Oh Junggeun

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 오정근
Revised
Romanization 		O Jeong-geun
McCune-
Reischauer 		O Chŏngkŭn

Oh Junggeun ( Korean 오정근 ) (born September 27, 1970 in Seoul / South Korea ) is a South Korean painter. He lives and works in Berlin .

biography

Oh Junggeun studied Fine Arts at Seoul National University . During his studies, he worked as a teacher at the Sun-Hwa University of the Arts in Seoul and as a lecturer in fine arts at Wonkwang University in Iksan . In 2004 he moved to Berlin, where he has lived and worked with his family ever since.

plant

Oh began his painting practice creating photorealistic paintings and elaborate woodcuts. In his early work he dealt intensively with the Korean War , in which his father served as a soldier on the South Korean side.

Gaps

Since Oh has been living in Berlin, he has been developing his series of works “Between Spaces”, in which he draws the structures that outline the outer lines of well-known buildings in the city (e.g. the Brandenburg Gate , Reichstag building , Potsdamer Platz ) in the sky as minimalized and abstract forms brings the canvas. Here he applies up to 12 layers of paint. His small-format photo overpaintings represent, so to speak, the starting point for the more abstract medium and large-format oil paintings.

Important exhibitions & projects

Project 2012: Buddy Bear 발견 - Discovery - Discovery in front of the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin

Exhibitions

  • 1995: The 5th PRO-CLAIM Exhibition, Cultural Center of Seoul National University Seoul
  • 1997: Seoul / Tokyo / Chicago Exchange Prints Exhibition, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo
  • 2001: Exchange Exhibition of student works, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
  • 2006: "Light", China Gate, Berlin
  • 2006: "Interstices", galerie son, Berlin
  • 2007: Galerie Korea, cultural department of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Berlin
  • 2008: “The spaces in between Kurfürstendamm”, galerie son, Berlin
  • 2009: “3 berliner”, German Embassy London
  • 2012: "Berlin Interspaces", The Page Gallery, Seoul

Projects

  • 2007: "Schlitzaugen2007" as part of the Asia-Pacific Weeks Berlin
  • 2007: “Dialogue between Gerhard Richter and Junggeun Oh”, galerie son
  • 2008: SINAF Seoul International New Art Fair
  • 2008: Art project KPM - Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin
  • 2012: Berlin Long Night of Museums
  • 2012: Buddy Bear for the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin, which bears the name " 발견 (Balgyeon) - Discovery - Discovery".

Awards

  • 1996 & 1997: Special Prize at the Dong-A Fine Art Festival (National Museum of Modern Art, Kwacheon)
  • 2002: Selected and Purchase Prize at The 12th Space International Print Biennale (Sungkok Museum, Seoul)
  • 2004: First prize at the Dong-A Fine Art Festival (National Museum of Modern Art, Kwacheon)

literature

  • Junggeun OH - Berlin Interspaces , Seoul 2012, THE PAGE GALLERY, exhibition catalog
  • Mihyun Son (Ed.): Junggeun OH - The Intermediate Spaces Kurfürstendamm , Berlin 2008, galerie son, exhibition catalog, with a text by Suk Kyoon Shin
  • Junggeun OH - Zwischenzimmer Berlin 2007, cultural department of the Korean Embassy in Berlin, exhibition catalog

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die Welt : Red Sky over Berlin: Junggeun Oh in the gallery Son 23 November 2007
  2. ↑ Junggeun Oh and the galerie son in the program of the Berlin Long Night of Museums on January 28, 2012
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Oh is the family name here, Junggeun is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Oh, Junggeun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oh, Jung Geun; 오정근 (Hangeul); O, Jeong-geun (revised romanization)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul , South Korea