Born in 1983 in Seoul, KR

Lives and works in Düsseldorf, DE

Education

2018                Meisterschülerin of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

2012-2018        Fine Arts Study at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

2014- 2016       Fine Arts Study at Städelschule Frankfurt, DE

2009                Bachelor of fine art, Hongik University, Painting, Seoul, KR

Selected solo and duo exhibitions

2023    Vapor, with a text by Jeppe Ugelvig, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT

2021    Sangchul Lee and Jieun Lim, cu-cu-rru-cu-cu’, Bloom, Düsseldorf, DE

            Scallops #2 Premiere, a collaboration between Ermes Ermes & LC Queisser, Tblisi, GA

2020    Solo presentation, ERMES ERMES, Liste Showtime, online edition

2019    Sarah Buckner - Jieun Lim, presented by Ermes Ermes at Artissima, Turin, IT

            RGB: Return to the gate following B, Ermes Ermes, Vienna, AT

2018    Yellow Time/Dilemma Zone, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

Selected group exhibitions

2024    Flame, grasp me silently, Flat$, Brussels, BE

            Nick Bastis - Dana DeGiulio - Jieun Lim, presented by Ermes Ermes, Palai Penang, Malaysia

2023    House of DGF, organized by Serpentine Gallery and Cork Street Galleries, London, UK

            Stay Hungry, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT

2022    Decolonizing The Unconscious, Lore Deutz, Cologne, DE

            Panorama, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Monopoli, IT

            Internationale Bergische Kunstausstellung, Kunstmseum Solingen, Solingen, DE

            Feminist Art Price 2022, IKOB Museum, Eupen, BE

2021    Illuminating, curated by Eva Fabbris and Giovanna Manzotti, Lugano, CH

2019    Polke und die Folgen - Neuerwerbungen, Akademie-Galerie, Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf, DE

            Planet 58, K21 Kunstsammlung Museum Düsseldorf, DE

2018    Appearing unannounced, curated by Sathit Sattarasart at Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Studio, Chiangmai, TH

            The crust repeatedly rises and falls, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, KR

            Coop, curated by Muriel Meyer, Bangkok Biennial, Bangkok, TH

2017    Café-Cum-Butcher, organized by Jieun Lim, Atelier Johannstrasse, Düsseldorf, DE

            3355, Offraum 8, Düsseldorf, DE

            3355, Galerie 21, Künstlerhaus Vorwerkstift, Hamburg, DE

2016    In Sweet Succession: Material matters, curated by Muriel Meyer, Marina Ruediger, Basis e. V.Projektraum, Frankfurt am Main, DE

            augenfällig/fresh positions, BBK Kunstforum Düsseldorf, DE

2015    Insel der Schwingungen, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, DE

2014    Open Studio, Fiskars Artist in Residence, Fiskars, FI

2013    Here is always somewhere else, Castle Oud-Rekem, BE

            Klasse Rosemarie Trockel shows, Philara collection, Reisholz Walzwerkstatt Düsseldorf, DE

2012    Project Kino, Parallel Events of Manifesta9, Genk, BE

2008    SCOPE_Telescope, Endoscope, Kaleidoscope, Hyundae Museum, Hongik University, Seoul, KR

Prizes and grants

2023    Art Council Korea, Grant for young artist, KR

2022    Second Prize, Feminist Art Prize, IKOB Museum, Eupen, BE

            Neustart Kultur Stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE

2021    Korean Art Management Service, KR

2020    Neustart Kultur Stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, DE

2019    Graduate student prize, Peter-Michael Engel-Stiftung, K21

            Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf, DE

2018-2019Graduate student scholarship, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

2017    Project support by Department for Culture and Art Düsseldorf, DE

Born 1953 in Pernis, NL

Lives and works in Brussels

Willem Oorebeek studied at the Academy of Art in Rotterdam, was a lecturer at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, at De Ateliers in Amsterdam and the Hochschule der Künste in Hamburg.

His works have been shown in many monographic and group exhibitions: at WIELS, Brussels (2025); Lumiar Cité, Lisbon (2022); Sculpture Garden, Geneva (2022); Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna (2022); WIELS, Brussels (2017); Yale Union, Portland (2015); Marres, Maastricht (2013); De Vleeshal, Middelburg (2013); Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2005); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2006); Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2001, 1998, 1996, 1988) and many other places. In 1986 he was awarded the Prix de Rome and in 2009, the Oeuvreprijs (Amsterdam). In 1997, he represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale (with Aernout Mik). In 2014, he created a permanent monumental work in the public space in Rotterdam as part of Sculpture International Rotterdam.

As the co-funder and main tutor of the artist residency program of WIELS from 2008 to 2020, Oorebeek has mentored a large number of young artists, especially within the Brussels art scene. He is the co-founder of the independent exhibition space A.VE.NU.DE.JET.TE – Institut de Carton in Brussels, which since 2011 has exhibited numerous artists such as Jochen Lempert, Suchan Kinoshita, Sara Deraedt, Sylvie Eyberg. Oorebeek has also taught at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Hochschule der Künste in Hamburg, and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris.

The work of Oorebeek belongs to several museum collections, such as the Stedelijk Museum and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), the Generali Foundation (Salzburg), and the Frac Île-de-France and Frac des Pays de La Loire. In Belgium, the S.M.A.K, M Leuven, and KANAL-Centre Pompidou have acquired his work.