Invited Exhibition for WESTWERK e.V.’s 30th anniversary

Title: Out of Worldly

Date: 8 September 2016 to 25 September 2016

Tue-Fri: 2-7 pm, Sat: 12-4 pm

Location: Westwerk e.V. (www.westwerk.org)

Invitation day: 8. September 2016, 6 pm

Seminar: 7 September 2016, 7 pm

<Topography of Contemporary> Cody Choi

Artists: Jaerok Jang, Gigisue, Zinu Kim, Sangyong Lee, Hyunju Song, Soohyeok Shin

Hyungkyu Kim, Jihye Park, Jimok Choi

Curator: Jinmyung Lee

Curators in cooperation: Michael Baltzer

Hosted by: Westwerke.V., TRIANGLE

Sponsored by: Art Council of Korea

Partnered with: KANSONG ART AND CULTURE FOUNDATION

Out of Worldly

Nine Korean artists will take part in the exhibition subtitled “Out of Worldly”: Gigisue, Hyungkyu Kim,

Hyunju Song, Jaerok Jang, Jihye Park, Jimok choi, Sangyong Lee, Soohyeok Shin, Zinu Kim. With

unique aesthetics and perspectives rarely found in European societies including Germany, they

challenge the mainstream art society. The Nine Korean artists were selected for that reason.

“Out of Worldly” basically represents the perspectives of “outsiders”. Outsiders try to transcend spatio-

temporal limits (or time and space) hardly having access to the mainstream, blocked by cultural

barriers. The western concept of strangers reflects the general perspective to outsiders. Outsiders

may also mean LGBT groups as a minority and artist groups trying to overcome “modernity” with

anachronism.

While practical (or worldly) values like, for example, economic development, political power, stable

jobs, and welfare are filling the consciousness of individuals of today, other values are being excluded.

Likewise, Eurocentric art society is indifferent to subjects having different perspectives from economy,

society, history, and philosophy of the western world. Westwerk provides a chance to discover hidden

corners of culture and, as a result, widen boundaries of thinking and sensing. The artists will vividly

show how Korean art reveals new aspects of contemporary art and contributes to contemporary art as

an alternative.

Gigisue

father still life #5_2015_111.8 x162.2cm_Oil on canvas

Father still life 1

Still life painting, still-life(the life that does not move) in English and nature morte(the dead life) in French, is a painting of objects that do not move and are lifeless. The objects are temporary; they are standing still,dead, or will disappear soon. Therefore, Vanitas Still Life symbolizes the mortality of human beings and thefrailty of secular life. However, the objects in still life paintings are showing off their beauty and splendor, and the appreciator wants them to create an impression. Like this, my father is the one I want to believe to be alive as beauty within my heart. It corresponds to that the Eastern world believe their ancestors are eternal being respecting them through ancestral rites while the Western world believe resurrection of Christ. In this point, ‘father is a contradictory being to me. ‘Father Still Life’ describes that the image of my father inside my heart, not in the world, comes back to the image that’s different from the reality, like his greatness, kindness and affection I made up in my childhood.‘Father Still Life’ series is meaningful in that way.

Father still life2

“To me, my father is eternal as I thought he was in my childhood. He’s still breathing as he did. That’s why I piled a still life painting of lifeless objects on scribbles I drew with my father when I was young. Showing there is discrepancy between the image made of the desire for the essential existence and the image of the reality, I’m trying to describe our inner world that has no choice but to conflict inside the existential contradiction.

‘Father Still Life’ is the university only for me and my father in my childhood as a metaphor of the eternal image of a father inside our heart. It is also the portrait of me(ourselves) who can’t help being obsessed to the futile life. _ GIGISUE

Similar figures#3_ 2015_62x74cm_Oil,acrylic oncanvas

Similar figures

Similar figures mean two or more figures that look the same but are different in size. I resemble my father like a decalcomanie. Decalcomanie, printing a pattern and imprinting it on another sheet of paper, makes a similar but slightly different pattern each time. I used decalcomanie technique to draw myself and hide what I inherited from my father. However, just like a woman can hardly hide herself with foundation, the background(father) I wanted to hide using decalcomanie technique cannot be hidden.I cannot hide the existence of my father within me.

It will last forever between the traces that resemble him.

That’s how ‘Similar figures’ series was made.

Patriarch seating position2014 Video Installation, 3min52sec_each

Patriarch seating poisition

It is a self-behavioral video installation using the body parts and the minimized behaviors as materials and subject matters. Gigisue’s main products test the relation among traditional patriarchy, phallicism and the modern capitalistic society based on the description of feminity. She is interested in ‘the relation between her body and the father’ and ‘the relation between patriarchy and the modern capitalistic society.’ She thinks these two relations are always on binary oppositions completing the meaning of herself.‘Patriarch seating position’ (2014) that follows the Korean traditional seating position or ‘Father’s legs’ cast a question to the symbolization of the relation between the father and the daughter.

GIGISUE EDUCATION 2014 M.F.A. Graduate School of Visual of Visual Art, Sookmyung Women’s University 2003 B.F.A. Art & Crafts major, Sookmyung Women’s University SOLO EXHIBITION 2016 Pictorial impulse, PiaLux ART SPHERE, Seoul 2015 Flower Field | Fake Flower Origami, ALTERNATIVE SPACE LOOP, Seoul 2014 Daddy& Biddy, Space CAN, Seoul 2013 Patriarchy and Capitalism : A history of Family Power, Space of Art, ETC, Seoul GROUP EXHIBITION 2014 Cocoon 2016 Exhibition, Space k, Gwacheon 2014 VICE VERSA 1, Gaheodong 60, Seoul 2014 “Slow Slow Quick Quick!”, Kunst Doc, Seoul 2014 ParadaSarada, PiaLux ART SPHERE, Seoul 2014 CanCan KOREA!, Space CAN, Seoul 2014 CanCan CHINA!, Space CAN Beijing, China 2014 The 4th Art Factory Project, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul 2014 9.5.9 Be empty Exhibition, TOKA ART FACTORY, Seoul 2013 House vision 2013, Seoul Citizen Hall gallery, Seoul 2012 KOREA CHINA diplomatic relations 20th anniversary, Galaxy Gallery, China 2012 ‘DOWU’ Council of Sookmyung, Gana Art Space, Seoul 2011 Next Generation in 2011, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul 2011 GYEONGGI INTERNATION CERAMIX BIENNALE 2011, Gyeonggi 2011 The 8th Ceramic Arts Award of Korea, Incheon Cultural Center, Incheon 2010 Public Art & Design Exhibition, Culture and Arts Center of Yongsan, Seoul 2009 Asian Contemporary Ceramics Art Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Japan AWARD 2015 SelectedEmerging Artist, ALTERNATIVE SPACE LOOP 2011 Award of GYEONGGI INTERNATION CERAMIX BIENNALE 2011 2002 Grand Prize, Pansipap Brand Competition 2002 Award, The 37th Korea Sanmi-Artist Competition JOURNAL 2016 February,Monthly ‘REVIEW’, 159page 2016 February, Monthly Art Magazine, ‘REVIEW’, 151page 2013 September, Monthly ‘Hot Art Space’, 84page 2013 September, Article ‘News’, 153page

RESIDENCY PROGRAM 2013~2014 Seoul Art Space_Sindang

Hyungkyukim

New_Cosmopolitan_SASANGHWA

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4K video, 365sec, 2015

Illumination of Century-Elysian Firlds16-01_installation of variable_2016

New Cosmopoli tan_SASANGHWA

4K Video, 365sec, Installation of variable, 2015

This is an experimental work called ‘switching a subject and object’. It starts from an independent viewpoint rather than a human-centered viewpoint, generally used in the existing video works.

‘A new globalization_mapping ideas’ shows a scene of a day from the stone pagoda in Silsangsa Temple in Mt. Jirisan in Namwon, North Jeolla Province, in a 360-degree angle, and has a meaning that a day is a year in the concept of 365seconds.

<Jirisan Project 2015 : Universe·Art·Zip>, SilsangsaBudist temple, Namwon, Korea, 2015

<The Third Zone>, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea, 2016

<Gyeonggi Vulgar>, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea, 2016

HUYNGKYU KIM

Born in 1983, YeonCheon, Korea(Near DMZ)

Lives and Works, Seoul, Korea

Video • Instal lat ion Art ist

Music Video • Commercial Fi lm Director

Education

2009 KwangWoon University Media Communication(B.A)

2016-Present Yonsei University Media Art(M.F.A) in Study

Career

2009-Present Media Company M-Media Works., Founder, CEO, Film Director

Solo Exhibit ions

2015 To Museum of Art Go Rapper, Perigee Hall, Seoul, Korea(Performing)

Selected Group Exhibit ions

2016 See the Gwangsuk KIM, Hongik-Daehakro Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Ulsan Art Project, Gagi Gallery, Ulsan, Korea

Hyundai Brilliant Memory 2016, BokSeoul Museum of ART(SEMA), Seoul, Korea

Gyeonggi Vulgar, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea

The Third Zone, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2015 JirisanProject 2015 :Universe·Art·Zip, SilsangsaBudist temple, Namwon, Korea

Korea Tomorrow 2015, Songkok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

CultureSeoul 284, Fastival 284-Madsquare,Seoul, Korea

CIGE, Beijing, China

SeMAshot :‘Shadowy Empire’, Nam Seoul museum of Art(South), Seoul, Korea

SeMA support Concert 2015, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Korea Artist Prize 2015, MMCA, Seoul, Korea(Support Artist)

Commercial Works

<Music Video>

2015 Haechul Shin 'Dream of a freshwater eel', Producer/Director

2014 SeoungwooYoo 'Hello', Director

SeoungwooYoo 'You And Me', Director

2013 Hyori Lee 'Amor Mio', Director

2012 Buskerbusker 'Teaser Movie', Director

Buskerbusker 'If you really love me', Director

2011 TV Program <Superstar-K> Season 2 Official Music Video, Director

ETC

<Commercial Fi lm>

2016 Kellogg's, Campaign Commercial Film 'Real Letter', Director

Dove, Campaign TV-Commercial Film, Director

Sony-Playstation, Commercial Film, Director

Kappa, Spring Kombat Campaign TV-Commercial Film, Director

2015 Descente, Campaign Commercial Film 'Power Training', Director

Hyundai Motor Company, TV-Commercial Film 'Drive Safely Today', Director

Biotherm, Campaign TV-Commercial Film, Director

BiothermHomme, Campaign Commercial Film, Director

Kolon Sport, Season Commercial Film ‘Time to’, Director

BlackYak, Commercial Film ‘Yak On’, Director

2014 Seoul City, TV-Commercial Film, Director

Canon, Commercial Film 'Selphy', Director

2013 Hyundai Motor Company, Global Commercial Film ‘Brilliant Moment’, Director

ETC

Collections

Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Hyunhju song

corsair-r 34X24

zero- airbus- bl 36.5x 53cm Acrylic & Oil On Canvas 2016

zero- airbus- yl 36.5x 53cm Acrylic & Oil On Canvas 2016

Machine has a formidable power. When I had been in the army, I marveled to see aircraft carrier named Kitty Hawk. Since its fairly large size and a dignified appearance were beyonddescription, I had attained a spiritual state of perfect selflessness.

We are easy to forget the power of civilization without our knowledge. We think the power seen in the world of matrix is natural. However, the power in the real is indeed realistic and direct. On ignoring, we keep on living with trust that image in the fantasy is true. The world of power is logical and exact.

I break down boundary of fine art in my work. It seems to be a photo, design or blue print of building. The Language which is revealed at the picture is meditation about real world frequently cross over the boundary of them.

Song Hyun Ju

Song, Hyun-ju

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1978, Seoul, Korea.

EDUCATION

2008 Candidate for the Ph.D. in Painting, Graduate School of Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea.

2007 M.F.A. in Painting, Graduate School of Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea.

2005 B.F.A. in Painting, Hong Ik University, Seoul, Korea.

EXHIBITION

Solo Exhibit ion

2015 Play Ground- War Game. SPACE K (BMW MARKET).Ghangju, Korea.

2014 “THE COLLECTOR” S+ Gallery. Busan.Heaundae.

2012 Tong in AUCTION Gallery Seoul, Korea.

2010 SEO Young Artist SEO Gallery sejul. Phungchang..Seoul, Korea.

2009 Window Gallery Exhibiton, HYUNDAI GALLERY, Seoul, Korea.

“Invisible Paradox”, Wellside Gallery, Shanghai, China.

“Invisible Paradox”, Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

2007 COLA PASTA(Wellside Gallery), Seoul, Korea.

“Non Gravity”, UM Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

“Non Gravity”, Moosim Gallery, Cheng Ju, Korea.

“Flying”, Andante Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

2006 “Flying”, HO Gallery, Seoul, Korea.

MANIF 2006, Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea.

Jaerok Jang

AL-forest 130x162 Korean ink and Acrylic on Korean Paper Attached to Canvas 2016

JANG, JAEROK (1978)

Born in Seoul, lives and works in Seoul

EDUCATION

Candidate for the Ph.D. Oriental Painting, Graduate School of Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea

2006 MFA.in Oriental Art, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea

2004 BFA.in Oriental Art, Dan-Kook University, Cheon-An, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 Another Place, Helioart, Seoul, Korea

2014 Another Place, Elektrohaus, Hamburg, Germany

2012 Memento of Momentum, Gallery ARTSIDE, Seoul, Korea

2011 BLOT BACKGROUND, Gallery ARTSIDE, Beijing, China

2009 Another Landscape 20091107, Koreaartcenter, Busan, Korea

2009 Another Landscape 20090527, GALLERY HYUNDAI(window gallery), Seoul, Korea

2009 Another Landscape 20090327, Wellside Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Wellside Gallery, Shanghai, China

2008 Another Landscape 20081030, UM Gallery, Seoul, korea

2008 Another Landscape 20080807, Seo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2007 Another Landscape 20070905, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2007 Another Landscape, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 Another Landscape- New Millenium of Oriental Painting, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 Another Landscape, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2005 Another Landscape, Yokohama City Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan

2005 The Hundred-and-Eight Torments of mankind, Osaka A.T.C Center, Osaka, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016 Out of Worldly, Westwerke.V. , Hamburg, Germany

2016 Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Korea

2016 Preserving national identity though culture, Kansong A&C(DDP), Seoul, Korea

2016 Art Coreen, Racine de la modernite, Musee Adam Mickiewicz, Paris, France

2016 Hyperrealism, GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Yeosu, Korea

2016 Craving Colors, 63 Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2014 Tomorrow2014, DDP, Seoul, Korea

2013 Machine, Dreaming of Life, ,Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

2013 The evolution of Korean painting, HHI culture & arts center, Ulsan, Korea

2012 Big Black Smoke, Gallery Genscher, Hamburg, Germany

2012 Bartz Revolution, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea

2011 The Spectrum of Contemporary Korean Art, Kaohsiung Meseum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung,

Taiwan

2011 Rediscovery of Korean Painting, Seongnam Arts Center, Seongnam, Korea

2011 Wonderpia(Wonder+Heteropias), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2010 Korean Fantasy Painting, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2010 Wow~! Funny Pop, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea

2010 In The Name of The Korea Painting, Pohang Museum of Steel art, Pohang, Korea

2010 In the history of illusion and desire, Cyan Museum of Art, Yeoungcheon, Korea

2010 Art Docking Spot, Woomyung, Hanam, Korea

2010 ART ROAD 77, Keumsan Gallery, Heyri, Korea

2010 do Window vol2, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2010 PUBLIC ART NEW HERO ,Keumsan Gallery, Heyri, Korea

2010 SH CONTEMPORARY, Shanghai, China

2010 ART BEIJING, Beijing, China

2010 CIGE, Beijing, China

2010 Korean Art Show, la venue, Newyork, the United States

2010 AHAF-seoul, HOTEL SHILLA, Seoul, Korea

2010 AHAF-hongkong, grand hyatthongkong, Hongkong, China

2009 Tri-VISTA of Korea, art company H, Seoul, Korea

2009 INSA ART FESTIVAL, GALLERY ARTSIDE, Seoul, Korea

2009 HEROPIA, SEO Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2009 ART ROAD 77, ART SPACE HANGIL, Heyri, Korea

2009 Blue Dot ASIA, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2009 ARTO BUSAN 2009, CENTEM HOTEL, Busan, Korea

2009 ASIA TOP GALLERY HOTEL ART FAIR 09, HYATT HOTEL, Seoul, Korea

2009 ART DAEGU 2009, Daegu, Korea

2009 KIAF, Coex, Seoul, Korea

2009 Korea Gallery Art Fair, Bexco, Busan, Korea

2008 TCAF, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Wonder Brand, Gana Forum, Seoul, Korea

2008 IYAP2008, Interalia, Seoul, Korea

2008 Art Group Start, Finance Building, Seoul, Korea

2007 Korea-China Contemporary Art exhibition, Dae-Jeon City Art Museum, Dae-Jeon, Korea

2006 Oriental Painting Meet With Exchange Exhibition, Gallery Yul, Boon-Dang, Korea

2006 Drawing is... , Gallery Da, Seoul, Korea

2006 A Small Painting Christmas Exhibition, Gallery Gaia, Seoul, Korea

2006 Say My Name Exhibition, Kong-Pyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2006 Moden Korea Painting Exhibition, Gallery Tablo, Seoul, Korea

2006 The West Sea-Belt Exhibition, Dan-Won Art Museum, An-San, Korea

2006 Korea-China Exchange Exhibition, Yum-Hwang Museum, Beijing, China,

2006 Hong-Ik University a Classmate Exhibition, Kong-Pyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2005 Seoul Young Biennale, Seoul City Museum, Seoul, Korea

2005 Moden Korea Paing Today & Tomorrow Exhibition, Lee-Hyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2005 The 11th Contemporary Expressions of Korea Young Artist, Topho House, Seoul, Korea

2005 Wa-Won Exhibition, Hong-Ik University Contemporary Arts Museum, Seoul, Korea

2005 Phil-Mook Exhibition, Kong-Pyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2005 Vision-Diversity of The Korea Contemporary Art exhibition, Kyung-Hyang Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2005 Korea-China Contemporary Art exhibition, Sejong Center for the Art, Seoul, Korea

2005 IT&Contemporary Art exhibition, Information and Communications University, Seoul, Korea

2005 Dan-Kook University a Classmate Exhibition, Kong-Pyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2004 Korea-China Contemporary Art Exhibition, San-Dong Tae-An City hall Main hall, San-Dong,

China

2004 The 10th Contemporary Expressions of Korea Young Artist, Sejong Center for the Art, Seoul,

Korea

2004 Wa-Won Exhibition, Hong-Ik University Contemporary Arts Museum, Seoul, Korea

2004 Phil-Mook Exhibition, Kong-Pyung Art Center, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED AWARD

2009 A Prize list of PUBLICART for Artist

2008 A Prize list of SEO GALLERY for Artist

2007 Danwon Art Festival “Highest Standing Award”, Danwon Art Museum

2006 Danwon Art Festival “Special Prize Award”, Danwon Art Museum

2006 The 21th Kyung Hyang Housing Fair Art Festival “Grand Prize Award”, Kintex-Korea

International Exhibition Center

RESIDENCY

2010-2011 Artside Gallery Beijing Studio Artist, Beijing, China

TEACHING

2012-2014 Adjunct Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

2008-2010 Adjunct Professor at Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea

2006-2009 Adjunct Professor at Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

COLLABORATION

2012 Collaboration with BMW 7,

2012 Collaboration with TATE, Gallery Lotte, Seoul, Korea

2010 Collaboration with Volkswagen CF

2010 Collaboration with RADO, Gallery YEH, Seoul, Korea

2008 Collaboration with Golden Dew, Gana art, Seoul, Korea

https://Jangjaerok.com

j ihye park

Lost In The Fathomless Waters single channel video, Super 16 film, soundtrack, 16:9, colour Duration 3min 48sec, 2010

Evanesce Single channel video, soundtrack, 5min 50sec, 2015

Work Statement

Jihye Park

I addressed the various psychological aspects and limitations of desire and worked them into videos and explore relationships and their reciprocality and expresses them through my work. contemplations of relationships are not about grandiose relationships, but are about those close to our everyday lives such as dating, love, jealousy, sympathy, etc. The most intimate of relationships are the spatial identities that are infused with unfathomable levels of convention, mythology, and formalities. The seemingly simple person-person meeting ground is actually festered with underlying basic conflicts, a complicated and complex place where innumerous conventions and desires that control individuals collide, exchange, and compromise with the other. The violence that lies concealed in such familiar and close relationships is all the more dangerous because it is masked, and because it is born of intimacy.

A form of violence concealed in everyday life, I investigate the identity of the potential desire that exists within the relationship between human beings and while the work does not portray a distinct event it does exude a rather bizarre sense of psychological unease.

CV

Jihye Park (1981)

Education

2009 MFA Art Practice,Goldsmiths, University of London

2007 BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London

2004 Extension Degree Fine Art and History of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London

Solo Exhibit ion

2014 Breaking The Waves, Gallery Button, Seoul, Korea

2013 Sense of Absence, SongEunArtCube, Seoul, Korea

2010 The Hollow Nadir of Vanity,Tenderpixel Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibit ions (Selected)

2016 Hybridizng Earth Discussing Multitude, Busan Biennale 2016, Busan, Korea

2016 The Thing That You Know, I Do Not Want To Know’, La Compagnie, Marseille, France

2015 OVNi, Windsor ‘Artist-Rooms’, Nice, France

2015 Summer Love, SongEunArtspace, Seoul, Korea

2015 Space installation Project Ⅰ: Seongbuk Street, Art Space Jungmiso, Seoul. Korea

2014 Korea Tomorrow 2014, Part II: Culture Print, DDP (Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, Korea

2014 The Moment, We Awe: Korean Contemporary Art, Sanshang Contemporary Art Museum,

Hangzhou, China

2014 Art Road 77, With Art With Artist, Gallery Jireh, Paju, Korea

2014 Art Stage Singapore 2014, KOREA Platform, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention

Centre, Singapore, Singapore

2013 The 35th Joongang Fine Art Prize, Seoul Art Center, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2013 Interpenetrate; 2013, TheInternational Residence Exchange Program,Changdong Art Studio,

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2012 Intro,Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Goyang, Korea

2012 Trace of Human Nature, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea

2011 I am Here, JAAGA, Bengaluru,India

2011 Object ObjectObject, Art Space H, Seoul, Korea

2011 The Woodmil l S.A.G.S., TheWoodmil l , London, UK 2011 RHIZOSPHERE: Directions in Motion, 4482 [SASAPARI], Bargehouse, Oxo Tower, London, UK 2011 Retro, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2010 Invisible Bonds, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK

2010 4482 [SASAPARI] Utopia/ Dystopia: A Palace with Contemporary Views, Bargehouse,

Oxo Tower, London, UK

2010 The Devil's Necktie, TheWoodmill, London, UK

2010 Ways of Seeing, Part 1, I-MYU Project, London, UK

2009 New Romance, Ada Street Gallery, London, UK

2009 Travelling Along, Waterside Project Space, London, UK

2009 One Hand Clap, Dial Zero, Ada Street Gallery, London, UK

2009 Group/Gopup, Area 10, London, UK

2008 Entry Forms, UK Korean Artists, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK

2008 The Imaginative Symbolical Composition, Corningsby Gallery, London, UK

Screening

2013 SAMVAAD II, Cologne Off 2013, Uttarakhand, India

2012 Platform 0, Espacio enter 2012, Tenerife, Spain

2011 SAMVAAD :International Video Screenings Invite, 1 shantiroad Studio Gallery, FICA, New Delhi, India 2011 SAMVAAD :International Video Screenings Invite, Foundation for Indian Contemporary Art (FICA) Reading Room, New Delhi, India 2011 Experimental Video Art 7 Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship 2010,

CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand

2011 Experimental Video Art 7 Exhibition, Thai-European Friendship 2010,

Bunditpatanasilata Institute, Bangkok, Thailand

2010 The III FestArte Video Art Festival, Macro Testaccio,

La Pelanda, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome, Italy

2010 Peer 6: Film Screening, The Assistant, Bearspace Gallery, London, UK

2009 RUSHES Soho shorts Festival 2009, Tenderpix Experimental, Tenderpixel Gallery,

London, UK

2008 RUSHES Soho shorts Festival 2008, Tenderpix Experimental, Tenderpixel Gallery, London,

UK

Residency, Awards, publication& Project

2014 SeMA Emerging Artists, Seoul, Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2013 Grand Prize, Joongang Fine Art Prize

2013 Young Artist Program, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2012 Seoul- Wien Exchange program, ÖsterreichischeGalerie Belvedere, Austria

2012 Goyang Art Studio, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea

2009 Final List, Experimental Category, RUSHES Soho Shorts Festival 2009, UK

2008 Final List, Experimental Category, RUSHES Soho Shorts Festival 2008, UK

Jimokchoi

Sangyong lee

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Momentary Fate

‘Momentary Encounter is Fate’

Fate comes by momentarily and past encounters and farewells also come by in the present and futuretense. Countless fates come together as dots to connect a line of past to future which in the end build a gigantic three-dimensional fate. Therefore, my present life, past memories, and future fates all compose narratives for my artwork. However, these narratives do not just belong to myself. My life, eventually, is affected by other people, or relations with other objects that in general is interwoven or bounded by common destiny of human life.

The usage of fate in general term connotes unavoidable predestination. However, I like to rely on the momentary fate rather than the predestined fate. Every momentof our lives we face encounters and farewells, the subject of which can be human being but for a ponderous person such as I, they are not. A sunlight that has squeezed through a crack brings conversation to me and enlivens the dust I could not have seen before. A crack, sunlight and dust all exist along with my five senses and create a small universe. Small universes in which I am at the center expand and become a big universe. Paying attention to small things is valuable to me and in return dictates who I am and what values I hold to. This all begins with a small encounter.

Momentary Fate is a Valued Life

I place values to countless objects and I naturally put images to them. Old ink stones, thrown away metal pieces and tapes that have been used by others and smeared with time have found me and act as fate and value. All I did was to converse with them. At that moment those momentary fates have connected to my memories have become my work. All those individual moments have coexisted with my past, present and future and have become part of my life. Countless encounters have become my fate and valuable items.

I, too, through my work will be fate to other people.

- from artist notes -

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Lee Sang Yong www.sangyonge.com

1970 .Born in, Kong-JuChoongnam, South Korea

2005 .Published Art Works-Hansol Group Sponsor

2008 .Currently Working On Projects. In New York

Solo Exhibition

2013 New York watherfall gallery Invited exhibition -New York,USA

2013 Seoul International Finance Center-Seoul,Korea

2012 JJ Gallery Invited Exhibition–Seoul ,Korea

2012 Kips Gallery-Chelsea, New York,, USA

2011 Sup Gallery Invited Exhibition-Seoul,Korea

2010 Maum Gallery Invited Exhibition-New York ,USA

2009 Tenri Gallery Invited Exhibition-New York, USA

2007 Flanders expo - Brussels-Belgium

2007 The Unified Government Building Invited exhibition-Korea

2007 Gallery Ho Invited Exhibition-Seoul, Korea

2005 Danwon Museum Invited Exhibition-Ansan, Korea

2002 Gwanhoon Gallery-Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibition

2015 Kontemporary”Fermented Souls” Exhibition 2015Waterfall gallery-New York,USA

2015 The ARTIST,Gallery SIA-New York,USA

2014 Kok gallery HypoxisAurea Exhibition –DaeGu,Korea

2014 Feel Life Summer Art Fastival 2014 watherfall gallery-New York,USA

2014 Changwon Asia Art Festival-Changwon,Korea

2014 Jersey City Invitational Exhibition And 7th Youth Art Contest –Jersey City Hall NJ,USA

2013 MathoneBruneLli Gallery MARIAL WORLD Exhition – Hamptions, New York

2013Chaes art center Group exhibition- Busan, Korea

2012 Waterfall Gallery Group show – New York,USA

2012 Gallery Button, Group Exhibition-Seoul, Korea

2012 JJ Gallery 3 people Exhibition –Seoul, Korea

2011 JJ Gallery Group exhibition – Seoul, Korea

2011 Gallery Maum Group exhibition- New York, USA

2011 Gallery JJ Group exhibition – Seoul, Korea

2011 Gallery Space Maum Group exhibition- New York, USA

2011 Gallery Art@Renaissance Group Exhibition - Brooklyn New York, USA

2011 Gallery Sup Group Exhibition - Seoul, Korea

2011 Gallery Gaga Art Of life Group Exhibition-Seoul, Korea

2011 Gallery Gaga Group Exhibition-Seoul, Korea

2010 Gallery Maum Group Exhibition- New York, USA

2010 Gallery Korea Group Exhibition-New York, USA

2010 US, FBI Project Group Exhibition-FBI Building, NJ, USA

2010 US, DHS Project Group Exhibition-Newark Liberty international Airport, NJ, USA

2010 Gallery Maum Open Group Exhibition-New York, USA

2010 F.G.S Gallery Group Exhibition-NJ, USA

2009 Space Word Gallery Group Exhibition-New York, USA

2009 Jun Gallery Open Group Exhibition-Chelsea, New York, USA

2008 Rogue Space Gallery Barack Obama Art Show By Korean Artist-Chelsea, New York, USA

Art Fair

2015 Affordable Art Fair New York 2015-New York,USA

2015 G-seoul International Art Fair Solo Show-Seoul,Korea

2014 Spectrum art Miami -Miami,USA

2014 Scope art Miami - Miami,USA

2014 ART EDITION 2014 – Seoul,Korea

2014 G-Seoul International art fair Solo Show –Seoul,Korea

2014 Chicago International Art Fair-Chicago,USA

2014 Palm Beach Art Fair-Miami,USA

2014 LA Art Show –LA,USA

2014 Art show Busan 2014-Busan,Korea

2014 New York Scope Art Show -New York,USA

2013 Miami Context –Miami,USA

2013 Toronto International Art Fair ,Toronto,Canada

2013 Houston Art Fair ,Houston,USA

2013 G Seoule Art Fair ,HilltonHotel,Seoul,korea

2012 Seoul Living Art Fair ,COEX- Seoul, Korea

2012 Art Asia Miami - Miami,USA

2012 Seoul Open Art Fair-Seoul,Korea

2012 Cheong Dam Art Fair -Seoul,Korea

2012 Korea Art Show - Seoul, Korea

2012 Busan Art Show - Busan , Korea

2012 BamaBusanArt Show - Busan, Korea

2012 Spoon Art Fair - Hong Kong

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Soohyeok shin

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Windows in the Night Rewrit ing real i ty: Soohyeok Shin’s fragmentary constructions in non-spaces In the concrete reality of today’s world, places and spaces, places and non-spaces intertwine and tangle together. The possibility of non-place is never absent from any place. From: Marc Augé, Non-Places. Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, 19951 Some of the recent works created by the Seoul-based Korean painter Soohyeok Shin in 2014 feature high-rise buildings or their illuminated windows before or rather within an all-enveloping backdrop of utter darkness. In these paintings, a nocturnal sphere has replaced the white spaces that habitually surrounded the depictions of dislocated, fragmentary urban buildings in the artist’s former paintings. Yet the darkness engulfing and sometimes also obscuring the architectural structures in this latest group of works is just as abstract as the “pure white blanks”2 in Shin’s earlier and also in some of his current paintings, while still enhancing the aura of mystery and displacement that distinguishes many of his compositions. In this regard, the painting Untitled 1407 is particularly striking. Here, the canvas is almost entirely enshrouded in unfathomable depths of blackness from which a single field of light stands out—a window revealing a glow behind the grid-like structure of vertical blinds. The window’s elevated location in a building rendered invisible by the ambient darkness does not permit visual access; the drawn blinds further conceal the source of light, while the building itself merges with the night. As a solitary sign of human presence in an otherwise unpopulated void, the window appears to be suspended in the sky like a dreamlike apparition. Similarly, in the artist’s painting Untitled 1409, partially illuminated windows seemingly located at the top of a tall building, which is just barely discernible as a silhouette in the nocturnal setting, shine out into complete darkness. Again, due to the location of the windows and the particular vantage point from which the scene is presented to the viewer, it is impossible to see much more than a fraction of the semi-lit rooms. The frontally glowing high-rise in the painting Untitled 1408, in turn,

appears to be floating through deep space like a luminous flying object. A half-open door that appears to be positioned at the base of the building reveals a glimpse of an interior space. The brightly lit, more or less impervious windows or doorways that give elusive shape to the buildings in Shin’s nocturnal paintings draw attention to the interplay of presence and absence, inside and outside, façade and interior. In this sense, more than ever in the artist’s work, the windows and other openings appear to operate like membranes or interfaces that mediate between the spheres of the private and the public. Both of these spheres, however, remain evasive and intangible: the outer, public shell of the represented buildings is lost in the dark, while their inner spaces are largely secluded behind an immaterial wall of light. Interestingly, the artist first planned to subsume his new body of works under the title Monolith in reference to the enigmatic monolithic cuboid of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 cult movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He then chose the multifaceted term Kubrix instead, still alluding, on the one hand, to the legendary film director and, on the other, to the phenomena “brick”, “cube,” or “box,”3 thus indirectly connecting the symbolically charged monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey with the disassociated buildings around which many of his own works revolve. The often cube-like architectural structures that Shin has shifted from his everyday environment to the time- and place-less zones of his paintings are indeed as impermeable, abstract, and arcane as Kubrick’s recurring monolith accompanying the evolution of humanity in 2001: A Space Odyssey. At the same time, as configurations of contemporary life in today’s fast-paced, economically propelled cities (relating not only to the artist’s home country, but also to the broader global framework), they also serve as “black boxes” in the sense of vehicles or repositories harboring collective memory and cultural knowledge. As Shin has stated with regard to his representations of decontextualized urban structures, “It seems to me that solid metal constructions covered with transparent glass might represent present-day life. The design of the buildings is an interesting subject for my paintings since it also contains, to some extent, the mental disposition and flow of present history and our current society.”4 The group of paintings produced by the artist in 2014 also includes fragments of buildings hovering in opaque, pastel–colored settings, which make the former appear to be emerging from or disappearing into banks of fog. These works encompass side views of multi-story buildings, renditions of isolated high-rise top floors, an austere shell construction, or facades, which in some cases unite the flatness of architectural blueprints and the semblance of three-dimensional depth, while revealing staircases and other details of somewhat confusing interior spaces behind transparent glass panes. In one case, these extensive “windows” open the view to a group of figures that recall museum pieces, but are actually mannequins derived from the display window of a department store. In another, trees and shrubbery have been transplanted from the original location of the displaced building to a backlit balcony luminescent in the dark. As the French philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre has pointed out in his seminal thoughts on space and its production, “the window is a non-object which cannot fail to become an object. As a transitional object it has two senses, two orientations: from inside to outside, and from outside to inside.”5 Oscillating between inside and outside, non-object and object, appearance and disappearance, the artist’s constructions continue to point to the concrete urban reality from which they have been extracted. At the same time they are transposed in the process into abstract symbols of our transient, impalpable, and increasingly aloof human existence, reflecting the velocity of our accelerated times. In this respect, Shin’s paintings conflate the “opposed polarities” between “place” and “non-place,” as observed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, who claimed, “the first is never completely erased, the second never totally completed; they are like palimpsests on which the scrambled game of identity and relations is ceaselessly rewritten.”6 Belinda Grace Gardner 1 Marc Augé, Non-Places. Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, transl. from the French by John Howe (London; New York: Verso, 1995), p. 107.

2 Cf. Park Soonyoung, “The Memory of Space and the Space of Memory,” text accompanying the exhibition: Soohyeok Shin—One day, Somewhere, Mar 19—Apr 18, 2009, One and J. Gallery, Seoul (see: http://oneandj.com/portfolio/shinsoohyeok- 2/, accessed on August 24, 2014). 3 The artist explained the reasons for his choice of title in an email to the author on August 18, 2014. 4 Ibid. 5 Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, transl. from the French by Donald Nicholson- Smith (Malden, MA; Oxford, UK; Carlton, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing, 1991), p. 209. 6 Augé, op. cit., p. 79.

Soohyeok SHIN (1967-) Education １９９４ (B.F.A) Dept of Painting College of Fine Art, Hong IkUniversity, Seoul, Korea １９９６ (M.F.A) Graduate school of Fine Art, Hong IkUniversity, Seoul, Korea ２００５ (M,F,A) Tokyo National University of Fine Arts andMusic, Tokyo, Japan

２００８（Ph, D）Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music,Tokyo, Japan Assistant Propessor, FineArt, HongIk University, Seoul, Korea Solo Exhibit ion 2016 “ Flow” / 2gil29 gallery (Seoul, Korea) 2014 “Kubrix” / spacebm(Seoul, Korea) 2013 “CyanoType" / Boutique Monaco Museum (Seoul, Korea) 2011 “Blue Note" / ART SIDE Gallery (Seoul, Korea) 2009 “Oneday Somewhere ” / ONE AND J. Gallery（Seoul, Korea） 2008 “ Shin soohyeok" / Musee F gallery（ Tokyo, Japan ） “ Shinsoohyeok / Tomos Gallery 2007 “Underneath Time” / Tomos Gallery（ Tokyo, Japan ） 2006 “ Shin soohyeok" / Gallery-58（Tokyo, Japan ） 2004 “Oneday Somewhere ” / Gallery Gan（ Tokyo, Japan ） 2001 “ loop ” / Keumsan Gallery ( Seoul, Korea ) “ Shinsoohyeok” / Woong Gallery ( Seoul, Korea ) 1999 “ Shin soohyeok” / Hanju Gallery ( Seoul, Korea ) 1998 “ Shin soohyeok” / Boda Gallery ( Seoul, Korea ) 1995 “ Shin soohyeok” / Yoon Gallery ( Seoul, Korea )

Selected Group Exhibit ion 2015 Art Stage Singapore 2015 ( Singapore) 2014 Korea Tomorrow 2014 / Gansong museum (Seoul, Korea) 2013 ART Gwang-ju13, promotion Exhibition"bloodyTrial" / KDJ convention center (Gwang-ju, korea) 2012 Artistic period / InterAlia Art Company ( Seoul, Korea ) Urban Promenade / Pohang Museum of Art, ( Pohang , Korea ) Out of Frame / InterAlia Art Company ( Seoul, Korea ) City Garden-Forest / Posco gallery ( Pohang , Korea ) 2011 Maps Talk / Art+LoungeDibang( Seoul, Korea ) Memorial / Omotesando gallery ( Tokyo, Japan ） Gallery Seoul-11 / Raum (Seoul, Korea) 2010 Paintings – Now, Things that are express / Gana Art Space (Seoul, Korea ) Korea Contemporary Art Understanding / Posco gallery (Pohang , Korea ) 40x40x40x40 / SpaceCottenceed ( Seoul, Korea )

2008 Mori / Japan culture office (Seoul,Korea )

2007 Doctoral Program Final Exhibition / The University Art Museum , Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Tokyo, Japan ）

2006 3th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Happiness Stone House/ matsunoyama (Niegata , Japan )

Inter Image / QCA Galleria Complex (Brisbane, Australia ）

Design Net Work Asia / Annyang Park ( KyongGi , Korea )

2005 `Tizu-Ato` Body and a Town project/ Kojima Art Plaza (Tokyo, Japan） 2004 Junction of Daily Life / Exhibition Hall Tokyo National University of

Fine Arts and Music ( Tokyo, Japan ）

2002 Art Universiad , Youth Meeting for Culture and ART/ARCHITECTURE / Asumigaokapark( Chiba, Japan) Korean Young Artist Biennale ( Daegu Art center, Korea) 2000 Prix Whanki- London, Venice, Seoul / Whanki Museum ( Seoul , Korea )

Zinukim

ZINU KIM_Jeder, der fällt, hat Flüge_250 x 160cm_mixed media_2016 <TEXT> I wonder where you are I know, Tomorrow would be better than today I do not know, however, whether tomorrow will come for me I just stay in the repeated yesterday I could not inhale deeply since you left me Because our memories still remain in my heart I have lost precious things and now am feeling heavy My time and yours flow apart slowly I only hear the tick of my clock It sounds different from the past Is it not funny? I concentrated on you on the days I was with you I was listening to my feelings when we said goodbye Slowly but surely One night I realized the expectations filling in my room dwindled as if wind went out

In the mirror I see A spirit is sitting at the corner of my room It comes over and starts to whisper to my ear …finiched

The memories you left with me fade away Slowly light wind starts to blow and I see someone flying in the air If you ever call my name, the ghost will not leave me Slowly again, it goes away The lost time I lose precious things all the time