Art salon de H
Jeung Hyun
<목판 변주곡. woodblock variations>
Novembre 4th - December 29th, 2025
Opening: November 5, 2025 (Wed) at 5:00 PM
Artist in Residence: November 4–8, 2025
Art Lecture: “Art History at Noon / Understanding Modern and Contemporary Korean Art”
November 12 (Wed) at 2:00 PM | Speaker: Hee-Kyung Song, Director of Gyeomjae Jeongseon Museum of Art
Book Talk: “Tea in Everyday Life / The Humanities in a Cup of Tea”
November 8 (Fri) at 2:00 PM | Speaker: So-Yeon Kim
Venue: Art Salon de H
(B1, Shinyoung Securities Building, 16 Gukjegeumyung-ro 8-gil, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul)
Art Salon de H presents Woodblock Variations, a solo exhibition by artist Hyun Jeung, who has expanded the realm of woodblock printmaking between tradition and contemporary art.
The "Fleurs de vent " exhibition by Jeung Hyun, will be held from November 9th to December 9 at the Art Salon de H gallery in Yeouido. The artist who has been active in France for more than 30 years, explore a modern interpretation of woodblock prints, The title of "Flower of the Wind (Fleurs de vent)" was taken from the title of Jeong Hyun's solo exhibition held at the Print Art Museum in Grablin, France from March to August this year. Inspired by the changing seasons and the reblooming of flowers, she delicately expressed the beauty of nature in her sculpture language. In Europe, where Japanese and Chinese printmaking has been the mainstream of Asian printmaking, Jeung Hyun has been drawing attention by freely interpreting Hangul, and by looking at the nature through pure printmaking, showing various forms of printmaking and expression.
정현 Jeung Hyun
After growing up in Korea, she moved to France and passed her doctoral thesis about the study of the margins of prints " Le corps du Vide dans la grave " in 2001 at the Arts plastique of the University of Paris 1. She studied with Jean-Pierre Pincemin at Beaux-Arts in Paris and explored Chinese woodblock prints in Beijing. Her work on engraving is not seen as a reprint, but as a one-on-one production of uniqueness and overlapping colors to secure the depth of space. She applies the singularity of the painting to the engraving, which evokes poetic sensibility to the viewer.
«내 작업의 핵심 중 하나는 열린 시간과 공간입니다. 나는 예술에 생명을 불어넣는 힘을 예술가가 물러날 때만 표현될 수 있는 힘, 즉 비움의 시간과 공간에 양보하려고 노력합니다.
나는 자연의 소실과 생성을 바라보면서 그 유한성의 아름다움을 탐구하는 여정 속에 있습니다 » - 작가노트 중-
The artist Jeung Hyun is invited by the leading local art museums in Toulon, Grablin, and others this year to open an exclusive exhibition. This year, the solo exhibition will continue until next year at the Grablin City Print Museum, Fondation Taylor, Musée Champollion, and the 5th Ward City Hall. She has also been featured on French national television, and has been exhibited in France, England, the United States and Tunisia, and her work is now in the National Library of France, the Ministry of Culture of Tunisia, the Toulon Asian Art Museum, the Grablin City Print Museum and the Cernucci Museum of Oriental. I would like to ask for your attention at the first solo exhibition held in Korea since 2000 by Jung Hyun, who is raising the pride of Koreans, who created the world's first woodblock prints, beyond France, on the European stage. Now is the time for Jeung Hyun, who is fascinated by the French art scene, to really take place in Seoul.
