Yeesookyung

Yeesookyung, nata nel 1963, vive e lavora in Seoul, Corea. Artista interdisciplinare, che spazia tra video, installazioni, scultura e disegno, è entrata nella scena artistica degli anni '90 nel contesto di un'ondata di giovani artisti coreani che sperimentavano con un'ampia gamma di medium per esprimere le esperienze personali in una Corea in rapida modernizzazione.


Conosciuta soprattutto per la sua acclamata serie Translated Vase, il progetto ha avuto inizio con i frammenti di vasi scartati da un maestro ceramista coreano. L'artista ha raccolto i pezzi di ceramica rotti, li ha ricomposti con l’uso di resina e successivamente dipinti a mano con foglia d'oro a 24 carati, dando vita a forme allo stesso tempo voluttuose e fragili. L'amalgama che Yeesookyung crea tra il canone storico coreano ed elementi della modernità occidentale è assolutamente unica. Attraverso questo ciclo di distruzione e ricostruzione, in ogni crepa di ciascun frammento di porcellana, l’artista inserisce l'identità collettiva della storia e della cultura coreana, reinterpretando l'opera finale per un pubblico occidentale più ampio.

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Films & Dialogues

Biografia

Mostre personali
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2023
F, Translated Vase, MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2020
UK, I am not the only one but many, Massimo De Carlo, London
2019
I, Whisper only to you, Madre - Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina e Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli
2016
USA, Yeesookyung: Translated Vase, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2015
ROK, When I Become You, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
TW, When I Become You, Yeesookyung in Taipei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
ROK, Saint Breeders, Atelier Hermès, Seoul
USA, Yeesookyung: Contemporary Korean Sculpture, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston
2014
USA, The Meaning of Time, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
ROK, Take Me Home Country Roads, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul
2013
SGP, Flame, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
2012
ROK, Yeesookyung, Sindoh Art Gallery, Seoul
2011
B, Yeesookyung, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
2010
ROK, Jung Marie’s Jeongga, Yeesookyung’s Devotion, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2009
BR, Yeesookyung, Thomas Cohn Gallery, São Paolo
J, Yeesookyung, Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
D, Yee Sookyung im Schloß Oranienbaum, Museum Schloß Oranienbaum, Dessau
Mostre collettive
Anno
Paese, Titolo mostra, Location
2025
D, Half a Life. Forms of Work in Art and History, Museum unter Tage, Bochum
2023
F, Portable Temple, Musée Cernuschi, Paris
I, Hidden Prophecy A cura di Yeesookyung, MASSIMODECARLO, VSpace
2021
ROK, Encounters Between Korean Art and Literature in the Modern Age, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul
2020
ROK, Non Sculpture: Light or Flexible, Yongji Park, Gyeongsangnam-do
2019
HK, Fragments of form, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
UK, Being Human: an exhibition of modern sculpture, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
ROK, Aspect of Korean Modern Sculpture, Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul
ROK, To the Moon with Snoopy, Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul
ROK, 50/50, Alternative Space Loop, Multiplex Art Salon, Seoul
PRC, FRAGMENTS OF FORM, Massimo De Carlo, Hong Kong
2018
ROK, The Book of Disquiet, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon
I, Exhibition Paradoxa. Art from Middle Korea, Casa Cavazzini, Udine
I, Far East Film Festival of Udine, Casa Cavazzini, Udine
ROK, Highlight K-Art, Culture-ICT Pavilion, PyeongChang Olympic Plaza
2017
ROK, Ghost, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
ROK, Real DMZ, DMZ Peace and Culture Square, Cheorwon-gun
I, VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Venice Biennale, Venezia
2016
ROK, Rivers-The Way of Living in Transition / Asia Contemporary Art Links, Gallery 1 at Gwangju Biennale Hall, Gwangju
ROK, Pungryunamdo Art Project, Haengcheon Museum, Haenam
ROK, MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years 1986-2016: As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
RUS, Born in Flames: Korean Ceramics from the National Museum of Korea, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
ROK, When Words Fail, HITE Collection, Seoul
F, Earth, Fire, Soul -Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics, Salon d'Honneur at the Grand Palais, Paris
UK, Art from Elsewhere, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol
SGP, Motions, Ota Fine Arts, Singapore
F, CERAMIX: Art and Ceramics from Rodin to Schütte, Cité de la Céramique, Sèvres
UK, Art from Elsewhere, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2015
UK, Art from Elsewhere, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham
J, Water and Land - Niigata Art Festival, Closed school in Niigata, Niigata
F, My Blue China, Fondation d'entreprise Bernardaud, Limoges
ROK, Memories of artistic soul, Cheonan Arts Center Museum, Cheonan

Collezioni pubbliche

Paese
Location
Hong Kong
M+ Museum
Japan
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Echigo-Tsumari
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
YU-UN Obayashi Collection, Tokyo
South Korea
Acrovista, Seoul
Byucksan Corporation, Seoul
Gyeonggido Museum of Art, Ansan
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon
POSCO Museum, Pohang
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Times Square, Seoul
Spain
ARCO Collection, IFEMA, Madrid
Switzerland
Uli Sigg Collection
Ukraine
Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv
United Arab Emirates
Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol
The British Museum, London
United States of America
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Princeton University, New Jersey
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence

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