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Penguin in Iceland

Minju Kang2025.02.07 ~ 2025.05.23

Description of the work

  • Media Acrylic on canvas
  • Location 1F, LOTTE HOTEL WORLD
Minju Kang’s work navigates the delicate boundary between reality and unreality, often using ambiguous or paradoxical arrangements to blur the lines. Kang’s art is a visual manifestation of her inner world, capturing fleeting emotions and memories that reside beyond conscious awareness.
Though her backdrops depict real-life places and personal travels, Kang’s recollections are not told with accuracy, chronology, or logic. A lone penguin watches over a fairy-lit Icelandic town. Her compositions appear mundane at first glance but reveal humorous and nonsensical details upon closer inspection, offering an abstract glimpse into her internal monologue.

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About the author

Minju Kang studied Painting at Sejong University in Seoul, Korea in 2015 and further pursued the discipline at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a Meister student of Prof. Thomas Scheibitz. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Welcome to my island’(CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, 2024), ‘Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere’(Jean-Claude Maier, Frankfurt, 2024), ‘Stare into space’ (Graduation show, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2023) ,‘Dream core’, (Jean-Claude Maier, Frankfurt, 2022. Minju Kang has received the Baker Tilly Kunstler-Stipendium at KIT in Düsseldorf in 2022. Minju Kang Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.
Minju Kang (1993~, Korean)
BA Painting, Sejong University, Seoul
Painting, Meisterschülerin Prof. Thomas Scheibitz Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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