BIOGRAFIE
1969 | Born in Seoul, Korea |
1992 | B.F.A. in Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Korea |
2000 | Diploma in Kommunikationsdesign, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2018 | Kyungwoo Chun-Face of Face, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany Exit from Paradine (public programme), Somerset House/Photo London, London, UK Verborgene Gesichter. Portraits im Blickpunkt, Kulturstiftung Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany The Portrait with(out) Artists , SeMA-Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 186 FEUILLES , LA COLLECTION DE DESSINS ET DE PHOTOS DE VITRY-SUR-SEINEDEPUIS 1979, Galerie Municipale Jean-Collet, Vitry-sur-Seine, France |
2016 | Kyungwoo Chun - The Most Beautiful Weight (artist in residence) , MAC VAL - musée d'art contemporain Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France Nueve Editoras, Galería JosédelaFuente, Santander, Spain |
2015 | nine editors, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany Happy Journey / Spaces in Transition, ArtOxygen/ CST Railway Station, Mumbai, India 6th Moscow Biennale/ Reverse Point Asia-Special Project, State Museum-Reserve ·Tsaritsyno·, Moscow, Russia SHOOT: About Performance, DNA, Berlin, Germany Real in Irreal, Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeonju, Korea |
2014 | PORTRAITS, HADA Contemporary, London, UK Busan Biennale 2014 , Busan Cultural Center Grand Medium Gallery, Busan, Korea Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2014, Moonshin Art Museum of Changwon, Changwon, Korea Fluctuaciones y Perfiles Remotos , Galeria Nuble, Santander, Spain Silence is Movement, Artclub 1563, Seoul, Korea |
2013 | Interpreters, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Photography and Society - Social Art, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Still -Phot ography in the Museum, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary Haein Art Project, Haeinsa Temple, Habcheon, Korea |
2012 | Seventeen Moments, Galeria Nuble, Santander, Spain Perfect Relay, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany Response, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany Versus, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland What is it to be Chinese?(Kyungwoo Chun, FX Harsono, Truong Ngu, Tintin Wulia, David Zink Yi), Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany 5th European Month of Photography Berlin, IN TRANSIT-THE VIEW OF OTHER, Bahnhof Ostkreuz, Berlin, Germany Project Daejeon 2012: Energy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea Growing Together, Galeria Nuble, Santander, Spain Breda Photo-International Photo Festival, MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda, the Netherlands AND Festival-festival of new cinema, digital culture & art/ Blue Crystal Ball, Holden Gallery, Manchaster, UK Blue Crystal Ball: Samsung Olympic Games Media Art Collection, De La Warr Pavilion, East Bexhill Sussex, UK Portrait of Time, Can Foundation, Beijing, China En samling, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark |
2011 | Thousands, Kunsthalle Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany San & Sebastian, Galeria Arteko, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Believing is Seeing, Ffotogallery at Turner House, Cardiff, UK Series of Portraits - A Centry of Photographs, Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea Interview & Artists as an Interviewer, Arko Art Center, Arts Council Korea , Seoul, Korea C Action Photo Virus, Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic |
2010 | Thousands, Laznia-Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland Simultan, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany Thousands and other works, SKL Gallery, Palma, Spain Being a Queen, The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea Departure Songs, Galerie DNA, Berlin, Germany Silence is Movement, Long Night of Museums,/ Laznia-Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland Liverpool Biennial : Media Landscape, Zone East, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA Man Ray and his heratage, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Darmstaedter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, Germany Reflections, DNA, Berlin ICONOTEXTES, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea |
2009 | Being a Queen, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark Burden or Support, video and performance, both exhibitions arranged by Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark Thousands, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany BreaThings, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Thousands, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Thousands-fragments, Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid The Seven Chairs, Aarhus Kunstbygning-Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark PERFORMAT I-Kyungwoo Chun, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany BreaThings, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Greetings, Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX WHITE SPACES, a concert on the occasion of Gerhard Stäbler's 60. birthday, Wilhelm Lehmruck Museum, Duisburg ARCHIVO, curarted by Willem van Zoetendaal, MK Galerie, Berlin Hangul=Spirit: Inspired by Korean Charlacters, Korean Cultural Centre, UK, London TRIALOG I, II - video, music, performance with Kunsu Shm and Gerhard Staebler, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea TRIALOG III- video, music, performance with with Kunsu Shm and Gerhard Staebler, Kumho Art Hall, Seoul, Korea |
2008 | Thousands-Miles, Centro Huarte-Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Navarra, Spain BreaThings, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany Thousands- fragments, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium SAPPHO: OHPPAS, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany Liverpool Biennial: Fantasy Studio, A Foundation, Liverpool, UK Verticals, Gallery Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, the Netherlands SAPPHO, video installation with live music/ with Gerhard Staebler, WDR Musik Fest, Duisburg Landschaftspark, Germany |
2007 | Last Works, Galería Nuble, FOCONORTE-festival de fotografía y vídeo, Santander, Spain Silence is Movement, Galerie DNA, Berlin, Germany Projecting Life Indoors (2-person), Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain Versus & Believing is Seeing, Gallery Van Zoetendaal, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Believing is Seeing, Gaain Gallery, Seoul, Korea Versus, Galeria Arteko, Donodtia-San Sebsatian, Spain Versus, Galeria Raquel Ponce, Madrid, Spain Writing Paintings, Painting Words, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea NY C Photo Exhibition, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, USA Angelegenheiten, die sich daraus ergeben, Kuenstlerhaus Bremen, Bremen, Germany Landscape of Korean Contemporary Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Soft Power Exhibition, Korea Foundation cultural center, Seoul, Korea Statements, Bernhard Knaus Fina Art, Frankfurt, Germany Slow, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland |
2006 | screen sprit_continued/ KYUNGWOO CHUN, Staedtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen, Germany IN/FINITE, photography, video, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany Pseudonym, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium Tijdens fotomanifestatie Contrasten 1, museum goudA, Gouda, The Netherlands White Spaces, Video Installation with concert (in collaboration with Gerhand Staebler), Tonhalle, Duesseldorf, Germany Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea El mar que tiene dos nombres. Videoarte de Corea, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu, Korea TINA B. Contemporary Art Festival Prague, Gallery Nova sin, Prague, Czech Republic Artspectrum 2006, Leeum / Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea |
2005 | 100 Questions - Photographs, Video Installation, Stiftung DKM, Duisburg, Germany Dialog, Kuenstlerhaus Goettingen, Germany A Naming Game (video, photographs, and performance), Galería Arteko, San Sebastian, Spain Paik and Beyond, Sonderschau Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany Asia - the place to be?, Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin/ Beijing, Germany |
2004 | A Day in Seoul, Van Zoetendaal Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Kyungwoo Chun, the Museum of Photography (Hanmi Art Foundation), Seoul, Korea Intervals, Galeria FF, Lodz, Poland Galeris Neuvelles Images, the Hague, the Netherlands Wirklichkeit des Individuums, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany |
2003 | Kyungwoo Chun ‘reMEMBERed,’ Odense Foto Triennale, Brandts Klædefabrik Odense, Denmark Eidolon, Pruess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany Der Rest der Welt, Neuffer am Park Pirmasens, Germany The Third Asian Photography, Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan |
2002 | this appearance, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany Identitaet und Ideal, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany Perspektiven —81. Herbstausstellung niedersaechsischer Künstler, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany portrait: portrait, Pruess & Ochs Gallery, Berlin Germany International Young Art 2002, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, Sotheby’s Amsterdam, and Sotheby’s Tel Aviv |
2001 | Kyungwoo Chun 1998–2001, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Thirty Minutes Dialog, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark Bremer Foerderpreis fuer Bildende Kunst, Städtische Galerie im Buntentor Bremen, Germany Hall of Mirrors/Variants of the Portraits, Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik Odense, Denmark |
2000 | Internationale Photoszene Koeln 2000, Deutsches Sport & Olympia Museum, Cologne, Germany |
1999 | Schwarz und Weiss, Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Galerie im Funkhaus des MDR, Magdeburg, Germany Artriumgalerie des Willy-Brandt-Hauses, Berlin, Germany |
1998 | Zeitraum im Verschwinden, Werkraum Uerdingerstrasse, Cologne, Germany |
1994 | Aura, Ba-Tang-Gol Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2015 | Artist-in-residence, MAC/VAL musée d·art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France |
2009 | Artist-in-residence, Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca, Spain |
2008 | Public Art Competition, Bremen, Germany Grant, Art Council Korea Commision by Duisbueger Philharmonie, Germany |
2007 | Grant, Artists in Residence, DIVA Exchange Program, the Danish Arts Council (hosted by Galleri Image, Aarhus), Denmark Grant, Ivory Press, London, U.K. Hanmi Photography Prize 2007, the Museum of Photography (Hanmi Foundation for Arts and Culture), Seoul, Korea |
2006 | Commission, Tonhalle Duesseldorf, Germany |
2005 | Grant from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korea |
2004 | Artist-in-residence, Centro Cultural Andratx, Majorca, Spain Commission, Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de FotografÌa, San Sebastian, Spain |
2001 | Grant from the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Korea |
2001 - 2002 | Artist Scholarship from the City of Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen, Germany |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
Huis Marseille stichting voor fotografie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands Vedder Collection, Zollikon, Switzerland Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik Odense, Denmark The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, U.S.A. Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein, Eberdingen-Nussdorf The Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Burger Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Kunst en Complex Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Haus Coburg, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Germany Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de FotografÌa, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Centro Cultural Andratx-CCA, Spain Museum DKM, Duisburg, Germany The Museum of Photography (Gahyeon Foundation of Culture), Seoul, Korea Fortis Bank Collection, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany Kunsthalle Goeppingen, Goeppingen, Germany 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 Bank Vontobel, Zurich, Switzerland |