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Suki Seokyeong Kang's practice traverses painting, sculpture,installation, as well as video and performance toexplore the interplay between the individual and the collective.By developing an artistic vocabulary that drawsfrom the rich heritage of Korean painting, poetry anddance, Kang's oeuvre examines the durability of traditionsand expands their significance to contemporary art.
The catalogue, accompanying her solo exhibition WillowDrum Oriole at Leeum Museum of Art, proposes to readKang's practice through a range of varying discourses,such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporaryart, feminism, and the narratives of theWestern avant-garde. Taking the artist's foundationalpainting practice as a point of departure, the cataloguefeatures a new body of work and charts the developmentof Kang's artistic language.
Based in Seoul, SUKI SEOKYEONG KANG (*1977) studied Painting at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and at London's Royal College of Art. In 2018, Kang won the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. She has had solo exhibitions at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2019-2020), MUDAM Luxembourg (2018), ICA Philadelphia (2018) and her works have been featured in group exhibitions at MCA Chicago (2021), the Venice Biennale (2019), the Shanghai Biennale (2018), the Gwangju Biennale (2018), and the Liverpool Biennial (2018).
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SUKI SEOKYEONG KANG (*1977) studierte Malerei an der Ewha Womans University in Seoul und am Londoner Royal College of Art und lebt heute in Seoul. Sie gewann 2018 den Baloise Art Prize auf der Art Basel und hatte zuletzt Einzelausstellungen im Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2019-2020), im MUDAM Luxembourg (2018) und im ICA Philadelphia (2018). Ihre Werke waren Teil großer Gruppenausstellungen, etwa im MCA Chicago (2021), der Venedig Biennale (2019), der Shanghai Biennale (2018), der Gwangju Biennale (2018) oder der Liverpool Biennale (2018).
Summary
Suki Seokyeong Kang’s practice traverses painting, sculpture,
installation, as well as video and performance to
explore the interplay between the individual and the collective.
By developing an artistic vocabulary that draws
from the rich heritage of Korean painting, poetry and
dance, Kang’s oeuvre examines the durability of traditions
and expands their significance to contemporary art.
The catalogue, accompanying her solo exhibition Willow
Drum Oriole at Leeum Museum of Art, proposes to read
Kang’s practice through a range of varying discourses,
such as the status of traditional Korean painting in contemporary
art, feminism, and the narratives of the
Western avant-garde. Taking the artist’s foundational
painting practice as a point of departure, the catalogue
features a new body of work and charts the development
of Kang’s artistic language.
Based in Seoul, SUKI SEOKYEONG KANG (*1977) studied Painting at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and at London’s Royal College of Art. In 2018, Kang won the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. She has had solo exhibitions at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (2019-2020), MUDAM Luxembourg (2018), ICA Philadelphia (2018) and her works have been featured in group exhibitions at MCA Chicago (2021), the Venice Biennale (2019), the Shanghai Biennale (2018), the Gwangju Biennale (2018), and the Liverpool Biennial (2018).
