Ahn Kyuchul

• Born in 1955, Seoul, Korea
  
  1997-2020 Professor of Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Korea

Education

• 1995     Staatliche Akademie der Bildende Künste Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  1977     B.F.A. in Sculpture, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2025
  Twelve Questions, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2024
  Ahn Kyuchul Multiplied, Amado Art Space, Seoul, Korea 
  Ahn Kyuchul: Questions―Landscape without Horizon, Space ISU, Seoul, Korea
  
  2023
  5 Houses and 30 Doors – Imaginative Artist Ahn, Kyuchul, National Asian Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
  
  2021
  5 Houses and 30 Doors - Imaginative Artist Ahn, Kyuchul, Seoul Children's Museum, Seoul, Korea
  The Other Side of Things, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
  
  2017    
  Words Just for You, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015    
  Invisible Land of Love, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  All and but Nothing, HITE Collection, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  Drawn to the Rainbow, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
  The One and Only Table, Bongsan Cultural Center, Daegu, Korea
  Alles hat seine Stunde, Goethe Institut, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009    
  A 2.6㎡ House, Gallery Space, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Ahn Kyu-Chul: Table, Takeout Drawing Arko, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Forty-Nine Rooms, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
  
  2004    
  Forty-Nine Rooms, Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  1999    
  Trivialities, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea
  
  1996    
  In Between Objects, Art Space Seoul/Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea
  
  1992
  Ahn Kyuchul 1990-1992, Gallery Space Saemteo, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2026
  This is (Not) Conceptual Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Where Writing Breathes, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  What Flows What Remains, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2025
  All That Photography, Photography Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  MMCA Collection: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art II, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  UNBOXING PROJECT: Message, König Telegraphenamt, Berlin, Germany
  CMOA COLLECTION 2023-2024: Journey to Distinction, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
  
  2024 The Rabbit Inhabits the Moon, MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin, Italy 
  Drawing, Portraying the Philosophy of Life, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Memory, Stare, Wish, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Collection Variable, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Modern & Contemporary Art: The Echoes of the Times, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
  
  2023
  Architecture Becomes Art, Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
  How to Archive, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
  On Collecting Time, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  
  2022
  Delivery in Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea
  The 12th Seoul Media city Pre-Biennale: Station, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
  Beyond The Scene, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea  
  UNBOXING PROJECT: Today, NewSpringProject, Seoul, Korea
  
  2021    
  audio - scape, BGA MARU, Seoul, Korea
  Wongi Sul's collections "1+1" A Collecter's View, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea 
  Seven Moons, Clayarch Gimhae Museum, Gimhae, Korea  Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, Korea
  Jamunbak Museum Project, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea Corpus Gestus Vox, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea Loss, Everything that happened to me, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  
  2020    
  Artists in Their Times: Korean Modern and Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Art and Words 2020, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Better Man 1948-2020: Pick Your Representative for the National Assembly, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2019    
  The Coming Community, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The Song of the One Who Doesn't Stay, Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea
  A centennial of Korean Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Drawing-Korean Modern and Contemporary Drawings, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  2019 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea Lies, Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2018    
  #Art #Commons #NamJunePaik, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  
  2017  
  100 Interviews, Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Art gallery, Goyang, Korea Art Playground-A-Mazing Day, Today!, Goyang Children's Museum, Goyang, Korea From Torch to Candlelight, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
  2017 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea   2016 Art in Society: Land of Hapiness, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea April the Eternal Voyage, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2015    
  Expressions and Gestures, Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2015 Pool Rising, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  Variation of the Moon, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  
  2013    
  Haein Art Project, Haein Temple, Hapcheon, Korea Women Healing the World, Culture Factory Osan, Osan, Korea
  
  2012    
  Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Masan, Korea
  Roundtable, The 9th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Daegu, Korea Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Five Different Prologues, Gallery Skape, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  Space Study, Plateau, Seoul, Korea
  Countdown, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Works in the Open Air, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  
  2009    
  Yeomiji Art Project, Yeomiji Botanic Garden, Seogwipo, Korea
  Moving Museum, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Kaleidoscope-Korean Contemporary Art, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
  
  2007    
  Void in Korean Art, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2006    
  Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Niigata, Japan
  Seoul Forest Park Open Air Sculpture Symposium, Seoul Forest Park, Seoul, Korea
  Drawn to Drawing, SOMA, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  Cool & Warm, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Power Station, Marronnier Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Against Translation, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Parallel Life, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  2004    
  The Breath of the House, Youngam Ceramic Culture Center, Youngam, Korea
  Alchemy of Daily Life, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Absolutely Landscape, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  You Are My Sunshine, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Stillness and Movement, Seoul Olympic Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Place/Space, Heyri Art Valley, Paju, Korea
  
  2003    
  Comics in Art, Art in Comics, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Crossings 2003, University of Hawaii Art gallery, Honolulu, US
  Beauty, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Art in Landscape, Heyri Art Valley, Paju, Korea
  5: Art Sonje Collection Show, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea 
  
  2002    
  P_A_U_S_E, Project 4: Connection, The 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Containers, Marronnier Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Art in Movement, Shinsegye Gallery, Incheon/Gwangju, Korea
  
  2000    
  Design or Art, Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
  Busan International Contemporary Art Festival, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
  
  1999    
  Phobia-Unconscious Desire, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Art Wear, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  
  1998    
  Theme Space, Posco Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Media and Site, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
  
  1997    
  Korean Art '97, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  '97 Korean Sculpture Today, Moran Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Between Clothes and Self Consciousness, Space Sadi, Seoul, Korea
  Drawing and Writing, Hanlim Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
  
  1996    
  4 Künstler aus Ostasien, Galerie Heppaecher, Esslingen, Germany
  
  1995    
  Ssak, old site of Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Development of Korean Modernism, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Zwischenraum, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
  
  1994    
  Two Person Exhibition, Gallery Brandsteter, Zürich, Switzerland
  
  1993    
  Across the Pacific, Queens Museum, New York, US
  Two Person Exhibition, Galerie Keim, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  1987    
  10 Artists of the year 1986, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  1986    
  Landscape of Life, Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Reality and Utterance, Gallery Min, Seoul, Korea
  
  1983    
  Modern Space Group Sculpture Exhibition, Paldang Outdoor Gallery, Namyangju, Korea

Selected Projects

• 2010
  Path of Wind, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007
  Donui Mun - Disappeared Gate, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards

• 2005
  Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award

Selected Publications

• Publications
  The One Who Speaks of Shadows (Hyundae Munhak, 2025)
  Ahn Kyuchul: QUESTIONS (Workroom Press, 2024)
  All And But Nothing (Workroom Press, 2022)
  The Other Side of Things (Hyundae Munhak, 2021)
  Nine Goldfish and Water in the Distance (Hyundae Munhak, 2013)
  Ahn Kyuchul 43: Tables, (Takeout Drawing, 2008)
  The Man's Suitcase (Hyundae Munhak, 2001)
  Museum without Painting (Youlhwadang, 1996)
  
  Translated Publications
  Hito Steyerl, Die Farbe der Wahrheit: Dokumentarismen im Kunstfeld (Workroom Press, 2019)
  Vilém Flusser, Gesten: Versuch einer Phänomenologie (Workroom Press, 2018)
  Manfred Heiting, Man Ray (Art & Books, 2003)
  Heinrich Koch, Michelangelo (Hangil Publisher, 2001)
   

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Amore Pacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Cheongju Museum of Art, Cheongju, Korea
  GyeongGi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan, Korea
  Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  MMCA Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Nam June Paik Art Center, Yongin, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
  Wooyang Museum, Gyeongju, Korea