Jongsuk Yoon
"My landscape pictures symbolize the theme of reunification, and I believe that painting is a medium that is able to demonstrate the authenticity and symbolism of art as a powerful tool of change. All engagement with Korea has a political dimension - in other words, pictures that refer to Korea are politically charged."
Jongsuk Yoon moved to Europe in 1995 and studied at the Kunstakademie in Münster and Düsseldorf. Her artwork is influenced by European and American modernism as well as Asian landscape painting traditions. Her works explore themes of temporality, corporeality, memory, and biology, portraying a wide range of colors. She describes her abstract expressionist pictures, inspired by nature, as “mind landscapes” – inner landscapes in which color and shape, surface and gesture overlap and merge into a poetic narrative.
Selected solo exhibitions:
Kumgangsan, wall painting, mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria (2024)
October Sky, House of Art of České Budějovice, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic (2023)
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover (2021)
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn (2020)
Wall Paintings, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2018)
Museum Kurhaus Kleve (2017)
Selected group exhibitions
River of Rebirth, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium (2023)
Semi Art Community Project: Boo Gie Woo Gie Art Museum, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Republic of Korea (2023)
EARTH - A Collective Landscape, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2023)
Polke und die Folgen, Akademie-Galerie, Düsseldorf (2019)
Irony and Idealism, Kunsthalle Münster (2018)
Das Glück der Erde, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover (2017)
Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Coppel Collection, Mexico
SYZYGY Collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey, New York City
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Jorge M. and Darlene Pérez Collection, Miami
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover.
