Haegue Yang and the depth of museum collections
Published on 08/19/2026 at 12:29 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS
Haegue Yang has, over three decades, built a museum presence that stretches from Seoul to Los Angeles. Her installations and sculptures weave together industrial blinds, bells and domestic objects into complex environments that museums repeatedly place at the center of their programs.
Museum presence across continents
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles presented the focused exhibition Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous at MOCA Grand Avenue, running from February 24 to August 2, 2026, and centering on the large installation Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (2024) in dialogue with music by Isang Yun, as detailed by MOCA and related coverage.
In Zurich, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst hosted the touring survey Haegue Yang: Leap Year from September 27, 2025 to January 18, 2026, bringing together more than twenty years of her work alongside new commissions and concluding a European tour that previously stopped at Hayward Gallery in London and Kunsthal Rotterdam, as an exhibition report notes.
Collections and long-running displays
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul included Yang in the exhibition MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, on view from May 1, 2025 to May 3, 2026, embedding her works within a broader survey of recent Korean art, as a program overview describes.
In Rotterdam, Kunsthal Rotterdam mounted the retrospective Leap Year as the first major overview of Yang’s practice in the Netherlands, presenting a wide range of installations, sculptures, videos and audio works and highlighting how she animates blinds, drying racks and bells into choreographed ensembles.
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The work core in installation
Yang’s practice moves between room-sized installations, sculptural constellations and smaller assemblages, often combining venetian blinds, cables, fans, lamps and bells with traces of craft traditions, as documented in museum and institutional descriptions of her work.
Where the artist stands now
On balance, Haegue Yang’s work continues to circulate between European and North American institutions, with long-running retrospectives and focused presentations underpinning her position in international museum collections.
Haegue Yang at a glance
- Artist: Haegue Yang
- Medium / Genre: Installation and sculpture (conceptual)
- Born: 1971, Seoul, South Korea
- Place(s) of practice: Seoul and Berlin
- Active since: mid-1990s
- Key work groups: Dress Vehicles, Chandeliers, Ringing Studies, Sol LeWitt Upside Down
- Current/last exhibition: Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 24, 2026 – August 2, 2026
- Major collections: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Kunsthal Rotterdam (Rotterdam), Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst (Zurich)
- Awards: Wolfgang Hahn Prize 2018
- Next date: currently no announced date in the 30-day window
Frequently asked questions about Haegue Yang
Where has Haegue Yang recently exhibited in museums?
Recent institutional projects include the focused exhibition Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous at MOCA Grand Avenue in Los Angeles from February 24 to August 2, 2026, and the touring survey Leap Year at Migros Museum in Zurich through January 18, 2026.
What characterizes the installation Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun?
The large-scale installation Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (2024) uses venetian blinds, light, sound and structural elements to respond to the music of composer Isang Yun, forming the core of the MOCA Los Angeles exhibition program dedicated to Yang.
How does the exhibition Leap Year frame Yang’s career?
Leap Year functions as a retrospective, gathering two decades of installations, sculptures and new commissions, and traveling from Hayward Gallery in London to Kunsthal Rotterdam and Migros Museum in Zurich, where it concluded in early 2026.
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