MYONGHI KANG

Myonghi Kang - Visit is an exhibition re-examining the Korean female artist Myonghi Kang, who has been active between Korea and abroad since leaving Korea in 1972. The exhibition presents 125 paintings created over 60 years, from the artist’s early works in the 1960s to her latest pieces through three detailed divisions and includes significant works scattered domestically and internationally. It has been planned to highlight rediscovered Korean female artists, following Kim Yunshin’s solo exhibition at the Nam-Seoul Museum of Art in 2023.

Born in 1947 in Daegu, Myonghi Kang studied painting at Seoul National University and moved to France in 1972. Uncommonly for a Korean female artist, she held exhibitions at the Pompidou Center in Paris and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea in the 1980s. After returning to her homeland in 2007, she has lived on Jeju Island, continuing to create abstract paintings based on specific locations and nature she visited, including Hallasan Mountain, Hwanguchi Beach, Daepyeong Sea, and Andeok Valley.

This exhibition will be a rare opportunity to encounter Myonghi Kang’s representative works, which construct an independent realm of painting that captures the essence of nature and the relationship between existence and nature.

The title ‘Visit’ is borrowed from the name of the artist’s work, embodying the story of the artist’s nomadic attitude of working while not completely settling in one place and the artistic inspiration derived from transient encounters.

The detailed composition of Myonghi Kang – Visit is broadly divided into three parts based on the artist’s spatiotemporal experiences and stream of consciousness: ‘Living in Seogwangdong-ri,’ ‘Visit,’ and ‘Secret Garden 祕苑.’