CONTACT
PAE mikyung
Atelierhaus Walzwerk C2–15
Stephanstrasse 10
D-40599 Düsseldorf
Germany
t. +49 (0) 2132730 33 Germany
f. +49 (0) 2132 770 75 Germany
m. +82 (0) 10 8529 0908 Korea
m. +49 (0 )173 894 03 71
atelier@pae-mikyung.de
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ARTIST
Artist PAE mikyung discovered her love of art at the age of 13 in middle school. Studying fine arts in university, she focused her work on sculpture. In the beginning stages of her career PAE worked with a variety of materials such as gypsum, clay, marble, metal, cement and acrylic.
At age 25 PAE moved to Germany to attend the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. It was there that she devoted herself to the colors black, white and blue. For the next ten years PAE worked solely with these colors while expanding her repertoire of the mediums used in her three-dimensional work. PAE added materials such as salt, sugar, charcoal and lava sand – all of which she painted, burned and milled herself.
»If you can master black, you can master all the colors. Yet, you cannot do the reverse.«
It took the birth of her son for PAE to start opening up to colors. The first hue she chose to work with was yellow.
»Nature has made me go for color. As a child I de tested yellow. For example, I thought forsythia flowers looked unnatural. I also threw away all of my yellow chalk. However, today colors mean light and joy.«
Now green, red an yellow are the predominant colors in PAE’s work; they are the colors of light. This is reflected in her FOUNTAIN, BRIDGE 07 and COLOR VISION.
Since 1991, PAE has worked freelance. In addition to her sense of color, shape an geometry now are significant elements in her work. Her Christian backgroound also features in her work through symbolic design. This can be seen in REFLECTION OF BELIEF (EYE I,II,II) and CUPS AND CIBORIAS – both in which PAE makes use of aluminium, plaster, wood, granite, steel, acrylic resins and polyester resins.
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1953
born in Korea
1976
BFA – Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ehwa Women’s University in Seoul, Korea
1989
MFA – Master of Fine Arts, Integrated study of Art and Architecture, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
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2016 bis 2017
U Jong Museum of Art, Korea
2016
TRAUERWEIDE, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2015
TRAUERWEIDE, Manhae Museum, Korea
2015
TRAUERWEIDE, Das Seewerk, Kulturinsel Nepix Kull, Moers
2014
TOWARD THE LIGHT
a special exhibiton by German-based artist PAEmikyung, Youngeun Museum of contemporary art, Korea
2013
Servus Dei 125, Korea Catholic Martyrs’ Museum
2012
VERS LA LUMIERE, Youngeun Museum of contemporary art, Korea
2009
POSITIONS 09, 47 International artists, Das Seewerk, Foundation Germany
1985
Young art in Düsseldorf, Städtische Galerie Paderborn, Germany
1982
Young artists in addition with Beuysexhibiton, Galerie Ilverich, Germany