Erinnerte Landschaften zwischen Berlin und Busan
August – September 2023
Yerin Hong reagiert mit ihrer Malerei spontan auf urbane Räume. Nach zehn Jahren in Berlin kehrte sie nach Busan, Korea zurück. Aus flüchtigen Momenten und Straßenbildern beider Städte schafft sie einen visuellen Dialog zwischen Berlin und Busan. Ihre Arbeiten wurden 2023 in der Ausstellung „Ari-Arirang“ im Humboldt Forum gezeigt und erzeugten eine vielschichtige Resonanz im deutsch-koreanischen Austausch.
“My paintings seem to emerge from disorder and a lack of direction, but each picture becomes the driving force for the next. They stand separately yet in dialogue with each other and share a common understanding. The exhibition “Ari-Arirang” showed me the great potential of bringing together works from different contexts and times in one place: they begin to talk to each other and exchange new stories. I learned from this experience that not only inner impulses but also a wide variety of encounters may provide decisive impetus in my painting. They prevent my pictures from remaining isolated.”
— Yerin Hong
Yerin Hong is a painter, art space operator, and lecturer in painting. After studying Painting at Hongik University in Seoul, she graduated in Art History and Theatre Studies from the Freie Universität Berlin. Her time in Germany has shaped her artistic practice, addressing issues of familiarity in the unfamiliar and the overlapping of place and memory. Yerin Hong works in oil, acrylic, and drawing. Today, she manages the “Bilderkammer” art space in Busan, where she teaches and develops collaborative projects that make art tangible as a social medium.