Jeongmoon Choi

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and Berlin-based artist, Jeongmoon Choi originally studied painting. South Korean artist Jeongmoon Choi lights up the darkness with a complex, geometric mesh of UV-reflective threads that create a certain sense of confusion – as the threads reflect the light, the space seems to vibrate.
The artist conceived a relationship of tension between the fragility of the filament structures and the massiveness of the structure of the surrounding space that was blurred in the dark. Her installations give the impression of being virtual, sparking contemplation about analogue and digital »positions«, structures, movements and perspectives in space.

She is fascinated by the idea of also developing installations in exterior space, exploring the possibilities of public installations. Jeongmoon Choi studied at Sungshin University in Seoul and moved in 1995 to Germany where she studied at the Kassel College of Fine Arts. She lives and works in Berlin and Seoul and her work has been exhibited in many other countries around the world.

1984-1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, College of fine arts, Sungshin University
1988-1990 Master of Fine Arts in painting, College of fine arts, Sungshin University
1996-2001 Studied in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, Kassel

Since 2001 Lives and works in Berlin and Seoul

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2024
MORE MOIRÉ / Galerie Watson, Hamburg (C) >>
2023
Fragility | Stability / Da, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst, Hörstel >>
2022
CLIMATONIC : Floating Landscape / Kang contemporary, Berlin >>
2020
Le Pouls de la Terre / Fonds régional d’art contemporain Alsace, Selestat (C) >>
INVISIBLE MOVEMENT / Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt (C) >>
2018
Double Vision / HOCA, Contemporary Art Foundation, Hong Kong >>
ILLUSION_LINE / Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt >>
WELLE / Window Gallery and Atrium, KaDeWe, Berlin
2017
Manifestations of the line / MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey (C) >>
2016
Drawing in Space III – Light installation and objects / Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt
2015
Quake, shock, seismograph / galerie laurent mueller, Paris >>
2014
IN.VISIBLE / MaximiliansForum, Munich >>
2013
PULS / Moeller Fine Art, Berlin >>
Explorer / KARST Project, Plymouth >>
2012
DIALOGUE LINEAIRE / galerie laurent mueller, Paris (C) >>
Drawing in space II / galerie weisser elefant, Berlin
Lines up . a recollection – Outdoor Installation / re:MMX, Berlin
2011
RAPID RABBIT – BESCHLEUNIGTE BILDWELTEN / FRISE artist house, Hamburg (C) >>
Drawing in Space I – ART STAYS-9. festival of contemporay art / Art Salon, Ptuj, Slowenien
2010
Nulla Dies Sine Linea / galerie laurent mueller, Paris (C) >>
Light Drawing III / Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, Montesarchio, Italy
2007
Light Drawing I-metropolis / Gallery Gillian Morris, Berlin
Raum-Skelett / Exhibition to documenta 12, Stellwerk, Kassel
2005
5 und 5_Verstrickung / galerie weisser elefant, Berlin (C)
2001
ROOM 3402 / Gallery Stellwerk, Kassel
1994
KwanHoon Gallery, Seoul (C)
1992
Na Gallery, Seoul (C)
1989
KawnHoon Gallery, Seoul (C)

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2024
RE.LIGHT International Light Art Festival / Salzstadel, Regensburg
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair – Kang contemporary / Tempelhof Hangar, Berlin
2023
FÄDEN (THREADS) / Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen (C) >>
Threading Lines (with Annette Cords) / Kang Contemporary, Berlin >>
ART STAYS – VOYAGE: Postcards exhibition / FO.VI Gallery, Kidričevo, Slowenien
2022
KLANGLICHT / Schlossberg Museum, Graz >>
Perspectives #02 Les nouvelles œuvres de la collection / Frac Alsace, Selestat >>
MEDIA ART FESTIVAL LUNA NIGHTS 2022 / Leeuwarden, Netherlands >>
FANTASMA / KISS, Kunstverein Schloss Untergröningen, Untergröningen (C) >>
2021
Verführung Licht / Staatliches Museum, Schwerin (C) >>
All that is solid… / Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin >>
SPACES / Kunstverein Schoss Untergröningen, Untergröningen (C) >>
Wie im Himmel… / galerie weisser elefant, Berlin >>
4 ½ rooms / Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin >>
2020
EVI LICHTUNGEN / International Light Art Biennale, Hildesheim >>
Light Art Grindelwald / Grindelwald, Jungfrau Region >>
2019
IN-BETWEEN / ART STAYS-17. Festival of Contemporary Art, Ptuj, Slovenia >>
Al Hosn Festival / Cultural Foundation, Abu Dhabi >>
2018
And what about your GOOD MORNING NEW WORLD? / CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou >>
Lebenswege / Kasselerkunstverein, Kassel >>
The 7th Sense / Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
2017
ULTRAVIOLETT / dr.julius I ap, Berlin >>
Moving Space / Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig
In den Raum zeichnen – umreißen / Galerie Parterre, Berlin (C) >>
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair – Selected Positions / Arena, Berlin
START-UP! Multiples + Series / dr.julius I ap, Berlin >>
START-UP! – second edtion / OUTLOOK, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover >>
2016
The Thinking Machine – Ramon Llull and the Ars combinatoria /
CCCB, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona (C) >>
Ascents – Light art festival the cultural region Stuttgart, Engelberg Tower, Leonberg >>
EXIT – Perceptions – Le Festival Pluridisciplinaire, Maison des Arts Créteil, France
2015
Curitiba International Biennial 2015 / Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba (C) >>
Vers une architecture de lumière / La Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès Avignon >>
Random thoughts of a daily light / das weisse haus, Wien >>
Pop Austin – Illumination / Fair Market, Austin (C)
2014
Entgrenzung – Position zur Zeichnung / Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow (C) >>
2013
Red Never Follows / Saatchi Gallery, London
Athens Video Art Festival / Samourka Foundation: Estia Emporon, Athen
Photography Playground / Opernwerkstätten, Berlin
Slick Art Fair Brussels / Wild Gallery, Brüssel (C)
Lineare Resonanzen / galerie weisser elefant, Berlin
Unliniert / Kommunale Galerie – Rathaus Tempelhof, Berlin
2012
Slick Art Fair Paris, Paris (C)
On Lines / Kunstraum t27 – Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
2011
NACH STRICH UND FADEN / gallery fruehsorge – contemporary drawings, Berlin
ἈΡΆΧΝΗ / ARÁKHNÊ: DE FIL EN AIGUILLE DANS LE DESSIN / galerie laurent mueller, Paris
Die Linie überschreiten / Schau Fenster. Schauraum für Kunst, Berlin
Spuren und Sichten / kunstraum t27 – Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
Ausstellung in Kunstraum Decastro / Kunstraum Decastro, Dreieich
AMARCORD / Fellini Galerie, Berlin
8. Berliner Kunstsalon / Uferhallen, Berlin (C)
Cash & Carry / ex-MMX, Berlin
2010
Show VII / MMX- Open Art Venue, Berlin (C)
Blickwechsel-NRW Ausstellungsprojekt / Stadtbücherei, Sankt Augustin (C)
Kunstfestival „WAHRSCHAU-VINETA“ / Hamburg-Veddel (C)
Beste Lage / galerie weisser elefant – Refugium 2, Berlin (C)
Winter / Milchhof-Pavillon, Berlin
2009
6. Berliner Kunstsalon / Humboldt Umspannwerk, Berlin (C)
Kic-Nordart 09 / Calshütte, Rendsburg-Büdelsdorf
Light Space / galerie weisser elefant, Refugium2, Berlin
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS-ARCHIVE SELECTION / fruehsorge – contemporary drawing, Berlin
2008
WEISS / Stiftung Starke, Berlin
Niedenfadenverlieren / Tapetenwerk, Leipzig (C)
ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS #9 / Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin
2007
Light Drawing II / Kunstherbst Berlin 07 – boulevArt2, Europa Center, Berlin
Sneak Preview / Gallery Gillian Morris, Berlin
Jeongmoon Choi, Mi-Sook Kim, Hyun-A Kim / Culture center, Korean Embassy, Berlin
2006
3. Berliner Kunstsalon – Gallery Gillian Morris / Arena – Magazin, Berlin (C)
Stadt der Frauen – Frauenmuseum Berlin / Kommunale Gallery Berlin
GEZEICHNET / galerie weisser elefant, Berlin
RESERVOIR X / Grosser Wasserspeicher, Berlin (C)
2005
FENSHUI / Sungshin University Museum, Seoul (C)
NEUE PRODUKTE I / M3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
NEUE PRODUKTE II – offene Ateliers / Marienburgerstrasse 5A, Berlin
2004
The 14th Kunstmesse / Frauenmuseum, Bonn
2003
Naturbeobchtungen / engler & piper projekte, Berlin
Project – open studio 2 / Marienburgerstrasse 5A, Berlin
2002
Project – open studios / Marienburgerstrasse 5A, Berlin
2000
My world is not enough – Missing fields / Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Kunst Korea Kassel / KulturBahnhof – Südflügel, Kassel
1999
Artist Festival – KulturBahnhof / KulturBahnhof – Südflügel, Kassel
Natur – Mensch / National Park, St. Andreasberg (C)
Jeongmoon Choi, Kyungah Moon, Hyeyean Ra, Sungmin Kim / Gallery Stellwerk, Kassel
1994
Allegory / Chungnam Gallery, Seoul (C)
1993
’93 Korea Youth Art Festival / Kongpyong Art Center, Seoul
’93 VISAVIS / Dansung Gallery, Seoul
Printing – Painting / Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul
Walking Men / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Allegory / Na Gallery, Seoul
1992
Sensibility – Reaction / Hansun Gallery, Seoul
The age of vision / Chungnam Gallery, Seoul
Human – History / Dansung Gallery, Seoul (C)
Seoul – Sapporo / A City Museum, Seoul City Support (C)
Walking Men / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul (C)
1991
Contemporary Art – New Paradigm / Na Gallery, Seoul (C)
Allegory / Na Gallery, Seoul (C)
Walking Men / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul (C)
Nan Woo / Seoul Gallery, Seoul
1990
NOTICE – 4MEMBERS / Now Gallery, Seoul
New Form 1990 / Yoon Gallery, Seoul (C)
Walking Men / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul – Dansung Gallery, Taegu (C)
Jeongmoon Choi – Rankyung Yoon / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Painting 1990 / Chungnam Gallery, Seoul
Nan Won / Total Art Museum, Seoul
A relative Sympathy / Doll Galery, Seoul (C)
1989
New Artist’s Exhibition / Gogoong Gallery, Seoul
Impulse – Will / Chungnam Gallery, Seoul (C)
Arirang Environment Art Exhibition / Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul
UNTITLED Exhibition / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Allegory / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul (C)
New verification & confirmation / Doll Gallery, Seoul (C)
Exhibition of Contemporary Artists of the late 1980’s / Young Artists Gallery, Seoul
1988
The 9th VALPARAISO Biennale / Valparaiso, Chile (C)
NOTICE – 5MEMBERS / Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
The Contemporary Arts – 13 Wo – Artists / Doll Gallery, Seoul (C)
The 14th Independents / National Museum of Modern Art, Kwachun (C)

Grants and Awards

2023 NEUSTART plus-Stipendium / Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2022 NEUSTART Kultur-Stipendium / Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn
2021 INITIAL Stipendium / Akademie der Künste, Berlin
2020 Sonderstipendien der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin

Art Project Cooperation

2019
Samsung Galaxy S10 Launching / Samsung Studio, Sinchon in Seoul
Walk Artistry / CAMPER Shanghai Flagship Store, Shanghai
2018
Global Day Of Discovery / Renaissance Downtown Hotel, Dubai

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