Jung Me

Jung Me Chai (* 1966 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a German curator and author of Korean descent .

Career

Jung Me Chai completed her art studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in the “Audio Visual” faculty. Since then she has lived and worked in Berlin and Seoul as a curator, project manager and author. Since 2008 she has been active as an author for the ARKO webzine of the Arts Council Korea and reports on the German and European art scene. 2011–2014 she was in charge of the “Transfer Korea-NRW” project at the Culture Secretariat-NRW.

Jung Me Chai works as a freelance curator and author in Berlin and Seoul. She is the founding director of the nonprofit organization Diskurs Berlin and is a founding member of the Kunstverein 701 eV , Düsseldorf. She publishes art-related columns for The Monthly Art Magazine Wolgan Misul.

Works in public collections (selection)

• Philips Netherlands
• Sparkasse Unna Cultural Foundation

Curatorial projects (selection)

• 2001: Grand Canyon , for film, video, performance, with curated by Gia Edzgveradze, Museum Bochum
• 2004: Kleines Affektchen , for film, video, performance with curated by Gia Edzgveradze, Museum Bochum
• 2006: Young art in Düsseldorf , art auction, Kunstverein 701e.V., Ernst & Young, K20 Düsseldorf, Christie's
• 2009: Committee for the nomination of artists , Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center , Korea
• 2010: A different similarity , Museum Bochum
• 2013: ANYBODY WHO IS DISTURBED BY FLOW OF INFORMATION, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Curator-at-Large, documenta 14
• 2014: Latex Ideology, The 4th Mediations Biennale Poznań, Guest Curator
• 2014: 25/25/25, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Anniversary Project of Kunststiftung NRW
• 2017: STATION PARADOX, Momentum, Berlin, co-curator Rachel Rits-Volloch
• 2018: IF YOU ARE NOT A BIRD, Asia Triennial Manchester 2018, Guest Curator

Prices

• Berlagefonds, Amsterdam (Prize for Audio Visual), 2001
• Funding for the short film, Foundation Filmstad, The Hague, 2001
• Art & Language Scholarship , Sparkasse Unna Cultural Foundation, 2002

Web links

• official homepage
• Biography on kunstaspekte.de
• Jung Me in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARKO-Webzine 2008 , accessed April 24, 2013 (Korean).
2. ↑ Arts Council Korea website , accessed April 24, 2013.
3. ^ Kultur-Secretariat-NRW: Jung Me , project “Transfer Korea-NRW”, accessed on April 24, 2013.
4. ↑ Founding members of Kunstverein 701 ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 24, 2013. 
5. ↑ Seoul Arts Center Hangaram Art Museum ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , U S B: Emerging Korean Artists in the World 2009 from October 31, 2009.  
6. ↑ Project Management Jung Me ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 9th art and artist exchange »Transfer« Korea - NRW, accessed on April 24, 2013. 
7. ↑ District President visits Düsseldorf artist Jung Me in her studio ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release District Government Düsseldorf from September 17, 2003.