EDUCATION

1986-1991    Academy of Arts Duesseldorf, Masterstudent of Prof. A.R. Penck, Germany
1984-1986    Gesamthochschule (School of Free Arts), Kassel,Germany


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008    Kunstsammlung im Stadtmuseum Jena, Germany
            „Auguste Rodin Rendezvous Yong-Chang Chung“ Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Muenster, Germany
            Galerie Christine Park, Paris , France
2007    „SSAL “ arteversum, Duesseldorf,Germany
2005    Gallery BmB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
            „yesterday is today “Bunker church, Duesseldorf, Germany
2003    Gallery BmB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2002    „war “ Stadtmuseum Duesseldorf,Germany
            „war and peace“ Bunker church, for the EUROGA-Project, Duesseldorf, Germany
2001    Gallery BmB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999    Gallery BmB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
            „why “ Gallery Beethovenstraße, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997    Gallery BmB, Amsterdam, Netherlands
            Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
            Galerie Song Won, Gwangju, Korea
1995    ART COLONGE, Gallery Ulla Sommers, Germany
            Gallery Noack, Moenchengladbach, Germany
1994    „VITA“ Stadtmuseum Duesseldorf, Germany
1993    Gallery Ulla Sommers, Duesseldorf, Germany
1992    Gallery Mueller Burnert, Cologne, Germany
1991    Gallery Krakeslaett AB, Broemoella, Sweden
            Gallery Ulla Sommers, Duesseldorf, Germany
            Galerie Elsbeth Schmitz, Drensteinfurt, Germany
1990    Goethe Institut, Duesseldorf,Germany
            Katholische Hochschulgemeinde, Duesseldorf,Germany
1989    Willicher Kunstverein, Willich, Germany

Black Ric
Black rice in the work of Yong-Chang Chung is much more than an artifice. With his unusual paint-material he makes references to the past and present, thus commencing a dialogue between the yesterday with his childhood memories and his passionately observed social and political events of today. Like burned rice in times of war and fertile burned soil can spawn new life, his work symbolizes hope and reconciliation for the future. With his strong and expressive black rice boards he virtually freezes the stigmata of century-crimes into images of silence and emptiness. Chungs work is equally influenced by Asian philosophy and Western experience.

By Klaus Sebastian

SSAL
Yong-Chang Chung has long painted gloomy scenes of the destruction and fear caused by war in a very dark and sublime tone. For him the Pacific War is not just a part of history but an ongoing reality together with the indelible trauma of the Gwangju Democratic Uprising. The ominous effect of his monotone flat paintings made of burnt rice are powerful means for delivering the message about the destructive result of war and the tragedy that such violence brings.

Tae Man Choi

GALERIE CHRISTINE PARK