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| Artist Haegue Yang poses at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, in this 2018 photo. EPA-Yonhap |
By Kim Rahn
Installation artist Yang Hae-gue, also stylized as Haegue Yang, is on the world's top 100 artist list this year as the only Korean, according to the Korea Art Authentication & Appraisal Research Center, Friday.
The list, known as Kunst Kompass, is drawn up and announced by German-language business magazine Capital every year. The magazine selects the artists by assessing factors such as whether they have held private exhibitions at major museums and galleries around the world, if they have participated in major global art fairs, and whether renowned galleries own their artworks.
Yang ranked 93rd, up from 99th last year. She is among four Asian artists on the list, with the other three being Ai Weiwei from China, and Yoko Ono and Hiroshi Sugimoto from Japan.
Based in Seoul and Berlin, Yang, 51, was the main creator at the Korean Pavilion in the 2009 edition of the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first Asian female artist to receive the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, and this October, she received the Benesse Prize at the Singapore Biennale as the first Korean to do so.
Of the 100 people on Kunst Kompass, 29 are from Germany, 24 are from the United States and 12 are from the United Kingdom.
The magazine also announced a list of deceased artists whose work influenced the art world, and Nam June Paik was picked as the only Korean, ranking 15th.
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