Hyunmo Koo

Koo Hyunmo(b.1974) blurs the boundaries of two seemingly dichotomous notions such as reality and fiction, principle and phenomenon through his distinct poetic lyricism and spatial approach to ordinary materials that include paper, branches, and stones. Koo’s installation works are open to interpretation according to the viewer’s standpoint and the object’s location. His works infiltrate the gap between time and space and revert our previous understanding of them. Koo has been workings in different cities including Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden. In 2009, Koo received the Art Award from MPI-CBG, the birthplace of Nobel laureates as well as an institution devoted to encouraging interdisciplinary research in the fields of basic science, humanities, and arts. Koo’s works are included in the collection of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden, Germany).