Minjung Kim (b. 1962)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Minjung Kim, Hill Art Foundation, New York, United States
2019 Minjung Kim, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Minjung Kim, Galerie Catherine Issert
Minjung Kim, Galeria Cayon, Mahon, Menorca, Spain
2018 The Memory of Process, White Cube, London, England
Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwanju, Korea
Gwangju Biennale, Gwanju, Korea
2017 Phasing, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Cendre et lumière, Musee des Arts asiatiques, Conseil Départemental
06, Nice, France
Oneness, Hermès Foundation, Singapore
Paper, Ink and Fire, Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, Korea
2016 Minjung Kim, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica
Phasing, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
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 Fine Art, 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
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, 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
1998 Galleria Cafiso, Milano, Italy
1997 Cappella di Villa Ruffolo, Ravello, Italy
1996 Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milano, Italy
Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
1991 Baik Song Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Injae Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Group Exhibitions
2019 Pushing Paper, The British Museum, London, England
2018 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Chanwon, Korea
2017 The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean, Berlin, Germany
Korean: Now and Then, Asia Week New York Contemproary, USA
Moi & Les Auters, Galerie Catherine Issert, France
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, Israel Landscape and Memory
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, England
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 Republic 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 Korean 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
Bibliography
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
Public Collections
Story, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
The Street, Swiss Re Art Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Phasing, Asia Society, New York, USA
Mutation, Asia Society, New York, USA
Phasing, The British Museum, London, UK
The Room, The British Museum, London, UK
Mountain, The British Museum, London, UK
Story, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France
Pieno di Vuoto, Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Nice, France
Dobae, OCI Museum, Korea
Female, Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
Story, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA
Pieno di Vuoto, UniCredit, Milan, Italy