Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi explained

Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi
Birth Name:Kyung-hwa Choi
Birth Date: 1967
Birth Place:Seoul
Nationality:South Korean
Field:Drawing
Spouse:Nikos Valsamakis (Painter)
Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi
Hangul:경화 초이-아호이
Rr:Gyeonghwa Choi-ahoi
Mr:Kyŏnghwa Choi-ahoi
Hangulborn:최경화
Hanjaborn:崔京華
Rrborn:Choe Gyeonghwa
Mrborn:Choe Kyŏnghwa

Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi (; born 1967 in Seoul) is a South Korean graphic artist, author and university teacher living in Germany, with a focus on drawing. From 2015 to 2019 she was a professor for drawing at the University of the Arts Bremen and has been a professor for drawing at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin since 2019. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin.

Life

Choi-ahoi came to Germany in 1991 to attend University, first in Trier and Mainz, where she started with studies in art history, philosophy and Latin. In 1994 she changed universities as well as her major: Choi-ahoi enrolled in art classes at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg with KP Brehmer, Werner Büttner and Fritz W. Kramer.[1] Her last name is a pseudonym, a pun which plays with the status of the city of Hamburg as an important harbor city, because Hamburg became her first home in Germany.[2] In 1998 she completed a stage design internship at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg in the production Blau in Blau (Blue in Blue), directed by Stefan Moskov. From 1999 to 2000 she spent a semester abroad on an Erasmus scholarship at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Franz Graf.

In 2001, Choi-ahoi was awarded the Karl H. Ditze Prize in Hamburg for her diploma work.[3] From 2001 to 2003, after graduating, she completed postgraduate studies with Werner Büttner. Since 2011, Choi-ahoi has been working as a university lecturer alongside her own artistic work, initially as a lecturer in drawing at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Design, Media and Information. In 2015 she accepted a professorship for drawing at the University of the Arts Bremen in the master studio of the School of Visual Combinations, which artistically combines the fields of typography, drawing, editorial design and publishing.[4]

She is married to a former fellow student from her years at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg, the Greek painter Nikos Valsamakis. She lives in Hamburg and Berlin.

Works

Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi's work combines the elements of drawing and recording to create an art form of its own. "From an early age, she combined drawings with poetic journaling—a practice she has continued to this day", wrote the German art historian Belinda Grace Gardner. "The diary drawings that have become her trademark have been emerging since the first semester, when she began to produce drawings on five to ten A4 sheets of paper every day."

Drawing projects

In 1999 the idea was born to produce one or two diary drawings every day as part of a long-term project. In these diary pages she processes the encounter with poetic and everyday objects, events, people and things from her personal environment.[5] To date she has created thousands of diary drawings, in 2021 their number counted already over 8000.[6] Each drawing is typewritten and dated on the front. More than 200 diary drawings are part of the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, where Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi had her first solo exhibition in 2001 titled Fern und Nah (Far and Near).[7]

Since 2000 she has also been working continuously on the drawing project Enzyklopädie Personae (Encyclopedia Personae), a drawn social history of her time. It contains quick sketches of people from her environment, whom she follows for a day – from getting up to going to bed – in a drawn documentation. In DIN A5 notebooks, she records how these people spend their day and writes down answers to personal questions. By 2021, more than seventy of these booklets had been created.

After a residency at Ritzebüttel Castle in Cuxhaven in 2013, she started to incorporate elements from nature and the plant world into her drawings, often in relation to parts of human anatomy. Between 2012 and 2014 she worked intensively on anatomical studies. Since then, dealing with the world of plants has found its way into the drawing project Garten (Garden).

Artist books

In 1999, Choi-ahoi's first artistic book publication Buchstäbliche Zeichnung – Zeichnerische Buchstaben (Letteral Drawing – Drawing Letters) was published by the in-house Materialverlag of the Hamburg University of Fine Arts.[8] Since then she has published other artist books, such as Lieber Geld (Rather/Dear Money), published in 2014, which the journalist Anna Brenken described as "a mosaic that is as curious as it is poetic". In it, Choi-ahoi proves her "invaluable talent for discovering the great world theater in a small form in everyday life".[9] In the afterword to Von Hamburg nach Wien und zurück: Tag.Buch.Zeichnung 1999 und 2000 (From Hamburg to Vienna and back: Day.Book.Drawing 1999 and 2000), published by Textem Verlag in 2020, publisher Michael Glasmeier writes:

Awards and prizes

Fellowships and residencies

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions


Publications

Literature

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: gyc . 15 August 2001 . Befund: Morbus bleistiftiensis. Zum Glück unheilbar . de . Die Welt . 2022-04-14.
  2. Web site: Atelierbesuch: Das Leben der anderen. Welt.de – Welt Am Sonntag. 2021-07-28. Belinda Grace Gardner. 17 August 2014. de.
  3. Web site: HFBK: Karl H. Ditze Preis für die beste Abschlussarbeit . 2022-04-14 . hfbk-hamburg.de . de.
  4. Web site: School of Visual Combinations. Schoolofvisualcombinations.HFK-bremen.de. 2021-07-28. de.
  5. Web site: MAP . 22 June 2011 . Kurzkritik: Der Prosaband Augenarzt und Uhrmacher. Staunen und Zweifeln . 2021-07-28 . de . Taz.de.
  6. Web site: Hengevoss-Dürkop . Kerstin . Mutterkorn – Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi . 2021-07-28 . hengevossduerkop.de . de.
  7. News: Gardner . Belinda Grace . 15 August 2001 . Ich bin's heißt auf Koreanisch Na ja . de . Die Welt . 2022-04-14.
  8. Web site: Buchstäbliche Zeichnung – Zeichnerische Buchstaben. Material-verlag.HFBK-hamburg.de. Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. 2021-07-28. de.
  9. Web site: Brenken . Anna . 4 March 2015 . SWR2 Die Buchkritik (Manuscript): Kyung-hwa Choi-ahoi: Lieber Geld . 2021-08-05 . docplayer.org . Südwestrundfunk . de.
  10. Web site: Lohmann . Ulla . 2014 . Aktuell 2014: Gewinner des Sella Hasse Kunstpreises 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20220516113758/https://www.lohmanndialog-hamburg.de/aktuell-2014/ . 16 May 2022 . 2021-07-28 . lohmanndialog-hamburg.de . de .
  11. Web site: Schiff . Hajo . 5 March 2016 . Künstlerische Erinnerungsarbeit: Geschichten von Geschichte . 2021-07-28 . de . Taz.de – Taz Am Wochenende.

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