Hyun-Sook Song, 3 Brushstrokes, 2019, Tempera on Canvas, 160X250cm, ⓒ Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers

Sprüth Magers are presenting Hyun-Sook Song's first solo exhibition through March 26th 2022. The exhibition features both new and existing large-scale paintings that give a comprehensive insight into her artistic oeuvre.

The artist came to Germany in 1972, and studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. During her educaiton, she developed a unique technique using tempera paint(a mixture of egg and colored pigment) which is the common material used in the tradition of Western medieval art. Yet her artistic approach is fimly rooted in Korean caligraphy. Song's works can be viewed from both an abstract-meditative and a figurative symbolic perspective. Her works do not depict ogjects, but they rather express the artist's memory of certain objects.

About the Artist

Hyun-Sook Song (1952) lives and works in Hamburg. She studied art at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg between 1976 and 1981 and Korean art history at Chonnam National University in Gwangju. Selected solo and group presentations include those at Hamburger Kunsthalle; the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul; Gwangju Museum of Art; Mediations Biennale in Poznań; the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul; Mori Art Museum in Tokyo; the Asian Art Museum and the Berkeley Art Museum in San Francisco; and Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, among others. Song’s works are in the collections of numerous institutions including Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Seoul Museum of Art, Gwangju Art Museum, and Gyeonggido Museum of Art.

Further info : Sprüth Magers