Haegue Yang to Deliver Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture at Otis College
Yang’s survey show, Leap Year, touring from Hayward Gallery, London, is currently on view at the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland.
Otis College of Art and Design’s Undergraduate Fine Arts Department presents the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture, “Learning and Unlearning Narratives: A Conversation with Haegue Yang,” on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Yang will engage in a discussion of her work, highlighting three key pieces: Mountains of Encounter (2008), Lethal Love (2008), and Star-Crossed Rendezvous after Yun (2024). Each work draws from the lives of figures such as Petra Kelly, Marguerite Duras, and Isang Yun, exploring how individual stories reflect broader historical and cultural conditions. By juxtaposing concrete narratives with an abstract visual and sensorial language, her practice transforms biography into a lens for reading geopolitics.
The event will be held in The Forum on Otis College’s campus at 9045 Lincoln Boulevard in Los Angeles, as well as livestreamed for those unable to attend in person. Registration is now open for both in-person and virtual versions of the event, which is free and open to the public.
During her visit, Yang will also spend time engaging with Otis students and their work. This intimate engagement between visiting artists and students is a distinctive hallmark of Otis’s Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture series.
About Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul and Berlin and currently
teaches at her alma mater, the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Spanning
a vast range of media—from collage to kinetic sculpture and room-scaled installations—Yang’s
work links disparate histories and traditions in a visual idiom all her own. The artist
draws on a variety of craft techniques and materials and the cultural connotations
they carry: from drying racks to Venetian blinds, hanji paper to artificial straw.
She is known for her multisensory environments that activate perception beyond the
visual, creating immersive experiences that treat issues such as labor, migration,
and displacement from the oblique vantage of the aesthetic.
A recipient of the Wolfgang Hahn Prize in 2018 and the 13th Benesse Prize at the Singapore Biennale in 2022, Yang has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at museums around the world, including Helsinki Art Museum (2024), Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2023), SMK–National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen (2022); the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2020); Tate St Ives, United Kingdom (2020); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (2020); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2019); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2018); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); and the Korean Pavilion of the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009).
Yang’s survey show Leap Year, touring from Hayward Gallery, London, is currently on view at the Migros Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. Her solo exhibition, Quasi-Heartland, is on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis through February 2026.
About the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series
Funded through a generous gift from Mandy and Cliff Einstein, the Mandy and Cliff Einstein Visiting Artist Lecture Series provides Otis College students an opportunity to learn and engage directly with major figures in the art world today. Invited artists spend time with Otis students and give a free public lecture. Past guests have included Doug Aitken, Dawoud Bey, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Theaster Gates, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Edgar Heap of Birds, Shirin Neshat, Jeffrey Vallance, Kara Walker, Zoe Whitley, and Anicka Yi.
