spuren und sichten

Jeongmoon Choi, Jinran Kim, Yune-Ji Kim, Sae Bom Lee, SOOKI

April 16, 2011 – May 22, 2011
Opening: April 15, 7:30 PM

Last year, kunstraum t27 showcased the results of the 2nd Kim Whan Ki International Art Festival on Anjwa Island, highlighting the interaction between South Korean and Berlin artists. The exhibition "traces and views" now aims to focus on South Korean female artists living in Berlin, who have developed their own language from the experience of various traditions, ideas, and concepts. Their reflections on living spaces in relation to shelter and nature will be a central theme.

Jeongmoon Choi extracts objects from their familiar context through changes in material and form, creating new possibilities for physical and visual experience. In her work "Silent Sound," she uses wool threads as a counterpart to the color palette, tracing the shapes of traditional Korean houses with ornaments. The strict and abstract lines are met with a material that has a warm and gentle quality, rich in tactile properties.

Jinran Kim explores themes of identity and memory. In her object series "Last Mattress," she portrays well-known Korean personalities through the reproduction of their last mattress, which seems to have absorbed their bodily fluids over the years. Intimate bodily traces become carriers of lived experiences, with the mattress serving as a place of identity and true home.

Yune-Ji Kim's spatial works engage the viewer on emotional and physical levels, playing with perceptions. From four curved walls made of Korean paper, she describes the form of a circle that is both open and closed, beginning and ending everywhere. The feeling of balance is supported by the material used, which is ephemeral yet stable, light yet solid.

Sae Bom Lee expresses an artistic sensitivity shaped by a rich cultural past as well as a deep reverence for nature, which symbolizes coming, being, and going for her. She connects external landscapes with her inner self, combining stone, plant, and animal with power, silence, light, shadow, severity, and freshness. In the way she balances and relates these contrasting elements, she points to a whole that can be sensed from its parts.

SOOKI paints Berlin cityscapes and romantically appealing motifs from the Berlin surroundings using Asian ink techniques on Korean paper. Paradoxical yet consistent, she excellently describes her dual existence between Asian and European influences, between tradition and modernity.

Thursday, May 5, 2011, 7:30 PM Concert with Christian Schantz and Micha Maas

Thursday, May 12, 2011, 7:30 PM
"Home in the Distance," Reading by SOOKI

Sunday, May 22, 2011, 7:30 PM Closing event with artist talk and art lottery drawing