Kim Young-Hee

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김영희
Revised Romanization	Gim Yeong-hui
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Yŏnghŭi
See also : Korean name

Kim Young-Hee (* 1944 in Gyeongju , South Korea) is a South Korean sculptor .

Life

In 1969 Kim graduated from Hongik University in Seoul as a master class student . From 1971 to 1977 she worked as an art teacher and in 1981 became a teacher at Inh Hua University. After the death of her first husband, she emigrated to Germany with her three children. In December 1981 she moved to Munich, where she works as a freelance sculptor. Here she married a German who was 14 years her junior and with whom she had two more children. She wrote a book in Korean about her emigration history that was published in 1992 and became a bestseller with over 2 million copies sold. Kim achieved international recognition with her sculptures made of mulberry paper, symbolsof traditional Korea, its culture and its people. Kim is a well-known visual artist and successful writer in South Korea, whose other novels also achieved bestselling status. She has had over 70 solo exhibitions worldwide. Kim lives and works in Penzing near Munich .

Solo exhibitions

• 1978 Seoul / South Korea, Chosun Hotel
• 1979 Seoul / South Korea, Space Art Gallery
• 1981 Munich, City Museum
• 1981 Bonn, IfA gallery
• 1981 Limburg / Lahn, City Museum
• 1981 Berlin, special exhibition of the Völkerkundemuseum
• 1982 Emmen / Netherlands, Theater de Muzeval
• 1982 Breda / Netherlands, Ethnological Museum
• 1982 Eindhoven / Netherlands, Philips Ontspannings Centrum
• 1983 Regensburg, Art and Art Historical Collection
• 1983 Munich, Richard Grimm Gallery
• 1984 Düsseldorf, airport
• 1984 Bonn, Dresdner Bank
• 1984 Nuremberg, Gallery KIG
• 1984 Munich, Richard Grimm Gallery
• 1985 Groebenzell, town hall
• 1985 Sankt Augustin, City Hall
• 1985 Essen, Calico Gallery
• 1985 Augsburg, Galerie Fischer
• 1985 Munich, Richard Grimm Gallery
• 1985 Paris, cultural center of the South Korean embassy
• 1986 Basel / Switzerland, Galerie Jäggi
• 1986 Marburg, gallery nostalgia / art
• 1986 Düsseldorf, Gallery 62
• 1986 Darmstadt, Charlotte Hennig Gallery
• 1987 Gengenbach, Löwenberg House
• 1987 Munich, Richard Grimm Gallery
• 1988 Special exhibition in France: La Rochelle, Maison Municipale des Jeunes Ile de Ré Arachon, Bordeaux
• 1988 Munich, special exhibition Gasteig
• 1988 Hamburg, Gallery Dr. Karl Hennig
• 1988 Nördlingen, town hall
• 1989 Hameln, Galerie Christel Fahrenhorst
• 1989 Strasbourg / France, La Galerie Gabrielle Fliegans
• 1990 Bonn, IfA gallery
• 1990 Seoul / South Korea, The Chson Ilbo Art Gallery
• 1991 Gengenbach, Museum Haus Löwenberg
• 1992 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 1993 Hamm, "Elektrozentrale" Maximilianpark
• 1993 Augsburg, Municipal Collection, Schaezlerpalais
• 1994 Würzburg, gallery in the Schildhof
• 1994 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 1994 Seoul / South Korea, Choson Art Gallery
• 1994 Kronberg near Frankfurt, Hellhof Gallery
• 1995 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 1996 Art Cologne
• 1997 Art Cologne
• 1997/98 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 1998/99 Hameln, Christel Fahrenhorst Gallery
• 2000 Landsberg am Lech, New Municipal Museum
• 2001/02 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 2003/04 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery
• 2006 Munich, Galerie Terminus
• 2008 Heidelberg, gallery p13
• 2008 Seoul / South Korea, Hyundai Gallery with Chosun Art Gallery
• 2008 Cologne, Art.Fair, rupa publishing
• 2010 South Korea, solo exhibition for the 90th birthday of Chosun Ilbo
• 2011 Viernheim, building bridges , Gerdi Gutperle art space

Group exhibitions

• 1979 Paris, UNESCO doll exhibition
• 1983 Gandria / Switzerland, La Cipolla
• 1985 Madrid / Spain, International Art Fair Arco
• 1985 Munich, Galerie Lee
• 1986 Düren, 1st International Biennial Festival of Paper Art in Düren

Performance and installations

• 1980 South Korean State Television; 16 part series: Dances and plays with masks by Kim Young-Hee
• 1985 Munich, Maximilianstrasse, Richard Grimm Gallery
• 1986 Darmstadt, Large House, Charlotte Hennig Gallery
• 1987 Munich, Lenbachhaus, MUDANG
• 1988 Munich, Gasteig
• 1989 Munich, gallery b15
• 1991 Frankfurt, Museum of Arts and Crafts
• 2001 Munich, TamS Theater "A Woman's Life — Where Are You Going, White Buddha?"

literature

• The Family of Dolls: Sculptures and Short Stories . Edward Kim, Hyung Mun Publications, Seoul 1981
• Woman good at Making Children . Design House, Seoul 1992
• Yellow Dandelions in Munich . Koreaone, Seoul 1994
• Kim Young-Hee: Traces in the paper. A portrait . Thomas Haimerl, 1994, ISBN 978-3980397407
• The Children Who Grow up Overnight . Sigongsa, Seoul 1995
• From the tip of the toes to the tip of the hand . Sigongsa, Seoul 1997
• Makeup Was Only on Her Eyes . Samtohsa, Seoul 2001
• The Children with Little Eyes . Samtohsa, Seoul 2002
• Mama Is Reading Aloud . Samtohsa, Seoul 2003
• Apple Tree…, Dream Tree… Samtohsa, Seoul 2004
• Kim Young-Hee: Sculpture 2D - Collected Works of the Modern Age. German and English . rupa publishing, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3940393074

Web links

• Kim Young-Hee - Official Website
• Profile on Nate-People (Korean)
• Kim Young-Hee in the gallery P13, Heidelberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 헤어져야 더 행복 하다면 그게 맞는 거죠 - 김영희 『엄마 를 졸업 하다』 Interview on yes24.com (Korean).
2. ↑ 아이 를 잘 만드는 여자 . Book title on yes24.com (Korean).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Young-hee is the first name.