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Support & Nurture / Support for Artists and Researchers at SeMA Nanji Residency/Nanji 人 (in)
오민수 Minsu Oh

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Introduction

Minsu Oh focuses on the issue of labor that is hidden under the glare of high-tech society. The artist’s perception starts from a kind of irony that machines exist beside people, and that people in difficulty cannot survive without coexisting with them. Through a series of works that shed light on the bizarre symbiotic relationship between workers and machines, he has been dealing with the animalistic threat of machines and the existential disappearance of labor in a mirror structure. The interest in the ‘soul’ of the machine as a subject is translated into an unfamiliar sensation in the artist’s gaze as he gazes into the dark and low places of society.

Solo Exhibitions

2022 Humans see light, PS333 Gallery Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2020 Electricity is Running, Instantroof, Seoul, Korea
2019 Backward Dawn, andPractice, Cheongju, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Nothing to Waste, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea

2024 The people behind the storm are you and me, Space Heem, Busan, Korea

2023 CLOSE TO THE BOUNDARY, Bucheon Art Bunker B39, Bucheon, Korea
2023 Unintentional Lives, Faction, Seoul, Korea
2023 Sorry, Frankenstein, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk, Korea
2022 Exceptional Times, Uncertain Moves (Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Pre-opening Public Program), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2022 My sleep, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2022 Echo, Boan Art space 1942, Seoul, Korea
2021 Do You Miss the Future?, Hyundai Motorstudio Busan, Busan, Korea
2021 Voice: Shimmering and Twinkling, 'Jeon Taeil' Memorial Hall, Seoul, Korea
2021 Naming the Nameless, SeMA Bunker, Seoul, Korea
2020 Diplopia, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2020 Invitation Denied part1, Aram Art Center, Goyang, Korea

Residencies

2024 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea

2023 Suwon Art Studio PUREUNJIDAE CHANGJAK SAEMTEO, Suwon, Korea

2022 SFAC Seoul Art Space Geumcheon Residency, Seoul, Korea

2020 Gyeonggi Creation Center, Ansan, Korea

2019 andPractice, Cheongju, Korea

Awards & Grants

2023 Gyeonggi Arts Support-Visual Arts Project Selected, GyeongGi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi, Korea
2020 Youth Artist Visual Arts Project Selected, Arts Council Korea, Naju, Korea
2020 Red Awards Remarkable Art Form, Red Awards, Seoul, Korea

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KickStart, 2023, motorcycle cowl, engine, dimensions variable

Breath, 2021, acrylic pipe, water, air compressor, arduino (5 min.), 244×200×244cm

Outsourcing Miracle, 2020, motors, speaker unit, mixed media, 16-channel sound kinetic installation (5 min.), dimensions variable

Absurd progress, 2019/2021, conveyor roller, motor, work ladder, mixed media, 150×150×50cm

Chul in the Blood, 2021, iron, water, motor, motor pump, speaker, mixed media, 13-channel sound kinetic installation (10 min. 12 sec.), dimensions variable

KickStart, 2023, motorcycle cowl, engine, dimensions variable

Breath, 2021, acrylic pipe, water, air compressor, arduino (5 min.), 244×200×244cm

Outsourcing Miracle, 2020, motors, speaker unit, mixed media, 16-channel sound kinetic installation (5 min.), dimensions variable

Absurd progress, 2019/2021, conveyor roller, motor, work ladder, mixed media, 150×150×50cm

Chul in the Blood, 2021, iron, water, motor, motor pump, speaker, mixed media, 13-channel sound kinetic installation (10 min. 12 sec.), dimensions variable

a residency program operated by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) that was launched in 2006 after remodeling unused facilities in Nanji Hangang Park. Conceived as a means of supporting capable artists and researchers in Korea, the Residency organizes exhibitions such as the 'NANJI ART SHOW' and 'Art Critic Workshop', and runs other programs designed to enhance exhibitions and research capability. It also operates the International Artist Exchange Program to utilize international residency network and multiply exchanges, and hosts lectures in which art experts from Korea and other countries are invited to participate. By 2009, SeMA Nanji Residency had firmly established itself as a creative studio by providing creative spaces and working conditions to domestic young artists. Starting in 2010, it began to take the form of a program by subdividing its activities into ‘exhibition’, ‘research and academics’, and ‘exchange’, and supporting and operating them systematically. Since 2012, it has been developing into an international residential organization by operating various programs.

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