IM CHUN HEE
The scenery of everyday life seen from the artist's perspective has become a way to communicate with the world, and every day, she goes for a walk, not simply for relaxation, but to take a step forward with an earnest will for life. The landscape photos captured along the way are piling up like records, and we follow those steps and walk together on a new journey path.
As the artist walks around her neighborhood repeatedly daily, she encounters common aspects of nature such as familiar trees, grass, roads, sky, sunset, wind, and wildflowers. Such appearances are so joint that we pass them by and do not attach much meaning to them. However, there must be a reason why the artist is interested in all of these things and captures them in her eyes while taking walks repeatedly as if she were going on a journey and projecting what she desperately desires. Deep emotions and connection arise as if looking at the artist's paintings because we encounter the story of the time the artist focused on.
Through her work, she shows the feeling of walking silently toward the right path in relationships, which is what we should do through walks. The end of a careful brushstroke is always full of rough, fluttering energy and longing, and we can feel the wriggling movement to go somewhere. In the hidden expressions, the eyes become more earnest. A mixture of laughter and sadness appears, and the appearance seems humorous without hesitation, probably because the artist's unique emotional excitement is well captured.
BIOGRAPHY
BORN IN 1970
WORKS IN LIVES IN KOREA
EDUCATION
BFA in Western Painting, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Aufbaustudium: Painting (Prof. Peter Chevalier), Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 WALKER, THE ONE PIECE OF ART, ARTBN, Seoul
2022 I can't take my Eyes off you, A_Lounge, Seoul
2021 Winter Wind, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2018 Tree Shadows, TONG-IN Auction Gallery, Seoul
2017 Relay Exhibition, b.cut Gallery, Seoul
Romantic Landscape, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2015 Confession, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2014 Confession, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2013 Flowing Thinking, Hoam Faculty House, Seoul
2010 The Pasty Forest, Gaheodong 60, Seoul
2009 Into the Landscape, Cyart Gallery, Seoul
2006 The Painter's Eyes, KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul
2005 Burlesque Paintings, Brain Factory, Seoul
2003 In a Jungle, Noam Gallery, Seoul
2003 Psychological Self-portraits, Songeun Gallery, Seoul
1998 Gallery Boda, Seoul
1996 Galerie Hifistudio Wittmann, Stuttgart, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 A familiar me, a familiar stranger, Gallery HOHO, Seoul
2023 MAGIC WORLD, Cheongna Blue Nova Hall, Incheon
2023 Der Grüner Salon, Galerie im Helferhaus, Backnang, Germany
2023 Museum of Masic, Yeulmaru, Yeosu
2022 Daily life not so simple, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2022 Magic World, Hadong Art Gallery, Hadong
2022 Yeonhui Artfair, Gallery HOHO, Seoul
2021 Poetry painting exhibition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of poet Kim Soo-young's birth, KYOBO BOOK CENTRE(gwanghwamun, hapjeong), Sooyoung Kim Literature Museum, Seoul
2021 <Drawing Box_Traveling Box>, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
2020 H.U.G, VIT GALLERY, Seoul
2020 Consolation, for its warmth, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2020 Da CAPO-2020, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2019 IM, CHUNHEE & SINZOW, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2019 Matters of Women, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
2018 2017 SeMA's New Acquisitions: Heaven, Earth & Man, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2018 Da CAPO-2018, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2017 again 2014, Leejungseob Art Museum exhibit hall, Jeju
2017 International Contemporary Art Project Ulsan, Ulsan
2017 Support Sarubia, Project Space SARUBIA, Seoul
2017 ArariPlatform-POP, Art Terminal_Small Museum, Jeongseon
2017 DREAM ON DRAWING, Zaha Museum, Seoul
2016 Found in Life, Gidang Art Museum, Jeju
2016 Plant Fantasy, Hoyeon Gallery (Kyonggi Univ.), Suwon
2016 Neutral zone_Between real and virtual image, IGONG gallery, Daejeon
2016 ARTWORKS, Gallery3, Seoul
2016 Da Capo 2016, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2015 Relaxed scene, Gidang Art Museum, Jeju
2015 Soma Drawing_indifference, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul,
2015 The discovery of painting, Gallery3, Seoul
2015 <Facial expressions and gestures_Museum Collection>, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 Shall We Dance?, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2015 FROM THE LINE, Gallery 3, Seoul
2015 Repeat Mark 2015, Gallery Dam, Seoul
2015 Exhibition of sixth artist-in-residence at Leejungseob Art Museum, exhibit hall, Jeju
2014 Days of Wind Island, Leejungseob Art Museum, Jeju
2013 Who are youⅠ, Samtan Art Mine, Jeongseon, Gangwon-do
2013 Stroll: Walking Slowly, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju
2012 Artist, See the Artist, Eve Gallery, Seoul
2011 art: gwangju:11, Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju
2011 Homage to Morandi: Essence of Art, Brain Factory, Seoul
2011 A Leap from the Deep-Sea, Woonjung Green Campus (Exhibition Hall), Seoul
2011 view comment, Daecheong ho Art Museum, Cheongwon
2010 Exhibition70-60, Gaheodong 60, Seoul
2010 neither close nor far away, Bebelstrasse 12a, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 1+1, Gallery Liz, Namyangju
2009 With art, With artist!-ArtRoad 77, Artspace With Artist, Heyri
2009 My Favorite, Gallery Urban Art, Seoul
2008 Sense & Sensibility, Gallery Urban Art, Seoul
2008 Impossible Homecoming, Gallery Hyangri, Seoul
2008 Drawing Now 01 – Blasphemous & Secret, SOMA Drawing Center, Seoul
2007 Seoul Open Art Fair, COEX Convention Hall, Seoul
2007 Imfuse, imbue+diffuse, Gallery Velvet, Seoul
2007 Art Villagers, Gallery Young, Seoul
2006 Korea Young Artist Biennale, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu
2006 Final Countdown, Reihe 22 Galerie Kunstlertreff, Stuttgart, Germany
2006 SongEun Art Awards, Insa Art Center, Seoul
Art Villagers, Art Village Nurturing Artists, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul
2003 University of Ulsan College of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition VI, Hyundai Art Gallery, Ulsan
2003 Dream Works, Gallery Gaia, Seoul
2002 University of Ulsan College of Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition V, Hyundai Art Gallery, Ulsan
2002 An Encounter of Painting with Ceramic Art, Gallery Liz, Namyangju
2001 Chunhee Im, Stefanie Krueger–Painting, Reihe 22 Galerie Kunstlertreff, Stuttgart, Germany
2001 Touching the Scull of Romanticism, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Jangheung
2000 Chunhee Im, Markus Correnz, Inter-art Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2000 The Inside, the Outside, Kunstverein Aalen, Aalen, Germany
1999 Freizeit ist Freiheit, Galerie Alpiersbach, Alpiersbach, Germany
1999 Vision of the East, Karastadt, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 Bilderwelten, Banknhaus Elwanger & Geiger, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 Verbal, Non-verbal, Neubaull in Abk Stuttgard, Stuttgart, Germany
1998 Young Artist Exhibition, Banknhaus Elwanger & Geiger, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 Bilder-Studenten der Klasse Prof. Chevalier, Justizministerium, Stuttgart, Germany
1993 Imaginary Space, Gallery Doll, Seoul
1993 The Equatorial Zone, Chongnam Art Museum, Seoul
1992 A Walk in the Park, Gallery Doll, Seoul
1992 The Equatorial Zone, Chongnam Art Museum, Seoul
1992 People – Ways of Expression, Youth Art Museum, Seoul
1992 National Rising Artist Exhibition, Youth Art Museum, Seoul
COLLECTIONS
Seoul Museum of Art
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art
National Museum of Contemporary Art (Art Bank)
Seoul City Hall Cultural Headquarters Museum
THE DAESAN FOUNDATION
Jeju Museum of Art
Leejungseob Art Museum
Gidang Art Museum
Banknhaus Elwanger & Geiger, Gremany
Hans Reicheneker GmbH+Co., Gremany
Acp-IT AG, Germany