Kyungwoo Chun

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Kyungwoo Chun (* 1969 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a Korean artist. His work includes photo projects and performances in which the audience actively participates. He studied photography at the College of Arts at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea (until 1992) and communication design at the University of Wuppertal (Diploma 2000). Since 2007 he has been Professor of Photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul. He lives and works in Seoul, Korea.

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Chun achieved international recognition for portraits, many of which have a characteristic blurring - the result of long exposure times. As diverse as the artistic approaches appear at first glance, Chun equally regards both the performances and the photographs as “visible manifestations of what is not visible”.

Since the early 2000s, performance works have been created parallel to photography. These are time-limited processes that he carries out with individuals or groups. As an author and initiator, Kyungwoo Chun largely takes a back seat. It creates a framework in which the participants can act independently according to rules that they have defined in advance. You usually have the option to leave something of your own. Sometimes it's a personal item, a photo, or just the answer to a question. In other cases, their physical presence is sufficient.

The sensitization for a changed perception of time and the intensification of the dialogue with oneself and with others are essential aspects of this artistic practice.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Kyungwoo Chun - Ordinary Unknown, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • 2018 Face of Face, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
  • 2016 Kyungwoo Chun - The Most Beautiful, The Weight, MAC-VAL-musée d'art contemporain Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
  • 2015 Nine Editors, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2013 Interpreters, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2012 RESPONSE / HALLE OBEN, Kunsthalle Göppingen , Göppingen
  • 2010 THOUSANDS, Laznia, Center for Contemporary Art, Dazing
  • 2010 SIMULTAN, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
  • 2010 BEING A QUEEN, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
  • 2009 BEING A QUEEN, Aarhus Kunstbygning, center for contemporary art, Aarhus, Denmark
  • 2009 THOUSANDS, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  • 2009 New Works, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2008 BreaThings, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
  • 2008 THOUSANDS, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2008 SAPPHO: OHPPAS, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen
  • 2007 Last Works, Galería Nuble, FOCONORTE-festival de fotografía y vídeo, Santander, Spain
  • 2007 VERSUS & BELIEVING IS SEEING, Gallery Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2007 BELIEVING IS SEEING, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2006 screen sprit_continued, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen
  • 2006 In / finite, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
  • 2005 100 Questions - Photographs, video installation, DKM Foundation, Duisburg
  • 2004 Kyungwoo Chun, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
  • 2003 Kyungwoo Chun "reMEMBERed", Odense Photo Triennale, Museet for Photo Art, Brandts Klædefabrik Odense, Denmark
  • 2002 this appearance, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
  • 2001 Kyungwoo Chun 1998–2001, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  • 2001 Thirty Minutes Dialog, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark

Collections (selection)

  • Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Museum for Arts and Crafts , Hamburg
  • Collection Alison & Peter W. Klein , Eberdingen-Nussdorf
  • The Caldic Collection / Museum Voorlinden , Rotterdam, the Netherlands
  • Centro Cultural Andratx-CCA , Spain
  • Art gallery Emden , Emden
  • Kunsthalle Göppingen , Goeppingen
  • Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  • Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
  • Laznia-Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
  • MAC-VAL - Musée d'art contemporain Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
  • CIRCA XX: Colección Pilar Citoler, Madrid, Spain
  • Museum of Fine Arts , Houston, Texas, USA
  • Burger Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Gemeentemuseum , The Hague, Netherlands
  • Vedder Collection, Zollikon, Switzerland
  • Museet for Photo Art, Brandts Klaedefabrik Odense, Denmark
  • Kunst en Complex Collection, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de FotografÌa, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
  • The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea

Awards / Scholarships

  • 2008 Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea grant
  • 2007 Hanmi Photography Award, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea
  • 2007 scholarship, DIVA exchange program, The Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2007 Commissioned work and award, C Photo Magazine, Ivory Press, London, UK
  • 2001 and 2005 scholarship from the Korean Foundation for Culture and Art, Seoul, Korea
  • 2004 Artist grant, Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca, Spain
  • 2001–2002 scholarship, awarded by the city of Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony

literature

  • Kyungwoo Chun - Performance Raisonné I (Text: Jiyoon Lee), IANN Books, Seoul, 2011
  • Kyungwoo Chun - Photographs (Text: Hyeyoung Shin), IANN Books, Seoul, 2011
  • bild.klang.los - A trialog by Kyungwoo Chun, Kunsu Shim and Gerhard Stäbler (Text: Hella Melkert, Peter Friese ), PFAU Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2009, ISBN 978-3-89727-427-3
  • Being a Queen - Kyungwoo Chun (Text: Louise Wolthers, Rune Gade, Nathalie Boseul Shin), Forlaget Vandkunsten, Copenhagen, 2009
  • Kyungwoo Chun - Thousands (Texts: Wulf Herzogenrath , Nils Ohlsen , Jiyoon Lee, Urs Stahel ), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2167-7
  • Believing is Seeing (Text: Hyeyoung Shin), Gaain Gallery, Seoul, 2007
  • Kyungwoo Chun - photographs, video, performances (Texts: Stephan Berg , Minseong Kim, Susanne Pfeffer ), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7757-1701-4
  • Kyungwoo Chun, The Museum of Photography (Text: Seungkon Kim, Hanmi Foundation of Culture and Arts), Seoul, 2004
  • This appearance - Kyungwoo Chun, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst edition23, Delmenhorst, 2002
  • Kyungwoo Chun 1998–2001 (Texts: Finn Thrane, Enno Kaufhold), Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul, 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Chun, Kyungwoo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Korean artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul