Published by L'Officiel St Barth
Jan 06, 2026
Edition N°11 - Spring 2026 (Page 56-57)
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The artist, Minjung Kim
Space Gallery St Barth presents Minjung Kim’s first major survey with the gallery, spanning two decades of her practice. Across traditional ink painting and refined abstraction, Kim transforms hanji (Korean mulberry paper) through layering, burning, and repetition, creating works that meditate on time, presence, and impermanence.
The title, A Survey of Works, is not merely archival; it speaks to the artist’s continuous act of revisiting and rediscovering her own visual language. Each work embodies a moment of balance — between what is made and what is left unsaid. The repetition of marks becomes both meditation and ritual, a choreography of the hand guided by breath and awareness — each work a meditation on the passage of time. Key series like Phasing, Mountain, and The Street reveal her visual rhythm; the work balances precision and spontaneity, creation and destruction, presence and absence. Each piece resonates with quiet intensity, inviting viewers to slow down, reflect, and inhabit the subtle cycles of emergence and dissolution.
Rooted in Korean aesthetic philosophy and in dialogue with the history of abstraction in art, Kim’s works sustain the tensions between control and surrender, fragility and mastery. In St Barth, her meditative practice meets a luminous, natural setting that mirrors the rhythms and sensibilities of her art.
Minjung Kim Order and Impulse, 2025, Mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper, 19.69 x 19.69 in (50 x 50 cm)
Space Gallery St Barth presents
‘A Survey of Works’ | Minjung Kim
Gustavia, Saint Barthelemy
January 05 – January 31 2026
Vernissage: Friday, January 9th, 6-8 PM with the artist
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