Mickey Yang

On Sunday, June 15, Mickey Yang's newly commissioned artwork MMXXV will be inaugurated in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-over-the-Dijlekerk in Mechelen, where it will become a permanent neighbor to De wonderbare visvangst by Pieter Paul Rubens. Yang's public artwork is a co-production of Jester (Genk) and Kunsthal Mechelen, curated by Koi Persyn.

Mickey Yang creates multimedia installations that blend sculpture, video, and performance into multisensory experiences. Her installations appear alive—the sculptures move, vibrate and rotate, often synchronous with audiovisual counterparts. Yang’s practice explores themes of image representation, astonishment, mass culture, and the fluid threshold between the personal and the collective memory. She draws inspiration from material culture and craftsmanship, infusing this research with curiosity and care. Humor and optimism subtly underscore her work, offering moments of levity within layered conceptual frameworks. Employing techniques reminiscent of mainstream media and commercial advertising, Yang challenges conditioned ways of seeing. In doing so, she invites the viewer into a state of open wonder—where the familiar and the uncanny coexist.

Mickey Yang (°1988) is a Dutch artist based in The Hague. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2015), and completed a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academy (2021). Yang’s work has been exhibited at various institutions including P/////AKT (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Kunsthalle Osnabrück (Germany), Z33 (Hasselt, Belgium), STUK (Leuven, Belgium), and KM21 (The Hague, The Netherlands), among others.

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Image Credits

1) Upaya, 2021, KM21, photo by Peter Cox

2) Sleepy Eye, 2024, STUK, House for Dance, Image & Sound, photo by Kristof Vrancken

3) Teams of two in spring, 2022, Het Langhuis, photo by Àngels Díaz Miralda Tena

4) Closed eyes, 2019, P/////AKT, photo by Charlott Markus

5) Upaya, 2021, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, photo by Lucie Marsmann

6) Cosmic Current, 2023, Z33, photo by Renaat Nijs

7) Upaya, 2021, KM21, photo by Peter Cox

8) Closed eyes, 2019, P/////AKT, photo by Charlott Markus

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