Chan Sook Choi

Chan Sook Choi received her Diploma in Visual Communications and Media Art as well as her Master’s at University der Künste in Berlin. Choi has 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 a 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.

Choi primarily tracks human movement, especially what is left behind when humans relocate. In her practice, she tells these stories of motion through the spaces she creates, evoking new localities. She attempts to conjure up memories of an intermediate space that can be experienced firsthand; not read about or seen, but dwelled in. These areas are designed as points of immediacy, where visitors can come to observe themselves in. Utilising a variety of mediums and metaphors, her artworks perpetually transform, offering continuously evolving points of interaction for the audience.