Kim Yusob (born 1959 in

Gwangju Gwangju () is South Korea's sixth-largest metropolis. It is a designated metropolitan city under the direct control of the central government's Home Minister. The city was also the capital of South Jeolla Province until the provincial office ...

) is a South Korean

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, th ...

who lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul, South Korea.

Biography

After graduating from the Department of Fine Art at Chosun University,

, in 1983 Kim Yusob moved to Berlin. There he studied both at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in

East Berlin East Berlin was the ''de facto'' capital city of East Germany from 1949 to 1990. Formally, it was the Allied occupation zones in Germany, Soviet sector of Berlin, established in 1945. The American, British, and French sectors were known as ...

and at the Western Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). 1995 he became ''Meisterschüler'' (Master Disciple) of Wolfgang Petrick. Since 1996 Kim has been teaching at Chosun University, where he completed Graduate School in 2001. From 2007 on he has been teaching at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). In 2014 he became Professor of Painting at Chosun University.

Works

Within his

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Kim Yusob aims at providing new impulses for

abstract expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

. His process of painting unites religious, philosophical and

Anthroposophical Anthroposophy is a spiritualist movement founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience. Followers ...

aspects. Much is left to hazard, for Kim considers his art a seismogram of his inner world. The (in an alchemical analogy) " first matter" of his painting is an amorphous and indefinite liquid mass. Thus the basic material already contains the final work of art. The artist merely brings it to light during the process of painting. Kim’s conceit of a pre-defined matter closely resembles the Aristotelian concept of a teleological

hyle In philosophy, hyle (; from grc, ὕλη) refers to matter or stuff. It can also be the material cause underlying a change in Aristotelian philosophy. The Greeks originally had no word for matter in general, as opposed to raw material suitable ...

, and has also been shared by artists such as

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

or Edwin Landseer. Due to Kim’s background it is also rooted in Daoism and the

I Ching The ''I Ching'' or ''Yi Jing'' (, ), usually translated ''Book of Changes'' or ''Classic of Changes'', is an ancient Chinese divination text that is among the oldest of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual in the Western Zho ...

. Furthermore, Kim obtains a typical effect by applying special technique of decelerating the colours’ drying: Such their characteristic material quality prevails.

Exhibitions (selection)

* ''A Landscape of Invisible Words'' - Gwangju Museum of Art (2023) * solo show: ''Kim Yusob - Energy Flash'' – Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin (2014) * solo show: ''SPIRIT-PURE'', Gallery Gahoedong60, Seoul (2012) * solo show: ''Kim Yusob - Energy development'' -

Kunsthalle Rostock The Rostock Art Gallery (german: Kunsthalle Rostock) was opened on 15 May 1969 as a museum of contemporary art in Rostock in the German federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It is in the grounds of the park around the Schwanenteich lake in the ...

(2012) * ''Visions Of Paradise'' - Python Gallery,

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(2012) * ''Black painting - The spirit of the Abstract'' - Nuri Gallery,

Goyang Goyang (''Goyang-si''; ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province in the north of South Korea. It is part of the Seoul Capital Area, making Goyang one of Seoul's satellite cities. It is one of the largest cities in the Seoul Capital Area, with a populatio ...

Cultural Foundation Oulim Nuri, Ilsan (Korea) (2012) * solo show: Kim Yusob - Gebanntes Licht'' – Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin (2011) * solo show: ''Kim Yusob'' - Galerie Helmut Leger, Munich (2010) * solo show: ''Kim Yusob'' - CAS / Contemporary Art Space, Salzburg (2010) * ''Feng Lu (China) - Skulpturen / Yusob Kim (Korea) Malerei - Der Mensch im Quadrat'' - KUNSTKABINETT, Regensburg (2008) * ''Schwarze Bilder'' – Ephraim-Palais, Stadtmuseum Berlin (2006) * ''Deep Action - Wolfgang Petrick und Meisterschüler (1975 – 2005)'' - Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2005)Cfr
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Publications

* Kim Yusob: ''Schwarze Bilder'' (exhibition catalogue), Museum Ephraim-Palais, Berlin 2006. * Ursel Berger, Lothar Romain, Karlheinz Lüdeking,

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(edd.), ''Deep Action. Wolfgang Petrick und Meisterschüler. 1975-2000.'' (exhibition catalogue), Berlin 2005.

References

External links

Representation by Gallery Michael Schultz
Berlin, Seoul, Beijing
Representation by Python Gallery
Erlenbach (Switzerland)]
Arttist's portrait at CAS-Galerie, Salzburg (Austria)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yusob, Kim People from Gwangju South Korean contemporary artists South Korean painters 1959 births Artists from Berlin Contemporary painters Living people South Korean expatriates in Germany