Min Jung-Yeon

Biography

Born in 1979 in Gwangju, South Korea.
Lives and works in France.

A light mist that spreads to immediately disappear or an imposing shape that envelops, suffocates, devours… Nothing is static in the extremely delicate world of Min Jung-Yeon. Nothing is completely real and nothing is completely imaginary either. Her works resembles scenic, frontal compositions, where, when looking at them, one holds one’s breath in order to see what happens next. The works are the expression of the artist’s intimate being and her belonging to a contemporary history.

Min Jung-Yeon’s profound interest in sciences, specifically the exploration of space, is linked to her intense observation of nature since childhood. She is also very attached to her origins, a Korea torn between consumerism and tradition, where the shamanistic heritage is still deeply rooted. Drawings, paintings, volumes, installations – Min Jung-Yeon is at ease in every dimension, from the infinitely small to the monumental.

Some artworks

Min Jung-Yeon

L’Hibernation

Min Jung-Yeon

L’escalier

Min Jung-Yeon

Suicide d’un magnolia

Min Jung-Yeon

White Hole

Min Jung-Yeon

Garden of cypress

Min Jung-Yeon

A drowsy lake

Exhibitions

Pluto’s letter

06.03. – 28.04.2018

In 2006, Pluto was excluded from the solar system and was downgraded to the status of “dwarf planet” because of its mass and its volume, both too little, and a “deviant” trajectory. The first images of Pluto sent by the New Horizons probe (2015) revealed a surface partly covered in methane and nitrogen ice, which, at one spot, was shaped like a heart. Min Jung-Yeon was inspired by the symbolism of this rejection of a small different planet with a heart of ice. Thus, Pluto’s letter explores the notion of reconciliation with loss, integration of what escapes our understanding, of other viewpoints and assessments.

Undone sketches

Peter Martensen

17. 06. – 23. 07. 2016

Intentions, idées, notes, projets, plans, journaux intimes, mémoires, registres, archives ou simples feuillets… Notre vie, nos pensées, nos rêves prennent souvent – et parfois seulement – la forme de traces écrites… Tiroirs et autres rangements en sont emplis. Ajoutons à cela les tentatives, les projets avortés, les impossibilités… La confrontation avec une réalité qui ne veut pas émerger ou qui se heurte à ce temps dont on manque toujours. Pour ne pas mentionner les documents aux informations si sensibles qu’elles vivent intensément mais dans l’ombre… jusqu’au jour où…

Off site

Musée Guimet

Carte Blanche to Min Jung-Yeon

06.11.2019 – 17.02.2020

This new contemporary Carte Blanche, entrusted to the Korean artist MIN Jung-yeon, presents an immersive and organic installation specifically created for the MNAAG. Inspired by the reality of a country split in two for the past 65 years and the idea of reconciliation, the installation consists of large-format drawings and birch trunks drawn on paper.
Like a huge kaleidoscope, the plays of mirrors offer the eye a subtle superimposed interweaving. Her philosophical approach to time, memory, and space arises from the harmonious blending of the organic with fluidity.

Maison du Danemark, Paris

Ravage

Peter Martensen

06. 09 – 29. 10. 2017

Première exposition de l’artiste sur la scène institutionnelle parisienne, Ravage rassemble peintures, dessins, sculpture et vidéos témoignant de la cohérence de la démarche de l’artiste. Loin d’une rétrospective de l’œuvre de Peter Martensen, cette exposition intervient dans une période de création particulièrement riche et innovante dans sa carrière dont elle se veut l’écho [extrait du communiqué de presse].