Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoy (2015)

Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi ( Korean 경화 초이 아호이 ; born 1967 in Seoul ) is a South Korean draftsman, author and university lecturer living in Germany . From 2015 to 2019 she was professor of drawing at the Bremen University of the Arts and has been professor of drawing at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art since 2019 .

Life

Diploma exhibition (2001)

Choi-ahoi came to Germany to study in 1991, initially to Trier and Mainz, where she studied art history , philosophy and Latin . In 1994 she moved to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and studied with KP Brehmer , Werner Büttner and Fritz W. Kramer. Her last name is a pseudonym, a play on words with the port city of Hamburg, which became her first home in Germany. In 1998 she completed a stage design internship at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg with the production Blue in Blue directed by Stefan Moskov. From 1999 to 2000 she spent a semester abroad as an Erasmus scholarship holder at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Graf .

Exhibition view Far and Near (2001)

For her diploma thesis, Choi-ahoi was awarded the Karl H. Ditze Prize in Hamburg in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, after completing her diploma, she completed postgraduate studies with Werner Büttner. Since 2011, Choi-Ahoi has been working as a university lecturer alongside her own artistic work, initially as a lecturer in drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences , Faculty of Design, Media and Information. In 2015 she accepted a call as professor for drawing at the University of the Arts Bremen in the master's studio of the School of Visual Combinations, which artistically combines the fields of typography, drawing, editorial design and publishing.

She is married to a fellow student, the Greek painter Nikos Valsamakis.

plant

Calendar hanging month February 2016 Afterimages of memory

Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi's works combine the elements of drawing and recording into an art form of their own. "As a child, she linked drawings with poetic diary notes - a practice that she has continued to this day," wrote art historian Belinda Grace Gardner. "The diary drawings that have become her trademark have been created since the first semester when she began to draw five to ten sheets of A4 paper every day."

Drawing projects

In 1999 the idea arose to make one or two diary drawings a day as part of a long-term project. In these diary sheets she processes poetic and everyday objects, events, people and things from her personal environment. To date, she has created thousands of diary drawings; in 2021 there were already over 8,000. Each drawing is typed with a date on the front. More than 200 diary drawings are now part of the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi had her first solo exhibition in 2001 under the title Fern und Nah .

Since 2000 she has also been working continuously on the drawing project Encyclopedia Personae , a drawn social history of her time. It contains quick sketches of people in their environment, which they accompany for a day - from getting up to going to bed - with documentary drawings. In DIN A5 notebooks, she records how these people spend their day and notes down answers to personal questions. By 2021, more than seventy such issues had been created.

After a residency at Ritzebüttel Castle in Cuxhaven in 2013, she increasingly incorporated elements from nature and the flora into her drawings, often in relation to parts of human anatomy. She dealt intensively with anatomical studies from 2012 to 2014. Since then, occupation with the plant world has been part of the garden drawing project .

Book publications

In 1999 Choi-ahoy's first artistic book publication Literal Drawings - Graphic Letters was published by the in-house material publishing house of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Since then she has published other artist books, such as Lieber Geld , published in 2014, which journalist Anna Brenken described as "a mosaic as curious as it is poetic". In this, Choi-ahoi proves her “inestimable talent for discovering the great world theater in a small way in everyday life”. In the epilogue to the From Hamburg to Vienna and back: Tag.Buch.Zeichnung 1999 and 2000 published by Textem Verlag, publisher Michael Glasmeier writes:

“Inherent in the Hamburg-Vienna diary are the incessant movements of searching, trying and orienting a student. ... That coincides with Choi-ahoy's extraordinary and unconditional curiosity (curiositas) as the will to know, as the 'lust of the eyes' (Augustine), which begins with astonishment and is then transformed and appropriated through artistic, writing actions . "

- Michael Glasmeier : Epilogue. In: From Hamburg to Vienna and back
  • Diary drawings

  • No. 626 May 14, 2000

  • No. 2638 April 5, 2004

  • No. 5367 September 6, 2010

  • No. 5704 December 30, 2011

  • No. 5887 July 8, 2012

  • No. 6081 June 14, 2013

Awards

  • 2001: Karl H. Ditze Prize
  • 2014: Sella Hasse Art Prize, Hamburg

Scholarships and Residencies

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

  • 2001: Far and Near , Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2003: sky blue , Art Association Rügen
  • 2003: Pigment ohne Zucker , Galerie Art and Henle, Berlin
  • 2004: December 20th , 2004 , Galerie ProjecteSD, Barcelona
  • 2004: tag.buch.zeichnung , Galerie Gruppe Grün, Bremen
  • 2004: redwine from chile , Künstlerhaus Lauenburg
  • 2006: March 18 , 2005 , Künstlerhaus Hamburg
  • 2010: In words and drawings , Kramer Fine Art Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2013: Cheerful days , Kunstverein Schallstadt
  • 2014: Mutterkorn , Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg
  • 2015: Eyes apples, noses bloom , Heine-Haus Hamburg
  • 2020: Ovar , Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg

Group exhibitions

  • 1998: Kehdingen art association is also close
  • 1999: The Books of Artists , Library of the Art Academy Vienna
  • 1999: Similar Grounds , Kampnagel KX , Hamburg
  • 1999: Art in the stock exchange , Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
  • 2000: Nails with braids , Palais for Contemporary Art in Glückstadt
  • 2004: Art in Hamburg. Today , Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2004: Scholarship holders 2004 , Westwerk, Hamburg
  • 2006: Art in Hamburg. Today ll , Hamburger Kunsthalle
  • 2006: Lulea Summer Biennale , Sweden
  • 2007: Unfair '07 , Ileana Tounta Gallery Athens
  • 2007: no drawing, no draftsman , Art Association Rügen
  • 2007: Particules libres - nouvelle , Citè Internationale des Arts Paris
  • 2008: We call it Hamburg , Kunstverein Hamburg
  • 2008: present perfect / portraits , Galerie Martin Asbæk Projects Copenhagen
  • 2010: Nominated Index , Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 2010: Da Hood II , Gängeviertel Hamburg
  • 2013: Pure drawing , Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg
  • 2014: Chill Out! , Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg
  • 2014: Bremen Art Spring , site of the former Bremen freight yard
  • 2015: Remembrance , Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg
  • 2016: Hoehen Rausch , Galerie Eigen + Art Lab Berlin
  • 2016: Literature in the houses of the city , C15 Collection Lohmann Hamburg
  • 2016: Afterimages of memory , Frize Künstlerhaus Hamburg
  • 2017: La Cuisine Allmonde , Galerie du Tableau, Marseille
  • 2017: Artist books for everything , Weserburg Museum for Modern Art Bremen
  • 2017: Eros , Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg
  • 2017: Always trouble with the grandparents , Künstlerhaus Sootbörn and Kunsthaus Dresden
  • 2018: Stuttgart Sichten , Deichtorhallen Hamburg
  • 2019: Envisioning America , Galerie Hengevoss-Dürkop Hamburg
  • 2019: Probabilities of Residence , Flag Studio Osaka
  • 2019: The Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing 5 , Bangkok
  • 2020: Eye of Mobile , Onkaf Gallery New Delhi


  • Exhibition views (selection)

  • Drawing Pur Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop (2013)

  • OVAR (detail)

  • OVAR , Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop (2020)

Publications

  • Literal Drawings - Graphic Letters . Edition drawing, Material 104. Materialverlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 978-3-932395-08-6 .
  • Kunstraum Heidorf (Ed.): Cook and People. Memories of a city . Strodehner Presse, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-940021-15-1 .
  • Ophthalmologist and watchmaker . Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941613-21-8 .
  • Dear money . Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-864850-74-5 .
  • From Hamburg to Vienna and back: Tag.Buch. Drawing 1999 and 2000 . Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-864852-38-1 .
  • Image contributions in: Insa Härtel (Ed.): Friction and irritation: Psychoanalysis, culture and their science . Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2021, ISBN 978-3-864852-37-4 .

further reading

  • Andrea von Goetz (Ed.): Kunstresidenz Bad Gastein - Scholarship holders 2011. VGS Art, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-000360-83-1 .
  • Fritz W. Kramer: Among artists. Explorations in the Lerchenfeld. Comments on future artists . Row: Campo. Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-86485-240-4 .

Web links

Commons : Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gyc: Findings: Morbus bleistiftiensis . Fortunately incurable . In: THE WORLD . August 15, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed July 28, 2021]).
  2. ↑ a b c Belinda Grace Gardner: Studio visit: The life of others. In: welt.de - Welt am Sonntag. August 17, 2014, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  3. ↑ HFBK: Karl H. Ditze Prize for the best thesis. Retrieved August 23, 2021 .
  4. ^ School of Visual Combinations. In: schoolofvisualcombinations.hfk-bremen.de. Retrieved July 28, 2021 .
  5. ↑ MAP: Short review: The prose volume "Ophthalmologist and watchmaker". Amazement and doubt. In: taz.de. June 22, 2011, accessed July 28, 2021 .
  6. ^ "Ergot" - Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi. In: hengevossduerkop.de. Dr. Kerstin Hengevoss-Dürkop, accessed on July 28, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Belinda Grace Gardner: "It's me" means "well" in Korean . In: The world . August 15, 2001 ( welt.de [accessed July 28, 2021]).
  8. ↑ Literal drawing - graphic letters. In: material-verlag.hfbk-hamburg.de. Hamburg University of Fine Arts, accessed on July 28, 2021 .
  9. ↑ Anna Brenken: SWR2 The book review (manuscript): Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi: Dear money. In: docplayer.org. Südwestrundfunk, March 4, 2015, accessed on August 5, 2021 .
  10. ↑ Michael Glasmeier: Afterword . In: Michael Glasmeier (Ed.): From Hamburg to Vienna and back: Tag.Buch. Drawing 1999 and 2000 . 2020, p. 199 .
  11. ↑ Ulla Lohmann: Current 2014: Winner of the Sella Hasse Art Prize 2014. In: lohmanndialog-hamburg.de. Retrieved July 28, 2021 .
  12. ^ Hajo Schiff: Artistic Memory Work: Stories of History. In: taz.de - taz on the weekend. March 5, 2016, accessed July 28, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Choi-ahoi, Kyung-hwa
SHORT DESCRIPTION South Korean painter and university lecturer
BIRTH DATE 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul