aubette 1928, Strasbourg, France
Looks Good on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
The Grand Balcony, La Biennale de Montreal, 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, USA
Public to Private: Photography in Korean Art since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Idiosyncrasy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum, The Cáceres Visual Arts Centre, Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain
Presently, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Daily Formalism, Mabsociety, Shanghai, China
Yoko Ono: LUMIÈRE DE L’AUBE, The Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France
gerlach en koop, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
kurimanzutto travels to Jessica Silverman Gallery: from here to there, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2015
Mobile M+: Live Art, M+, Hong Kong, China
The Malady of Death: Écrire and Lire, commissioned by M+ for Mobile M+: Live Art, Hong Kong, China
The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,Australia
Office Space, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Remember Lidice, Edition Block, Berlin, Germany
La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
J’adore, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
Future Light, MAK – Austrian Museum for Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the collection, MoMA, New York, USA
As We Never Imagined: 50 Years of Art Making, STPI gallery, Singapore
After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
Temporary Permanent, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
Feminismen, Nordsternturm Videoart Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Suppleness and Rigidity – The Art of the Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah Biennale 12 , Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
360°: Die Rückkehr der Sammlung, Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2014
Music Palace contemporary Art and Music, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Double Life, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, ICA Boston, USA
The Great Acceleration, Taipei Biennial 2014, Taiwan
Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014, Seoul, Korea
Light Night, Wallspace, New York, USA
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, South Korea
Histories I – Works from the Serralves Collection, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else,
Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Salon distingué – Hausrat in guter Gesellschaft, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Germany
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
KUB Collection Showcase – New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
The Hawker, dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2013
I KnOw YoU, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Sammlung Haubrok bei Falckenberg – No Desaster, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
2012
Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, South Korea
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
Gertrude Contemporary Museum, Melbourne, Australia
Inside Out and from the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, USA
TBK, dépendence, Brussels, Belgium
Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
Urdaibai Art, the first biennial of art, nature and urbanism, Urdaibai Natural Reserve, Gernika, Bermeo, Spain
Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
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 Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
DLA Was / For You, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2011
City within the City, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea (travels to Gertrude Contemporary, Melburn, Australia, 2012)
The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, 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, Tokyo, Japan
D’un autre Monde, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
Kunst und Philosophie, n.b.k. – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, National Art School Gallery, Sydney, Australia
The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on Translatability, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, sweden (travels to Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim, Norway; SKMU, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway)
Folding: The Art of Simplicity, KCDF Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Open Days, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Nach Abschluss der Reise, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
A Wedding, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
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, South Korea
Workers Leaving the Workplace, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Urban Origami, PM Gallery & House, London, UK
The Pursuer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (traveled to: Garage CCC – Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia).
Oh! Masterpieces, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, South Korea
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, England
Self as disappearance, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, Germany
2009
Zeigen. Eine Audiotour durch 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, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Prague, Czech Republic (traveled to: Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)
Sequelism Part 3: Possible, Probable, or Preferable Futures, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Everything, then, passes between us, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (traveled to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA).
Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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, USA
Zeitblick. Ankäufe der Sammlung Zeitgenössische Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1998-2008, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Pontos de Vista, Galeria Mata, Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brasil
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Farewell to Post-Colonialism. The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
The Krautcho Club / In and Out of Place, Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany (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, USA
Global EurAsia, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
run run, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (commissioned by Glasgow International)
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, South 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
Potentials in Contemporary Art Practice, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Tomorrow, Artsonje Center & Kumho Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (traveled to: Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico)
Something Mr. C can’t have, KIAF, Coex Hall, Seoul, South Korea
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, South 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
dépendance at Galerie Neu, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Modelle für Morgen: Köln, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Mandla Reuter, Haegue Yang, 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, South 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, Netherlands
Como Viver Junto – How to Live Together, 27. Biennale São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Pigment Piano Marble, Maipú, Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-flux Video Rental, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 2006; Arthouse Texas, Texas, USA, 2006; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge / MA, USA, 2007; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France, 2007; CAMJAP, Lissabon, Portugal, 2008; and Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, 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, South Korea
D-Freezone. Site 2: Korean Express, in the frame of 5th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
This is not a Love Letter, Marronnier Art Center, Seoul, South 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), Seoul, South Korea
Chasm, 3rd Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea
Mix Max, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
2003
From Dust to Dusk – International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Make It New, Portikus in Kooperation mit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Demirrorized Zone, de Appel, Amsterdam, 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 a.M., Germany
P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
New Tendencies in Korean Art: Paradise Among Us, Marronnier Art Center (currently: Arko Art Center), Seoul, South Korea
BLINK, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Kunstpreis der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Ssamzie Studio 3, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, South 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, South Korea
We’re not here to give you pleasure, rraum 02, Frankfurt a.M., 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
Tirana Biennale 1: Escape, Tirana, Albania
Zu Gast, Bellevue-Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany
Frankfurter Kreuz: Transformationen des Alltäglichen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Lunchtime of Necktie Force, The Posco Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2000
Art or Design, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, South Korea
Café Helga & Galerie Goldankauf, Kunstraum München, Munich, Germany
Anno Zero, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
1998
Gegendarstellung, Manufaktur, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Stuttgart, 17.7.1956 – Salem (Wis.)/USA, 3.3.1977, Portikus, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Seoul in Media: Food, Clothing, Shelter, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Where I Am, Lisbon World Exposition, Galeria Municipal da Mitra, Lisbon, Portugal
I-20, with Caroline Krause, Galerie Konstantin Adamopoulos, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
2022
13th Benesse Prize, Singapore
2018
The Republic of Korea Cultural and Arts Award (Presidential Citation) in the Visual Arts Sector, South Korea
Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Germany
2015
Public Art Competition for Malmö Live, Sweden
2008
Cremer Prize awarded by the Stiftung Sammlung Cremer, Germany
2007
Bâloise Art Prize awarded by the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
AmorePacific Museum of Art, Yongin, South Korea
Bristol’s Museums, Galleries & Archives, Bristol, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Explum, Murcia, Spain
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Halle an der Saale, Germany
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
M+, Hong Kong, China
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin, DEQueensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South KoreaSerralves Foundation, Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, Portugal
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tate Collection, London, UK
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK