Kyungwoo Chun / biography

1969       born in Seoul, Korea

              lives and works in Seoul and Bremen

 

 

1992       B.F.A. in Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Korea
2000       Diploma in Kommunikationsdesign, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany



Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2015      Nine Editors, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfur/Main 

2013      Three Hands, PLATEAU BILLBOARD PROJECT 1 / Seoul

             Kyungwoo Chun: Interpreters, Gaain Gallery / Seoul

 

2012      Perfect Relay, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst / Delmenhorst

             Response, Halle oben - Kunsthalle Göppingen / Göppingen

 

2011      Thousands, Kunsthalle / Erfurt

 

2010      Thousands, LAZNIA, Centre for contemporary art / Gdansk

             Departure Songs, DNA / Berlin      
             Being a Queen, Museum of Photography Seoul / Seoul
             Thousands, Laznia-Center for Contemporary Art / Danzig

2009      Being a Queen, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Center for Contemporary Art / Aarhus 
             Burden or Support, video and performance, Galleri Image / Aarhus
             Thousands, Kunsthalle Emden / Emden
             BreaThings, Gaain Gallery / Seoul
             Thousands, Total Museum of Contemporary Art / Seoul
             Kyungwoo Chun, Gaain Gallery / Seoul
             Thousands-fragments, Galeria Raquel Ponce / Madrid

2008      Thousands-Miles, Centro Huarte-Centro de Arte Contemporáneo / Navarra
             BreaThings, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art / Frankfurt
             Thousands- fragments, Fifty One Fine Art Photography / Antwerp
             SAPPHO: OHPPAS, Kunstverein Ruhr / Essen

2007      Last Works, Galería Nuble, FOCONORTE-festival de fotografía y vídeo / Santander
             Silence is Movement, DNA / Berlin
             Projecting Life Indoors (2-person), Casa Asia / Barcelona
             Versus & Believing is Seeing, Gallery Van Zoetendaal / Amsterdam
             Believing is Seeing, Gaain Gallery / Seoul
             Versus, Galería Arteko / Donostia-San Sebsatian
             Versus, Galería Raquel Ponce / Madrid

2006      Screen sprit_continued, Staedtische Galerie im Buntentor / Bremen
             IN/FINITE, Galerie Bernhard Knaus / Mannheim
             Pseudonym, Fifty One Fine Art Photography / Antwerp

2005      100 Questions - Photographs, Video Installation, Stiftung DKM / Duisburg
             Dialog, Kuenstlerhaus Goettingen / Goettingen
             A Naming Game (video, photographs, and performance), Galería Arteko / San Sebastian

2004      A Day in Seoul, Van Zoetendaal Gallery / Amsterdam
             Kyungwoo Chun, The Museum of Photography (Hanmi Art Foundation) / Seoul
             Intervals, Galeria FF / Lodz

2003      Kyungwoo Chun ‘reMEMBERed’, Odense Foto Triennale, Brandts Klædefabrik / Odense
             Eidolon, Pruess & Ochs Gallery / Berlin

2002      This appearance, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst / Delmenhorst 

2001      Kyungwoo Chun 1998–2001, Sungkok Art Museum / Seoul
             Thirty Minutes Dialog, Galleri Image / Aarhus

1998      Zeitraum im Verschwinden, Werkraum Uerdingerstrasse / Cologne

1994      Aura, Ba-Tang-Gol Gallery / Seoul

 

Selected Performances

 

2011     Versus in Times Square, Times Square, New York

            100 questions, Arko Art Center, Seoul

            Thousands, "The Golden Table", Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk

            Thousands, "Trialog", "1000 MOONS", Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt

 

2010     Silence is Movement, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk
            Book Launch and Performance, Kultur und Stadthistorisches Museum Duisburg, Duisburg

 

2009     PERFORMAT I-Kyungwoo Chun, Kunsthalle Bremen / Bremen
            BreaThings, Gaain Gallery / Seoul
            Greetings, Galeria Raquel Ponce / Madrid

2008     Burden or Suport, Psi #14: Interregnum, University of Copenhagen / Copenhagen
            Bim Bim Blumen, Kunstverein Ruhr / Essen

2007     Projects/ VERSUS, curated program by ARTE LISBOA / Lisbon
            VERSUS Seoul-Barcelona2, Festival Asia, Casa Asia / Barcelona
            VERSUS Seoul-Barcelona1, Softpower exhibition, W Hotel / Seoul
            Into (apoyo o carga), Gaain Gallery / Seoul
            An Allegory of Failure, Galeria Arteko / Donostia-San Sebastian

2006     O Minute, Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum / Busan
            Into (apoyo o carga), National Gallery Prague / Prague
            11 Allegories, soccer club Manheim in arrangement of Galerie Bernhard Knaus / Mannheim

2005     O Minute -Video Performance, Artforum Berlin / Berlin
            O Minute, KIAF / Seoul
            Into (apoyo o carga), Galería Arteko / Donostia-San Sebastian

2004     18 x 1 Minute, Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de Fotografía / Donostia-San Sebastian
            18 x 1 Minute, Street at Artinus Gallery / Seoul

2003     18 x 1 Minute, ARCO Madrid - Art Unknown, 2003, curated by Bart de Baere, Barbara

            Steiner, Charles Esche / Madrid


Selected Group Exhibitions and Collaborations

 

2015      SHOOT: About Performance, DNA, Berlin

             Reverse Point Asia, Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve, Moscow 

             Liverpool biennial 10, Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art / Liverpool

             Chaotic Harmony: contemporary Korean Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art /                    Santa Barbara

             Man Ray's Photography & His Heritage, Seoul Museum of art / Seoul

             Jetzt-Die erzählte Zeit, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e.V. / Darmstadt
             Reflection, DNA / Berlin

2009      Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts /    
             Houston
             WHITE SPACES, a concert on the occasion of Gerhard Stäbler's 60. birthday, Wilhelm

             Lehmruck Museum/ Duisburg
             ARCHIVO, curated by Willem van Zoetendaal, MK Galerie / Berlin
             Hangul=Spirit: Inspired by Korean Characters, Korean Cultural Centre / London
             TRIALOG I, II - video, music, performance with Kunsu Shm and Gerhard Staebler, Total

             Museum of Contemporary Art, Gaain Gallery / Seoul
             TRIALOG III- video, music, performance with with Kunsu Shm and Gerhard Staebler,

             Kumho Art Hall / Seoul

2008      Liverpool Biennial: Fantasy Studio, A Foundation / Liverpool
             Verticals, Gallery Van Zoetendaal / Amsterdam
             SAPPHO, video installation with live music/ with Gerhard Staebler, WDR Musik Fest /

             Duisburg Landschaftspark

2007      Writing Paintings, Seoul Museum of Art / Seoul
             NYC Photo Exhibition, Phillips de Pury & Company / New York
             Angelegenheiten, die sich daraus ergeben, Kuenstlerhaus Bremen / Bremen
             Landscape of Korean Contemporary Photography, Seoul Museum of Art / Seoul
             Soft Power Exhibition, Korea Foundation Cultural Center / Seoul
             Silence is Movement, DNA / Berlin
             Statements, Bernhard Knaus Fina Art / Frankfurt
             Slow, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art / Zurich

2006      Tijdens fotomanifestatie Contrasten 1, Museum Gouda / Gouda
             White Spaces, Video Installation with concert (in collaboration with Gerhand Staebler),

             Tonhalle / Duesseldorf
             Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum / Busan
             El mar que tiene dos nombres. Videoarte de Corea, Casa Asia / Barcelona
             Daegu Photo Biennale / Daegu
             TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival Prague, Gallery Nova sin / Prague
             Artspectrum 2006, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art / Seoul  

2005      Paik and Beyond, Sonderschau Art Cologne / Cologne
             Asia - the place to be?, Alexander Ochs Galleries BERLIN BEIJING / Berlin

2004      Galeris Neuvelles Images / The Hague
             Wirklichkeit des Individuums, Kunsthalle Mannheim / Mannheim

2003     The Third Asian Photography, Guardian Garden / Tokyo

2002      Identitaet und Ideal, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe / Hamburg
             Perspektiven —81. Herbstausstellung niedersaechsischer Künstler, Kunstverein Hannover 

             / Hannover
             Portrait: portrait, Pruess & Ochs Gallery (formerly Asian Fine Arts Berlin) / Berlin
             International Young Art 2002, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts / New York;   

2001      Bremer Foerderpreis fuer Bildende Kunst, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor / Bremen
             Hall of Mirrors/Variants of the Portraits, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik /

             Odense

2000      Internationale Photoszene Koeln 2000, Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum / Cologne

1999      Schwarz und Weiss, Museum Schloss Morsbroich / Leverkusen
             Galerie im Funkhaus des MDR / Magdeburg
             Artriumgalerie des Willy-Brandt-Hauses / Berlin

 

Grants/Awards/Artist-in-residence

2008      Public Art Award, Hansestadt Bremen
             Grant, Art Council Korea
             Commision by Duisbueger Philharmonie

2007      Grant, Artists in Residence, DIVA Exchange Program, the Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen
             Grant, Ivory Press, London
             Hanmi Photography Prize 2007, the Museum of Photography (Hanmi Foundation for Arts

             and Culture), Seoul

2006      Commission, Tonhalle Duesseldorf

2005      Grant from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation

2004      Artist-in-residence, Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca
             Commission, Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de FotografÌa, San Sebastian

2001–02 Artist Scholarship from the City of Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen

 

2001      Grant from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation

Selected Public Collections

The Museum of Fine Arts / Houston
Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein / Eberdingen-Nussdorf
The Caldic Collection / Rotterdam
CIRCA XX : Colección Pilar Citoler / Madrid
Burger Collection / Zurich
Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe / Hamburg
Gemeentemuseum / The Hague
Vedder Collection / Zollikon
Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik / Odense
Kunst en Complex Collection / Rotterdam
Haus Coburg, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst / Delmenhorst
Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de Fotografía / Donostia-San Sebastian
Centro Cultural Andratx-CCA / Spain
Stiftung DKM / Duisburg
The Museum of Photography (Hanmi Foundation of Arts and Culture) / Seoul
Fortis Bank Collection / Rotterdam
Kunsthalle Emden / Emden
 

Selected Publications


„...als würden wir der Zeit Zusehen“ (Text: Urs Stahel) in Du Magazine, November 2009
bild.klang.los- Ein Trialog von Kyungwoo Chun, Kunsu Shim und Gerhard Stäbler (Text: Hella Melkert, Peter Friese),
PFAU Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2009
Being a Queen-Kyungwoo Chun (Text: Louise Wolthers, Rune Gade, Nathalie Boseul Shin), Forlaget Vandkunsten, Copenhagen, 2009
Art.es – project #26 (Text: Peter Friese), Madrid, Spain 2009
ARCHIVO-Thousands, Amsterdam (Text: Urs Stahel), the Netherlands, 2008
Kyungwoo Chun-Thousands (Texts: Wulf Herzogenrath, Nils Ohlsen, Jiyoon Lee, Urs Stahel), Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2008
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
Souvenirs (Text: Mika Elo), Sigongart, Seoul, 2005
KYUNGWOO CHUN, the Museum of Photography (Text: Seungkon Kim, Hanmi Foundation of Culture and Arts), Seoul, 2004
INTERVALS (Text: Lech Lechowicz), FF Gallery, Lodz, 2004
EIDOLON (Text: Enrique Ordonez, Jaana Pruess), Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, 2003
this appearance-Kyungwoo Chun, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst edition23, Delmenhorst, 2002
KYUNGWOO CHUN 1998-2001 (Texts: Finn Thrane, Enno Kaufhold), Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul, 2001
AURA (Text: Juseok Park), Batanggol Gallery, Seoul, 1994