Younhee Yang

Younhee Yang (, born July 10, 1977) is a contemporary South Korean painter.

Life and work

Yang was born in Seoul, and received her BFA in painting in 2005 from the Parsons School of Design in New York City. Installation art, Sculpture and Video art.

Yang's art has been exhibited internationally in Germany, Austria, South Korea, Canada, and in the United States of America. Among the museums and galleries having shown her work are the Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement Museum in Seoul, South Korea, the Gong Art Space gallery in Seoul, South Korea and the DadaPost Galerie in Berlin, Germany. Besides other art publications, the American sculptor Howard McCalebb published the monograph Silent Pictures, The paintings of Yang YounHee about Yang's work in 2012.

Yang works as an independent artist and founded the fine art studio Kunstatelier Younhee Yang, Berlin 2009 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. The art studio moved from 2012 to 2018 to Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany. Since 2018, the Kunstatelier YounHee Yang, Berlin is located at Anton-Saefkow-Platz.8, 10369 Berlin, Germany, where it is located at current. Yang supports international social projects through her work.

Yang lives in Seoul, South Korea and in Berlin, Germany.

Exhibitions (selection)

2016: Sprudelwasser {Reflections}, 2016, AMgallery, Germany 2014: Silent Pictures II, 2014, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2013: Photo Op: Photo Opportunity: The Ubiquity of Photography, 2013, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2012: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, Germany 2012: Silent Pictures, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2012: Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXVI, Autorengalerie 1, Munich, Germany 2012: Bilder, Briefe, Noten LXXIV, Autorengalerie 1, Munich, Germany 2011: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, Germany 2011: Imaginative fairytale, Gong Art Space Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2010: Gasteig Open Video, Gasteig, Munich, Germany 2010: 14th Art Exhibition: Unification of Korea, Korean Broadcasting and Advertisement Museum, Seoul, South Korea 2010: Scope Miami Artfair, Miami, USA 2010: Youth Cult, DadaPost Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2010: Mit den Augen der Anderen, Galerie Magnificat, Berlin, Germany 2009: Rise & Fall, BOA Life LLC, travelling exhibition, United States 2009: Personally Political – Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany 2008: Imagination and Reality, International Academy for Fine Arts Salzburg, Hallein, Austria 2005: Threaded, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons, New York City, NY, USA 2004: Obsession, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons, New York City, NY, USA

Literature

Lemonidou, Eve (2010), International Contemporary Artists, Vol. 1, TCA Publishing, 2010, Tunberg, Despina (2011), International Dictionary of Artists, World Wide Art Books, 2011, McCalebb, Howard (2012), Silent Pictures: The Paintings of YounHee Yang, BOD, McCalebb, Howard (2013), Autobiography as Critique, DadaPost,