Youjin Yi
Born 1980 in Gangneung, KOR,
lives and works in Munich
In her multifaceted artistic language, Youjin Yi unites objective references and abstract, painterly structures. Her works depict landscape spaces occupied by persons, animals, objects or hybrids. Seemingly dematerialized they fuse with their environment, emerge or take shape. Yi regards her works as metaphors for unconscious images and manifestations of ideas. Her art is distinguished by the variation of graphic and painterly principles. She probes the placement of a body and its relationship to the surrounding space – on levels of both form and content. The influence of an East Asian understanding of painting flows into the artist’s work in many ways. She developed a special iconography between the poles of imprints and cultures.
Vita
2011
Master Student of Günther Förg, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
2008
Studies at Leiko Ikemura, Universität der Künste Berlin, DE
2004 – 2011
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, DE
2000 – 2002
Sejong University of Seoul, KOR
Solo and Two-Person Shows (Selection)
2021
junction, WOOSON GALLERY, KOR
Organic Symmetry, Lemoyne Project Zürich, CH
2020
YI.05, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
Hybrid, Artothek und Bildersaal München, München, DE
2019
Sehnsucht nach Sehen, Rathaus Pasing, Munich, DE
2018
Unter Bewusstsein, Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich, DE
2014
Tanja Pol Galerie, München, DE
Group Shows (Selection)
2021
Sommer Show, Britta Rettberg Munich, DE
Summer Group Show, Vazieux Art Gallery Paris, FR
SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN?, Rathausgalerie Kunsthalle, Munich, DE
2020
WIDERSTAND, BLICK FANG, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, DE
2019
Works on paper, Britta Rettberg, Munich, DE
NSCHEN NISTEN NIEDERSCHLAG, Rathauskeller Wolnzach, DE
2018
Schiffe setzten über, Galerie der Künstler, BBK, Munich, DE
OCCURENCE-Part 3 – an art project of Stephanie Maier, Kulturwerkstatt HAUS 10, Munich, DE
2016
FRISCHLUFT TANKEN im BERLINERBODEN SCHLUFT, Schorfheide, Brandenburg, DE
After Realism, GiG MUNICH, Galerie im Gartenhaus, Munich, DE
2015
ONGGI – A Space for a Week in Cologne, Tanja Pol Galerie c/o Studio Wolfgang Burat, Cologne, DE
2013
My mind keeps wandering – Kunst aus München in Biesenthal, Wehrmühle Biesenthal, Brandenburg, DE
2010
Dialogos, Fundacion Ludwig de Cuba, Catedra Humboldt, Casa Monumento Salvador Allende, Havanna, CU
Publications
2020
Youjin Yi. Fusion – edited by Melitta Kliege and Tanja Pol, VfmK Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, AT
Selected Works
Bubble Baby II, 2019
Polymer, acryl, lacquer
11 × 12 × 17 cm
Quelle, 2020
Acrylic, oil, oil pastel, graphite on Korean paper (Hanji), 140 x 200 cm
Silberlinie, 2020
Acrylic, acrylic pen on Polymer-Clay, 20 x 14 cm
entwined, 2020
Charcoal, acrylic on Korean paper (Hanji), 200 x 138 cm
Tesselierung, 2019
Oil, oil pastel on canvas
200 × 250 cm
Taucheranzug, 2020
Silver paper, acrylic pen on Polymer-Clay, 20 × 14 cm
Kater, 2019
Oil, oil pastel on canvas
240 × 190 cm
Über dem Kopf, 2020
Colored pencil, acrylic pen on paper, 25.5 x 18 cm
Wild Schwein, 2019
Charcoal on Korean paper
200 × 135 cm
Fangschrecke (schwarz), 2019
Lino cut
21 × 15 cm
Skywalker mit Flossen, 2019
Lino cut
15 × 10,5 cm
Untitled, 2019
Oil on canvas
210 × 140 cm