Michael Schultz Gallery Berlin. Johanna Flammer-Heryun Kim

Johanna Flammer
Honiggelb

Honey Yellow is the title of Johanna Flammer's third solo exhibition in our gallery. Accompany the artist into her manifold microcosms and vernal color worlds. With her versatile technique she understands to create phantasmagoric compositions. Her collages are composed of a mixture of graphic quality, the use of acrylic and oil paintings, and photographs of hair knots set to hairstyles. The main motive of her works are floral-like structures that seem to almost be spreading their fragrance. As a connecting element of their subjects, the plant-like figures seem to unfold through knots - like a bud - and grow into new forms. Each individual part blends into a larger whole.

Proximity to nature and biology has an origin from childhood with Johanna Flammer. Last but not least that she does not completely conceive her compositions in advance has her artworks retain a certain naturalness and thus they always have an enchanting character.

Born in 1978 in Wesel, the artist lives and works in Düsseldorf today. She completed her studies at the local academy of arts, ia. with Martin Gostner, in 2010.

Heryun Kim
The Lonesome Forest

Heryun Kim, born in Korea in 1964, in her first solo exhibition introduces us to a 'Lonesome Forest' - the title for the entire series of paintings in the exhibition.

She lets us share in her "feeling" of the lonely forest, of its emotional essence.

The fascination of this abstract painting series is the global applicability of the basic idea; there is no specific, wooded place named, neither here in Europe nor in her home country, and so we learn more about how parts of the sunlight flood through dense leaves, how oppressive dark foliage can seem. But we also learn of the silence amongst trees.

Heryun Kim's works are inspired by the spirituality of classical Korean art, yet they are influenced by German neo-expressionism. Not least the idiosyncratic and experimental, always new way of dealing with oil paints leads the artist to delicate, contemplative, observing painting. Since Heryun Kim has the courage to reinvent herself with each extensive series of images (to remain true to her abstraction), she constantly re-evaluates utensils and tools, reduces, simplifies and individually adapts them to the painting in each individual creative process.

After studying German language and literature and a master in painting and art history from Seoul National University, Kim Heryun came to Germany in 1993. Here she completed her studies as a master student of Professor Klaus Fußmann at the Berlin University of the Arts and also earned her doctorate in art science with Professor Robert Suckale at the Technical University of Berlin. Today, the artist lives and works both in Korea and Germany.