GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Bae Young-whan
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern art
This catalogue is published in conjunction with 2017-2018 Korea–Germany Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition Irony & Idealism. It documents all exhibitions and artworks at 3 venues in Korea and Germany-Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, KF Gallery and Kunsthalle Münster-from September 2017 until September 2018.
|
Bae Young-whan
Born in 1969, lives and works in Seoul.
1990
B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Hongik
University, Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Bae Young-whan: Project Exhibition, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul
2016
Project Exhibition: Bae Young-whan,
PKM Gallery, Seoul
Pagus Avium, Platform-L
Contemporary Art Center, Seoul
2012 A Song for Nobody, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2010 Autonumina, PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle& Meursault, Seoul
2009 Library Project 來日(Tomorrow), Artsonje Center, Seoul
2008 Insomnia, PKM Gallery, Seoul 2005 The Way of Man, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul
2002 Pop Song 3 – Farewell to My Youth, Ilju Art House, Seoul
2000 The Homeless Project: On the Street 2001, Seoul
1999 Pop Song 2, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
1997
Pop Song, Namu Gallery, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 APB Foundation Signature Art Prize 2018 Finalists’ Exhibition, National Museum of Singapore,
Singapore
2017 A Tale of Two Cities: Narrative Archive of Memories, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2016 Club Monster, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
Land of happiness, The Buk Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Commemorative Exhibition of the 70th Anniversary of Liberation: the Great Journey with the Citizens Uproarious, Heated, Inundated, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014
The 4th Anyang Public Art Project,
Kim Joong-up Museum, Anyang,
Korea
SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,
Korea
Voyage to Biennale - 50 years of Korean Contemporary Art in Overseas Biennales, Busan Cultural
Center Grand Medium Gallery, Busan, Korea
2013 Buk Seoul Museum of Art Inaugural Exhibition Part Ⅱ from SeMA Collection #2_NEW SCENES, The Buk
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Festival of Photography in Museums,
Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon,
Korea
Unknown Forces, Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
All You Need Is LOVE: From Chagall
to Kusama and HatsuneMiku, Mori
Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Re:emerge- Towards a New Cultural
Cartography, Sharjah Biennial 11,
Sharjah, UAEuae
2012 Phantoms of Asia: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
2011 Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
Medi(t)ation, curated by Iris Shu- Ping Huang, The 3rd Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of
Fine Arts, Taiwan
2010 Plastic Garden, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
K-Art Archive Room, Seoul Art
Space Seogyo, Seoul, Korea
The Infinite Starburst of Your Cold Dark Eyes, PKM Gallery | Bartleby Bickle& Meursault, Seoul, Korea
E.T.C
Public Art Projects
2009 Library Project 來日(Tomorrow), Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea; Tando Harbor, Ansan,
Korea, Jeju Botanical Garden Art Project, Jeju, Korea; Milmori Art School, Yeoju, Korea; Gyeonggi
Cultural Foundation, Siheung, Korea
2008 Braille – Tangible Language, Beautiful Memories, Seoul City Gallery Project, Seoul National School for
the Blind, Seoul, Korea
2007 Sign Language – The Most Beautiful Language in the World, Seoul City Gallery Project, Seoul National
School for the Deaf, Seoul, Korea
2006 Road-side Project, Korea
2001 Pocketbook for the Homeless – On the Street 2001, Korea
Collections
National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
May 18 Memorial Foundation, Gwangju, Korea
Artist Pension Trust
Awards
2018 Finalist, APB Foundation Signature Art Prize, Singapore
2013 The Grand Prize, Public Design Award, Korea
2004 Today’s Young Artist Award, Korea Art Award, Korea
2002
Site Award, The4th Gwangju
Biennale, Gwangju, Kore



Anxiety-Seoul 5:30 P.M. photograph and sound,
dimensions variable, 2017



Abstract verb: Dance for ghost dance / Abstract verb: Knock 2 Channel Video, 4min 53sec, 2012

Luxurious Miserable Insomnia wine bottles, fragmented drink bottles, iron, aluminium, LED, epoxy, 223×150cm, GMoMA Collection, 2008
<Copyright(c)2002 GGC All rights reserved.>
IRONY & IDEALISM
Publisher/ Sul Wonki
Chief Editor/ Choi Eunju
First Edition/ July 31. 2018
Published by/ Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
List of Artists/ Ahn Jisan, Bae Young-whan, Björn Dahlem, Gimhongsok, Hwayeon Nam, Michael van Ofen, Manfred Pernice, Yoon Jongsuk