Double Soul
March 5, 2022 – July 31, 2022
SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Installation view of Double Soul, SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022
Photo: Jan Søndergaard and Anders Sune Berg
Video: Barsk Projects, Studio Haegue Yang
Press Release
In the spring of 2022, SMK (The National Gallery of Denmark) will host the first-ever solo presentation in Denmark of the internationally acclaimed South Korean artist Haegue Yang. Her distinctive and pluralistic worlds, expressed in works that engage all the senses, often engage with notions of movement and trajectories. The exhibition Haegue Yang: Double Soul presents a range of Yang’s original and multi-faceted works, including a sixteen-metre high suspended kinetic piece made of blinds, creature-like sculptures covered in bells, sound and text pieces, drying racks embellished with electric light bulbs and much more.
An extensive selection of works from 1994 to 2020 will be on view in this show alongside new pieces commissioned by SMK, such as a sculpture duo, Sonic Intermediates – Double Soul, inspired by the work and life of two pioneering artists in the SMK collection, Pia Arke (1958–2007) and Sonja Ferlov Mancoba (1911–1984), who, each in their own way, resonate with Yang’s artistic explorations and subjective mapping of modernities.
Preoccupied with countering reductive categorisations, Yang focuses on the entangled relations between folklore and contemporary culture, industrial manufacturing and craft, the factual and the imaginary, the quotidian and the exceptional as well as vulnerability and confidence among other seemingly oppositional and disparate ideas.
Exhibition guide
Haegue Yang: Double Soul, 2022
ed. by
Marianne Torp and Karen Ormstrup Søndergaard
Design by Anni's
Published by SMK National Gallery of Denmark
English, Danish, 26 pages
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Exhibited Works
A Chronology of Conflated Dispersion – Duras and Yun, 2018 -
Anthology of Haegue Archives, 1998 -
Bathroom Contemplation, 2000 -
Blond Hair / Black Hair (dyed), 1995 -
Bottle with Pasta above the Door, 1995/2017 -
IKEA Cup as a Self-Portrait,1995/2018 -
Lacquer Paintings, 1999-2000/2011-
Blade Notations – Fission Path, 2019
Blade Notations – Splinter and Float II, 2019
Steely Starburst, 2018
The Days of Being Wild, 2015–2017
One Fine Spring Day, 2015–2017
A Baggy Pair in Rain – German Zucchini, 500 g and Dutch Red Onions, 1 kg, 2018
Cosmic Stretch on Ring – Limes, 250 g, 2018
Untitled, 2000
Airy Creases, 2016
Rainy Chili, 2011
Rainy Dirty, 2012
Messy and Drifty Message, 2016
Thick Dirt, 2016
Expandable Escape – Lemons, 250 g, 2018
Frazzled in Brief – Organic Spanish Oranges, 1 kg, 2018
Macaroni (Candele Lunghe), 1995/2017 -
Multiple Mourning Room, 2012 -
Mundus Cushion – Yielding X, 2020
Non-Indépliables, Nues, 2010 -
Practicing Baking, 1995/2017 -
Sonic Intermediate – Six-Fingered Wayfarer after Arke
Sonic Intermediate – Tripodal Shapeshifter after Ferlov Mancoba
Silo of Silence – Clicked Core, 2017 -
Sonic Celestial Rope – Iridescent Dodecagon Tight Curl
Sonic Celestial Rope – Iridescent Dodecagon Straight Weave
Sonic Celestial Rope – Iridescent Dodecagon Loose Curl
Sonic Rotating Whatever Openings, 2021-
Sonic Rotating Whatever Openings on Hemisphere #3, 2021
Sonic Rotating Whatever Openings on Hemisphere #7, 2021
The Art and Craft of the Menu, 1995 -
The Intermediate – Ceremonial Peacock Ball, 2015
The Intermediate – Ceremonial Pom-Pom Ball, 2015
The Intermediate – Psychic Turbine Vents Ball, 2017
The Story of a Bear-Lady in a Sand Cave, 2009/2011 -
Umbra Creatures by Rockhole, 2017-2018 -
Vita Cushion – Yielding S, 2020