Minjung Kim was born 1962 in Gwanju in the Republic of Korea. She currently lives and works in the South of France and in the United States.
The artist is represented in Berlin by the gallery DIEHL.
Artistic Curriculum Vitae
- 1962
Minjung Kim was born in Gwangju in the Republic of Korea and currently lives and works in South of France and United States. - 1985 Minjung Kim received a Master’s degree at Hong Ik university in Seoul with a thesis on the four basic material in ink painting (rice paper, brush, ink pigment and the pigment grinding stone).
- 1991 she moved to Italy and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition
- 2016
Phasing, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Brentwood, Los Angeles, USA - 2015
Traces, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Light, The Shade, The Depth, Luxembourg & Dayan, Palazzo Caboto, Venezia, Italy (curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann) - 2014
Oko, New York, USA (curated by Alison Gingeras)
Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, Germany
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy (catalogue with a text of Gerardo Mosquera)
Luxembourg & Dayan, Artgèneve Salon d’Art, Genève, Switzerland - 2013
Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK - 2012
Macro (Museo arte contemporanea di Roma), Testaccio, Rome, Italy
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Brentwood, Los Angeles, USA
Galleria Sahrai, Milano, Italy - 2010
Galleria Sant’Angelo, Biella, Italy - 2009
Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milano, Italy
Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
Galleria Ermanno Tedeschi, Roma, Italy - 2008
Galleria Ermanno Tedeschi, Torino, Italy
Robilant+Voena Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
Gallerie Mudimadrie, Antwerpen, Belgium - 2007
Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzen, China
Copenhagen Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, Los Angeles, USA
Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK
Giudecca795 Galleria d’Arte, Venezia, Italy - 2006
Montecarlo Art Gallery, Milano, Italy
Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milano, Italy - 2004
Arte92, Milano, Italy
Ikos, Modena, Italy - 2003
Museo Comunale di Ascona, Ascona, Switzerland (catalogue with a text of Roberto Borghi)
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Brentwood, Los Angeles, USA
Gallerie Patrick Cramer, Genève, Switzerland - 2002
Galleria Recalcati, Torino, Italy
Copenhagen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy - 1999
Wickeiser Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Patrick Cramer, Genève, Switzerland (catalogue with a text of Roberto Borghi) - 1998
Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy (catalogue with texts of Luciano Caramel and Roberto Borghi) - 1997
Cappella di Villa Ruffolo, Ravello, Italy - 1996
Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, Italy (catalogue with texts of Cristina Cano, Jacqueline Ceresoli and Gianni Schubert)
Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
- 1991
Baik Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea (catalogue with text of Suh Seong Rock)
Injae Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Group Exhibitions
- 2016
Viewing The Past Thru Modern Eyes, Kang Collection, New York, USA - 2015
Happy Modern and Contemporary Korean Paintings, Kang Collection, New York, USA
The Gaze of… Selected Works of the Unicredit Art Collection, Uncredit Pavillon, Milano, Italy - 2014
Abstraction: 1911-2014, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Maestri antichi, moderni imprenditori, Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milano, Italy - 2012
World, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israele Tefaf 2012, Jacobs Fine Art Gallery,
Maastricht, Holland New! Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milano, Italy
Settimana della Corea, Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna, Italy - 2011
Galleria E. Tedeschi, Tel Aviv, Israele Landscape and Memory,
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK - 2010
Twilight Zone, Morgen Gallery, Berlin, Germany - 2009
Across the Cross (Michelangelo e I contemporanei), Trapani, Italy
La Biennale di Venezia- Sant Elena, Venezia, Italy Galleria La Giarina, Verona, Italy
Galleria E. Tedeschi, Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma, Italy - 2008
Prospects and interiors-cultors drawings, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK - 2004
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangiu, Korea - 2002
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy - 2001
Paris, New York, Washington D.C. The Odyssey 2001, Korean Repubblic Embassy, Washington, USA
Galleria Cophenhagen, Cophenhagen, Denmark
Simboli e simbolismi nell’arte contemporanea, Ticosa Spazio a Shed, Como, Italy - 1998
Mostra di incisioni, Sala Grassi, Corbetta, Milano, Italy Territori di frontiera, Spazio Laboratorio Hajech, Milano, Italy
Ad Imaginem, Spazio Linati, Milano, Italy - 1997
Arti visive, Circolo Culturale Bertold Brecht, Milano, Italy
Pittura e scultura del terzo millennio, Casa del Rigoletto, Mantova, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Borgogna, Milano, Italy Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy
Incisione collettiva, Castello di Galliate, Galliate, Novara, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy - 1996
Mimesis, Galleria della Cassa di Risparmio di Caldaro, Bolzano, Italy
Nel segno della Luna, Rocca Malatestiana, Montefiore Conca, Italy - 1995
International Exhibition of Art Colleges Hiroshima ‘95, Hiroshima, Japan
Quali differenze, Galleria Arcadia Nuova, Milano, Italy Mostra Collettiva, Galleria Cafiso,Milano, Italy Salon I, Living Art
Gallery, Milano, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy - 1994
Brera a Venezia, Liceo Artistico Statale, Venezia, Italy
Dove sostano gli Dei, Centro Storico di Saronno, Italy
First Price International competition, Fanum Fortunae, Fano, Italy
Sequenze d’Arte Contemporanea, Torre di Ligny – Museo della Preistoria, Trapani, Italy
Salon I ‘94, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, Italy Salon I ‘94, Villa Litta Carini, Milano, Italy
S.B.C. European competition ‘94, Swiss Bank House, London, UK
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy
La Stampa Originale, Civica Biblioteca d’Arte del Castello Sforzesco, Milano, Italy - 1991
Pure Korean Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Gwacheon, Korea - 1990
Koreana painting – Perspective Years ’90, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Night with the Artist, Intercontinental Hotel, Seoul, Korea - 1989
Current Seoul, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Korean Painting – 43 Artist Invited, Chosun Press Center Museum, Seoul, Korea - 1988
Yieon, Kwanghoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Consciousness of transition in the Korean modern painting, Kwanghoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Chunchu, Osaka International Culture Exchange Center, Osaka, Japan
Plastic Art for today and tomorrow – 16 Artists, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Yeobaik – 16 Artisti, Baikak Art Center, Seoul, Korea New Plastic Art, Chunbuk Art Center, Seoul, Korea - 1987
Chunchu, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Yieyeon, Dongduk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
New-Expressionism Korean painting, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Korean painting – 10 Artist research, Kwanhoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Post Art, ‘3 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Section of Korean Modern painting, Chunbuk Art Center, Seoul, Korea - 1986
Chunchu, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Works of Korean paintings, Museum of Kong Ik, Seoul, Korea
Yiyeon, Kwanhoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Hanmoim Incisione, Kwanhoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Korean painting. The differences, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Oriental painting Hong Ik, Kyung In Art Museum, Seoul, Korea - 1985
Modern Korean visual art, Art Center, Seoul, Korea Chunchu, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Yiyeon, Kwanhoon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Literature
Monographs and catalogues
- Minjung Kim, Traces, 2015 (exhibition OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, 5th November – 27th December 2015)
- Minjung Kim, The Light, The Shade, The Depth, 2015 (exhibition Palazzo Caboto, Venezia, 5th May – 27th September 2015)
- The Gaze of… Selected Works of the Unicredit Art Collection, 2015 (group exhibition Uncredit Pavillon, Milano, 31st July – 30th August 2015)
- Minjung Kim, Red mountain, 2014 (exhibition Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, 11th December 2014 – 1st March 2015)
- Minjung Kim, il suono della luce, 2011 (exhibition Macro Testaccio, Roma, 25th January – 4th March 2012)
- Minjung Kim, Fire is science and sculpture, 2010 (exhibition Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, 13th October – 14th November 2009)
- Minjung Kim, Vuoto nel pieno, 2006 (exhibition Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino, 26th May – 2nd July 2006)
- Minjung Kim, 2004 (exhibition Arte92, Milano, 7th October – 13th November 2004)
- Minjung Kim, Skira, Geneva-Milano, 2002
- Minjung Kim, 1996 (exhibition Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, May 1996)
- Kim Min Jung, 1991 (exhibition Baik Song Art Gallery, Seoul, 27th March – 2nd April 1991)
Catalogues Texts
- Sook-Kyung Lee, Ph.D., “The gaze of Orpheus”, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, 2015 Sora Kim, “Traces”, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, 2015
- Jean-Christophe Ammann, “The light, the shade, the depth”, Palazzo Caboto, Venezia, 2015
- Gianluca Ranzi, “In Shin-Ra the sun shines at midnight”, Roma, 2012
- Elena Fiorin, “Aesthetic religions and poetic truths”, Sant’Elena: La seduzione nel segno, 53° Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, 2009
- Victoria Cohen, “Capolungo –The sensitive horizon of contemporary art”, Gallery Ermanno Tedeschi, Rome, 2009
- Claudio Ceritelli, “Soffi di energia nel mistero del vuoto”, Galleria Arte92, Milano, 2004
- Antonio d’Avossa, “Dall’inchiostro al fuoco”, Milano, 2002
- Roberto Borghi, “Le ‘minimalisme expressif’ de Minjung Kim”, Galerie Patrick Cramer, Genève, 1999
- Luciano Caramel, “Inchiostro, rifrazione dell’inconscio”, Galleria Cafiso, Milano, 1998
- Roberto Borghi, “Dall’inchiostro all’inconscio, attraverso la luce e il calore”, Galleria Cafiso, Milano, 1998
- Gianni Schubert, “Interpretando Debussy”, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, 1996
- Jacqueline Ceresoli, “Spartito di note di colore”, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, 1996
- Cristina Cano, “Ritmi visivi e impressioni musicali”, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, 1996
- Giacomo Agosti, “Minjung Kim”, Milano, 1995
- Suh Seong Rock, “Bringing meaning into objects”, Baik Song Art Gallery, Seoul, 1991