Bien-U Bae

1981 – Present      
Professor of Photography, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, South Korea

1988 – 1989                           
Research Faculty, Photography & Design Department, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

1978                                      
MFA, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

1974                                      
BFA, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2021
- Moving Forest, Matmut for the arts, Pierre de Varengeville, France.
- Works 1995-2015, Slag Gallery, New York, United States.

2020
- Orum, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2019
- Orum, Chaumont-sur-Loire Domain, France.

2018
-Cycle, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.

2016
- L’esprit du lieu, Museum of the Sea, Cannes, France.
- PART :MEET, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China.

2015
- Museum of modern and contemporary art, Métropole, Saint Etienne, France.
- Between Island and Forest, Gwangju Museum of Art, South Korea.
- Bae Bien-U, Chambord National Domain, France.

2014                      
- Bae Bien-U: Pins de Gyeon Gju, Chaumont sur Loire Domain, France.
- Conterbalance, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Residence within the framework of Korea in France, Chambord Castle, France.

2013      
- Chaumont sur Loire, France.
- Windscape, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea.

2012                       
- Windscape, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Sailing the seas, GS Yeulmaru, Yeosu, South Korea.
- Windscape, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany.
- Windscape, Christophe Guye Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland.

2011                       
- Bae, Bien-U, Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea.
- Convexconcave, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
- Bae Bien-U, Villefavard en Limousin Farm, France.

2010                      
- Where God and Man Collide, The House for Mozart for Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria.
- Bae, Bien-U, Il Woo Space, Seoul, South Korea.

2009                      
- Soul Garden, National Museum of Contemporary Art in Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea.
- Soul Garden, Museo de Bellas Artes de Granada in Palacio de Carlos V. La Alhambra, Granada, Spain.
- Sacred Wood: Bae Bien-U, Aando Fine Art, Berlin; Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Sacred Wood :  Bae, Bien-U, Aando Fine Art, Berlin, Germany.

2008     
- Bae Bien U, Phillips de Pury & Company, London, United Kingdom.
- Timeless Photography, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium.
- Bae, Bien-U: Sonamu, Gana Art Center, New York, USA.

2007
- K Collection ‘Bae, Bien-U’, Lee C Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
 - Sea & Island, Gana Art Center, Pusan, South Korea.

2006                      
- Bae, Bien-U, 9th Photo España, Thyssen Museum, Madrid, Spain.

2005                     
- Bae, Bien-U, Pollar Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- Beauty of Korea, Insa Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.

2003                      
- Tahiti Festival de la Photographie, Tahiti.

2002                      
- Bae Bien-U, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- Pine, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France.

2001                      
- Bae, Bien-U, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, USA.

2000
- Tree - Bae, Bien-U, Bhak Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
- Bae, Bien-U, Sigong Gallery, Daegu, South Korea.

1998                      
- Photographies de Kyungju, Jean-Luc & Takako Richard Gallery, Paris, France.

1993                      
- Meeting and Departure, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.

1989                      
- Landscapes, Hochschule Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany.

1988                      
- Korean Landscapes, Raiffeisen Bank Gallery, Bamberg, Germany.

1985                      
- Marado, Hanmadang Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

1982                      
- Seascapes, Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul,  South Korea.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2022
- L'Asie, maintenant, Musée National des arts asiatiques - Guimet, Paris, France
- Carte Blanche, Park Hyatt, Paris, France

2021
- Photographies Contemporaines, Galerie Richard, Paris, France.
- Traversée, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2020
- Un monde infini : Artistes chamanes, autour d’une collection de l’Himalaya, Fernet-Branca, Saint Louis, France.

2019
- Œuvres Choisies, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, United States.
- Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Grand Palais, Paris, France.

2018
- Oeuvres Choisies. Lee Bae, Bae Bien-U, Elger Esser, Hermann Nitsch, Galerie RX, Paris, France.
- Fotografías Circa XX Pilar Citoler. Naturalezas Y Arquitecturas, Museo Barjola, Gijón, Spain.
- Arts & Nature Social Club, Circle Culture, Berlin, Germany.
- Time Frames: Contemporary East Asian Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA.
-  EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, USA.

2017
- Photo London Public Commission Project, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom.
- PARIS PHOTO 2017, Galerie RX, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
- Into the Woods: Trees in Photography, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.
- EXPO Chicago, Galerie RX, Chicago, USA.

2016      
- ART 16, London's Global Art Fair, RX Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- ArtParis, Art Paris Art Fair 2016, RX Gallery, Paris, France.
- Public to Private: Korean Contemporary Photography since 1989, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- Venice Biennial, Palazzo Fortuny, Italy, curator : Axel Vervoordt
- Winter, Galerie RX, Paris
- Paris Photo, Galerie RX, Paris

2015
- A Homage to Korean Architecture – Wisdom of the Earth, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- Biennial: Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy

2014                      
- Lost in Landscape, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
- Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2013                      
- L’Arbre qui ne meurt pas, Théâtre des Sablon, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
- Landscape, MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy.

2012                      
- The Aged Future, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, South Korea.
- Pleasure, Galerie RX, Paris, France.

2011                       
- TRA: Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy.
- 38°N Snow South: Korean Contemporary Art, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden.

2010                      
- The Wind in the Pines: 5000 years of Korean Art, Hermitage Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Eternal Blinking, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii, USA.
- Free Style:  A dialogue between Art and Design, Hongik University Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.

2009                      
- Infinitum, Palazzo Fortuny, the 53rd Biennial di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
- Art in Busan, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea.
- International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea.
- Korean Contemporary Photographers : 2009 Odyssey, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea.

2008                      
- Bozar Festival : Made in Korea, Bozar Center for Fine Arts, Brussel, Belgium.

2007                      
- Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- MoA Picks: Reminiscing the Medium- a ‘Post’ Syndrome, Seoul National Museum of Art, South Korea.
- University, Seoul, South Korea.

2006                      
- Simply Beautiful, Centre PasquArt, Biel, Switzerland.
- Simply Beautiful, Le Grand Jardin, Joinville, France.
- The Modern Photography, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea.
- The 6th Photo Festival, BAE Bien-U & Elger Esser, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.

2005     
- BAE Bien-U & KIM Atta, Gana-Beaubourg Gallery, Paris, France.

2004     
- Real Reality, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
- BAE Bien-U, Bohnchang Koo and Byung Hun Min, White Wall Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

2003     
- Time of Nature Time of Human, Daejon Municipal Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea.
- People Walking on the Water: Cheonggyecheon Project, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
- REAL- SCAPE Revisited, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea.

2002     
- Now, What is Photo, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- 15 Photographes Coréens, Photo Gallery, Montpellier, France.
- Photography Festival, Tahiti, France.

2001     
- Central Connecticut State Univeristy, Connecticut, USA.
- Internationale Fototage Herten, Herten, Germany.

2000     
- Fotofest- Contemporary Photographers from Korea, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, USA.
- Slowness of Speed, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea.
- Odense Foto Triennale, Odense, Danemark.

1999     
- Figure and Landscape in Korea, Hanlim Museum, Daejeon, South Korea.
- Commemorative Photograph Exhibition, The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Art, South Korea.
- Museum, Seoul, South Korea.
- Contemporary Asian Art Work from The Lewitt Collection, Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Massachusetts, USA.

1998                      
- Alienation and Assimilation, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA.
- Contemporary Art from Korea, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
- Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

1997                      
- Fast Forward, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
- Inside Out, ICA, Philadelphia, USA.
- Sonahmuyeo, Sonahmuyeo Museum Hwanki, Seoul, South Korea.

1996                      
- An Aspect of Korean Art in 1990's, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan.
- Photography- New Vision, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea.

1995                      
- Territory of Mind, Mito Art Tower, Ibaraki, Japan.
- Photography Today, Art Sonje Museum, Kyungju, South Korea.

1994     
- Visions from the Land of Morning Calm, PIMA Community College Art Gallery, Arizona, USA.
- Contemporary Photography of Korea, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.

1993     
- Contemporary Photography in Seoul, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, South Korea.

1992                      
- Horizon of Korean Photography, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.

1991     
- Horizon of Korean Photography, Total Museum of Art, Jang Heung, South Korea.

1989     
- The 150th Anniversary of Photography Show, Bamberg Neue Residenz, Bamberg, Germany.

PUBLICATIONS

2018
- And pines embroidered the sky, Arnaud Bizalion Editor, France.

2015
- Bae Bien-U, D’une forêt l’autre, Somogy Art Editions, France.
- Photographs by Bae Bien-U, Changdeokung, Korean Architecture, South Korea.

2014                      
- Elements between the sea and the sky of Jeju, P.I.E. Books, Japan.

2011                       
- Windscape, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany.
- Baram, Hangilart, South Korea.

2010                      
- Painting with Light, Culturebooks, South Korea.

2009                      
-Changdeokgung, Seoul, Culturebooks, South Korea.
-Alhambra, Jardín del Alma – Soul Garden, Patronage of Alhambra and Generalife, Spain.

2008                     
- Sacred Wood, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany.

2005                     
- The Beauty of Korea, Youlhwadang Publishers, South Korea.
- Bae Bien-U, Hong Design, South Korea.

1999                      
- Horizon, Hong Design, South Korea.

1998                      
- Chongmyo Royal Ancestral Shrine of the Chosun Dynasty, Samsung Foundation of Culture, South Korea.

1995                      
- Art Vivant-Bae Bien-U’s Works, Sigongsa, South Korea.

1993                      
- Sonamu, Ahn Graphics and Books, South Korea.

1985                      
- Marado, Ahn Graphics and Books, South Korea.

1982                     
- Works - Bae Bien-U, Madang Publishing Company, South Korea.