Hye Young Kim (b.1980) is a Korean painter who has been
and working in Berlin since 2008. She earned her B.F.A. (2003)
and M.A. (2007) in Fine Arts at Korean National University of the
Arts, Seoul, and studied painting as a visiting student with Prof.
Burkhard Held at University of the Arts (UDK), Berlin (2010-12).
Since moving to Berlin, her work's subject shifted from portraits of
people in daily routines to the construction of space. AIRFIELD
has been an ongoing project since 2010, in which Kim focusses on
sequential elements of airfields. AIRFIELD captures and
transforms the non-place's aesthetics involving the functional
design on the ground, site-specific architecture, workers and
anthropomorphic machines. Kim also works with photographs and
collage to deal with concrete and abstract space simultaneously,
finding pattern in chaos, breeding meaning out of the concrete.
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