KWAK ChulAn

My design method blends and juxtaposes logical process and intuitive inspirations. Probably this execution strategy came from the well-mixed experience of both Korean design based on aesthetic values and Dutch design built on logicality. So I don’t think my design activity is well organized, yet the biggest issue for me, as a designer, is that I always want to be located in the core of social context.

I’ve started the Kiwa(Korean roof tile) project since 2012 and it is fully about disappearing beauty of Korea around us. I wanted to offer a new life toKiwa that have different colors and textures depending on the kind of mud, the baking temperature and age. Andsimultaneously it is also personal challenge for me, as a designer, to the new material values and techniques.

KWAK ChulAn
Born in 1979, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
2010 M.F.A, Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven
2006 B.F.A, Woodworking & Furniture Design, College of Fine Arts, Hongik University

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2014 YOUniverse, Les Docks, Paris, France
2013 Well assorted, Lee&Park Gallery, Paju, Korea
Kiwascape, Stockholmsmassan, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Fragments of Dragon, Coex, Seoul, Korea
Wooden Table, Tempelhof Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2011 Iceberg, The Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2012 Life. A User’s Manual, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2010 Super Organism, Nova Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Inside Design Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Netherlands