Liverpool Biennale: Suki Seokyeong Kang, Haegue Yang

Liverpool Biennial and KCCUK have co-commissioned Suki Seokyeong Kang to produce a major new work for Liverpool Biennial 2018, consisting of installation, film and performance. Kang uses various media including painting, installation and video. Through movement and rhythm, Kang creates an environment that guides the direction for her painting. Her practice is situated between the abstract and figurative, the organic and geometric. She is interested in creating a visual language of balance and harmony, through which she seeks to portray the structure and order of various conditions that each individual faces in society.

Haegue Yang, also participating in the Biennial, will present a major new installation combining an exhibition of existing and new works. Yang’s practice spans a wide range of media, from paper collage to performative sculpture and large-scale multi-sensorial installation, often featuring everyday objects, in addition to labour-intensive woven sculptures. Articulated in her abstract visual vocabulary, her anthropomorphic sculptures often play with the notion of ‘the folk’ being a cultural idea, while also attempting to transcend it as being a mere tradition of specific cultures.

Liverpool Biennial is the UK biennial of contemporary art. Taking place over 15 weeks across the city in public spaces, galleries, museums and online, the Biennial commissions artists from around the world to make and present work in the context of Liverpool. The 10th edition Beautiful world, where are you? invites artists and audiences to reflect on a world in social, political and economic turmoil. Liverpool Biennial 2018 celebrates 20 years of presenting international art in the city and region.

Liverpool Biennial 2018 is curated by Kitty Scott, Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario and Sally Tallant with the Liverpool Biennial team. Also showing during the Biennial are the John Moores Painting Prize, Bloomberg New Contemporaries, and the Biennial Fringe.

Supported by Arts Council England and Arts Council Korea.