Arang Choi (1992 born in Seoul, Korea) finds her inspiration for her forms, colors and surfaces mostly in documentaries about nature, landscape and animals paired with her own observations, which the artist then processes directly into drawings or photographs, thus creating her own fantastic visual world.
At Arang Choi’s side is the creature she has named Èmulb, a hybrid form somewhere between animal, human and fantasy, botanical creation, landscape and architectural space, which is constantly evolving and serves the artist as a mediator to make her imagination visible.
Arang Choi
1992 born in South Korea, lives and works in Vienna (AT)
Education
2020 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (GER), Prof. Andreas Schulze 2023 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT), Prof. Kirsi Mikkola, Daniel Richter Francis Ruyter and Alastair MacKinven
Exhibitions (Selection)
2024 Parallel Panorama, Sotheby’s Artist Quarterly, Vienna (AT)
2023 „24/kunstakt“ Kunstprojekt, FWP and Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT)
kinda human, yet not quite (group), Bloom gallery, Saint-Tropez (FR) Three Moons, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Salzburg (AT)
Woman, Life, Freedom (Charity), Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
SUR REALITÉ. (group), curated by Paula Marschalek, Vienna (AT)
2022 Delphian Gallery Open Call, Unit 1 Gallery, London (ENG)
All Media, Punktbrot Space, Berlin (GER)
COMMON ROOM, Hilger NEXT, Vienna (AT)
Josefstädter Strasse Studio, Vienna (AT)
THE BLUE, THE PINK, THE IMMATERIAL, THE VOID, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (ENG)
Parallel Vienna Editions, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
2021 Painters on the run, Hollerei Gallery, Vienna (AT)
Parallel Vienna Klasse Daniel Richter, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna (AT) Parallel Vienna Editions, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
Koschatzky Art Award 21, Palais Schönborn-Batthyany, Vienna (AT)
2020 Verhandlungsbasis, Palmer im Galerienhaus 3.0, Stuttgart (GER) 2018 Förderpreis des Bodenseekreises, Rotes Haus, Meersburg (GER) Peace project Moya, Semperdepot, Vienna (AT)
Peace project Moya, Kalocsa Gallery (HU)
Ciao Ragazzi, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
2017 Klasse Figurative Malerei, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT)
Elektrohalle Rhomberg, founded in 2020, is a contemporary art gallery based in Salzburg, Austria, located in a former warehouse for electronic goods. The gallery’s program focuses on the medium of painting and its expansion by emerging and established national and international artists of a younger generation.