The Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Series: Haegue Yang

Join us for an engaging conversation with acclaimed artist Haegue Yang, presented as part of the Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series at Otis College. Yang will highlight three of her works—Mountains of Encounter (2008), Lethal Love (2008), and Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (2024)—which were influenced by the biographies of Petra Kelly, Marguerite Duras, Isang Yun, and others, and explore how singular lives can embody broader historical and cultural conditions. By juxtaposing concrete narratives with an abstract visual and sensorial language, her practice transforms biography into a lens for reading geopolitics.

About Haegue Yang:

Haegue Yang (b. 1971, Seoul) currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul and teaches at Staedelschule, her alma mater. A prolific artist known for her versatile works ranging from room-scaled installations and performative sculptures, to paper collages and staged performances, Yang recently had solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthal Rotterdam (2025), Hayward Gallery, London (2024), and Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023). In 2018, Yang won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize at Ludwig Museum in Cologne and in 2022 was awarded the 13th Benesse Prize during the Singapore Biennale. Her work is represented in prominent institutional collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.

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