Myung-Ok Han

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Myung-Ok Han
Born
South Korea
Education1990
Known forInstallations, performances, drawings
Movement Installation art, Performance art, Drawing
Website Official website

Myung-Ok Han is a visual artist and performance artist born in 1958 in South Korea. She lives and works at La Ruche in Paris, France. [1]

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Biography

Born in 1958 in South Korea, Myung-Ok Han moved to France in 1986 and continued her studies at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon. [2]

There she discovered the Arte Povera movement as well as the Gutai group. [3] [4]

Her installations feature materials such as cotton thread, reflecting her Korean heritage, [5] as well as everyday objects from the kitchen (bowls, plates, spoons). [6]

Her approach with thread explores the notion of time: she patiently winds cotton into bowls, in a simple and repetitive gesture. [7]

In 1996, the magazine Ninety: Art in the 90s devoted its issue 20 [2] to her, alongside Jean Le Gac. In this issue, Olivier Kaeppelin [8] wrote an article about her entitled “A Line”. [9]

In 1997, her work *Neuf cuillères* was acquired by the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC). [10]

Her work has been exhibited in France, notably at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris during the exhibition "Paris pour escale" in 2000, [7] in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Bern in 2001, [5] in South Korea during the exhibition "At the Groove of Time" at the Busan Museum of Modern Art in 2007, [11] [12] as well as in Australia, as part of the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) in Brisbane in 1999. [13]

Quotes

" When I set to work, I think of nothing, I can see nothing, I have an acute perception of movement, noises and even silences. While observing everything, I gradually let myself go". [14]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Group exhibitions (selection)

International Art Fairs

Public collections

Bibliography

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Myung-ok Han". La Ruche Artistes (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  2. 1 2 Catherine Flohic. Jean Le Gac, Myung-Ok Han (in French). ISBN   978-2-908787-23-8 . Retrieved 19 August 2025.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  3. ↑ Myung-Ok Han (2016). "SAM" (in French). Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille.
  4. 1 2 3 Michel Enrici (entretien avec François Bouillon). "SAM : Art-cade, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille". Centre national des arts plastiques (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  5. 1 2 Laurence Chauvy (12 March 2003). "Merveilles de riz et de coton à Genève". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  6. ↑ Catherine Francblin. "Temps-contre-temps, Paris : Centre culturel coréen, 2005". Archives de la critique d’art (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 4 Entretien avec Evelyne Jouanno et Hou Hanru (22 February 2023). "Paris pour escale". CCA Islands (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  8. ↑ Olivier Kaeppelin. "« Une Ligne : A Line », Ninety, 1996, n°20, p. 41-69". Archives de la critique d’art (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  9. ↑ Catherine Flohic. "Jean Le Gac, Myung-Ok Han". BMVR Marseille (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  10. 1 2 Han Myung-Ok. "Neuf cuillères — Collection du Centre national des arts plastiques". Centre national des arts plastiques (in French). Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  11. ↑ Busan Museum of Modern Art. "Catalogue : At the Groove of Time". WorldCat. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  12. ↑ Busan Museum of Modern Art. "At the Groove of Time". Art Busan. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  13. 1 2 Queensland Art Gallery. "The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art". QAGOMA. Retrieved 19 August 2025.
  14. ↑ "Han Myung-Ok". ocula.
  15. 1 2 Olivier Kaeppelin. "Galerie Claude Samuel. Paris, École des beaux-arts–Galerie Édouard Manet. Gennevilliers, Hauts-de-Seine, Olivier Kaeppelin". Bnf. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  16. ↑ Philippe Mathonnet (13 February 2001). "In Bern, two Korean women transform the Kunsthalle into a space for meditation". LE TEMPS (ch) (in French). Kunsthalle Bern.
  17. 1 2 Laurence Chauvy (12 March 2003). "Wonders of Rice and Cotton in Geneva". LE TEMPS (ch). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  18. 1 2 Catherine Francblin. "Praise of Lost Time, in Catalogue Han Myung-ok: Time Against Time, Paris: Korean Cultural Center, 2005". archives de la critique d art (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  19. ↑ Myung-Ok Han (18 September 2008). "Good Luck Charm". wildegallery (in French). Geneva.
  20. 1 2 Philippe Piguet. "Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Porte-Bonheur by Myung-Ok Han, from 15 March to 3 May 2009 at the Municipal Gallery Jean-Collet; text by Philippe Piguet". TRAM: Transmission, Region, Art, Mediation. (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  21. ↑ Philippe Piguet (extracts from the exhibition catalogue text) (5 March 2009). "Good Luck Charm". paris-art.com (in French). Vitry-sur-Seine.
  22. ↑ "Galerie Grand E'terna・ギャラリーグランエターナParis". www.gallery-grand-eterna.com.
  23. ↑ Myung-Ok Han. "From There – Myung-Ok Han". gallery grand eterna EXHIBITIONS 2014 (in French). Paris.
  24. ↑ Myung-Ok Han. "From There – Myung-Ok Han". gallery grand eterna EXHIBITIONS 2014 (in Korean). Paris.
  25. ↑ salondemontrouge. "The 1995 Selection". salondemontrouge (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  26. ↑ Laurence Chauvy (2 June 1998). "Textiles embroidered on the thread of modernity". LE TEMPS ch (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  27. ↑ Ars Aevi. "Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 1997–1999". kandinsky (in French). Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  28. ↑ QAGOMA. "The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3)". QAGOMA. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  29. ↑ Taipei Fine Arts Museum. "Basalaigul: Zero-in". ASIA ART ARCHIVE. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  30. 1 2 Marie Shek. "The New Gallery - France Land of Welcome". National Library of Israel (NLI). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  31. ↑ "Interweaving Cultures: International Contemporary Art Project". ASIA ART ARCHIVE. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  32. 1 2 Organized by Evelyne Jouanno, director and curator of the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya. "EMERGENCY BIENNALE in Chechnya / World Tour". emergency-biennale. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  33. 1 2 Busan Museum of Modern Art. "At the groove of time". worldcat (in Ukrainian).
  34. ↑ "International Festival of Performance Art". infraction. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  35. ↑ "Korean Suites: Tribute to Eight Korean Artists in France". mac val. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  36. 1 2 Kim Airyung. "Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition held from 11 February to 15 March 2008 at the Johyun Gallery, Seoul, and from 9 May to 8 June 2008 at Johyun Gallery, Busan". Bibliothèque Kandinsky (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  37. ↑ "Catalogue of joint exhibition held at the Seoul Arts Center in 2008. With artist biographies". ASIA ART ARCHIVE. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  38. 1 2 Lóránd Hegyi. "Fragile. Lands of Empathy – Myung-ok Han P22 P80". decitre.fr (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  39. ↑ "Reliefs: This exhibition presents eight artists who use edible materials in their works". paris-art. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  40. ↑ "The 10 Years of the Jean Brolly Gallery – Galerie Jean Brolly". CNAP. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  41. ↑ "Drawings and Works on Paper – Galerie Jean Brolly". CNAP. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  42. ↑ "Wooson Gallery at Art Stage Singapore 2014 | Wooson Gallery | Artsy". Artsy. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  43. 1 2 Michel Enrici. "SAM, « trois » in Korean, three as are the artists exhibiting this spring 2016". artbookmagazine (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  44. ↑ "Home". Art Brussels.
  45. ↑ "삼성재단". www.samsungfoundation.org.
  46. ↑ "Index of Works (PDF)" (PDF). ARS AEVI Museum of contemporary art. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  47. ↑ Philippe Piguet. ""Myung-Ok Han or the possibility of being in the world", in Catalogue Myung-Ok Han: Porte-Bonheur, Vitry-sur-Seine: Galerie municipale, 2009, p. 4-5(fre), p. 36-37(eng)". archives de la critique d art (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  48. ↑ Kim Airyung. "Korean Suites: Tribute to eight Korean artists in France". Bibliothèque Kandinsky (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  49. ↑ Catherine Francblin. "Han Myung-ok: Time Against Time: Installations: Korean Cultural Center, Paris, from 7 December 2005 to 5 January 2006". mediatheques.saint-etienne (in French). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  50. ↑ Evelyne Jouanno. "The flowers' power ... or the creative strategies of five Asian women artists based in Paris". MAKE: The Magazine of Women's Art (Issue 92). Retrieved 2016-03-02.
  51. ↑ AHN Soyeon. "Beyond the Future: The Third Asia-Pacific Triennale of Contemporary Art". ASIA ART ARCHIVE. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
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