Currently closed due to renovation work. Re-opening on June 6, 2024, 7 pm.
June 7, 2024 to August, 2025
Jongsuk Yoon
Kumgangsan
On the occasion of its reopening, mumok has invited the artist Jongsuk Yoon to conceive a new mural for the museum lobby. After photo-based installations by Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, and Jeff Wall, the most recent artist to create a mural was Siegfried Zaworka, who in his work dealt with the illusionist potentials of painting. Jongsuk Yoon now responds to the challenge of the monumental format with levitating, wholly anti-monumental and anti-heroic landscape pictures. Reduced means and the processuality of painting govern Yoon’s artistic practice, which she has developed in critical reflection of the paradigms of Western Modernism and East Asian traditions—particularly Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Korean sansuhwa (Mountain and Water Paintings). Diaphanous layers of large-scale color patches, processual traces, and graphic ciphers condense to form panoramic “soul landscapes” (J. Yoon), in which “inner” and “outer” perspectives oscillate.
Curated by Heike Eipeldauer
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Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural Sun and Moon, 2020
Gouache on wall
700 x 1900 cm
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
Photo: Kalle Sanner
© Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
Jongsuk Yoon in front of the mural Sun and Moon, 2020
Gouache on wall
700 x 1900 cm
Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn
Photo: Kalle Sanner
© Nordiska Akvarellmuseet
Courtesy the artist and Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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