Junggeun Oh, also Oh Jung Geun ( ko, 오정근; born 27 September 1970, in

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painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

. Living in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

since 2004 he paints artworks of a modern

minimalism In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. Prominent artists associated with minimalism include Don ...

mixing abstraction with realism. The artist is represented by galerie son, Berlin.

Life

Junggeun Oh studied Fine Arts at

Seoul National University Seoul National University (SNU; ) is a national public research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is largely considered the most prestigious university in South Korea; it is one of the three "S ...

. During that time he already had been working as a teacher at Sun-Hwa College of Fine Arts in Seoul and as a lecturer at Won-Kwang University Iksan. In 2004 he moved with his family to Berlin.
He won several awards and scholarships.

Work

In the early 2000 years Junggeun Oh created highly detailed woodprints that were sometimes over-sized and made of more than 40 plates each.
Since living in Berlin Oh has been working on his series "interspaces" (in German "Zwischenräume“). Herein he paints (mostly in red) the shapes that buildings draw in the sky as minimalistic abstract forms. 2012 Junggeun Oh designed a

Buddy Bear ''Buddy Bears'' are painted, life-size fiberglass bear sculptures developed by German businesspeople Klaus and Eva Herlitz, in cooperation with sculptor Roman Strobl. They have become a landmark of Berlin and are considered unofficial ambassado ...

for the embassy of South Korea.Morgenpost Berlin, 27 Sept 2012
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Publications

* ''Junggeun OH'', THE PAGE GALLERY, Korea, Seoul, 2012

Notes

External links

junggeun-oh.com
including the artist's catalogue raisonné {{DEFAULTSORT:Oh, Junggeun 1970 births Living people South Korean painters South Korean contemporary artists South Korean expatriates in Germany Seoul National University alumni Contemporary painters Postmodern artists Artists from Seoul Artists from Berlin