Haegue Yang: Leap Year

The Hayward Gallery presents Leap Year, the first major survey of the internationally celebrated South Korean artist Haegue Yang.

Haegue Yang’s work spans a vast range of media – from paper collage to performative sculpture, immense sensorial installations and most famously, mesmerising installations made from Venetian blinds.

Featuring major new commissions and productions, this exhibition also spotlights key works from some of Yang’s most notable series, including Light Sculptures and Sonic Sculptures.

Talking to Ocula magazine, Yang explained that she sees her practice as “something actual, something to experience, not necessarily to understand”.  For this intriguing survey show, she says “I deliberately unfocused my eyes to obtain the hidden 3D vision of my own practice, which is a rare, perfect occurrence like a leap year”.

Yang’s work combines visual and sensory experiences through installation, sculpture, collage, text, video, wallpaper and sound. Her wide-ranging inspiration draws on East Asian traditions and folklore, modernism, contemporary art history and nature, while the techniques and materials she uses are just as eclectic including everything from drying racks and light bulbs to pom poms and hanji (Korean paper).

Known for constructing ‘multisensory environments that encourage perception beyond the visual’ her exhibitions often become immersive experiences, exploring issues of labour, migration, and displacement.

Hayward Gallery guided tours

Throughout the run of this exhibition, on Wednesdays and Saturdays visitors can join in guided tours led by the gallery's own team of guides. These exhibition walkabouts bring a whole new level of insight into the rich variety of works on display. On Wednesday mornings, tours are followed by a Cafe Conversation, where the guide stays to chat to visitors in the Hayward Gallery Cafe.

All tours are included in the ticket admission price!

Saturday tours at 5pm (spotlight tour) and 6pm (main tour):
October: Sat 26
November: Sat 2, Sat 9, Sat 16, Sat 23 & Sat 30
December: Sat 7, Sat 14, Sat 21 & Sat 28
January: Sat 4

Wednesdays tours at 11am: 
October: Wed 30
November: Wed 6, Wed 13, Wed 16 & Wed 23
December: Wed 4, Wed 11 & Wed 18