1952        Born in Damyang, Jeollanam-do, Korea

1972        Travelled to West Germany, where she spent four years working in a hospital

1981        Studied at the College of Fine Art in Hamburg (Hochschule fur BildendeKunste Hamburg)

1985        Studied Korean Art History at the Chonnam National University, Korea 

Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany
 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2014        Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2012        GalerieDitesheim, Neuchatel, Switzerland

              EdouardMalingue Gallery, Hong Kong

2011        Galerie Gabriele von Loeper, Hamburg, Germany

              Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany

2008        Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2006        Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

              KunstvereinHarburgerBahnhof, Hamburg, Germany

              Gallery Von Loeper, Hamburg, Germany

2005        KunstraumKreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin

2003        Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany

              Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2002        Drawings, KulturforumLüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany

              Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg, Hamberg, Germany

              75 Brushstrokes and Rat, Foundation SpringhornhofNeuenkirchen, Germany

1999        Kunstverein Friedrichshafen and Gallery Bernd Lutze Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany

              Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen und Kunstverein Freiburg, Freibug, Germany.

              Works by Hyun-Sook Song in the Bern Art Museum’s Collection,Art Museum Bern, Switzerland

1996        Edwin Scharff Prize Exhibition, HerzhornKunsthaus Hamburg, Hamberg, Germany

              Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul

1995        The Stake, KunstvereinGöttingen, Göttingen, Germany

              Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany

1992        Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany

1991        Drawings, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany

1990        Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

1989        The Hall of Master Drawings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamberg, Germany

1988        The Firehouse, Art Museum Bern, Bern, Swiss

1982        My Heart is a Bottle, Hamburger Kunsthalle; Producers Gallery Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2014        Korean Beauty : Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2013        Art of Prayers, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2012        Tagging Art Works, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi, Korea

              Ha Jung-Woong Collection, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon

              Women In-Between: Asian Women Artists 1984-2012, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

              Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai

2011        Nostalgia-East Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Korea Foundation Cultural Center, Seoul

              Hakgojae Collections, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2010        Soul of Line, Ungno Lee Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea

              Spring and Autumn, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul

2008        Treasures Within, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

              oyage Sentimental, Poznan Biennale 2008, Poznan, Poland

2007        Void in Korean Art, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul

              nternational Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon, Korea

2005        The Elegance of Silence-Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

2004        Gabriel MunterPreis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2003        Leaning forward? Looking Back, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA

2002        The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

              Women’s Art Festival 02, Seoul Woman’s Plaza, Seoul

1999        Held & Let Go, California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA

              A Window Inside and Outside, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

              Women’s Art Festival 99, Arts Center Seoul, Seoul

1998        Poetics of Time-Korean Contemporary Art, Ho Am Art Museum, Seoul

              Undercurrents and Overtones-Contemporary Abstract Painting, California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA

              Attack and Injury, Itabashi Museum, Tokyo

1997        Selections Winter 97, Drawing Center, New York

              Nomadic Passages: Shamanism and  Korean Contemporary Art, Gwangju, Korea

              Gabriel MunterPreis, Frauen-Museum, Bonn, Germany

1994        Iron Age, Kampnagel-Kultur-Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany

1993        Against Violence and Racism, HambacherSchloss, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse,Germany

              Color Contrast, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamberg, Germany

1991        Art Against the Gulf War, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

              Collection Carl Vogel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

1990        Art Bomb, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

1986        Eve and the Future, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

1984        Art Scene of Germany, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

              Tempo Circular, Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico

1983        Ars Viva, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

              War and Peace, Kunstverein Bremen, Bremen, Germany

1982        Thorn in the Eye, Hamburger Kunstwoche, Hamburg, Germany

              Speculum, Kunstverein Bremen, Bremen, Germany

 

Awards and Funds

 

1966        The Edwin Scharf Award for Painting of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

1995        Special Award from the Hessian Film Prize Jury for the Autobiographical Film Document,
My Heart is a Bottle, The Smallest Story

1991        Work Stipend for Painting from the Kunstfondse.v. Bonn

1983        Support Award for Painting from the Federal German Federation of Industry

1982        Hamburg Stipend

 

Collections

 

Kunstmuseum Bern, Swiss

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany

Hamburger kunsthalle, Germany

Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf, Germany

Kumho Museum, Korea

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Leeum, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Korea

Ho Am Art Museum, Korea

Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea

Mori Art Museum, Japan

Sungshin Women’s Uni. Museum, Korea

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan

Seoul Museum of Art, Korea

Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea

 

Bibliography

 

Hyun-Sook Song, Breath and Brushstrokes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, 2008, Korea

Kyungsik Suh, Interview with Song Hyun-Sook, Zen-Ya 5, Tokyo, 2005, Japan

Hyun-Sook Song, Painting, Hakgojae Gallery, 2003, Seoul, Korea

Hyun-Sook Song, 7 Brushstrokes at 1 Brushstroke, Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg, 2002, Germany

Hyun-Sook Song, Drawings, KulturforumLüneburg, 2002, Germany

Hyun-Sook Song, 75 Brushstrokes and Rat, Foundation SpringhornhofNeuenkirchen, 1999, Germany

Hyun-Sook Song, Works by Hyun-Sook Song in the Bern Art Museum’s Collection, Art Museum Bern,  

1997, Swiss

Hyun-Sook Song, Painting, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen und Kunstverein Freiburg, 1997,           

Germany

Tawada Yoko, Brush-tracks/Brush-scars, The Shincho, Tokyo, 1997, Japan

Hyun-Sook Song, Painting, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 1996, Korea