Hyejeong Yoo (b.1992 in Seoul) is a photographer and currently lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. After receiving her Bachelor's Degree in Photography from Chung-Ang University, she moved to Germany and graduated in 2022 with a Diploma in Photography in the class of Prof.Heidi Specker at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig.
Her works derive from questions surrounding concepts of birth and death, presence and absence. Reflections of existence are replaced by dust drifting through the air, sculptures in cemeteries, and the physical burden of carrying the Other. Her interests also lie in the tension and unfulfillment of language in human and non-human relationships. Natural light, silence, strict compositions and the empty eyes of her subjects are essential to her staged images. Her work raises questions of time and existence in the here and now.
Education
2022-
Meisterschülerin with Prof.Heidi Specker, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany
2022
Diploma in photography (with honours), Class of Prof.Heidi Specker, HGB Leipzig, Germany
2016
B.F.A in Photography, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea
2013
Student exchange program in Media Art, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
Selected Exhibitions
UPCOMING
gute aussichten, New German Photography 2022/2023, Deichtorhallen Hamburg/ Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen, Germany
2023
gute aussichten, New German Photography 2022/2023, Landesmuseum Koblenz, Germany
the continuous stream of beginnings and endings, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany
Ting, Ting, Ting, Platzhirschbar, Leipzig, Germany
PEP New Talents 2022, 254 Forest, Brussels, Belgium
2022
Treues Herz, Goethe-Institut Seoul, South Korea
Fotohof Calling, Fotohof Studio, Salzburg, Austria
Angenommen, Hier, Neue Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Gera, Germany
A5, AS/EM, curated by Erik Swars, Leipzig, Germany
Leutzscher KunstRasen Festivalsommer 2022, Leipzig, Germany
Carrying, Caring, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany (Diploma show)
2021
Margo, Me and More, HGB Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Fernweh, Poiesis Galerie, Markkleeberg, Germany
Come Closer, Spinnerei Halle 14 UG, f/stop Reflections, Leipzig, Germany
2020
The World is Not Enough, curated by Hanna Stiegler and Paul Niedermayer, Adalberstr.9, Berlin, Germany
2019
Science-Fiction-History, Gallery of European Art School of Bretagne, Quimper, France
Let Us Stop Here, Gallery SMAC, Berlin, Germany
World Biennial Of Student Photography, Novi Sad, Serbia
2018
Copenhagen Photo Festival, Denmark
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis, Photokina, Cologne, Germany
2017
After You, Kunstraum D21, Leipzig, Germany
2015
Vision, Gallery Luminarie, Seoul, South Korea
2014
5色, Yoon Design Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Awards / Grants
2023
Rössing-Price for Photography
gute aussichten, New German Photography 2022/2023
2022
Grant / Artist-in-Residence, Camera Austria & Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, Austria
2020
HGB Studienpreis
Artist-in-Residence, SASSO Residency, Vairano, Switzerland
2018
Deutscher Jugendfotopreis
2011
Academic Excellence Award, Chung-Ang University, South Korea
Collections
2020
Migrant Communities: Stories, Individuals and Identity, Student Edition Exhibition & Exchange Studio Art Department, Printmaking Collection Stockton University, New Jersey, USA
Publications
2022
Der Greif, Issue 15 - The Collectivity Issue, Munich, Germany, selected work Carrying, Caring
Monthly Photography Magazine, No.649, Seoul, South Korea, selected work deine Füße auf meinen Füßen
2020
Dreiklang, No.5, Leipzig (Oper Leipzig Magazin), Germany, selected work Untitled
2019
Blank Vol.1, Wien, Austria, selected work Brilliant Lies
2015
Jigeum Vol.3, Seoul, South Korea, selected work Presence
Design and Code: Rita Sabbo
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