Chinwook Kim

To borrow words of Fritz Riemann, German psychologist, I receive an impression that anxiety has dual aspects, when observing “anxiety without anxiety”. Anxiety makes us active, and paralyzed in a sense. Anxiety is always a sign and a warning signal, but simultaneously has the character of a sort of suggestion, that is, the strength to overcome it. (Grundformen der Angst by Fritz Riemann.) As he says, anxiety has negative and positive aspects simultaneously. He claims that our effort to escape from a situation can be the possibility of oneself and the society we belong to.

I try to show my cautiousness to survive in a disquieting reality and my effort to adapt myself to a surrounding environment through unfamiliar scenes and abstract things set intentionally. This is like a way to survive in a harsh environment as creatures learn how to disguise themselves for their survival. Diverse instable elements in life are like the role of fitting everyday fragments - trivial yet not to be taken lightly - into their right places. I endeavor to excavate and collect such images that remain like fossils between layers of time.

2010 M.F.A. Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London UK
2006 M.F.A. Painting, Stuttgart National Art School,Germany
2003 B.F.A. Painting, Stuttgart National Art School, Germany
1997 B.A. Oriental Painting, Hansung University, Seoul Korea

Solo exhibition
2017 Empty... (Gallery Nut, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Visible or Invisible (Gallery Dol, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Deep or Shallow (Gallery chosun, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Where the story ends (Gallery chosun, Seoul, Korea)
Externalisations of the Mind (Nest gallery, Geneva, Switzerland)
2003 Hi-Art Gallery, Metzingen, Germany

Group exhibition
2014 KIAF/14 (Coex, Seoul, Korea)
Korea-Taiwan Exchange Exhibition (Yunan Xian, Taiwan)
2013 KIAF/13 (Coex, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Place Not Found , (Forman’s Smokehouse gallery, London, UK)
Lines in Drawings (43 Inverness Street gallery, London, UK)
Brief Encounter (James Freeman gallery, London, UK)
Sasapari 4482 (Bargehouse, London, UK)
2011 Restless Nature-part2 (Newlyn Art gallery, Cornwall, UK)
Restless Nature-part1 (Collyer Bristow gallery, London, UK)
States of Reverie (Scream gallery, London, UK)
Sasapari 4482 (Bargehouse, London, UK)
2010 Imaginary Landscapes (Arch 402 gallery, London, UK)
Thirst (Beldam gallery, London, UK)
The Affordable Art Fair (London, UK)
Threshold to everyday-life (Oriental VisArt, Geneva, Switzerland)
The Uneasy Landscape (Fold gallery, London, UK)
Art in Focus: Black and Whi...