Kook Dongwan
Kook Dongwan works with various forms and media such as drawing, painting, and sculpture. While focusing on the private world of an individual, the artist also gradually reveals how society, economy, capital and politics affect the intimate personal world. The artist reproduces the events and objects experienced in the conscious world with bleached images and, in other times, presents the problems of self-identity and life experienced through changes in the body. Her recent painting visually reflects the relationship between the economic reality of Korean society and the life of the artist. These drawings, inspired by the visual experience of economic indicators showing the real estate market, uniquely express the structure that is not well revealed in everyday life and the anxiety and tension that are difficult to consciously grasp.
Kook Dongwan (b.1979)
2008 MA Book Arts, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London
2005 BFA, Graphic Design, Seoul National University, Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Sense of Direction, Nook Gallery, Seoul
2021 I Promise I Stay, PIBI Gallery, Seoul
2020 I am Three or Four or Five, Placemak2, Seoul
2018 900×Magnification, Gallery SU, Seoul
2016 The Automatic Message, Gallery Chosun, Seoul
2011 Some Dreams Don’t Come and Some Dreams Don’t Go., Gallery FACTORY, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Grapes and Seeds, Dual exhibition by Dongwan Kook and Rabea Edel, einBuch.haus, Berlin
2022 Soorim Art Prize 2022, Kim Hee Soo Art Center, Seoul
2022 Gangneung International Art Festival 2022: Tale of a City, Gangneung
2022 New Life, Space Willing N Dealing, Seoul
2021 Artist’s Wunderkammer, Gallery Planet, Seoul
2021 An Exhibition Giving Hojicha, Eulji-ro OF, Seoul
2021 Samulsamul—Inimitable (Minds) Traversing, KCDF Gallery, Seoul
2021 The 15th Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Unseen / Unseeable, Taehwagang National Garden, Ulsan
2021 Typojanchi 2021: International Typography Biennale, A Turtle and a Crane, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2021 World on the Move: Shortened vs. Extended, Insa Art Space, Seoul
2021 BGA Showroom, BGAmaru, Seoul
2021 YMCA+YWCA, Gallery Imazoo, Seoul
2021 Versatile Volumes, KF Gallery, Seoul
2021 Triple Point, The Jennis 128, Incheon
2021 Mind Sculpture, BGAmaru, Seoul
2021 Knocking the Door, Art Space I: SAEK, Seoul
2020 MMCA Changdong Residency Report 2020, MMCA Changdong residency, Seoul
2020 Grim Tamgu, Dual exhibition by Dongwan Kook and Vakki, Solsaem subway station, Seoul
2019 Pick Your Pic, Seoullo Media Canvas, Seoul
2019 Openness–Nowness, Gallery SU, Seoul
2018 Drawing the Desire of Everyday Life: Chaeg-Ga-Do, Gunpo Book Village, Gunpo
2018 How Many Steps, SAS Geumcheon PS333, Seoul
2017 PublicART New Hero, JCC Art Center, Seoul
2017 Future with Arts, Daegu Art Factory, Daegu
2017 Back to Marginality, SAS Geumcheon PS333, Seoul
2017 April Flower Memorial Festival: Sympathy & Memory, Arario Museum Annex, Jeju
2017 Structural Disparities, SAS Geumcheon PS333, Seoul
2016 Young Artists Projects 2016: New Visual Culture, Daegu Art Square, Daegu
2016 Art Apace Festival: Sensible Reality, Seoul Citizen’s Hall, Seoul
2015 Typojanchi 2015: International Typography Biennale, C( )T( ), Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2014 Today’s Salon, Common Center, Seoul
2013 A Hard Rain’s A-gonna Fall, Dual exhibition by Dongwan Kook and Kalim Yoon, Projectspace Mo, Seoul
2013 White & White: nel dialogo tra Corea e Italia (Dialogue Between Korea and Italy), Museo Carlo Bilotti — Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome
2012 Artists at Glenfiddich 2012, Art Gallery at Glenfiddich Distillery, Dufftown
2011 MoA Invites, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
2010 Primavere del Bianco, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
Residency Programs
2020 MMCA Changdong Residency, Seoul
2016-2018 Seoul Art Space Guemcheon, Seoul
2012 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence, Dufftown