Helena Parada Kim (1982-) studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, graduating as a Meister student of Peter Doig. She has had a number of solo exhibitions including ‘CACHÉ’(CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Cologne, 2021), ‘Wasser, Portraits, Schatten’(Neue Galerie Galdbeck, Gladbeck, 2019), and ‘Ausencias’(Centro Cultural Coreano, Madrid, Spain, 2018), and has participated in various group exhibitions including ‘MIND·FULL·NESS’ (Villa de Parnell, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2022), ‘FLOWER’(CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul, 2022), ‘Korean Eye 2020’(Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, 2020), and ‘Please return to Busan Port’(Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway, 2016). Parada Kim lives and works in Berlin.
헬레나 파라다 김(1982-)은 뒤셀도르프 쿤스트아카데미에서 미술을 전공하며 피터 도이그의 마이스터 쉴러로서 수석 졸업했다. 그는 'CACHE'(초이앤라거 갤러리, 쾰른, 2021), 'Water, Portraits, Shadows'(글라드백미술관, 글라드백, 2019), 'Ausencias'(한인문화센터, 마드리드, 2018) 등 다수의 개인전을 개최했으며, 'MIND·FULL·NESS'(빌라 드 파넬, 용인, 2022), 'FLOWER'(초이앤초이 갤러리, 서울, 2022), 'Korean Eye 2020'(롯데미술관, 서울, 2020), '돌아와요 부산항에’(베스트포센 미술관, 노르웨이, 2016) 등 다양한 단체전에 참여하였다. 파라다 김은 현재 베를린에서 거주하며 작업 활동 중이다.
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2002 – 2009 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2005 – 2009 Student of Prof. Peter Doig
2009 Masterstudent of Prof. Peter Doig
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
- Zwischenräume, Museum for East Asian Art, Cologne
2022
- Helena Parada Kim, Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milano
2021
- ‘CACHÉ’, Choi & Lager Gallery, Cologne
- ‘AQUILEGIA’, Villa Angeli Pegognaga, Italy
2019
- ‘Wasser, Portraits, Schatten’ Neue Galerie Galdbeck, Gladbeck
2018
- ‘Ausencias’, Centro Cultural Coreano, Madrid, Spain
2018
- HELENA PARADA KIM & ANDREAS BLANK, CHOI&LAGER Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016
- Helena Parada-Kim with Gorka Mohamed, Choi&Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2015
- ‘In Mother ́s Hanbok’, Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt a.M.,Germany
2010
- ‘Helena Parada’, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
- ‘Die Gesandten’, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 2010)
2023
- HUMAN, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, 2023
- From Berlin to Seoul: Crossing Horizons, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, HORI Artspace, AIF Lounge, Seoul and
- Bermel von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin
2022
- FLOWER, CHOI&CHOI Gallery, Seoul
- Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Museum, Norway
2020
- Korean Eye 2020, Seoul, Korea
2018
- NON SENSE MUSIC # 2 - BORDERS, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2017
- The king of table, entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin
- The room of desires, raumwerk, Munich, Germany Weinosten, Hilbert Raum, Berlin
- 2016
- ‘Please return to Busan Port’, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway (collaboration
- curated by Choi&Lager Gallery)
- Participation at Art Busan with Choi& Lager Gallery, Busan, Korea
- Participation at ‘Cofa(Cologne Fine Art)’ Art Fair with Choi& Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- Works in the Penz Collection, Sammlung Penz, Berlin, Germany
- ‘Bab-Sang Story’, Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015
- ASIA NOW PARIS Asian Contemporary Platform, with Choi&Lager Gallery, Paris, France
- ‘Neujahrspunsch’, Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Participation at Art Karlsruhe with
- Galerie Tristan Lorenz, Karlsruhe, Germany
2014
- ‘Hängengeblieben’, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany Private and public
- Portrait-commissions
2012
- ‘NO.1’ Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at Sky Office, curated by Julia Ritterskamp, Düsseldorf, Germany
2010
- Participation at Art Cologne with Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Cologne, Germany
- ‘Self-Consciousness’ curated by Peter Doig and Hilton Als, Veneklasen and Werner, Berlin, Germany
- ‘Berlin Summer Interval’, Bugdahn and Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany ‘SHARED.DIVIDED.UNITED’,
- Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
2009
- SHARED.DIVIDED.UNITED Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
- ‘Selected...continued’, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany ‘Werke’, Staedtische Galerie
- Kaarst (group show), Germany
2008
- Klasse Peter Doig in der Zeche Zollverein-Mischanlage, Essen, Germany ‘Woher kommen? Was sind
- wir? Wohin gehen wir?’, Galerie Arteversum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2007
- Junge Düsseldorfer Maler, Kunsthalle Koblenz, Koblenz, Germany
2005
- ‘Eine Woche junge Kunst’ im Mediapark 5, Cologne, Germany
- Maxims Art Award, Cologne, Germany
2004
- 1. Art Award of Kö-Galerie, Dusseldorf Lovells Art Award, Dusseldorf, Gemany
2002
- ‘Passion’- vierzehn Kreuzwegstationen“ , Basilika St. Aposteln, Cologne, Germany
COLLECTIONS
Rathaus Düsseldorf
IHK Düsseldorf
Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Rockefeller Foundation
Bankhaus von Metzler
Candida Höfer Stiftung