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Jaeyong Choi

JaeYong Choi was born Republic of Korea 1984 currently lives in Leipzig, Germany, and works in Germany, Italy and other Europe cityes.

 

Education

2003-2009: Undergraduate Studies at the College of Art & Design, Incheon Catholic University; Major: Religious Fine Art (concentration: sculpture) • 2011- present: Diplomstudiengang (diploma study program) at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig);

Major: Media Art Prof. Joachim Blank.

 

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

Solo Exhibition

 

2013 Gallery “Largo Baracche” (Naples, Italy)

2013 DMC Gallery (Seoul, South korea)

Group Exhibition

2008 Seoul Railway StaQon Old Building (Seoul, South Korea)

2009 DIO ART CENTER

 

Group Exhibition

 

2015 2.5.0. Object is Medita1on and Poetry-Grassi Museum for Applied Arts in Leipzig(Leipzig,Germany)

2015 seoul art foundation Exhibition (Seoul,korea)

2015 Verborgene Realitäten Galerie Potemka(Leipzig, Germany)

2014 WINTER PRIDE ART AWARDS finalists at CHART Gallery  (London,UK)

2014 The Next Level at Office Sessions (East India Dock, London, UK)

2014 SEGRETE gallery 1opera (Castel dell'ovo, Napoli)

2014 PLEASE KILL THE MAINSTREAM Gallery Zečević (Beoglad, Serbia)

2014 Kausaus Held (Leipzig,Germany)

2014 The 14th Seoul International NewMedia Festival(Seoul,Korea) 

2014 Internationale Kunstausstellung NordArt 2014( Carlshüte, Germany)

2014 contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.)

2014, Medienkunstmesse (essen, Gemany)

2014 “49 86 82” Galerie Speckstrass (Hamburg,Germany)

2014 TIME-Bosi Contemporary(New York,USA) 

2014 Konspiration – Welche Konspiration?-Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig(Leipzig,Germany)

2013 FINALIST ARTISTS EXHIBITION Arte Laguna Prize 12/13(Venezia, Italy)

2013 Drawingbiennale DMZ HEYRI (Gyeonghuigung, South Korea)

2013 “Krise” Exhibition at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)

2013 “transition“ at Gallery Kub (Leipzig, Germany)

2013 “We all are precious“ DMC Gallery (Seoul, South Korea)

2013 Do-Do samall works Gallery P1 (Seoul, South korea)

2013 Project M 002 hole and corner Media art gallery (Gwangju, South korea)

2013 PLEASE KILL THE MAINSTREAM Gallery Opera1 (Napoli, Italy)

2012 “Ar+spital” Artspital pop-up gallery show (Seoul, South Korea)

2012 Jaeyong & Hyom Kang at Korean Culture Center (Berlin Germany)

2012 Kunstpreis / Art Award Wesseling (Wesseling, Germany)

2012 Art and Culture Festival in Chemnitz (Chemniz, Germany)

2012 “Kunst-Kunst” at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)

 

Awards & Residency

 

2012 SOMA Drawing Center 7th Archive artist selection

2012 Tennenloher Kunstörderpreis 2012, 2nd Place and Audience Award (Tennenlohe, Germany)

2013 Art Interview 30th International Online Artist Competition, 1st Place (Berlin Germany)

2013 7TH ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE, “Special Prize Personal Exhibition” (Venezia, Italy)

 

ARTIST STATMENT

 

Multiplication lexically means ‘production of new individuals by already existing ones’ and does not only refer to biological cell division, but may also include the influence of communication between people, media, and their environment. Although the expansion begins with minor links, it gradually increases in size and affects not only individual change, but has also major impact on society, culture, politics and so on. I would like to portray this interpersonal communication as multiplication. Links can be found in all kinds of relationships and communication in general. Those links exist through repetitions and connections. You could compare this phenomenon with the numerous stars in the empty and silent universe. Just like these, an invisible cord connects us repeatedly. This work’s main materials are cable ties. Cable ties are thin plastic cords, which in everyday life connect price tags with the product. Although they connect two things, those things are completely different and the connections between them are connections that express materialism. The product’s value does not change according to its real inherent value, but rather according to the price that is attached to it. The method of ‘connecting’ such different things led me to the idea of ‘relationship and communication’. Successful communication means to understand each other by avoiding misunderstandings. However, we can observe how communication, different from the original intention, degenerates and multiplies. I want to show that if these individual connections come together, they can form groups, which then can constitute a larger organization. The forms, though, which seem to expand and tear, create not only a visual tension, but also an uncertainty as to when a connection might dissolve. Here I speak of an independent society that is based on individuals and I call this “Vermehrungsgesellschaft” (‘multiplication society’; ‘multiplication organization’). Although individuals can shape this organization, influences of other groups may interfere and this organization can be propagated and spread virally. I tried to visually represent the image of this multiplication like the numerous stars in the universe, those which constitute the Milky Way.

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