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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and HUGO BOSS AG announced that artist Anicka Yi has been awarded the Hugo Boss Prize 2016. Yi is the 11th artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the prize, which carries an award of $100,000 and is administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Yi’s work will be presented in a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, opening in April 2017.
source : https://www.guggenheim.org/news/anicka-yi-wins-hugo-boss-prize-2016
Installations by Anica Yi, participating artist for the 2016 Gwangju Biennale, can be viewed in gallery 2 of the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall. Anicka Yi's (b. 1971, Seoul/New York) installations resemble a forensic setting of pop-decorated quarantined tents occupied by para-scientific assemblages. In one room, we see a mix of beeswax, dried shrimp, seaweed, and pigment powder on strange aggregations on top of the table. In another, scent is diffused from a motorcycle helmet, in a quasi-industrial setting. Testing the limits of empathy and biopolitical warfare in a decaying patriarchal society, Yi's practice appeals to new sensibilities and scenic strategies to captivate the viewer. We navigate through rooms filled with unexpected scents, microbial designs beyond translucent surfaces, science-fiction micro-universes inside aquariums and tents, and metabolic processes that change with time.