Hwang Kap-Sun

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Hwang Kap-Sun in Kellinghusen (2018)
Hwang Kap-Sun's workshop and showroom in Kellinghusen

Hwang Kap-Sun (* 1963 in Seoul ) is a South Korean ceramic artist and professor of ceramics at the College of Fine Arts, Faculty of Crafts & Design at Seoul National University .

Life

After completing his school education in Seoul, he began studying ceramics at Seoul National University in 1983 . He got his first contact with the material porcelain in the porcelain factory of his great-uncle, in which Korean porcelain was made with iron painting according to old models. Dissatisfied with the direction of the ceramics training in South Korea and inspired by an exhibition on German studio ceramics in Seoul, Hwang Kap-Sun decided to continue his studies in Germany. After a short stay in India, he prepared his move to Germany by taking language trips.

After his relocation, he continued his ceramic studies at the Muthesius-Kunsthochschule in Kiel with Johannes Gebhard in 1991 . During his studies, Hwang experimented with different glazes . In 1998 he submitted his thesis on stoneware . After completing his studies, he made designs as a freelancer at the State Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen . During this time he designed over 250 vessels with simple striped patterns, which he assembled from solid-colored porcelain masses or produced colored slurries .

In 2000, Hwang Kap-Sun was appointed visiting professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hang-Zhou (China). Together with his wife Kang Si-Sook, he founded his own workshop in Kellinghusen in 2001 . In the same year he began working with the porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg . First of all, he first had to gain experience with the Fürstenberg porcelain mass, which differs significantly from the Meissen porcelain mass in terms of processing. For his first work for the Fürstenberg porcelain manufacture - the QI bowl series - he made 700 attempts for the celadon glaze on the inside of the bowls. The QI bowl series received the Red Dot Design Award in 2003 for its feel and its successful connection between the tradition of European porcelain and Asian celadon glaze .

In the following years he made designs for bowls and vases as well as for the AURÉOLE dinner and coffee service for the Fürstenberg porcelain manufacturer. At the same time, together with Fürstenberg, he developed a large number of modern, easy-to-use glazes for porcelain vessels. In 2003 he received a professorship at Seoul National University, where he has been teaching the ceramics class at the College of Fine Arts ever since. Hwang Kap-Sun summarized his research results on glazes and porcelain masses in a database that is available to his students and which they can use for further development.

His ceramic and porcelain designs have been shown in various national and international exhibitions and have been awarded numerous design prizes. Hwang Kap-Sun is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics AIC. Since 2014 he has been director of the Yanggu Porcelain Research Center.

His works are shown in various ceramic and design museums, including a. in the Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg , in the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts (Leipzig), in the Museum of Applied Arts (Frankfurt am Main) , in the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen , in the Ceramic Museum Berlin , in the State Museum Württemberg (Stuttgart), in the Museum Kellinghusen , in the Museum of the Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg and in the Chiwoo Craft Museum (Seoul).

Awards (selection)

  • World Ceramic Exposition, bronze medal, 2001
  • Justus Brinckmann Prize, Museum of Arts and Crafts, 2002
  • Red Dot Design Award for the QI bowl series , 2003
  • KulturAktuell Prize of the Schleswig-Holstein State Cultural Association, 2003
  • Red Dot Design Award for the TAO vase series , 2005
  • German design award for the TAO bowl series , 2006 (nomination)
  • This ceramic award, 2007
  • Grassipreis, Leipzig, 2008
  • Bavarian State Prize for exceptional design and technical excellence in the craft, 2010
  • Red Dot Design Award, honorable mention, for the Service Auréole , 2014

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Cape Sun Hwang - Korean ceramics | Korean ceramics; I nternational Ceramic Museum Weiden (New Collection of the International Design Museum Munich) 2012
  • From Fürstenberg to Asia , 2012
  • Kap-Sun Hwang and his students , Munich 2016
Show workshop in the museum of the Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg : Form AUREOLE while decorating

Works (selection)

  • Bowl set QI , Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, 2003
  • TAO vase series , Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, 2005
  • ZENDO vase series , Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, 2005
  • Relay baton trophy for the German Standards Editions publishing house, 2011
  • cylindrical vase set with colored stripes (rotated, cut, assembled), 2012
  • AUREOLE tableware series , Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory, 2014

literature

  • Christian Lechelt : The Fürstenberg Porcelain Manufactory - From privatization in 1859 to the present . In: The Braunschweigische Stiftung - Richard Borek Stiftung - Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (ed.): Die Porzellanmanufaktur Fürstenberg , Volume III, Appelhans, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-23-0 , pp. 363–371
  • Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg (Ed.): From Fürstenberg to Asia, 2012
  • Hans-Georg Bluhm, Bernd Brandes-Druba, Kap-Sun Hwang: Kiel - Kellinghusen - Korea: Kap Sun Hwang and the ceramic knowledge transfer , Ceramica Borealis, Volume 3, 2011, 48 pp.
  • Kirsten Jäschke: Simply delicious! On the work of Si-Sook Kang and Kap-Sun Hwang , Keramik-Magazin 2002, issue 2, pp. 12-17
  • Heinz Spielmann : Korean ceramics in Germany: Young-Jae Lee , Si-Sook Kang, Kap-Sun Hwang , Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, 48 p., 1995

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Lechelt: The porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg - from privatization in 1859 up to present . In: The Braunschweigische Stiftung - Richard Borek Stiftung - Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . tape III . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-23-0 , pp. 364 .
  2. ↑ Christian Lechelt: The porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg - from privatization in 1859 up to present . In: The Braunschweigische Stiftung - Richard Borek Stiftung - Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . tape III . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-23-0 , pp. 369 .
  3. ↑ Christian Lechelt: The porcelain manufacturer Fürstenberg - from privatization in 1859 up to present . In: The Braunschweigische Stiftung - Richard Borek Stiftung - Stiftung Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): The Porcelain Manufactory Fürstenberg . tape III . Appelhans, Braunschweig 2016, ISBN 978-3-944939-23-0 , pp. 366 .
  4. ↑ Kap-Sun Hwang - Porcelain vessels | Art Aurea . In: Art Aurea . ( artaurea.de [accessed on November 13, 2017]).
  5. ^ Precious pottery from Kap-Sun Hwang in Weiden . In: Beautiful living . ( schoener-wohnen.de [accessed on November 13, 2017]).

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hwang is the family name here, Kap-Sun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Hwang, Cape Sun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean ceramic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul