Education
1999 Master of Sculpture, Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste
1994 Meisterschüler, Sculpture, Seoul National University
Career
Solo exhibition
2017 Ornament and Abstraction, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
2016 Quasi-Pagan Seasonal Shift, Aishti by the Sea, Antelias Lebanon
2016 Quasi-Pagan Modern, Galeries Lafayette Hausmann, Paris, France
2016 Lingering Nous, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
2016 An Opaque Wind Park in Six Folds, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2016 Quasi-Pagan Serial, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Quasi-Pagan Minimal , Greene Naftali, New York , United States
2015 Come Shower or Shine, It Is Equally BlissfulUrban, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art Beijing, China
2015 “Temporary Permanent”, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2015 Sample Book, dependence, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Shooting the Elephant Elephant Thinking the Elephant, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Follies, mehrfach: Gabriel Lester ? Haegue Yang, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
2013 Anachronistic Layers of Dispersion , Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
2013 Honesty Printed on Modesty , Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2013 Journal of Echomimetic Motions , Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2013 Journal of Bouba / kiki, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, Scotland
2013 Corrugated Totems with Glitter Dance , Vitrines sur l'Art (Museums of Strasbourg) Galeries Lafayette, Strasbourg, France
2013 Family of Equivo Strasbourg, Aubette 1928 and Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg, France
2013 Ovals and Circles, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2013 Art Wall: Haegue Yang, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2012 The First Annual Art Commission, Haus der Kunst Munchen, Munich, Germany *
2012 A Little Opened, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2012 The Tank; Art in Action, Tate Modern, London, UK
2012 Haegue Yang - Rolling Cozy , Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp, Cully, Switzerland
2012 Multi Faith Room, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2012 Yang Hae-gyu, Rivane Neuenschwander 2 Artists, Overbek Association, Lubeck, Germany
2011 Escaping Things and Words, Haegue Yang, Rivane Neuenschwander, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2011 “The Art and Technique of Folding the Land”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
2011 The Sea Wall, Felix Gonzalez Torres 2 Artists, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2011 Teacher of Dance, Oxford Museum of Art (MAO), Oxford, UK
2011 Arrivals Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2010 Voice and Wind, New Museum, New York
2011 Voice Over Three, Art Seonnje Center, Seoul
2011 Closures, Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2009 Condensation, The 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2009 Integrity of the Insider , Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2008 Asymmetric Equality , Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Siblings and Twins , Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
2008 Symmetric Inequality , Sala Recalde, Bilbao, Spain
2008 Lethal Love , Cubitt gallery, London, UK
2007 Remote Room, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2007 Baloise Prize, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
2007 Foxed in the Forest, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Unpacking Storage Piece, Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
2007 Statement, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2006 Unevenly, Modern Art Center (BAK), Utrecht, Netherlands
2006 Sadong 30th, Incheon
2005 Cremer Prize, Westphalia Museum of Art, Munich, Germany
2004 Kasse, Shop, Kino und Weiteres, Hessenju State Museum of Art, Darmstadt, Germany
2004 Unfolding, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium
2004 Storage Piece, Gallery Lawrence O'Hana, London, UK
2004 Unfolding Places, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2003 Unrealistic to generalise, Publick, Paris, France
2002 Air and Water, Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
2001 Sonderfarben, Darmstadt Municipal Museum of Art, Darmstadt, Germany
2001 Richard-Meier-Avenue, Siemens Art Program, Munich, Germany
2001 AStA VIPs, VIP Lounge, Art Forum, Berlin, Germany
2000 Lacquer Paintings 2000, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany
2000 Approval and Negation, Galerie Kolster, Galerie Kolster, Frankfurt, Germany
2000 Blue Meadow - Colored Language, Kunstlerhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
1999 Hamburgefonstiv, 1822 Forum der Frankfurter Sparkasse, Frankfurt, Germany
1995 rraum, Frankfurt, Germany
Group exhibition
2017 Lesson Ø, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
2017 Duddell’s x Biennale of Sydney. Abstraction of the World, Frankfurt, Germany Duddell's, Hong Kong, China
2017 Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Parasitic , Hong Kong, China
2017 Yang Hae Gyu, mezzaterra11- Flat Gallery, Belluno, Italy
2017 Condo, Invitation to Dependance, Maureen Paley, London, UK
2016 Hantotopias. Avant-gardes in Contemporary Art, Duddell’s x Biennale of Sydney. Abstraction of the World, Strasbourg, France
2016 Looks Good on Paper, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2016 The Grand Balcony, Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada
2016 AD Interieurs, a l'Univers des collectionneurs , La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
2016 Das Loch, Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2016 East-West symposium, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2016 Exquisite Corpse, Galerie Chantal Crousel, The Mistake Room Interchange, The Mistake Room Angeles, LA, USA
2016 very public very private: Since 1989, South Korea contemporary art pictures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul,
2016 Idiosyncrasy: Anchovies Dream of an Olive Mausoleum, Centro de Artes Visuales, Fundacion Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
2016 Presently , Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2016 Daily Formalism, Mabsociety, Shanghai, China
2016 Yoko Ono: LUMIERE DE L' AUBE, Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art, France
2016 gerlach en koop, Bonnefantenmuseum Mastricht, Mastricht, Netherlands
2016 Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2016 Kurimanzutto travels to Jessica Silverman Gallery: from here to there Jessica Silverman Gallery Bombay Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2015 Mobile M +: Live Art, M +, Hong Kong, China
2015 The Eighth Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT8), The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
2015 Paradox of Place: Contemporary Korean Art, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2015 La vie moderne, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France *
2015 Remember Lidice, Edition Block GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2015 J'adore, Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2015 Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
2015As We Never Imagined: 50 Years of Art Making, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2015 After Babel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden *
2015 Future Light, Vienna Biennale 2015 (MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/ Contemporary Art, in the frame of Vienna Biennale 2015: Ideas for Change, Vienna, Austria
2015 Absolute Collection Guideline, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2015 Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, NY, USA
2015 Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2015 Feminismen, Nordsternturm Videoart Center, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2015Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
2015 Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible , The 12th Sharjah Biennale, Sharjah, Arab Emirates
2015 Fit for Purpose , Kunsthaus Glarus, Glaros, Switzerland
2015 About Color - Eine Ausstellung zur Faszination der Farbe, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014 Double Life, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA
2014 Collage Art - Weaving Stories Blending Images , Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
2014 Einknicken oder Kante zeigen - Die Kunst der Faltung, MKK Ingolstadt, Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freibrug, Germany
2014 Eine Ausstellung zur Faszination der Farbe, Kunstraum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014 Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present, ICA Boston, Boston, USA, Wexner Center for the Arts
2014 Music Palace: The Power of Music seen by Visual Artists, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium *
2014 The Great Acceleration, Taipei Biennial 2014, Taiwan
2014 Ghosts, Spies and Grandmothers, SeMA Biennale Media SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul, Seoul *
2014 Light Night, Wallspace, New York, USA
2014 Do not you know who I am? Art after Identity Politics, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium *
2014 Design Exhibition: Objectology-Design and Art , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
2014 History I - Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
2014 The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014 Elegant Salon?, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014 Salon distingue - Hausrat in guter Gesellschaft, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
2014 The distance between you and me, Fahrbereitschaft, Haubrok Projects), Berlin, Germany
2014 Man in the Mirror, Van haerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2014 KUB Collection Showcase - New Acquisitions from Ai Weiwei to Zobernig, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2014 The Hawker, Dependance at Carlos / Ishikawa , London, UK
2013 Confusion in the Vault, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 Nachbilder, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2013 The Tyranny of Objects, Galerie des Galeries, Paris, France
2013 You promised me, and you said a lie to me, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013 Echo Release, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
2013 Coming to Terms, Jackman Humanities Institute, Toronto, Canada
2013 The Power of the Unknown - Gestures beyond Surfaces , Tophane-I Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Dog Days II , MOT International, London, UK
2013 Utopie beginnt im Kleinen, Kleinplastik Triennial, Fellbach, Germany
2013 The Collection, 2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2013 Who is Alice?, Spazio Lightbox, Kannarezo 3831, Venice, Italy
2013 15 for 150: 15 contemporary artists mark 150 years of the Tube, London Underground, London, UK
2013 Vielleicht sehe ich auch zu tief in die Dinge hinein, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Rubec, Germany
2013 I KNOW YOU, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, England
2013 Vom Eigensinn der Dinge, KAI 10/ Raum fur Kunst. Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany
2013 The Order of Things: Cinematic Moments, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2013 Nur hier. Sammlung zeitgenossischer Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Eine Auswahl der Ankaufe von 2007 bis 2011, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
2013 How to write I, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2013 The Grand Domestic Revolution GOES ON, Centre for Contemporary Art, traveled to City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2013 New & Now , Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 No Border, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
2012 Dislocation, Daegu Museum of Art, Daegu
2012Lieber Aby Warburg. Was tun mit Bildern, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany *
2012 360 °: Die Ruckkehr der Sammlung, Stiftung Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2012 Magical reality , National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
2012 West China Art Biennale, Tianye Museum of Art, Euncheon, China
2012 Inside Out and from the Ground Up, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, USA
2012 No Disaster, Collection Falkenberg, Hamburg, Germany
2012 The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on Translatability, Sorandet Museum of Art, Kristiansand, Norway
2012 Collection, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 15 Years of Hyundai Galelry, Hyundai Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2012 City within the city, the Gertrude Contemporary Museum, Melbourne, Australia
2012 If There Would be a Face, This Would Be a Cat, Dependence, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Interieur jour, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2012 The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2012 Sense and Sustainability, Urdu Bi Art,
2012 Urban Nature Reserve, Guernica, Vermeo, Spain *
2012 Troubling Space: The Summer Sessions, The Zabludowicz Collection, London
2012 Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2012 Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
2012 dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany
2012 Orchesterwechsel - 10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Schloss Dyck, Germany
2012 An Exhibition of a Study on Knowledge , Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2012 The Touch of Life, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2012 Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Spain
2012 How Physical, Evis Video Festival, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012 DLA Was / For You, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2011 City within the City, Art sonje Center, Seoul
2011 The Grand Domestic Revolution - User’s Manual, Casco - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, Netherlands
2011 Monument Valley (Jaegerspris revisited - a Hommage to Johannes Wiedewelt), UFO, Berlin, Germany
2011 Berlin 2000-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2011 D'un autre Monde, Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France 2011 Kunst und Philosophie, nbk, Berlin, Germany
2011 Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea *
2011 The Spiral and the Square. Exercises on Translatability, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Folding: The Art of Simplicity, KCDF Gallery, Seoul *
2011 Open Days, Le Concoursum, Dijong, France
2011 Nach Abschluss der Reise, KW, Berlin, Germany
2011 A Wedding, Para / Site Art Space, Hong Kong, China
2011 Human Nature: Contemporary Art Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2011 Air Hole: Another Conceptualism from Asia, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
2010 Maninbo, The 8th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Born in Seoul, Korea in 1971. Activities in Berlin, Seoul
Currently, A Professor of Fine Arts, Germany Städelschule