MIN JUNGYEONh Y b r I d s p a c E

This catalogue is published by hada contemporary to accompany the exhibition:

MIN JUNGYEONHYBRID SPACE

7 - 29 MARCH 2013

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MIN JUNGYEON

HYBRID SPACE

hada contemporary is pleased to announce the first UK solo exhibition of Min Jungyeon. This exhibition showcases

Min’s most recent paintings and drawings of her phantasmoagorical realm.

Min Jungyeon explores the grandeur of universe and the existence of human being within by creating unpredictable

universe of her own. Min creates unfamiliar clusters of forms suspended in air, which seems to grow into a new

hybrid space between reality and fantasy. Intestines and villus like elongated forms diffusing and melting into

architectural and unidentifiable somnolent backgrounds are often used to symbolise her flowing idea that spreads

like liquid through all of her paintings analogous to the virus. although the eccentric biomorphic forms of images

display strong affinity to surrealist’s paintings from the juxtaposition of incongruent imageries in one space, her

interest lays in the oscillation between the thin boundary between reality and illusion challenging our perception

through creation of dream like nonexistent world, as hieronymus bosch ventured through his uncompromising

creative imagination on the canvas.

The main characteristic of Min’s works is well-balanced undulation of dichotamic values such as abstraction-realism,

inside-outside, two dimension- three dimension, reality-fiction, microscopic-macroscopic, rational-irrational, East-

West among others that aids her to flourish ideas without limits. For example, the ar tist endeavours to reconcile

the rational – what can be read and can be seen, where one can recognise what it is, be this a landscape, a person,

the architecture where the perspective is – and the irrational - may come in the form of energy around us; it may

be invisible, yet it exists. as her abstract compositions with hyperrealistic figures depicts real yet unreal world of

her imagination suggests the odd sensation of drifting to and fro both ends of the world. por traying the ar tist’s

continuous conflict and resolution between two identities as a Korean-born parisian.

Min Jungyeon (b. 1979) received MFa in Ecole Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de paris and bFa at hongik

University, seoul. she exhibited extensively internationally at Musée d’ar t Moderne de saint-Etienne Métropole,

National Taiwan Museum of Fine ar t, Kashya hildebrand, Galerie Maria Lund, berlin-Fiedrichshain among others.

she has been awarded with prix des par tenaires du musée d’ar t Moderne de saint-Etienne Métropole, saint-

Etienne, France (2011), first prize for concours centre culturel pour Jeunes ar tistes coréens, paris, France (2004)

and third prize in German-Korean ar tistic relations competition, seoul, Korea (1999)

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plage | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013

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Evenement | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013

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doute | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 97 cm | 2013

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Jalousie | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2013

Entract 3 | acr ylic on canvas | 130 x 130 cm | 2011

Travaux2 | acr ylic canvas | 131 x 130 cm | 2010.

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Tissageacr ylic canvas97 x 130 cm2010

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dialogue (gauche) | ink on paper | 32.7 x 50 cm | 2012

dialogue (doite) | ink on paper | 32.7 x 50 cm | 2012

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Mousse 2 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

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Mousse | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

Mousse blanche 2 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

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suspention | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

Melancolie | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

Mousse destructr ice | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

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Masse 5 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

Tornade si lencieuse | ink on paper | 50 x 50 cm | 2012

Masse 4 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

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Mousse blanche 4 | ink on paper | 32 x 32 cm | 2012

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MIN JUNGYOEN (b.1979)

EdUcaTION

2006 Ecole Nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de paris, France

2001 hongik University, seoul, Korea

sOLO EXhIbITIONs

2013 hada contemporary, London, UK

2011 Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

2009 beauté troublante, Grace Kong Gallery, seoul, Korea

hibernation, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

2007 somnolence, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

Marecage, IMarT Gallery, seoul, Korea

2006 passage, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, New York, Usa

2005 amnios, Mille plateaux Gallery, paris, France

2004 aube après la nuit, Korean cultural center, paris, France

GrOUp EXhIbITIONs

2011 Medi(t)ation, asian ar t biennale, National Taiwan Museum of Fine ar ts,

Taipei, Taiwan

Westparcel, Kunstverein GraZ, rogenburg, Germany

Westparcel, altefeuerzache, berlin-Fiedrichshain, Germany

Korean collective 2011, Galerie boordeinde / Leonhard rüthmüller

contemporary, den haag, The Netherlands / basel, switzerland

2010 G20 seoul summit celebration, Exhibition for Korean Fine ar t,

National assembly of Korea, seoul, Korea

Neography: Korean ar tists in paris, cite des ar ts paris, France

Expo de dessin, Maria Lunde Gallery, paris, France

Korean collective in London, albemarle Gallery, London, England

arcO 2010, Kashya hildebrand Gallery, Madrid, spain

Neographie, cite des ar t, paris, France

hong Kong ar t fair, Kashya hildebrand Gallery, hong Kong, china

2009 Espace des ar ts sans frontieres, paris, France

Expo de printemps, Espace 5 etoiles, paris, France

ar t dubai 09, dubai, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

Garden of desire, daegou KT&G, daegou, Korea

shanghai ar t fair 2009, Kashya hildebrand Gallery, shanghai, china

asian ar t 2009, Kashya hildebrand gallery, Miami, Usa

2008 contemporary Korean ar tists in paris, seoul ar ts center, seoul, Korea

sh contemporary 08, shanghai, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

ar t dubai 08, dubai, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

ar t cologne 08, cologne, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

2007 dreamscapes, Galerie Kashya hilebrand, Zurich, switzerland

acaF 07, New York, Galerie Kashya hilebrand, Zurich, switzerland

ar t cologne palma de Mallorca 07, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

ar t Miami 07, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

ar t dubai 07, dubai, Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

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2006 special Year of France – French contemporary ar t, coex, seoul, Korea

Korean contemporary 5, Kong Gallery, seoul, Korea

petit à petit, daumesnil 89 Gallery, paris, France

a travers des nouvelle fenetre, Korean OEcd, paris, France

ar t fair 06, cologne, Germany

Kunst 06, Zurich, switzerland

Galerie Kashya hildebrand, Zurich, switzerland

2005 Overseas Young Korean ar tists –The riddle of style, seoul ar t center, seoul, Korea

1999 Third prize in German-Korean ar tistic relations competition, seoul, Korea

aWards

2011 prix des par tenaires du musée d’ar t Moderne de saint-Etienne Métropole,

saint-Etienne, France

2004 First prize “concours centre culturel pour Jeunes ar tistes coréens”, paris, France

1999 Third prize in German-Korean ar tistic relations competition, seoul, Korea

This catalogue is published by hada contemporary to accompany the exhibition:

MIN JUNGYEONHYBRID SPACE

7 - 29 MARCH 2013

No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any mean, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without prior written permission from hada contemporary Ltd.