Myung-Ok Han

Myung-Ok Han is a visual artist and performance artist born in 1958 in South Korea. She lives and works at La Ruche in Paris, France.

Biography Born in 1958 in South Korea, Myung-Ok Han moved to France in 1986 and continued her studies at the École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon.

Her installations feature materials such as cotton thread, reflecting her Korean heritage, as well as everyday objects from the kitchen (bowls, plates, spoons).

Her approach with thread explores the notion of time: she patiently winds cotton into bowls, in a simple and repetitive gesture. to her, alongside Jean Le Gac. In this issue, Olivier Kaeppelin wrote an article about her entitled “A Line”.

In 1997, her work *Neuf cuillères* was acquired by the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC).

Her work has been exhibited in France, notably at the Musée d'Art moderne de Paris during the exhibition "Paris pour escale" in 2000, in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Bern in 2001, as well as in Australia, as part of the 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT3) in Brisbane in 1999. Quotes " When I set to work, I think of nothing, I can see nothing, I have an acute perception of movement, noises and even silences. While observing everything, I gradually let myself go".

Solo exhibitions (selection) 1996 – 3 Drawings, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 1996 – Lost Time, Édouard Manet Municipal Gallery, Gennevilliers; Claude Samuel Gallery, Paris, France 2001 – When All We Have Is Love, Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Art Brussels, Belgium 2003 – Guy Bärtschi Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland 2009 – Good Luck Charm, Municipal Gallery of the City of Vitry-sur-Seine, France 2013 – From There, Galerie Grand E’terna, Paris, France

Group exhibitions (selection)

1995 – Salon de Montrouge 1996 – Choice of 6 Artists, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea 1997 – Gwangju Biennale, South Korea 1998 – Poetics of Time, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea 1998 – Interlacing & the Envelope, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France 1999 – Ars Aevi, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 1999 – 3rd Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 2000 – Paris Escale, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris 2004 – France – Land of Welcome, Jerusalem, Israel 2005 – Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Palais de Tokyo, Paris / Brussels, Belgium / Bolzano, Italy 2006 – Performance Biennale Infr’action, Sète, France 2006 – Korean Suites, Passage de Retz, Paris 2008 – Emergency Biennale in Chechnya / World Tour, stop 10 San Francisco (CA), United States / stop 11 Bialystok, Poland 2008 – Drawing Woman, Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan, South Korea 2009 – Fragile, Lands of Empathy, Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne), France – Accademia d’Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri, Rome, Italy – Fragile, Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea 2012 – 10 Years of the Jean Brolly Gallery, Jean Brolly Gallery 2013 – Drawings and Works on Paper, Jean Brolly Gallery 2014 – Wooson Gallery, Art Stage Singapore 2016 – SAM, Galerie des grands bains douches de la plaine, Marseille Art Cologne, Cologne (2002), with Guy Bärtschi Gallery

Public collections

Fonds national d’Art Contemporain, France (1997) Seoul, South Korea (1999) Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999) Claudine and Jean-Marc Salomon Foundation, France (2003)