Hongku Kwon

*in Young-Su, South Korea

“I paint what I see. The hidden reality.” (Hongku Kwon)

Hongku Kwon’s paintings unfold meditative moments in which the inconspicuous becomes visible: in nature, in urban spaces, in human existence. In Kwon’s paintings, people – often faceless, yet never without a face – long for melancholy and inner balance. These are moments of stillness, characterized by color compositions that blend light and shadow into a visual symphony of contrasts. In his paintings, Hongku Kwon deliberately creates visual contrasts that radiate inner peace. The more intense the light, the more clearly the shadow emerges – both externally and internally.

In his “Raindrops” series, Hongku Kwon devotes himself to the poetry of water: life-giving and destructive, sensual and melancholic. Water touches us – physically and emotionally. In some of his works, raindrops merge with portraits and landscape scenes, deliberately playing with the boundaries of blur, creating an exciting connection between reality and imagination; a dialogue between the visible and the hidden.

Exhibitions and shows (selection)

2025 Asia Contemporary, Galerie Kellermann, Duesseldorf, Germany

2025 NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany

2025 Discovery Art Fair Cologne, Germany

2024 Art Fair Bodensee, Austria

2017-2019 several exhibitions, Gallery Mönter, Meerbusch, Germany

2013-2015 several exhibitions, Galerie Schmidla, Cologne, Germany

2002-2010 several exhibitions, Galerie Carla Stützer, Cologne

2005 Köln Kunst, Kunststation Kleinsassen, Germany

2002 after play, exhibition space GUCKI in Cologne

2002 Imagination der Menschen, Handwerkshof, Cologne

1998 Art Cologne 5, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne

1997 Hankook Museum, Yongin, South Korea

1997 Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

1996 Gallery StreetVoice, Cologne

1995 International Photo Scene Cologne, Germany

1995 Man and Machine, Donga Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
        with Nam June Paik, Jenny Holzer, Tony Oursler etc.

1995 ArToll & Gallery Paszti-Bott, Cologne

1994 Seoul NYmAX, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, USA
        with Nam June Paik, Susan Sontag, Ben Patterson etc.

1993 Blumfeld cologne düsseldorf village gaze, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
        with Gerhard Richter, Nam June Paik, Nan Hoover etc.

1988 Gallery Müller-Brunert, Cologne, Germany

Biography

Hongku Kwon initially studied at Chung-Ang University in Seoul and subsequently transferred to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he graduated as a master student of Prof. Erich Reusch. In the 1990s, he exhibited with Nam June Paik, Jenny Holzer, and other artists in New York City.

Kwon’s works have been presented in numerous galleries and museums, including the Donga Gallery, the Kumho Museum of Art in Seoul, the Hankuk Art Museum in Yongin, and the Lüdenscheid Municipal Gallery. The German-South Korean artist has served as a guest lecturer in the painting department several times, including at the University of Cologne.

Works

Moonlight - Hongku Kwon
Meditation - Hongku Kwon
Homage to the Self Being - Hongku Kwon
Sea III - Hongku Kwon
Sea XIII - Hongku Kwon

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