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'''Koo Jeong A'''
'''Koo Jeong A''' is a South-Korean born and Paris-based mixed-media and installation artist.


Lives & Works Everywhere
Koo studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Berrebi|first=Sophie|title=Koo Jeong-a|language=en|work=Frieze|issue=48|url=https://frieze.com/article/koo-jeong|access-date=2020-05-23|issn=0962-0672}}</ref> She worked as an artist-in-residence in the Augarten Contemporary in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Miyuki Okuyama, H and F, 2012|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/blogs/map/dear-japanese-children-of-war-2/attachment/map_okuyama_handf_490-2|date=2013-05-10|website=Guggenheim|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-23}}</ref>


The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates intersubjective phenomena, digital features and timely imaginaries with the capacity to transform into large-scale sculpture and painting, as well as film, animation, sound and scent, to reinvent the architectural space. The artist’s site-specific reconfigurations open up narrative portals, where the various media are combined with natural elements such as wind or gravity and the electromagnetic field. In this way, alternative realities are conjured not only geographically but also in an astral sense, tracing the poetry that permeates their unique universe.
Her work has included still and moving images, sound and scent, found objects, the natural environment, and site-specific installation.

The New York Times referred to her work as having diverse influences and themes of childhood longing.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/art-in-review-koo-jeong-a.html "Art in Review; Koo Jeong-a"], Retrieved 24 December 2019.</ref> Art in America called her work "focused", "quiet", and "quirky."<ref>[https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/aia-reviews/koo-jeong-a-60862/ "Koo Jeong A"], Retrieved 24 December 2019.</ref>
As Frank Boehm has pointed out, Koo Jeong A works with a wide range of varying expressions and characters, who are part of an ongoing narrative that calls into play the idea of the ‘correlations’ of Friedrich Kiesler, relations between works, ideas and projects in various disciplines that are so close as to become interdependent.

The artist’s projects refract the viewer into different continents, states, personalities, and other forms of intelligence, drawing from a wide spectrum of concerns that has developed over the years, ranging from the human cognition that underpins our transient approach to our earthly environments and cosmic constellations that simultaneously connect and expand.

Koo Jeong A’s installation works trigger a regeneration and dynamism in the area in which they are situated. Projects like the Glow in the Dark Skatepark series are situated in the public arena and become part of the infrastructure of the city or the cultural destination in a wide collaboration with local citizens and governments that encourages different generations to create various communal events or attractions through autonomous self-organisation.

Koo Jeong A’s interest in the concept of the void also plays an important role. Installed in a site without the interaction of human beings, and affected only by the changing light of day and night, the large-scale sculptures still have depth of meaning, as if they are characters in time and space.


Art is seen by Koo Jeong A as a convergence with collective knowledge, and with the natural activities of life. To the artist, art is as an act of reverence that constantly incites the surprise of discovery, extending towards an unstoppable state of dynamism a perpetual becoming that is always oscillating, trembling and vibrating.


==Select exhibitions==
==Select exhibitions==

Revision as of 10:16, 5 July 2021

Koo Jeong A
Born
Seoul, South Korea.
NationalitySouth Korean
Known forVisual arts, installation art, Contemporary Art
Websitehttps://www.koojeonga.com
Koo Jeong A
Hangul
Revised RomanizationGu Jeong-a
McCune–ReischauerKu Chŏng'a

Koo Jeong A

Lives & Works Everywhere

The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates intersubjective phenomena, digital features and timely imaginaries with the capacity to transform into large-scale sculpture and painting, as well as film, animation, sound and scent, to reinvent the architectural space. The artist’s site-specific reconfigurations open up narrative portals, where the various media are combined with natural elements such as wind or gravity and the electromagnetic field. In this way, alternative realities are conjured not only geographically but also in an astral sense, tracing the poetry that permeates their unique universe.

As Frank Boehm has pointed out, Koo Jeong A works with a wide range of varying expressions and characters, who are part of an ongoing narrative that calls into play the idea of the ‘correlations’ of Friedrich Kiesler, relations between works, ideas and projects in various disciplines that are so close as to become interdependent.

The artist’s projects refract the viewer into different continents, states, personalities, and other forms of intelligence, drawing from a wide spectrum of concerns that has developed over the years, ranging from the human cognition that underpins our transient approach to our earthly environments and cosmic constellations that simultaneously connect and expand.

Koo Jeong A’s installation works trigger a regeneration and dynamism in the area in which they are situated. Projects like the Glow in the Dark Skatepark series are situated in the public arena and become part of the infrastructure of the city or the cultural destination in a wide collaboration with local citizens and governments that encourages different generations to create various communal events or attractions through autonomous self-organisation.

Koo Jeong A’s interest in the concept of the void also plays an important role. Installed in a site without the interaction of human beings, and affected only by the changing light of day and night, the large-scale sculptures still have depth of meaning, as if they are characters in time and space.


Art is seen by Koo Jeong A as a convergence with collective knowledge, and with the natural activities of life. To the artist, art is as an act of reverence that constantly incites the surprise of discovery, extending towards an unstoppable state of dynamism a perpetual becoming that is always oscillating, trembling and vibrating.

Select exhibitions

Recognition

In 2016, she was named "2016 Artist of the Year" by the Korean Cultural Centre UK.[10]

In 2005 she was awarded the Hermès Korea Missulsang prize.[11]

In 2002, Koo was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[12]

Public collections

Koo's work may be found in several public institutions, including:

Publications

  • Constellation Congress: Koo Jeong A. New Haven: Yale University Press (2012). ISBN 978-0-300-18880-6
  • Otro: Koo Jeong A. Vassiviere: Le Centre International d'Art et du Paysage (2012). ISBN 978-2-910850-55-5
  • 9 Nove/Nine: Koo Jeong A. Lisbon: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian (2011). ISBN 978-972-635-237-2
  • Oussseux Milan: Silvana Editions (2010). ISBN 8836616909
  • Flammariousss: Koo Jeong A & Edouard Glissant Paris: Yvon Lambert (2006).[17]
  • Koo Jeong-A : 315 n° 1 Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou (2004). ISBN 2-84426-239-2
  • Frozen With A Smile: Koo Jeong A. Kitayushu: Silvana Editions (2010). ISBN 4-901387-20-0
  • The Land of Ousss Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery (2002). Ireland ISBN 0907660797
  • Koo Jeong A. Paris: Editions des musees de la Ville de Paris (1997). ISBN 2-87900-351-2
  • Migrateurs: Koo Jeong A. Paris: ARC Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1994). ISBN 2-904497-14-5

See also

References

  1. ^ "Visibilities: Intrepid Women Of Artpace » Artpace". artpace.org. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  2. ^ "The Pavilion of Switzerland", Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Koo Jeong A" Pilar Corrias Gallery, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Koo Jeong A and Rirkrit Tiravanija at the Manchester Art Gallery" Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Koo Jeong A" Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, Yvon Lambert, Retrieved 9 May 2014.
  6. ^ "20: Koo Jeong A" Archived 2014-07-28 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Koo Jeong A, Constellation Congress" Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine, Dia Art Foundation, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  8. ^ "La Biennale di Venezia - Artists", La Biennale di Venezia, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Koo Jeong A" Archived 2014-05-08 at the Wayback Machine Aspen Art Museum, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  10. ^ "Pilar Corrias — Koo Jeong A". www.pilarcorrias.com. Retrieved 2020-05-23.
  11. ^ a b "Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress", Asian Art Archive, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  12. ^ "Hugo Boss Prize 2002 Shortlist" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  13. ^ "Collection Online" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  14. ^ "Cedric (2003)", Tate, Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  15. ^ "Snowy Sunny Days", Astrup Fearnley Museum, Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  16. ^ "Sans titre (2002)" Archived 2014-07-31 at the Wayback Machine, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Retrieved 22 July 2014.
  17. ^ "Koo Jeong A Edouard Glissant", Yvon Lambert, Retrieved 23 July 2014.
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