Haein Choi
Korea
For Haein Choi’s “silent conversations,” one must sensitize their hearing, seeing, and also their capacity for co-thinking and empathizing. The paintings are initially self-conversations by the artist—about herself, with herself, and the world accessible to her—but they include us by making something visible for us. What is visible is not the world itself; she does not depict it. Rather, she generates everything from her painting, from her delicate brushwork, her own rhythms, and her sensitive use of color and light. What becomes visible are sensations that relate to something imaginable in the world. There is no contextualization, no foreground or background. The world seems stretched like between two glass plates, but within them becomes transparent—opening a path to the traces that settle in our capacity for experience, where even the atmospherically immeasurable is questioned and brought forth.
Works
Whisper, 2023, Öl auf Leinwand, 130 x 200 cm
The first page, 2022, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 120 cm
Third Wheel, 2023, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 160 cm
Discovery, 2022, Öl auf Leinwand, 110 x 140 cm
At dawn, 2021, Öl auf Leinwand, 120 x 160 cm
House with broken windows, 2021, Öl auf Leinwand, 90 x 120 cm
Riverside, 2023, Öl auf Leinwand, 110 x 220 cm
Biography
Haein Choi was born in 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at Hongik University in Korea and continued her studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the direction of Professor Andreas Schulze until 2023.
2010-2014 Bachelor of fine art, Hongik University, Seoul, KR
2016-2023 Diplom, Klasse Prof. Andreas Schulze, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D)
2023 Meisterschülerin bei Prof. Andreas Schulze
Solo-Exhibitions
2023 Stille Gespräche, Hengesbach Gallery, Wuppertal (D)
Gruppenausstellungen
Graduation show at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (D)
Hug and Whisper, Graduation show at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (D)
2022 Baby snail button, Asta-exhibition room, Düsseldorf (D)
Die Grosse, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (D)
Academy selection, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf (D)
2021 Group exhibition of Nominees for NRW bank art prize (D)
2020 Augenfällig/fresh positions – Neues aus der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf (D)
2014 Contemporary Art 2014, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hongik Universität (KR)