Haegue Yang


Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Version Cologne, 2007

Statthaus, Steinfelder Gasse 33, 24h visible through window, access Mon 4:30–6:30 pm
, Thu 2:00–4:00 pm

For “Models for Tomorrow: Cologne,” Korean artist Haegue Yang (*1971) has set up a light installation in a foyer in an agency that offers temporary housing for its clients. The darkened lights oscillate in an inbetween space, where they 
are neither practical lighting 
for a space, nor do they remain entirely self-referential. Yang’s work, “Series of Vulnerable Arrangements – Version Cologne,” focuses the eye on light itself 
and its primordial significance: making things visible. At the same time, as an optical phenomenon, light draws attention to itself – 
it has an alluring aura, so to speak.
The illuminated phenomenon 
has a double meaning subtly smoldering below the surface 
of the visible, and in it the artist discovers an analogy to the state of communities and the invisible webs of relationships into which individuals are woven. Yang’s answer to the question of how to redefine the characteristics of 
a new Kunsthalle is an open field of associations that revolves around both the sensual function of light and its ability to make things visible.