Koo Jeong-A

Koo Jeong-Aʼs work is an “archeology” of diverse materials, images and landscapes,
excluded and forgotten in the present-day cultural domain, that we often consider non-
artistic. Her work, always carried out in situ, is ephemeral. For each intervention, she seeks
to assemble all sorts of objects, videos and drawings that she (re)exposes, sometimes
hidden from the spectatorsʼ view. She accentuates and stages the infinitely small, even the
invisible. She reveals the beauty and the poetry of the most common objects and moments.

/ Biography /

Born in Seoul, Korea 1967


/ Solo Shows /

2008

Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Maribel Lopez, Berlin, Germany  
Pinksummer, Pisa, Italy

2007

Oussseux, Centre International d’art et du paysage de l’île de Vassivière, Vassivière,
France
Flash Cube at Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Le Studio – Project Room, Yvon Lambert Paris, 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

ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
Yvon Lambert  New York
Yvon Lambert  Le Studio, Paris

2002

The Land of Ousss , The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
121002 very, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Kitakyushu, Japan
3355, Secession, Vereinigung bildender Künstler Wiener Secession, Vienne

2001

Yvon Lambert Paris
To fall to dive, Shima/Islands, Kyoto, Japan

1999

Côté Rue Yvon Lambert, Paris

1998

Ousss, Ousss, Ousss, place Stalingrad, 75010 Paris
Association d’art de la Napoule, Château de la Napoule, France
Moderna Museet Projekt, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1997

Too://www.so.up/there, 28 rue Rousselet, 75007 Paris
Aqueduc, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
In out up down, CASCO Space, Utrecht, Netherlands

1996

Nanomuseum, touring exhibition
Armoire du pullover, 212223 mai, 16 rue Etienne Marcel, 75002 Paris

1995

La ville de Villepoix avec les petits poix qui devient millepoix , Galerie Anne de
Villepoix, Paris
Mousse à vos mesures, 16 rue Etienne Marcel, 75002 Paris
Je vais à Pied, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Lovely Loisir, 86 Crampton Street, London

1994

Migrateurs, ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Rangements de Livres, c/o M. Obrist, Kunsthalle St Gallen, Switzerland


/ Group Shows /

2008

Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, MART, Trento, Italia
The Stranger, Yvon Lambert, New-York
Eurasia, MART - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
GOD & GOODS, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy 

2007

Opera, II Tempo del Postino, Manchester International Festival, UK
Not all iCodroipos visible, Presentation of Astrup Fearnley collection,
Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, DK 
Various Small Fires, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK

2006

Not all is visible - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection 
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Suites Coréennes, Passage de Retz, Paris
Coincidenze, Via Nuova SRL, Firenze, Italy
Il faut rendre à Cézanne, Yvon Lambert New York
La Force de L’Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2005

Emergency Biennale in Chechnya/Bolzano Stop, Palais de Tokyo, Paris France (23 February / 20 April)

Matrix Art Project, Brussels Belgium (2 / 18 September),
EURAC, the European Academy, Bolzano Italy, (7 to 28 October).
33 1⁄2 Baltic Triennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
‘Artists' Books Revisited' , Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Joy (December 17, 2005 – March 5, 2006), co-curated by Iara Boubnova and Enrico
Lunghi, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Performa 05, first biennial of new visual art performance, New York, U.S.A.
Guangzhou Triennial, China
Hermesmisulssang, Korea
MAN, Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, Sardinia
Le invasioni Barbariche, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
The Moscow Biennale January-February.
Vénus en Périgorg, Périgueux 

2004

Biennale of Sydney, 4/6 15/8
Ulysses , Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienne
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Milan
Open, Arcadia University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Guggenheim Museum, New York

2003

Dreams and  Conflicts : The Dictatorship of the Viewer, Biennale  de Venise, Italy 
Open Garden, WatariUm Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Regarde, Il Neige, Centre National d’art et du paysage, Vassiviere
Happiness : A Survival Guide for Art and Life , Mori Art Museum

2002

Less Ordinary, ArtSonje Center, Seoul, Korea

Biennale de Liverpool, Liverpool
Self /In Material Conscience, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
A given circumstances (gesture in situ), Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside
Kwangju Biennale, Corée
Le studio Yvon Lambert, Trans>area, New York
Haunted by details, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam
Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Les Enfants du Paradis, Yvon Lambert, Paris
La Folie de la villa méedicis, Academia di francia a romavilla medici

2001

In Cielo, Venice Biennale organized by TRANS, Venice
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Art Unlimited, Art 32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Room 137, Yvon Lambert, Hotel du Commerce ; Basel, Switzerland

2000

Sentimental, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Continetal Shift, Aachen, Maastricht, Heerlen, Liege
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
EchigoTsumari Art Triennal 2000, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
IASPIS Galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden
La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire 19982000 : le jardin 2000, Villa Medicis, Roma
From a Distance : Approaching Landscape, Institute of Contemporary Art ,       Boston,
Massachusetts
Les Affinités électives 2, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris
Offered spaces/ Sapzi offerti, Museo laboratorio di arte contemporanea, Siena
Prodige, une nouvelle génération d’artistes en France, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris
Super Split, BüroFriedrich, Berlin
Rovaniemi, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Ma Sorcière BienAimée, Musée d’histoire de la ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Finale di Partita, endgame, fin de partie, Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Florence
Vivre sa vie, Tramway Glasgow & Edinburgh, Scotland
Rendezvous, Collection Lambert, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Avignon

1999

Ma Sorcière BienAimée, Côté Rue Yvon Lambert, Paris
Cities on the move, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebek, Louisiana
Cities on the move, Hayward Gallery, London
Laboratorium, Antwerp, Belgium
Cutting Edge Art, Soane Museum, London
Audelà, galerie Klostorfelde, Berlin
SingulierPluriel, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes
L’Autre Sommeil, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
Nous nous sommes tant aimés, E NSBA, Paris
Cities on the move, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, 
Passage : New French Art, Japan
Retrace your Steps : Remember Tomorrow, Sir John’s Soane Museum, London
Xn 99, Espace des Arts, ChalonsurSaone, France

1998

Vertical Time, Barbara Gladstone gallery, New York
Tu parles/j’écoute, Tapei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
La Sphère de l’intime, Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors
Dust Memories, Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Unfinished History, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
M. Lindberg, Koo Jeonga, Peter Geschwind, Annika Erkson, Erik Bosis, Tobias   
Rehberger..., 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

Biennalen i Kwangju, Kwangju, Korea.
Transit, ENSBA, Paris
Secret Street, Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
Cities on the move, Secession, Vienne, Austria
52 bd Voltaire, Espace Huit Novembre, Paris
619 KBB 75, Paris
Do it, ICI, New York

1996

Télé Tube, Art TV Shopping, Forde à l’Usine, Geneva
Ouvert la Nuit, Avignon, France
Dépôtvente du Particulier, 19 rue Richard Lenoir, Paris
2,3,4 May, 21 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Ucelli/birds, ZERYNTHIA, Parco degli Ucelli, La Selva, Italy
Manifesta 1, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Do it, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
Kaukolampoa, Helsinki, Finland
Do it, Forde, Geneva
Setzen Stellen Legen Vergleiche, Bahnhof Messepalast, Vienne, Austria
XII ateliers du Frac des Pays de la Loire, SaintNazaire, France
L’art du plastique, ENSBA, Paris

1995

Etrangères au Paradis , le Monde de l’Art, Paris
Tu parles /j’écoute , Galerie Anne de Villepoix et Jet Lag K, Paris, 
Malakoff
Club Berlin, Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy
L’Art d’Aimer, Nouvelle Vague, Sète, France
Présentation de Sommaire, galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Muestra 1 », Bibliotheca Luis Angel Arago Calle, Casa Republica, Bogota
Mito, Operat 95, Ravenne, Italy
Almanacco 2000, Zona Archives, Florence, Italy
Ducks Not on a Pound, Manchester, England
1er International Videozine Screening, Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
Télé Tube, Hopital Ephémère, Paris

1994

Collection Zonmée , Montreuil, France
Télé Tube in Merry Go Round, Shedalle, Zürich
Migrateurs, ARC, projet cycle Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paris


/ Bibliographie /


SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

2005

Soyeon, Ahn, Hermès Korea Missulsang, published by Hermès Korea and Artsonje Center,
2005, Seoul 

2004

Macel, Christine, Koo Jeong-Alivre numéro 1, published by Centre Pompidou (espace trois-cent- quinze création contemporaine et prospective), 2004, 

2002

Jeong-A, Koo, The small hours of love, The Douglas Hyde Galery
The Hugo Boss prize 2002, The Solomon R Guggenheim museum publications, 2002, New York
Secession Koo Jeong-A, This catalogue is published in conjonction with the exhibition koo Jeong-A at the Secession ( November 12, 2002- February 2, 2003 )

2001

Koo Jeong-A , exposition du 19 Mai au 30 Juin 2001 à la Galerie Yvon Lambert , Paris,
Français/Anglais

2000

Publishers, Valerio, Au delà, published by Jens Hoffman and Valerio publishers Paris / New York
in collaboration wirh Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, 2000

1999

Artaud, Evelyne, Quoi peindre donc ?, Diagonales une collection des éditions Cercle d’art, Paris

1998

Lind, Maria, Moderna museet projekt, exposition du 2 Mai au 31 Mai 1998

1997

Bossé, Laurence, Koo Jeong-A, exposition aqueduc du 25 Avril au 22 Juin 1997 au Musée d’Art
Moderne de la ville de Paris, éditions des musées de la ville de Paris
Obrist, Hans-Ulrich, Do it, Independent curators Incorporated, New York