Youjin Yi (born in 1980 in Gangneung, South Korea, lives and works in Munich) studied Korean painting at Sejong University, Seoul, and from 2004 to 2011 painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Günther Förg. Her works have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Germany and internationally, including in Seoul, Berlin, Paris, and Zurich. Her art is included in collections such as the SeMA – Seoul Museum of Art and the Bayerische Staatsgemädesammlungen.
In her multifaceted artistic language, Youjin Yi unites objective references and abstract, painterly structures. Her works depict landscape spaces occupied by persons, animals, objects or hybrids. Seemingly dematerialized they fuse with their environment, emerge or take shape. Yi regards her works as metaphors for unconscious images and manifestations of ideas. Her art is distinguished by the variation of graphic and painterly qualities and the principle of an open coexistence of opposites. The artist developed a special iconography between the poles of imprints and cultures.
The exhibition project @park brings together landscape depictions that reveal the artist’s multifaceted view on nature and her keen sense of composition. In her works, we encounter mountains, trees, and floral motifs arranged in symbolic, dreamlike scenes, and gaze upon natural spaces where mysterious creatures lurk.