Kyungwoo Chun / biography


1969 born in Seoul, Korea lives and works in Seoul and Bremen Education 1992 B.F.A. in Photography, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University, Korea 2000 Diploma in Kommunikationsdesign, Universitaet Wuppertal, Germany Selected Solo Exhibitions 2011 Thousands - Kunsthalle / Erfurt, Germany 2010 Thousands - LAZNIA - Centre for contemporary art / Gdansk Departure Songs, DNA / Berlin, Germany Being a Queen, Museum of Photography Seoul / Seoul, Korea Thousands, Laznia-Center for Contemporary Art / Danzig, Poland 2009 Being a Queen, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Center for Contemporary Art / Aarhus, Denmark Burden or Support, video and performance, Galleri Image / Aarhus, Denmark Thousands, Kunsthalle Emden / Emden, Germany BreaThings, Gaain Gallery / Seoul, Korea Thousands, Total Museum of Contemporary Art / Seoul, Korea Kyungwoo Chun, Gaain Gallery / Seoul, Korea Thousands-fragments, Galeria Raquel Ponce / Madrid, Spain 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 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, Galería Arteko / Donostia-San Sebsatian, Spain Versus, Galería Raquel Ponce / Madrid, Spain 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 2005 100 Questions - Photographs, Video Installation, Stiftung DKM / Duisburg, Germany Dialog, Kuenstlerhaus Goettingen / Goettingen, Germany A Naming Game (video, photographs, and performance), Galería Arteko / San Sebastian, Spain 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 2003 Kyungwoo Chun ‘reMEMBERed’, Odense Foto Triennale, Brandts Klædefabrik / Odense, Denmark Eidolon, Pruess & Ochs Gallery / Berlin, Germany 2002 This appearance, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst / Delmenhorst Germany 2001 Kyungwoo Chun 1998–2001, Sungkok Art Museum / Seoul, Korea Thirty Minutes Dialog, Galleri Image / Aarhus, Denmark 1998 Zeitraum im Verschwinden, Werkraum Uerdingerstrasse / Cologne, Germany 1994 Aura, Ba-Tang-Gol Gallery / Seoul, Korea Selected Performances 2009 PERFORMAT I-Kyungwoo Chun, Kunsthalle Bremen / Bremen, Germany BreaThings, Gaain Gallery / Seoul, Korea Greetings, Galeria Raquel Ponce / Madrid, Spain 2008 Burde or Suport, Psi #14: Interregnum, University of Copenhagen / Copenhagen, Denmark Bim Bim Blumen, Kunstverein Ruhr / Essen, Germany 2007 Projects/ VERSUS, curated program by ARTE LISBOA / Lissabon, Portugal VERSUS Seoul-Barcelona2, Festival Asia, Casa Asia / Barcelona, Spain VERSUS Seoul-Barcelona1, Softpower exhibition, W Hotel / Seoul, Korea Into (apoyo o carga), Gaain Gallery / Seoul, Korea An Allegory of Failure, Galeria Arteko / Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain 2006 O Minute, Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum / Busan, Korea Into (apoyo o carga), National Gallery Prague / Prague, Czech Republic 11 Allegories, soccer club Manheim in arrangement of Galerie Bernhard Knaus / Mannheim, Germany 2005 O Minute -Video Performance, Artforum Berlin / Berlin, Germany O Minute, KIAF / Seoul, Korea Into (apoyo o carga), Galería Arteko / Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain 2004 18 x 1 Minute, Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de Fotografía / Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain 18 x 1 Minute, Street at Artinus Gallery / Seoul, Korea 2003 18 x 1 Minute, ARCO Madrid - Art Unknown, 2003, curated by Bart de Baere, Barbara Steiner, Charles Esche / Madrid, Spain Selected Group Exhibitions and Collaborations 2010 Media Landscape, Zone East / Korean Cultural centre, UK , (KCC), London, UK Liverpool biennial 10 - Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art / Liverpool, UK Chaotic Harmony: contemporary Korean Photography - santa Barbara Museum of Art / Santa Barbara, CA Man Ray's Photography & His Heritage - Seoul Museum of art, Seoul Jetzt-Die erzählte Zeit - Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e.V. / Darmstadt, Germany Reflection, DNA / Berlin, Germany 2009 Chaotic Harmony: Contemporary Korean Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts / Houston TX, USA 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, Germany Hangul=Spirit: Inspired by Korean Characters, Korean Cultural Centre / London, UK 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 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 Writing Paintings, Painting Words, Seoul Museum of Art / Seoul, Korea NYC 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 Silence is Movement, DNA / Berlin, Germany Statements, Bernhard Knaus Fina Art / Frankfurt, Germany Slow, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art / Zurich, Switzerland 2006 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 Paik and Beyond, Sonderschau Art Cologne / Cologne, Germany Asia - the place to be?, Alexander Ochs Galleries / Berlin - Beijing, Germany 2004 Galeris Neuvelles Images / the Hague, the Netherlands Wirklichkeit des Individuums, Kunsthalle Mannheim / Mannheim, Germany 2003 Der Rest der Welt / Neuffer am Park Pirmasens, Germany The Third Asian Photography, Guardian Garden / Tokyo, Japan 2002 Identitaet und Ideal, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe / Hamburg, Germany Perspektiven —81. Herbstausstellung niedersaechsischer Künstler, Kunstverein Hannover / Hannover, Germany portrait: portrait, Pruess & Ochs Gallery (formerly Asian Fine Arts Berlin) / Berlin Germany International Young Art 2002, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York / Sotheby’s Amsterdam / Sotheby’s Tel Aviv 2001 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 Grants/Awards/Artist-in-residence 2008 Public Art Award, Hansestadt Bremen, Germany Grant, Art Council Korea Commision by Duisbueger Philharmonie, Germany 2007 Grant, Artists in Residence, DIVA Exchange Program, the Danish Arts Council, Copenhagen 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 2001, 05 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 2001–02 Artist Scholarship from the City of Delmenhorst, Niedersachsen, Germany Selected Public Collections The Museum of Fine Arts / Houston, TX, U.S.A. Sammlung Alison & Peter W. Klein / Eberdingen-Nussdorf The Caldic Collection / Rotterdam, the Netherlands CIRCA XX : Colección Pilar Citoler / Madrid, Spain Burger Collection / Zurich, Switzerland Museum fuer Kunst und Gewerbe / Hamburg, Germany Gemeentemuseum / The Hague, the Netherlands Vedder Collection / Zollikon, Switzerland Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik / Odense, Denmark Kunst en Complex Collection / Rotterdam, The Netherlands Haus Coburg, Staedtische Galerie Delmenhorst / Delmenhorst, Germany Fundación Centro Ordónez, Falcon de Fotografía / Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain Centro Cultural Andratx-CCA / Spain Stiftung DKM / Duisburg, Germany The Museum of Photography (Hanmi Foundation of Arts and Culture) / Seoul, Korea Fortis Bank Collection / Rotterdam, the Netherlands Kunsthalle Emden Emden / Germany 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