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The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, director Youn Bummo), is pleased to announces an upcoming solo exhibition of Haegue Yang for the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020. Known for her hybrid sculptures and large-scale abstract installations that interweave global narratives with industrially manufactured, domestic, and folkloric materials, Yang addresses themes that recur in her work such as the relationship between narration and abstraction, domesticity, migration, and borders.

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Based in Seoul and Berlin, Haegue Yang (b.1971, Seoul) has developed an expansive body of work since the 1990s and is a professor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, her alma mater. She has participated in international art exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and Documenta 13. An acclaimed contemporary artist, Yang’s work has been exhibited and acquired by renowned museums including the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ludwig, MoMA, and Tate Modern. In 2018, she won the Korean Culture and Arts Award (presidential commendation) and was the first Asian female artist to be honored with the Wolfgang Hahn Prize.

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MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2020 will be held at MMCA Seoul from Saturday, 29 August 2020, through Sunday, 17 January 2021, presenting approximately forty works, which encompass a variety of installations, sculptures, and paintings. Within the framework of this exhibition, a scholarly anthology, “Separating and Binding: A Collection of Writings on Haegue Yang, 2001–2020”, will be published prior to the exhibition in collaboration with Hyunsilmunhwa, containing over thirty pieces of articles, conversations, and essays. This anthology will offer connoisseurs, academic researchers, and the wider public a comprehensive insight into Haegue Yang’s oeuvre.

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