Haegue Yang Lecture

Tue May 05 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

The Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program
Publisher/HostSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Visiting Artists Program
Haegue Yang Lecture
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Join us for a lecture by artist Haegue Yang followed by an audience Q&A.
Location: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fullerton Hall, 111 S. Michigan Ave.
Haegue Yang 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.
This event is free, non-ticketed and open to the general public.
Learn more at saic.edu/vap
This event will be live captioned by Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services. For additional access requests, visit saic.edu/access
Image Credit: Haegue Yang, Approaching: Choreography Engineered in Never-Past Tense, 2012, dOCUMENTA (13). Photo: Nils Klinger
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