Hayward Gallery

02/01/2025

Your view of our gallery 🤳💛 The final weekend of Haegue Yang: Leap Year is coming up! Get your ticket before the exhibition closes on Sun 5 Jan.

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27/12/2024

Who's back to work today? 📝 In Haegue Yang’s Practising Profession series, photographs feature her playing the role of a ‘professional’ artist, dressed in a work costume of her own design.

She reflects her strong commitment to her job as an artist by depicting the efforts she makes to travel to a public art gallery every day on crutches or on her bicycle 🚴

This performance critiques the the banality of societal norms and superficial professional work culture through an unusual portrayal of herself at a moment when she was yet to be recognised as a professional artist.

What does your job mean to you?

📸 See these images and so much more at Haegue Yang: Leap year until 5 Jan

18/12/2024

Can anyone really own a colour? 💙💬 International Klein Blue was a colour developed in 1954 by French artist Yves Klein in collaboration with Edouard Adam, a Parisian art paint supplier.

International Klein Blue or IKB is a particular mix of ultramarine pigment and a specific synthetic resin binder that gives it an intense blue colour. Although by law, no one can appropriate a colour, Klein Blue paint isn’t for sale!

In Haegue’s work Quasi Klein Blue, a group vote from our Hayward Gallery staff determined the colour that our gallery wall would be painted to represent the iconic blue. None of the options were the original Klein, the colour on our wall instead reflects the differing and subjective views of our team!

🎨 Tell us which colour you would pick as International Klein Blue in the comments

13/12/2024

What does it look like when you create a sculpture out of something you see every day? 🔨 Artist Haegue Yang's Appliance Sculpture series are abstracted recreations of household appliances.

Boilers, stoves and radiators are presented as steel framed outlines with Venetian blind facades that conceal lightbulbs and cables.

💡 The lights allude to the heat-generating nature of these appliances while illuminating the possibility of the home as an incubator for radical and provocative ideas.

📅 See these gorgeous sculptures and so much more at Haegue Yang: Leap Year

12/12/2024

Kids react to the art of Haegue Yang 🤭 To get a different perspective on the art of Haegue Yang we invited four children to lead us on a tour of our current exhibition, Leap Year.

In the company of Assistant Curator Suzanna Petot, our four young art explorers move through the gallery interacting with Yang’s works including her woven sculpture series, The Intermediates (‘they kind of look like houses… like a cat would live in’), and Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (‘like a staircase of colours’) which was specially commissioned for this exhibition.

As they move through the exhibition the young quartet get an understanding of Yang’s artistry and the reasons behind her approaches and methods.

📆 Haegue Yang: Leap Year is at the Hayward Gallery until 5 January 2025

06/12/2024

The best place to see free art in London 👀 Our free exhibition Waves by Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia.

Huang tells stories from the 1960s to the present day against a backdrop of migration and trade using video installation, photography and sculpture. He even addresses the role that his own artistic production plays within this system of global capitalism.

📍 Pop into the HENI Project Space for FREE! The entrance is to the right in the Hayward Gallery foyer.

02/12/2024

'...a disparate, sometimes disorientating, tapestry of life'

🗞️ Read The World of Interiors' full take on our current exhibition:

A dynamic and sensorily stimulating showcase, the exhibition combines new works and snapshots of past projects for a fulsome exploration of the South Korean artist’s corpus

29/11/2024

Have you discovered this piece of art that contains poisonous tree seeds? ⚠️🌳 During a stay in Villeperdue, France, Yang made this work using locally sourced materials such as secondhand furnishings and craft objects.

The woven basket bird cages in this piece, titled Dry Spell at Villeperdue, are fused together and decorated with artificial flowers, reflecting the artist’s interest in visual puzzles that are created when juxtaposing handmade items with mass-produced objects.

This tree-like sculpture contains a number of non-native seed pods from France including poisonous su***de tree seeds, which are originally found in South Asia and the South Pacific. Their presence here points towards colonial history and the reaches of globalised trade.

Haegue Yang: Leap Year is supported by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
📅 Exhibition open until 5 Jan 2025
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

25/11/2024

Huang Po-Chih's free show in our HENI Project Space uses the personal narratives of workers to investigate globalised trade, with a focus on the textile industry in East Asia.

🗞️ Read Elephant Magazine's conversation with the Taiwanese artist:

On View 15 Oct 2024 The Art of Collaboration with Huang Po-Chih Share X WhatsApp Facebook Instagram Pinterest Sam Moore describes his conversation with artist Huang Po-Chih about his new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, and what it means to be a “collaborator” with his subjects.  Bl...

22/11/2024

The sacred and the secular are always hand in hand, according to Haegue Yang 🕯️🤲 As with many of her works, Site Cube #2 reflects Yang’s fascination in the oscillations that occur between disparate worlds and faiths.

Made of perforated metal walls, Site Cube #2 has a classical minimalistic design, but like an altar or shrine, it contains glass vases and candles.

Yang’s thoughtful contrast of inner and outer appearances in this work seems reminiscent of her use of venetian blinds, which can demarcate space whilst also remaining permeable to light and air

💭 What does this piece make you think of?

Haegue Yang: Leap Year is supported by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
Tickets via link in bio.

18/11/2024

10 London art exhibitions that you don't want to miss by Livingetc!

Take a look at who's at number 2 👀

From folklore-inspired explorations of home and "big ware" sculptures taking over Kew Gardens to a much-anticipated Tim Burton retrospective, these are the London events you shouldn't miss in November

16/11/2024

Frank Auerbach, one of the most influential painters of the 20th century known for his signature style of thick layers of paint, died peacefully at age 93. We held his first retrospective in 1978 which led to curator Catherine Lampert becoming one of his regular sitters 🤍

"In the wake of his recent death, Frank Auerbach (1931-2024) is being deservedly celebrated as one of the great post-war painters of the 20th century, whose very first retrospective -- at a time when he was not yet widely renown - was presented at the Hayward Gallery in 1978. A review in the Financial Times described the exhibition as "a dense, weighty and ultimately triumphant demonstration of painting at its most concentrated and profound.”' Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery Director

📸 Installation Images from Frank Auerbach’s Hayward Gallery exhibition (4 May - 2 July 1978) Photo credit: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

16/11/2024

Frank Auerbach, one of the most influential painters of the 20th century known for his signature style of thick layers of paint, died peacefully at age 93. We held his first retrospective in 1978 which led to curator Catherine Lampert becoming one of his regular sitters 🤍

"In the wake of his recent death, Frank Auerbach (1931-2024) is being deservedly celebrated as one of the great post-war painters of the 20th century, whose very first retrospective -- at a time when he was not yet widely renown - was presented at the Hayward Gallery in 1978. A review in the Financial Times described the exhibition as "a dense, weighty and ultimately triumphant demonstration of painting at its most concentrated and profound.”' Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery Director

📸 Installation Images from Frank Auerbach’s Hayward Gallery exhibition (4 May - 2 July 1978) Photo credit: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

15/11/2024

Discover the socially marginalised folk traditions that have survived despite their suppression in modern societies ✂️📜

Hague Yang’s interest in paper cutting traditions began when she was stuck in Seoul during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taking the opportunity to devote herself to research, she set about studying practices of shamanic paper folding and cutting.

Haegue Yang’s ongoing Mesmerizing Mesh series slowly formed out of her investigations into these indigenous traditions and the ritualistic power associated with them. She works with hanji, a traditional paper made from the inner bark of mulberry trees which is widely used for fabricating ritual objects in Korean shamanism. She often also incorporates washi, graph and origami paper into these densely layered collages, connecting the idea of something being bewitching or dizzying with abstraction.

The wooden shrine-like frames installed around the Mesmerizing Mesh collages echo the architectural elements and adornments found in spiritual buildings and structures across the world. This display approach of ‘enshrinement’ was inspired by the shamanistic home altars of the Hmong people from South East Asia 🪵

Haegue Yang: Leap Year is supported by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
📅 Exhibition open until 5 Jan 2025
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

11/11/2024

'Yang’s work suggests that art, too, has the power to bridge divides and foster empathy, breaking down barriers between cultures' 💛

Read The Conversation UK's piece on Haegue Yang's 'bold and diverse' show:

Contemporary and folk art traditions collide in this whimsical and thoughtful exhibition

09/11/2024

It's Go to an Art Museum Day! 🎨🏛️ Have you planned your trip to one yet?

Our world-renowned contemporary art gallery is the perfect place to find inspiration this weekend. Make sure to tag us in any pictures you share!

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08/11/2024

Have you spotted these moving artworks in action yet? 🛞💨 One of our galleries is focused on artist Haegue Yang’s ongoing effort to conceptualise and visualise movement.

Sculptures like this one, Sonic Dress Vehicle – Hulky Head, are equipped with castor wheels and handlebars. They are dressed like figurative vehicles, ready to be activated by our trained facilitators.

👀 If you look closely, you’ll also spot a map on the floor detailing the sculptures’ journeys when they’re not being moved around.

Combining shapes and materials that reference folk traditions, modernist histories and globalised trade, the artist suggests a parallel with cultural histories and identities, which may also be evolving, adapting and moving.

Haegue Yang: Leap Year is supported by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.
Tickets via link in bio.

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04/11/2024

Get to know the South Korean artists that are making waves across London right now! 🇰🇷

This piece by The Chosun Daily highlights our exhibition Haegue Yang: Leap Year as part of an exciting round-up of major museums and galleries who are showing both established figures and emerging talents from South Korea ➡️

South Korean artists shine in Londons art scene Solo exhibitions of S. Korean artists make waves across Londons galleries