Jan Yongdeok Lim

Statement

As it were, painting I want to make is more of poetry. Nothing stands still or can be taken for granted. Every Single word, sentence, materal, image, how it calls me and how my/your/our memories talk to it becomes a painting.

GlogauAIR Project

I look forward to exploring and experimenting how bypasses spiral down to paintings. Differences fascinate us and we then find out somethings in common. No matter what encounters, they boil down to myself. Nonetheless, as moving studios in Berlin far from my studio in Utrecht, different light falls, noise, feeling of place and presence would determine the process. I hope to meet it in GlogauAir. I am primarily interested in process. This is something I learned from my great fellow artists in my previous residency in Leipzig, such as Julia Eichler, Finn Curry, David Benarroch. I hope to meet such an unexpected detour again in GlogauAIR as well. 7 years ago. The sky of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, was overspreading with black clouds I had waited. Four fellow residency artists were together with me to support my video. While taking the video, the windstorm changed deadly in a flash and pushed my boat away to deeper seas. No matter how I rowed with all my might, rather I floated further away. One of fellows exigently drove a car back -I saw it from the boat drifiting- and a captain in a fishing vessel rescued me shortly after. As soon as came back to Utrecht from the artist residency, I began learning how to swim. The time in the boat seemed an eternity. The water was brutal black. It must have been, dare I say, far darker. Had colleagues not been there, I would not have been able to made a video and write this now…

Painting

CV Summary

Education

• 2015 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Utrecht (NL), Master of Arts in Fine Art
• 2012 Seoul National University, Seoul (KR), Master of Science in Clothing and Textiles – Aesthetics in Dress Lab.
• 2007 Kookmin University, Seoul (KR), Bachelor of Fine Arts – Major: Fashion Design [Advanced] / Minor: Painting

Exhibitions / Performances / Researches

• 2022 ‘The Second Hands’, MNAC, Bucharest (RO), performer / researcher
• 2020 ‘Boven de bank’, Gallery Logman, Utrecht (NL), group
• 2018 ‘Spoor’, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig (DE), group
• 2018 ‘Speech Bubble’, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig (DE), group
• 2018 ‘Rutschbahn’, Krudebude, Leipzig (DE), group
• 2018 ‘I accept the cookies’, Kunstraumpingpong, Leipzig (DE), group
• 2018 ‘This must be the Pacific Place’, Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam (NL), group
• 2018 ‘Disclosed #13: HONOLULU’, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam (NL), performer
• 2017 ‘Draaiweg 51 Open Studio’, SWK030, Utrecht (NL), group
• 2017 ‘The Final Report Presentation’, The Creative Centre HERE, Stöðvarfjörður (IS), group
• 2017 ‘To Seminar : Sleeper’, BAK basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (NL), performer/ researcher
• 2016 ‘Rethinking HOME_Koneksi-Connectie’, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam (NL), performer
• 2015 ‘Tomorrow, I may disappear’, MaHKU graduation show, Academiegalerie, Utrecht (NL), group
• 2015 ‘Before you ask me to stay’, Research pavilion Sala del Camino, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (IT), group
• 2014 ‘A Creature called Soft Machine’, IMPAKT Festival 2014, Academiegalerie, Utrecht (NL), group

Residencies

• 2023 GlogauAIR, Berlin (DE)
• 2018 PILOTENKUECHE, Leipzig (DE)
• 2017 The Creative Centre HERE, Stöðvarfjörður (IS)

On-site work

• 2021 ‘Assumption of Mary’, Yeongun cathedral, Cheongju (KR)
• 2019 ‘The Resurrection, At First Eye Contact’, Hwangan cathedral, Yeongdong (KR)

Gallery