Haegue Yang: Star-Crossed Rendezvous

MOCA and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are teaming up for a special partnership that brings art and music into conversation. This project explores the creative connection between world-renowned visual artist Haegue Yang and the legendary composer Isang Yun, blending their two worlds into one immersive experience.

You can experience this collaboration across two iconic Los Angeles locations.

Haegue Yang is a South Korean contemporary artist known for her sensory, conceptual installations that blend abstraction with everyday objects.

Born in 1971 and based in Berlin and Seoul, she works across sculpture, installation, video, and text.

Yang often uses industrial materials such as Venetian blinds, light bulbs, fans, and drying racks, transforming them into poetic and immersive environments.

Her work explores themes of migration, identity, political history, and emotional states, often through subtle references rather than direct statements.

She is especially interested in how art can activate smell, sound, movement, and tactility, expanding perception beyond the visual.

Haegue Yang has exhibited at major institutions including Tate Modern, MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and the Venice Biennale.

Today, she is considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary installation art, bridging minimalism, craft, and conceptual rigor.