Koo Jeong A
Born 1967 in Seoul, Korea.
Lives and works everywhere
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
ODORAMA CITIES, Korean Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
OooOoO Malmö, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
ODORAMA CITIES, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2022
[ YONG DONG ], Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2021
Luma Arles, Arles, France (commission)
2020
Koo Jeong A., Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, US
2019
OooOoO, La Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
2018
Koo Jeong A, Konig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Koo Jeong A, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2017
ajeongkoo, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
2016
Koo Jeong A, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Koo Jeong A, Frac Provence Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France
Enigma of Beginnings, Yuz Project Room at Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
4.3.3, pinksummer, Genoa – IT
ODORAMA, ICA Art Night, Charing Cross Station, London, UK
2015
Koo Jeong A x Wheelscape: Evertro, Everton Park, Liverpool, UK
Annual Journey, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2014
VOID WITHIN UNLIMITED FREEDOM, Base / Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy
Oussser, Fondazione La Raia, Novi Ligure, Italy
Shining Living, Yvon Lambert on paper, Yvonne Lamber, Paris, France
2012
Koo Jeong A: 16:07, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
20, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
OTRO, Ile de Vassivière, région Limousin, France
navigation without numbers, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2011
Koo Jeong-A/Undisturbed Lake,Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Nove / Nine, Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) Fundação Calouste Gulbenkin, Lisboa, Portugal
E opened his eyes he is now walking, CCA KITAKYUSHU Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
2010
Koo Jeong-A - Z, Yvon Lambert, New York, US
Koo Jeong A: Constellation Congress, Dia at the Hispanic Society, New York, US; Dia:Beacon, Beacon; The Dan Flavin Art Insitute, Bridgehampton, US
2008
New Song, O, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
The Birds May Sing, Maribel Lopez Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Koo Jeong-A, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
2007
OUSSSEUX, Centre International d’Art & du Paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, Vassiviere, France
Flash Cube at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Koo Jeong-A,Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
Le Studio – Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Temporary Measures, Associates, London, UK
2005
Swiss Re, « R », Publication
2004
Wednesday, Portikus im Leinwandhaus, Frankfurt, Germany
Koo Jeong-A, Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Paris, France
2003
ever loving drive, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, US
Koo Jeong A, Trans>area, New York, US
Koo Jeong A,Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2002
The Land of Ousss, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
121002 very, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
3355, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2001
Koo Jeong A, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
To fall to dive, Shima/Islands, Kyoto, Japan
1999
Côté Rue, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1998
Ousss, Ousss, Ousss, Place Stalingrad 75010 Paris, Paris, France
Association d’art de la Napoule, Château de la Napoule, France
oo / 24, Moderna Museet Projekt, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Your heart is telling you something, Century Building, Antwerpen, Belgium
1997
too://www.so.up/there, 28 rue Rousselet 75007 Paris, France
aqueduc, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
in out up down, CASCO Space, Utrecht, Netherlands
1996
Armoire du pullover, 21 22 23 May, 16 rue Etienne Marcel 75002 Paris, France
1995
La ville de Villepoix avec les petites poix qui devient millepoix, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Mousse à vos mesures, 16 rue Etienne Marcel 75002 Paris, France
Je vais à Pied, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Lovely Loisir, 86 Crampton Street, London, UK
1994
Migrateurs, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Rangements de Livres, c/o M. Obrist, St Gallen, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dance With Daemons, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Germany
2023
Odor, Immaterial Sculptures, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
2021
It’s Urgent!, Luma Arles, Arles, France
2019
The World According to, Pace Gallery, New York, US
2018
Foresta Urbana, Museo Riso / Piazza Bologni, Palermo, Italy
2017
To Challenge the Earth, the Moon, the Sun & the Stars, 7th Socle du Monde Biennial, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
As Above, So Below: Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics, IMMA | Irish Musuem of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Reborn-Art Festival, Ishinomaki, Japan
READYMADE, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, China
Mondialite, Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Imaginative Geography, ACC, Gwanju, Korea
2016
Take Me (I’m Yours), Jewish Museum, New York, US
32nd Bienal de São Paulo – Incerteza Viva [Live Uncertainty], São Paulo, Brazil
Art Night, London, UK
Take me (I'm Yours), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Charlottenborg, Denmark
2015
Discordant Harmony, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea; Hiroshima Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
recto/verso, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Take me (I'm yours), Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
THE TELL-TALE HEART, Chi Art Space, Pilar Corrias, Leo Xu Projects and K11 Foundation, Hong Kong, China
The World in 2015, UCCA, Beijing, China
2014
Inhabiting the World, Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Burning Down the House, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Real DMZ Project 2014, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do & Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
A stroll through a fun palace,Swiss Pavilion at 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2013
Real DMZ Project 2013: Borderline, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do & Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
En suspension, FRAC – Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
The Insides Are On The Outside / Interior está no Exterior, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil
In Situ, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
A Stone Left Unturned, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2012
Champ d’expériences, Centre international d’art et du paysage de l´île de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière, France
2011
Media landscape, zone east, gallery Loop, Seoul, Korea
art project 2011 - AIDES, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The Return: The 3rd International Festival of Contemporary Art of Algiers (FIAC), MAMA Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Algiers, Algeria
Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
idiolect, Bruges – BE
Contemplating the void, interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
The nice thing about castillo/corrales…, castillo/corrales, Paris, France
RETHINKING LOCATION, Sprueth Magers Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Handmade, Milan Design Week Wallpaper, Milan, Italy
Street facade Building 37, Tirana, Albania
Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan
Media Landscape – Zone East, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Super Farmers’ Market’, Handel Street Projects, London, UK
2009
Your Bright Future, The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston, US
Your Bright Future, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, US
Elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France*
5th annual Art Crush, aspen art museum, Aspen, US
Il tempo del postino, Theater Basel, Switzerland
53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2008
Eurasia, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto Trento, Italy
god & goods, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Turin Triennial, 50 Moons of Saturn, Turin, Italy
2007
Il tempo del postino, Opera, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
Everstill, Casa Museo Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain
Wherever we go, sfai, San Francisco, US
(Lost), Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques, France*
Not all is visible, Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Various Small Fires, Royal College of Art Gallery, London, UK
Flash Cube, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2006
wherever we go - ovunque andiamo, spazio oberdan, Milan, Italy*
Not all is visible, Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Suites Coréennes, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Coincidenze, Via Nuova SRL, Florence, Italy
Il faut rendre à Cézanne, Galerie Yvon Lambert, New York, US
2005
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya/Bolzano Stop, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Matrix Art Project, Brussels, Belgium
EURAC, the European Academy, Bolzano, Italy
33 1/2 Baltic Triennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK
Artists' Books Revisited, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Joy, Casino Luxembourg – LU
Performa 05, first biennial of new visual art performance, New York, US
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Hermès Korea Missulsang, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea*
MAN, Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Sardaigne, Italy
Le invasioni Barbariche, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
The Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Vénus en Périgord, Périgueux, France
2004
On Reason and Emotion, 14th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ulysses, Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Dont touch dona bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Open, Arcadia University, Pennsylvania, US
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2003
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Open Garden, Watarium Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Happiness, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Regarde, il Neige, Centre National d’art et du paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, France
2002
Less Ordinary, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea
International 2002, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Self /In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
A given circumstances (gesture in situ), Arcadia, University Art Gallery, Glenside, UK
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
The air is blue, Casa Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico
Trans>area, Le studio, Yvon Lambert, New York, US
Haunted by details, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US*
Les Enfants du Paradis, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
La Folie de la villa Médicis, Academia di francia a romavilla Médicis, Rome, Italy
2001
In Cielo, Venice Biennial organised by TRANS, Venice, Italy
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Art Unlimited, Art 32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Room 137, Yvon Lambert, Hôtel du Commerce, Basel, Switzerland
2000
Sentimental, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Continental Shift, Aachen, Maastricht, Heerlen, Liège, Belgium
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, US
Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal 2000, Art Front Gallery, Echigo Tsumari/Tokyo, Japan
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden
La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire 1998 / 2000: Le Jardin 2000, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy
From a Distance: Approaching Landscape, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, US
Les Affinités électives 2, Galerie du Jour Agnès b, Paris, FR
Offered spaces/Spazi offerti, San Casciano dei Bagni, Siena, Italy
Prodige, une nouvelle génération d’artistes en France, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
Super Split, BüroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Rovaniemi, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Finale di Partita, endgame, fin de partie, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence, Italy
Vivre sa vie, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
Rendez vous, Collection Lambert, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon, France
1999
Ma Sorcière Bien Aimée, Côté Rue Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Cities on the move, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebek, Denmark; Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium
Cutting Edge Art, Soane Museum, London, UK
Au-delà, Galerie Klostorfelde, Berlin, Germany*
Singulier Pluriel, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
L’Autre Sommeil, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, ENSBA, Paris, France
Cities on the move, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Passage: New French Art, Sategaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Retrace your Steps: Remember Tomorrow, Sir John’s Soane Museum, London, UK
Xn 99, Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-saône, France
Vertical time, Chicago Museum, Chicago, US
1998
Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Tu parles/j’écoute, Tapei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
La sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors, France
Dust Memories, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, US
Moderna Museet Projekt 98, Stockholm, Sweden*
Area Dos, Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Association Château de la Napoule, la Napoule, France
Gare de l’Est, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Imitating Xmas, Berlin, Germany
1997
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Transit, ENSBA, Paris, France
Secret Street, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Cities on the move, Secession, Vienna, Austria
52 bd Voltaire, Espace Huit Novembre, Paris, France
619 KBB 75, Paris, France
Do it, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, US*
1996
Télé Tube, Art TV Shopping, Forde à l’Usine, Geneva, Switzerland
Ouvert la Nuit, Avignon, France
Dépôt-vente du Particulier, 19 rue Richard Lenoir, Paris, France
2,3,4 May, 21 bd Jourdan 75014 Paris, France
Uccelli/Birds, ZERYNTHIA, Parco degli Uccelli, La Selva, Italy
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Do it, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
Kaukolampoa, Helsinki, Finland
Do it, Forde, Geneva, China
Setzen Stellen Legen Vergleiche, Bahnhof Messepalast, Vienna, Austria
XII ateliers du Frac des Pays de la Loire, Saint-Nazaire, France
L’art du plastique, ENSBA, Paris, France
1995
Etrangères au Paradis, Le Monde de l’Art, Paris, France
Tu parles / j’écoute, Galerie Anne de Villepoix et Jet Lag K, Paris, Malakoff, France
Club Berlin, 46th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
L’Art d’Aimer, Nouvelle Vague, Sète, France
Présentation de Sommaire, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Muestra 1, Bibliotheca Luis Angel Arago Calle, Casa Republica, Bogota, Colombia
Mito, Operat 95, Ravenne, Italy
Almanacco 2000, Zona Archives, Florence, Italy
Ducks Not on a Pound, Manchester, UK
1er International Videozine Screening, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris, France
Télé Tube, Hôpital Ephémère, Paris, France
1994
Collection Zonmée, Montreuil, France
Télé Tube in Merry Go Round, Shedalle, Zürich, Switzerland
* Indicates catalogue
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2016
FundacioĢn Casa Wabi, Mexico City, Mexico
2005
Hermes Korea Prize for Contemporary Art
2002
Finalist of the Guggenheim Museum's Hugo Boss Prize
2000
Winner of the Villa Medici's Award
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
FNAC (Fond National d’art contemporain), Regroupement des Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain, Paris
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Nantes
Frac Fonds régional d’art contemporain, Marseilles
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum
Tate, London