Koo Jeong A

The work of Koo Jeong A incorporates derivative objects with the capacity for transformation, still and moving images, sound and scent. These disparate mediums are often combined with terrestrial/extraterrestrial agents such as wind and gravity, and site-specific reconfigurations and interventions into architectural space. By placing these varying mediums into delicate and meticulous tension, Koo Jeong A’s installations trigger a certain energy in their encounter, asking the viewer to engage in a cryptographic unravelling of each artwork.

Often using commonplace matter in order to conjure alternative realities, Koo Jeong A traces a certain poetic within the inherent nature of forms that permeate the universe. By re-casting materials such as magnets, dust, cigarettes and unwrapped sticks of gum into unexpected orders and formations, autotrophic universes are continuously created. What underpins this transient approach to making is an interest in the minute details of our earthly environments and the cosmic constellations that simultaneously connect and expand them. Koo Jeong A traverses these details with a flexible, rational movement where order and disorder, perception and memory, beauty and practicality are always oscillating.

Select exhibitions

• Don't look like a line, Pinksummer temporary venue, Hangar Toolbox, Via Egeo, Turin (2017)
• ajeongkoo, Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2017)
• Arrogation, 32nd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (2016)
• 'Odorama', Art Night with Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2016)
• 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Swiss Pavilion (2014)^[1]
• 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014)^[2]
• The Oussser (2014), La Raia Fondazione
• do it 2013, Manchester Art Gallery (2013)^[3]
• Koo Jeong-A (2012), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf^[4]
• 20 (2012), Pinksummer^[5]
• Constellation Congress, Dia:Beacon (2010)^[6]
• 53rd Venice Biennale (2009)^[7]
• Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea (2009), Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[4]
• Koo Jeong A, Aspen Art Museum (2007)^[8]
• Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2004)^[2]

Recognition

In 2005 she was awarded the Hermès Korea Missulsang prize.^[9]

In 2002, Koo was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.^[10]

Public collections

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

• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum^[11]
• Centre Pompidou^[9]
• Tate Modern^[12]
• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art,^[13]
• RISD Museum
• Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation
• Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris^[14]
• Frac fond régional d'art contemporain, Marseille, France
• FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain), Paris

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).^[15]
• 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

• Installation art

External links

• Koo Jeong A at Pilar Corrias, London
• Koo Jeong A at Pinksummer Gallery, Genova

References