Haegue Yang 양혜규 梁慧圭 / Leap Year, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, 2025

The exhibition, Leap Year conveys this tension: the discomfort of navigating diverse cultural contexts is felt alongside the resilience and adaptation, and the ongoing processes of observation, learning and unlearning that characterise her peripatetic life. Throughout her prolific and expressive productions, Yang, however, remains somewhat enigmatic, offering only glimpses into possible links to her Korean heritage or extensive research. Her resulting exhibitions often endow presence to the space, filled with inquiry and the potentiality of discovery.
This survey exhibition is divided into four core themes: movement, spirituality, community, and domesticity. In Yang’s work, the theme of movement is associated with transitory experiences timely, physically, emotionally, and sociopolitically.

Video: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst