Chan Sook Choi

Chan Sook Choi received her Diplom degree in Visual Communications and Media Art as well as her Master’s at University der Künste in Berlin. Choi won the grand prize at the international media art competition hosted by Bibliart and Pergamon Museums in 2008 and was selected for the Elsa Neumann scholarship, a young artist support program sponsored by the City of Berlin. 2017 She graduated as Visual Artist from the Otto llse-Augustin Foundation at the City Museum in Berlin.

In Korea, Choi presents her work in private collections as a selected artist of the NArT, a young artist support program sponsored by the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture in 2010. Since then, Choi was also selected Tomorrow's Artist by Sungok Art Museum in 2012, the Young Artist Prize at Gallery Loop in 2015, and Young Artist Support Program at Seoul Museum of Art in 2017. Choi has also been conducting her narratology experimentations on psychological migration and the human memory as a medium through a multi and interdisciplinary methodological approach, in performances at the National Theater of Korea, Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art Sacheon, REAL DMZ PROJECT Kunsthal Aarhus, Humbolt Forum Berlin, Grimmuseum Berlin, Art Sonjae Center Seoul and Gangwon international Biennale 2018, etc. Since 2014 she is represented by NONBerlin, an Asian contemporary art platform in Berlin.

She primarily tracks human movement, what is left behind when people move away. In her work, she tells these stories of movement through spaces she creates, and about a new kind of locality. She tries to visualize memories about a new locality that can be experienced directly, not just by reading or seeing, but by dwelling in it. She creates spaces that can be experienced and where visitors can observe themselves. She uses a lot of metaphorical material and medium, which can be read in many ways.