CHO HyeongSeob

As an artist, I focus on very ordinary objects and circumstantial conditions and situations produced by those objects.  In other words, the subjects and materials in my work were collected from common places close to our everyday life, and I reflect the episodes that might have happened in those places on my artwork.  The objects are familiar, but they approach to us in different guise and visage according to the relationship of surrounding objects or the relationship between object and another object.  The objects acquired from a low level of relational web in the daily life contain our everyday experience, and their various features become a motif of the work.  My artwork often changes into a different form through several processes, and a spatial breakaway can happen as the third result in a new space through the material dissimilation and alteration of the subject. Spielraum excluding one’s expected intervention: that is, I attempt to make an active, creative area and attract natural attitude and activity from the participants in it.  By a dissolution and distortion of the conventional function which are familiar to us, I want to make the users, or the viewers, to feel distance from the familiarity.  Also, I want to offer them an opportunity of rethinking about the role of the normal objects and devices that fulfill fixed functions so they can achieve an extension of thoughts and chances.

CHO HyeongSeob
Born in 1975, Busan, Korea

EDUCATION
2010    Bauhaus-Universitaet Weimar, Fakultaet Gestaltung, Freie Kunst,
              Diplom, Germany
2005    B.F.A, Kook-min University Dept. of Painting, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2014    Reconstruction Store, Openspace Bae, Busan, Korea
2010    Taucher im U-Boot, Steubenstrasse21, Weimar, Germany
2004    Time flow&Time pyramid, Gallery Kook-min Art, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2014    Artshow Busan, Bexco, Busan, Korea
2013    Un-lmited limit, Gyeongnam culture&Art center, Jinju, Korea
              Community Art, KAF Museum, Busan, Korea
              Prologue3, Gyeongnam Art Creative Center, Seangcho, Korea
              Art Studio K Lab, Hangaram Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012    123 Project_Submarine sailing legend, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea
2008    Alles oder Nichts, Ramle, Israel
              Forum junge Kunst II, Burg Dringenberg, Dringenberg, Germany
              Wie es euch gefaellt, Bauhaus Kunstetage, Weimar, Germany