Artists in residence

Min Oh (b. 1975) is a South Korean artist investigating the boundaries and interactions of perception, substance, and thought surrounding time. She explores how the body senses, operates, consumes, and even generates time where visual art, music, and dance intersect and also where film and live performance meet. Min Oh received a bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and graphic design at Seoul National University and received her MFA in graphic design at Yale University, New Haven. 

She held residencies at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (2011-2012), and at the Cité internationale des arts with the support of the Samsung Foundation (2014) and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès (2018). 

Her work has been presented at National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, KR), MCAD (TH), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum (PH), Daejeon Museum of Art (KR), Total Museum (KR), Suwon Museum of Art (KR), Morsbroich Museum (DE), Pohang Museum of Art (KR), Art Sonje Center (KR), Nuit Blanche (FR), Atelier Hermès (KR), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (KR), Museum De Domijnen (NL), Daegu Art Museum (KR), Doosan Gallery (US, KR), Arko Art Center (KR), Kukje Gallery (KR), Nam June Paik Art Center (KR), De Nederlandsche Bank (NL), and Kunsthalle Erfurt (DE).

Min Oh published Thomas (a collection of essays about contemporary art by diverse authors such as film theorists, music critics, and curators, 2021), Absentee Attendee Invitee (an artist book of her work with the same title, and Score by Score (seven interviews with visual artists, musicians, a choreographer, and a dance theorist, 2017).

She was among the four shortlisted artists for the Korea Artist Prize 2021 organized by MMCA and sponsored by the SBS Foundation and awarded Fondation d’entreprise Hermès Missulsang (Art Prize) (KR, FR) in 2017.

Sujin Oh is a Korean artist living in France. She ran away from South Korea. Despite everything and everyone she loves there, the country came to represent for her a vast prison of minds and bodies—something she could no longer bear. She went through profound trauma while living there. In 2010, during an exchange program with the Beaux-Arts in France, she was able to begin recognizing and expressing this violence.

Her artistic practice lies at the intersection of drawing, writing, installation, and various editorial practices and bookmaking. Her work explores forms of fragmented narratives shaped by memory, emotion, and what remains inarticulate or beyond language. She is interested in the spaces between images and words, between her mother tongue and the languages she has acquired later, and in what remains suspended, in the void, or silent. Her practice is built around gestures of slow observation, attentive listening, and transcription. Her current project takes the form of a graphic novel based on personal stories, envisioned as intimate threads of transmission, shared memories, and a groping relationship with the world.