Haegue Yang: Continuous Reenactments

Haegue Yang, Handles, 2019. Installation view of Moved by Schlemmer. 100 Years of Triadic Ballet, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Studio Haegue Yang.

Haegue Yang, Chained Half Moon – Trustworthy #258, 2015. Installation view of Haegue Yang: Several Reenactments, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2023. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Martin Corlazzoli.

Haegue Yang, Sonic Droplets – Steel Buds, commissioned by Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022. Courtesy of Kukje Gallery. Photo: Kochi Biennale Foundation.

HAM Helsinki Art Museum is delighted to present Haegue Yang’s first solo exhibition in Finland. Occupying HAM’s two main exhibition halls, Continuous Reenactments will offer a profound insight into Yang’s prolific and virtuosic works.

For HAM’s main exhibition halls, Yang builds an enthralling arena with sonic and performative elements to examine the concepts of recurrence and reenactment. Manifested through symmetric and asymmetric pairs, complementing duos, and interconnected groups of artworks, Yang investigates the ideas of doubling, mirroring, and reiterating, hereby pairing and juxtaposing seemingly oppositional notions such as abstraction and figuration, domesticity and public, revealing their inseparability.

Curators: Kati Kivinen (IKT Member) & Sanna Tuulikangas

On view: 24 November 2023 - April 2024

The exhibition is realised in partnership with S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium and is supported by the Finnish Heritage Agency.