Artist

Bek Hyunjin

Bek Hyunjin(b.1972) has been actively performing across diverse fields as a painter, installation artist, performance artist, musician, actor, director, and graphic designer. His painting, which he intuitively carries out immersed in the process without any plans or purpose, shows Bek’s construction ability as a versatile artist. As for Bek, the surface of canvases is the ground where gesture, motion, poetical and musical rhythm merge. Bek has held numerous exhibitions at major art institutions such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea), Plateau Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), Art Sonje Center (Seoul, Korea), Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, China), and Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, Austria). In 2017, he was chosen as the nominee/sponsored artist for the ‘Korea Artist Prize 2017’ of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. As a singer-songwriter, Bek works actively as a member of the Uhuhboo Project, the first-generation indie band, and a project band Bahngbek. A maverick actor who steadily practices his omnidirectional artistic activities, Bek appeared in movies 'The Day He Arrives, Gyeongju, and Keys to the Heart.'

  • Education
    • 1997 Department of Sculpture, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea(drop-out)
  • Selected Solo Exhibitions
    • 2021 《Beyond Words》, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
      2020 《P-Ray》, P21, Seoul, Korea
      2017 《In the Neighborhood》, Perigee Gallery, Seoul, Korea
      2011 《Thirteen Pieces + bonus》, Doosan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
      2008 《Vagrant N' Substance》, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • Selected Group Exhibitions
    • 2021 《Chronicles of the Future Superheroes》, Kunsthalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania
      2020 《Solidarity Spores》, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
      2020 《Hotel Express 284》, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
      2018-2019 《Winter Coffee Club》, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
      2017 《B-Cut Drawing》, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      2017 《UnemploymentBankruptcyDivorceDebtSuicide Rest Stop》, Korea Artist Prize 2017, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
      2017 《Media Study: Tension and Relaxation》, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
      2015 《Tracing Shadows》, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  • Residencies/Awards/
    Collections
    • 2017 Nominee/Sponsored Artist, Korea Artist Prize 2017, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

      Selected Projects
      2014 Multi-arts Project II ? 《Annyeong! Hello!: Hyper metamorphosis Theatre 2. Theatre of Blindness》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
      2014《Architecture & the Seoul Mixtape: bekgin's Almost Pseudo-Illegal Ensemble》, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      2012 《Welcome Mr. Courbet! Vol. 3》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
      2012 《Special Performance I》, Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
      2004 《Musical Performance: Korean Pavilion》, The 9th National Architecture Exhibition, Venice, Italy
  • Link
      

〈Jokes & Wailing Wallpaper〉, 2019-2020, Oil, enamel spray paint on linen 186 x 465 cm (polyptych). Image Courtesy of the artist and PKM gallery.

〈Biodegradable Thing 21-07〉, 2021, Natural paint on biodegradable papers 119.5 x 89.5 cm (4 pieces, framed) Image Courtesy of the artist and PKM gallery.

〈Beyond Words〉, 2021, Video(captured Image from video), 1' 18" . Image Courtesy of the artist and PKM gallery.

〈UnemploymentBankruptcyDivorceDebtSuicide Rest Stop〉, 2017, Oil on oil paper for oil paint , 130 x 240 cm. Image Courtesy of the artist and PKM gallery.

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