Kang Contemporary is pleased to announce participation in the POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, taking place in the iconic Tempelhof Airport hangars in partnership with Berlin Art Week 2024. We are delighted to welcome you at booth A10.


Concurrently, our exhibition A Streetcar Named Desire featuring artworks by Frank Jimin Hopp can be seen at our gallery in Lindenstraße 90, 10969 Berlin during our regular hours Tue - Sat, 2-6pm.
 

In the exhibition A Streetcar Named Desire, Kang Contemporary stages a postmodern travesty with the artist Frank Jimin Hopp. The present is presented in its life-threatening absurdity as a place of paradox, where an aesthetically fuelled consumer fetish continues against the backdrop of global doomsday scenarios: Where an increasing number of flights over melting glaciers invites you to get sentimental at an altitude of 10,000 metres; where a golf tournament is played against the horizon of burning forests - despite the impaired visibility - and, where cakes collapsing in the heat are consumed with uninhibited glee.

Conceptually, Kang Contemporary thus ties in with the global phenomenon of the fatigue society, which, in view of ever new crises, despite the acute need for action, tends towards a dangerous passivity. The core of the exhibition aesthetic is to allow the paradox of the crisis and its ambivalent images to be experienced. The scene is conceived as a banquet installation with ceramics, sculptures and paintings. The thematic hub is the fire, as an ambivalent metaphor of cultural progress and decay, which, as it were, fuels the flashpoint of the catastrophe.

In the upcoming exhibition Viewing Room: Zeros & Ones, Kang Contemporary is opening a space with the artists TZUSOO, Jazoo Yang and Hara Shin in which the immersion of digital and analogue can be experienced. 

Using themes such as digital archives, digital activism, artificial intelligence, virtual transformation and conservation, the possibilities of the digital are artistically tested for their significance for politics, the environment and society. Can an avatar be an influencer? Can a computer game save villages from destruction? How can we experience a world in which the perception of objects (animals, rocks, forests) is liquefied? Visitors can use video installations, VR glasses and analogue image media to interactively explore these questions and immerse themselves in an artistic world of possibilities in which the boundary between present and future is blurred.

We warmly invite you to the opening of part two of Dirk Eicken's solo exhibition Seeing the Sun through Closed Eyes, from Friday, March 1, 2024 at Kang Contemporary Gallery. The second part of the exhibition will be introduced with an artist talk at 6:30 pm.
In a series of works from the last 10 years of his career, the artist questions the possibilities of painting in the face of its failure in a fascinating way. Instead of accepting the end of painting, Eicken sees its death as a source of new vitality.  Painting serves the artist as a means of critically analyzing visibility: through his double-stretched canvases and over paintings, he creates an invisible network of images whose complexity cannot be grasped by looking at the surface of the picture.
Eicken's works open up an invasive view that leads beyond the superficial layer of the picture into the depths of painting. Instead of a purely rational identification with the surface of the painting, Eicken seeks a deeper understanding and an empathetic view into the interior of the painting. His paintings show the canvas not only as a surface, but as part of a complex structure with its own history and a hidden life of its own. 

We warmly invite you to the opening of Dirk Eicken's solo exhibition Seeing the Sun through Closed Eyes, shown in two parts, from Friday, January 26, 2024 at Kang Contemporary Gallery.

In a series of works from the last 10 years of his career, the artist questions the possibilities of painting in the face of its failure in a fascinating way. Instead of accepting the end of painting, Eicken sees its death as a source of new vitality.  Painting serves the artist as a means of critically analyzing visibility: through his double-stretched canvases and over paintings, he creates an invisible network of images whose complexity cannot be grasped by looking at the surface of the picture.

Eicken's works open up an invasive view that leads beyond the superficial layer of the picture into the depths of painting. Instead of a purely rational identification with the surface of the painting, Eicken seeks a deeper understanding and an empathetic view into the interior of the painting. His paintings show the canvas not only as a surface, but as part of a complex structure with its own history and a hidden life of its own. You are welcome for the second part of the exhibition which can be seen from March 1, 2024. 

If science can be described as a system that provokes significant coincidences, serendipity is the mode of epistemic discoveries par excellence - from the positive effect of penicillin on humans to nylon stockings to decalcomania. For our artists the concept of serendipity thus serves as an approach of a creativity that proceeds in a roundabout way. It is precisely the form of open-ended creating that makes complex constructions of meaning based on random impulses possible in the creative process in the sense of a theory of inverse expediency. Especially during digitalization, where the casual snatching of events and facts is gaining in importance, an investigation of serendipitous practices from an artistic perspective is particularly interesting regarding their epistemic qualities.

Kang Contemporary is pleased to present the artworks of Jeongmoon Choi and Annette Cords in the exhibition THREADING LINES. Throughout their careers, both artists have defined unique ways of approaching materiality and techniques and offer significant contributions to the world of art. Putting these two artists into a dialogue showcases the vast material capacity of textiles and strings. The medium is explored in corresponding yet dissimilar ways.

Discover the vibrant creative scene of Berlin as we proudly present the Summer Show 2023. This exciting exhibition brings together the works of Jaehong Ahn, Moritz Jekat, Paul Guenther Koestner, and Sojin Park, showcasing a diverse range of artistic expressions. Don't miss out on this exhibition, where art, innovation, and imagination collide. Join us from June 30th to August 18th at Kang Contemporary to witness the Summer Show 2023 and be a part of Berlin's thriving art scene.

KANG Contemporary is pleased to present the exhibition project Inventories with US-American multidisciplinary artist Arnold Dreyblat. The artist engages in-depth with processes and discourses of memory culture, reflecting on categories such as commemoration and archive in complex textual and spatial visualizations. The exhibition Inventories is thus intended to create a space in which these themes, guided by the artist's works, can be reflected upon and discussed by the public. 

Peculiar fruit, ceramic pigs, levitating women, and collapsing cakes. The artworks in Ruptured Myths of Present seem wondrous, in their eclectic assemblage of symbols and characters. Frank Jimin Hopp and Sara Umar pull the veil on the ever-present archetypes of society, some of which have existed for centuries while others are new actors who enter the stage.

The exhibition offers the receptive visitor a room in which they can open themselves to the sensations of colors and composition to investigate the materials and dynamics of the artworks. Each artist in this exhibition allows the observer to discover a variety of connections to art and themselves through intuitively observing and sensing what is right in front of them. 

It is the empty space surrounding a mountain's summit that accentuates its grandeur. Similarly, the sky above a field, the distance the human eye can suppose, emphasizes its vastness. Gazing into these distances suggests a visual-mental journey from the viewer's position to somewhere else. The distance has no direction and no destination; the only clear variable is the point we are moving away from. 

Paula Böke

With this exhibition, Kang Contemporary showcases the relationships between mental and physical spaces. Focusing on intrusions and intersections, therefore, denying any isolation between Art, Space and People complicates these entities and troubles clarity of interpretation. At the same time, it opens the possibility of discovering a plethora of connections and correlations which are tangent to everyday life. 

It was her own earthquake experience that led Jeongmoon Choi to explore the study of the construction of the earth's crust, and tectonics artistically.

For her exhibition at KANG Contemporary, Choi devotes herself to the theme of the influence of plate tectonic processes on the climate.