Minju Kang’s work navigates the delicate boundary between reality and unreality, often using ambiguous or paradoxical arrangements to blur the lines. Kang’s art is a visual manifestation of her inner world, capturing fleeting emotions and memories that reside beyond conscious awareness.
The painting’s backdrop, ‘Children’s Grand Park’, is easy to recognize yet there is something uncanny about the familiar scene. The park is a bubble-gum dreamscape—a sanctuary the artist used to frequent on quiet weekdays. This setting reinforces the inherently personal nature of her compositions and aid in her exploration of the fickle, half-accurate, half-nonsensical nature of memory itself.

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Minju Kang studied Painting at Sejong University in Seoul, Korea in 2015 and further pursued the discipline at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a Meister student of Prof. Thomas Scheibitz. Her solo exhibitions include ‘Welcome to my island’(CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, 2024), ‘Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere’(Jean-Claude Maier, Frankfurt, 2024), ‘Stare into space’ (Graduation show, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2023) ,‘Dream core’, (Jean-Claude Maier, Frankfurt, 2022. Minju Kang has received the Baker Tilly Kunstler-Stipendium at KIT in Düsseldorf in 2022. Minju Kang Lives and works in Seoul, South Korea.