AN, Minwook (1982 born in Osan, Korea) 국문 ↓
Minwook An understands art not as something separate from life, but as something that naturally permeates the times and places of everyday experience. Through his virtual company ars, he navigates between institutional frameworks to explore art, experimenting with uncertain possibilities within concrete environments. His practice begins with the textures of specific sites and moments, weaving in personal sensations and memories to reveal artistic moments already embedded in life.
Currently based in Osan, he runs arsPace, a café he has expanded into a site where artistic experimentation occurs as part of everyday life. Through exhibitions and projects, he enables visitors to encounter art through the atmosphere of the space and the passage of time. Working collaboratively with colleagues, he plans and puts into practice a variety of activities and projects, aiming to allow art to exist not as an exceptional event but as an attitude toward life itself.
Solo Shows
2024 An Anonymous Saint, Sixth solo exhibition, Gyocha Space 818 / Space Sam-re, Pyeongtaek
2022 Drip, For You, Fifth solo exhibition, Engjubsil, Incheon
2020 arsDo, Fourth solo exhibition, Amado art space/lab, Seoul
2015 Focus on Osan, Third solo exhibition, Culture Factory, Osan
2014 Plan B Stage, Second solo exhibition, Space Kamagui, Osan
2014 The Office of Useless Art, First solo exhibition, Kunstdoc Project Space Nanji, Seoul
Exhibitions
2024 Soulfood & Black Cocktail, Yeosu expo D exhibition hall, Yeosu
2023 GREEN LIGHT, Gyocha Space 818(Space Sam-re), Pyeongtaek
2023 Opening Ceremony: Space, Place, Relation, Gyocha Space 818, Pyeongtaek
2023 Wild Wild West, mM Artcenter, Pyeongtaek
2023 Lump, space55, Deajeon
2022 Potal, Estación Terrena, Bogotá
2022 Ten Years, Still Practising...,Camberwell space, London + arsPace, Osan
2022 From Now to Now, Jung-gu culture street, Ulsan
2021 The Fellowship of The Questions, Open school, Anyang
2021 OOMHz: Blurring Boundaries, Jung-gu culture street, Ulsan
2021 COVID-19 Seoul Public Art Project '100 Ideas', Seoul Urban Art, Online
2020 Festival GIHOEK, Culture Tank, Seoul
2020 Relationship-Good-Gap : Playfull Garden, Geumnarae arthall gellery, Seoul
2019 An Addiction by Kunimura Jun, work shop space of Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul
2019 Tenaciouly, Tenacious, d/p, Seouol
2018 Nanji Art Show VI Kryptos, SeMA Nanji Resjidency, Seoul
2018 Nanji Art Show IV Blood Paracitism, SeMA Nanji Resjidency, Seoul
2018 Where Are You Taking Us?, Art Space One, Seoul
2018 Nanji Art Show III Could Be Me Could Be you, Sophisticated Map, SeMA Nanji Resjidency, Seoul
2018 Single Room World, Gellery175, Seoul
2018 Nanji Art Show I Show! Room!, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul
2018 Bricolage: World with Coincidence, Suwon Art Centre, Suwon
2018 2018 Osan Mseum of Art Collection Exhibition, Osan Museum of Art, Osan
2017 Moving Shadow, Hongcheon Art Museum, Hongcheon
2017 Union Art Fair II, Insa1streat, Seoul
2017 The City of Homeless, Gimhae Arts & Center, Gimhae
2017 Participatory Turn, Community Space Litmus, Ansan
2016 Media City Seoul Neriri Kiruru Harara, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2016 Union Art Fair, Blue Square Nemo, Seoul
2016 Asia Kula Kula-ring, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju
2016 Minwook An’s Lab, Community Space Litmus, Ansan
2016 The City of Homeless, Arko Art Center, Seoul
2015 Nomadic Art Festa Silsin project Nam-Yang-Gwang-Ha, Geonggi Art Platform, Suwon
2015 ByulByul Art Project Greenery Way, Farm of Sungnam, Seongnam
2015 Temi Daejeon Research Project, Old Chungnam Governor’s Office, Daejeon
2015 Useless, Useful, Cultuure Factory Osan, Osan
2014 Do You Believe Art?, Maehyangdong 24-3, Suwon
2014 Menual_Parts and Labour, Culture Factory Osan, Osan
2009 Public Art Project Crease in the Alley, North Ahyungdong, Seoul
2008 Seeking for Maltese at North Ahuyn Dong; City is Art work, Seoul City Gallery Project, Chugye University for The Arts, Seoul
2008 Seong-In-Sik-Jang, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
Education & Residency
2018 1-12 SeMA Nanji Residency(12th), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2017 6-8 Pink Factory(3rd), Gangwon Art And Culture Foundation, Hongcheon
2013 UAL (Wimbledon College of Arts), MA in visual language of performance, London
2012 UAL (Chelsea College of Arts), MA in fine art, London
2009 Chugye University for The Arts, BFA in printmaking, Seoul
Teaching
2019 arko art school, arko art centre, Seoul
2019 Process And Space, Chugye University for The Arts, Seoul
2018 Process And Space, Chugye University for The Arts, Seoul
2015 Special Lecture, Suri High School, Gunpo
2015 Special Lecture, Chugye University for The Arts, Seoul
2015 Kumdarock Saterday Culture School, Culture Factory Osan, Osan
2014 Education of App Film, Sinchang Market, Seoul
2014 A Bout in The Mountain, Chugye University for The Arts, Seoul (Assistant Lecturer)
Participated Projects & Etc.
2022- Cafe arsPace, arsPace, Osan(Long-term project)
2020 COVID-19 Play Book, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Online
2020 Community art project in Osan, culture city Osan(initial project), Osan
2020 In Search of Nessie, Shinwook Kim's solo exibition, Amado art lap space, Seoul (Space design)
2020 Artist Dispatch support, Korean atists welfare foundation, Goyang
2019 Unlearning at the Museum, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 The Piercing Eyes, Ami Inoue's solo exibition, Amado art lap space, Seoul (Space design)
2019 Artist Dispatch support, Korean atists welfare foundation, Goyang
2019 A2A, Space Can, Seoul
2018 arko workshop art talk, arko art centre, Seoul
2018- Until The Day of Tooth Implant Music Sound Workshop, Seoul
2014-2015 Misulin Youngnongdan, Yangpyung
2014 Grizedale Arts reorganization of Anyang park project, APAP, Anyang (Production Assistant)
2010 Play Bang Bang, APAP(Staff)
Collection
2018 Osan Museum of Art, Osan