Opening: Wednesday, June 1, 2022, 7 p.m.
Introduction at 7:30 p.m. by Tessa Praun, Director and Chief Curator of Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm+

Traces can run parallel, cross each other, or be superimposed. In Jongsuk Yoon’s work, traces of condensed temporality, corporeality, memory, and biography intersect and result in idiosyncratic pictorial worlds that dis- play an impressive range of colors. The paintings by the artist, who was born in South Korea and has been living in Germany since the early 1990s, fuse the traditions of Asian landscape painting with a Western canon of art that is defined by abstraction, translating these elements into abstract landscapes that consist of large, overlapping forms.

Titles like Meer (Ocean), June, or Rivers evoke associations of nature observations and variant moods. Yoon creates space in her pictures for her own memories of the South Korean landscape. For Yoon, these pictures symbolize the current political reality. She says, “I believe that painting is a medium that is able to demonstrate the authenticity and symbolism of art as a powerful tool of change. All engagement with Korea has a political dimension – in other words, pictures that refer to Korea are politically charged.”

Time plays an important role in Yoon’s oeuvre. The artist works on several paintings at once and does not embark on the next painterly step until she feels enough time has passed and it is the right moment.

JONGSUK YOON, born 1965 in Onyang, South Korea, lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
In 1996 she studied at the University of Fine Arts Münster, from 1997 to 2001 at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and from 2004 to 2005 at Chelsea College of Art, MA, London. In 2019 Yoon received a residency at SoART Millstättersee, Spittal an der Drau, Austria, in 2000 she was a scholarshio holder of the DAAD Artist-in-Residence Programme, Berlin, Germany.