BAE BIEN-U
Born in 1950, in Yeosu, South Korea; Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea
1981 – Present
Professor of Photography, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, South Korea
1988 – 1989
Research Faculty, Photography & Design Department, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
1978
MFA, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
1974
BFA, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2021
- Moving Forest, Matmut for the arts, Pierre de Varengeville, France. 2020
- Orum, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
2019
- Orum, Chaumont-sur-Loire Domain, France.
- Between Island and Forest, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea. - Bae Bien-U, Chambord National Domain, France.
- Residence within the framework of Korea in France, Chambord’Castle, France.
- Windscape, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany.
- Windscape, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Bae Bien-U, Villefavard en Limousin Farm, France. - Bae, Bien-U, Il Woo Space, Seoul, South Korea.
2018
-Cycle, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
2016
- L’esprit du lieu, Museum of the Sea, Cannes, France.
- PART :MEET, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China.
2015
- Museum of modern and contemporary art, Métropole, Saint Etienne, France.
2014
- Bae Bien-U: Pins de Gyeon Gju, Chaumont sur Loire Domain, France. - Conterbalance, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
2013
- Chaumont sur Loire, France.
- Windscape, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea.
2012
- Windscape, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Sailing the seas, GS Yeulmaru, Yeosu, South Korea.
2011
- Bae, Bien-U, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea.
- Convexconcave, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
2010
- Where God and Man Collide, The House for Mozart for Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria.
2009
- Soul Garden, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea.
- Soul Garden, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada in Palacio de Carlos V. La Alhambra, Granada, Spain. - Sacred Wood: Bae Bien-U, Aando Fine Art, Berlin; Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Sacred Wood : Bae, Bien-U, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany.
2008
- Bae Bien U, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, United Kingdom.
- Timeless Photography, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
- Bae, Bien-U: Sonamu, Gana Art Center, New York, USA. 2007
- K Collection ‘Bae, Bien-U’, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
- Sea & Island, Gana Art Center, Pusan, South Korea.
- Beauty of Korea, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- Pine, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France.
- Tree - Bae, Bien-U, Bhak Gallery, Seoul, South Korea. - Bae, Bien-U, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea.
2006
- Bae, Bien-U, 9th Photo España, Thyssen Museum, Madrid, Spain. 2005
- Bae, Bien-U, Pollar Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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2003 - Tahiti Festival de la Photographie, Tahiti. 2002 |
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- Bae Bien-U, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea. |
2001
- Bae, Bien-U, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA. 2000
1998
- Photographies de Kyungju, Jean-Luc & Takako Richard Gallery, Paris, France. 1993
- Meeting and Departure, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
1989
- Landscapes, Hochschule Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany.
1988
- Korean Landscapes, Raiffeisen Bank Gallery, Bamberg, Germany. 1985
- Marado, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
1982
- Seascapes, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2020
- Un monde infini : Artistes chamanes, autour d’une collection de l’Himalaya, Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, France.
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2019 - Œuvres Choisies, Galerie RX, Paris, France. |
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- Arts & Nature Social Club, Circle Culture, Berlin, Germany. |
-Into the Woods: Trees in Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom. - EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, USA.
2016
- ART 16, London's Global Art Fair, RX Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- ArtParis, Art Paris Art Fair 2016, RX Gallery, Paris, France.
- Public to Private: Korean Contemporary Photography since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- Venice Biennial, Palazzo Fortuny, Italy, curator : Axel Vervoordt
- Winter, Galerie RX, Paris
- Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris
2015
- A Homage to Korean Architecture – Wisdom of the Earth, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. - Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
2014
- Lost in Landscape, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
- Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea 2013
- L’Arbre qui ne meurt pas, Théâtre des Sablon, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
- Landscape, MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy. - Pleasure, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Free Style: A dialogue between Art and Design, Hongik University Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- Art in Busan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea.
- International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea.
- Korean Contemporary Photographers : 2009 Odyssey, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
- MoA Picks: Reminiscing the Medium- a ‘Post’ Syndrome, Seoul National Museum of Art, South Korea. - Université, Seoul, South Korea.
- Simply Beautiful, Le Grand Jardin, Joinville, France.
- The Modern Photography, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea.
- The 6th Photo Festival, BAE Bien-U & Elger Esser, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
2005
- BAE Bien-U & KIM Atta, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France.
2004
- Real Reality, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
- BAE Bien-U, Bohnchang Koo and Byung Hun Min, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
2003
- Time of Nature Time of Human, Daejon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea.
- People Walking on the Water: Cheonggyecheon Project, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea. - REAL- SCAPE Revisited, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea.
2002
- Now, What is Photo, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- 15 Photographes Coréens, Photo Gallery, Montpellier, France.
2012
- The Aged Future, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea.
2011
- TRA: Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.
- 38°N Snow South: Korean Contemporary Art, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010
- The Wind in the Pines: 5000 years of Korean Art, Hermitage Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia - Eternal Blinking, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
2009
- Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, the 53rd Biennial di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
2008
- Bozar Festival : Made in Korea, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussel, Belgium. 2007
- Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
2006
- Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland.
- Photography Festival, Tahiti, France.
2001
- Central Connecticut State Univeristy, Connecticut, USA.
- Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, Germany.
2000
- Fotofest- Contemporary Photographers from Korea, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, USA. - Slowness of Speed, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- Odense Foto Triennale, Odense, Danemark.
1999
- Figure and Landscape in Korea, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, South Korea.
- Commemorative Photograph Exhibition, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Art, South Korea.
- Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
- Contemporary Asian Art Work from The Lewitt Collection, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Massachusetts, USA.
- Sonahmuyeo, Sonahmuyeo Museum Hwanki, Seoul, South Korea.
- Photography- New Vision, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- Photography Today, Art Sonje Museum, Kyungju, South Korea.
1994
- Visions from the Land of Morning Calm, PIMA Community College Art Gallery, Arizona, USA. - Contemporary Photography of Korea, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
1993
- Contemporary Photography in Seoul, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
1991
- Horizon of Korean Photography, Total Museum of Art, Jang Heung, South Korea.
1989
- The 150th Anniversary of Photography Show, Bamberg Neue Residenz, Bamberg, Germany.
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1998 - Alienation and Assimilation, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA. |
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- Contemporary Art from Korea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. - Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. - Inside Out, ICA, Philadelphia, USA. |
1996
- An Aspect of Korean Art in 1990's, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
1995
- Territory of Mind, Mito Art Tower, Ibaraki, Japan.
1992
- Horizon of Korean Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS - Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom. |
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- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan. |
- Afinsa Collection, Germany.
- Isac Andic Ermay, MANGO Collection, Spain. - SISLEY Collection, Italy.
- Calder Foundation, USA.
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA.
- Société Générale’s Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France.
- Photographs by Bae Bien-U, Changdeokung, Korean Architecture, South Korea.
PUBLICATIONS
2018
- And pines embroidered the sky, Arnaud Bizalion Editor, France. 2015
- Bae Bien-U, D’une forêt l’autre, Somogy Art Editions, France.
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2014 |
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- Elements between the sea and the sky of Jeju, P.I.E. Books, Japan. 2011 2010 - Painting with Light, Culturebooks, South Korea. - Sacred Wood, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany. |