GyeongGi Cultural Foundation
Gimhongsok
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. |
Gimhongsok
Born 1964 in Seoul, lives and
works in Seoul.
1996 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
1987 B.F.A. in sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Subsidiary Construction, Perrotin Gallery HK, Hong Kong
2016 Xijing Is Not Xijing, Therefore Xijing Is Xijing, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
2015 World of Xijing, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2014 Blue Hours, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2013
Good Labor Bad Art, Plateau,
Samsung Museum, Seoul
The Xijing Men, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City
2011 Ordinary Strangers, Artsonje Center, Seoul
Xijing, Fondazione Bevilacqua La
Masa, Venice
2010 Antithesis of Boundaries, Tina Kim Gallery, New York
2008
In through the out door, Kukje
gallery, Seoul
E.T.C
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle(Nijojo), Kyoto Art Center,
Kyoto
The 1st Oku-Noto Triennale, Suzu City
Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Other Face of the Moon, Space
4, ACC Creation, Asia Culture
Center, Gwangju
2016 Alice in Crisis, DIO HORIA Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos
The 3rd Nanjing International Arts Festival "HISTORICODE: Scarcity and Supply", Nanjing Bai Jia Lake
Art Museum, Nanjing
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes,
MMCA Gwacheon, Gwacheon
2015 Double Take, Nature Morte, New Delhi
Space Life, Ilmin Museum, Seoul
2014
Zeitgeist Korea, National Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art,
Seoul
Ebisu International Festival Art and Alternative Visions 2014: True Colors, Tokyo Metropolitan
Museum of Photography, Tokyo
Utopian days×Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
K-P.O.P., Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei(MOCATP), Taipei
Yokohama Triennale 2014 Yokohama
Museum of Art, Yokohama
Koganecho Bazaar 2014: Fictive
Communities Asia, Koganecho
Bazaar, Yokohama
Future Fictions, Z33 Kunstencentrum (Art Museum Z33), Hasselt, Belgium
E.T.C
Collections
Artsonje Center, Seoul
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
Posco Museum, Seoul
Le Consortium, Dijon
Museum of Fin Arts, Houston
(MFAH), Huston
National Museum of Contemporary
Art
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Gyeonggi Museum of Moderne Art, Ansan
Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA), Seoul Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(LACMA), Los Angeles
1. Solitude of Silence (in Korea) resin, clothes, fabric
a driver 93×98×110cm,
a student 67×177×44cm,
dancers 147×213×42cm, 2017
2. Untitled (Big wall) water paint on wall, courtesy of the artist and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, 2017
3. People Objective-Of Ordinary Art (video A) single channel video, color, sound, 31min 19sec, Performed by Choi Bo-kwang, Cho Younggyu, Kim Yuna, Shon Gomyung, Lee Hyun-geol, 2011
3-1. People Objective-Of Ordinary
Art (video B)
single channel, video, color,
31min 34sec, Translation: Iris
Moon, 2011
4. Journey to the World Songs single channel video, DVD from HD original, color, sound, 12min 57sec, 2006
5. Jeju Island
single channel video, color,
no sound, 16:9 ratio, 20min
45sec, 2004
6. G5 single channel video, color, sound, 4:3 ratio, 17min 14sec, coutresy of the artist and artsonje center, 2004
7. MOP-131209 urethane paint on canvas, 120×120cm, coutresy of the artist and Kukje Gallery, 2013
8. MOP-131211
urethane paint on canvas,
120×120cm, coutresy of the artist
and Kukje Gallery, 2013
Reviews - Facing a Big Wall by Gimhongsok
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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