Min Clara Kim

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Min Clara Kim (born Kim Min-seon on April 3, 1966 in Seoul , South Korea ) is a German painter .

life and work

Min Clara Kim first completed an art degree at Hong-Ik University in Seoul before moving to Germany, where she began studying painting in 1994 at the Münster Art Academy in Hermann-Josef Kuhna's painting class , which she started with in 2001 Graduated from the academy letter. In 1998 she became a master student of Hermann-Josef Kuhna. In 1999 she received a travel grant from the Münster Art Academy to Vienna. In 2002 she was awarded the art prize of the Deutsche Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken .

In Min Clara Kim's representational pictures, a single object or a single person is usually placed in the center of the picture, often only surrounded by white or poorly differentiated surroundings. Her motifs often come from the East Asian treasure trove of forms, but are formulated in the manner and with profound knowledge of Western oil painting. “Her pictures alternate between a precisionist fine painting, with roots back to the Renaissance, and Korean floral patterns, enveloped in the breath of Eastern contemplation. These pictures combine the trompe l'œil of western still lifes with the charm of eastern ornamentation and the white grounds of ink painting in an almost dreamlike security of harmony [...] “The realistic representation can easily be confused with a photorealism . However, Kim does not paint your subjects from the model, but recreates them . "Layers and folds are correctly bulked and canted according to the rules of plastic appearance [...]". In doing so, she calculates and plays with the viewing experiences of the viewer and thus simultaneously researches a universal language of forms.

Min Clara Kim lives and works in Düsseldorf, where she runs a studio with the painter Hugo Boguslawski .

She is one of the founding members of the RheinBrücke artist group . She has had German citizenship since 2005 and uses the name Clara as her middle name.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1998 "150 Years of the Civil Revolution", Coburg Art Association
  • 1999 "In Westphalian Palaces 99", Opherdicke House, Unna
  • 2001 Galerie Niepel near Morawitz, Düsseldorf
  • 2001 Steinrötter Gallery, Münster
  • 2002 Kunst-Werke Berlin, Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
  • 2002 Marburg Art Association
  • 2002 AO Gallery, Emsdetten
  • 2003 Galerie Niepel near Morawitz, Düsseldorf
  • 2003 Gallery Schwind, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2003 "Darmstädter Sezession", Darmstadt
  • 2003 "25 international dragons", Kunstverein Worms
  • 2004 Galerie Blau, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 2004 "Malereiforum", Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
  • 2005 Galerie Niepel near Morawitz, Düsseldorf
  • 2005 XIV. German International Graphic Triennial Frechen, Frechen Art Association
  • 2005 Heidi Borutta Gallery, Recklinghausen
  • 2006 Art Association Erlangen
  • 2006 Galerie Kunsttachometer Theofilos Klonaris, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 2007 Gallery 48, Saarbrücken
  • 2007 Noack Gallery, Mönchengladbach
  • 2008 "RheinBrücke", cubus art gallery, Duisburg
  • 2009 "Figurative Art from Korea", Die Galerie, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2009 Kunstverein Sulzbach (with the artist group RheinBrücke)
  • 2009 Kunstverein Oberhausen, "Art Summer 2009" (with the artist group RheinBrücke)
  • 2009 "rhine representational", cubus kunsthalle, Duisburg (with the artist group RheinBrücke)
  • 2010 Art Association Frechen (with the artist group RheinBrücke)
  • 2010 Driesch & Klonaris, Contemporary Art Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 2010 Gallery CP Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden
  • 2011 Municipal Gallery Lippstadt
  • 2011 Kunstverein Salzgitter
  • 2011 "People Pictures", Franconian Gallery, Kronach
  • 2012 Kulturspeicher Oldenburg in the State Museum for Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
  • 2012 Art Association Unna
  • 2012 Essigfabrik Gallery, Lübeck
  • 2012 Espace des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France
  • 2012 "Art Prize Wesseling 2012", Art Association Wesseling
  • 2012 Espace des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France
  • 2012 Art.Fair / Galerie Michael Nolte, Münster
  • 2012 "Painting 12", Art Association Gelsenkirchen
  • 2013 Kreuztal cultural station
  • 2013 Galería Simon Nolte, Porto Colom, Mallorca, Spain
  • 2013 Art Association Virtuell-Visuell, Dorsten
  • 2013 Gallery Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden
  • 2013 ART Karlsruhe / Galerie Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden
  • 2014 Galerie le cœur, Cologne
  • 2014 Gallery Art-Eck, Solingen
  • 2014 Cologne List, Gallery Cerny + Partner, Wiesbaden
  • 2014 "Sommerfrische", Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln
  • 2014 Galerie le cœur, Cologne

literature

  • Andreas Moersener: Min Clara Kim . In: Ralf Hartweg on behalf of WGZ-Bank AG Westdeutsche Genossenschafts-Zentralbank, Düsseldorf (publisher): WGZ Bank art collection - new acquisitions since 2006 . Düsseldorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045979-5 , p. 76.
  • Kunstverein Salzgitter (Ed.): Min Clara Kim. Painting 2000–2011 . Salzgitter and Düsseldorf 2011
  • Ralf Hartweg: Art in the WGZ Bank . In: Ralf Hartweg: WGZ Bank art collection . Edited on behalf of WGZ-Bank Düsseldorf. Münster and Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020197-4 , p. 12
  • Manfred Schneckenburger : Min Clara Kim . In: Ralf Hartweg: WGZ Bank art collection . Edited on behalf of WGZ-Bank Düsseldorf. Münster and Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-020197-4 , p. 187
  • Manfred Schneckenburger: Precision, contemplation and the decorative shine . In: Min-Seon Kim - Pictures 2000 - 2002 . Münster 2002, pp. 4–5
  • Thomas Hirsch: On the nature of fabrics . In: Min-Seon Kim - Pictures 2000 - 2002 . Münster 2002, pp. 8-11
  • RheinBrücke, group for representational painting (ed.): RheinBrücke - group for representational painting . Düsseldorf and Cologne 2007
  • Manfred Schneckenburger: Steer and let go . In: WGZ-Bank Düsseldorf (Ed.): Great! Painting by master students of the Kuhna class / Art Academy Münster . Düsseldorf 2004, p. 8
  • Manfred Schneckenburger: Min-Seon Kim: Fabrics like gold and silk . In: WGZ-Bank Düsseldorf (Ed.): Great! Painting by master students of the Kuhna class / Art Academy Münster . Düsseldorf 2004, p. 32
  • Manfred Schneckenburger: Symbolic magic of the still life . In: Goethe Institut Santiago de Chile (Ed.): Min-Seon Kim - Pictures 1995 - 2000 . Santiago de Chile 2000, pp. 4-5
  • Manfred Schneckenburger: Bold stain and precision painting . In: Kulturamt der Stadt Telgte (Ed.): Class Kuhna in Telgte Town Hall 1999 . Telgte 1999, p. 7
  • Martin Henatsch : Painting in Westphalian castles . In: Kunstakademie Münster (ed.): "In Westphalian castles 1999" Master student of the Kunstakademie Münster . Münster 1999, ISBN 3-928682-25-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Schneckenburger : Precision, Contemplation and the Decorative Shine . In: Min-Seon Kim - Pictures 2000-2002 . Münster 2002, p. 4
  2. ↑ Ibid., P. 5

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Kim, Min Clara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kim, Min-seon (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea