Jeehye Song
@ART COLOGNE
06.–09.11.2025, Booth B-316
Jeehye Song
(b. 1991, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jeehye Song’s practice in painting and drawing explores the fragile terrain of human emotion in an age that demands control, balance, and productivity. Her works emerge from feelings that contemporary life often rejects—fatigue, fear, tenderness, uncertainty—and create what she calls an “emotional gap”: a quiet space where emotions may linger without the need to be explained, resolved, or optimized.
During an artist residency in Finland, Song experienced what she describes as “the relief of being allowed to be nothing.” This moment of stillness became a counterpoint to the constant urban pressure to become “something.” In response, she began constructing her own versions of nature—paper trees, toy horses, inflatable swans from her bathtub—forming surreal, stage-like landscapes suspended between reality and fiction. These spaces, both artificial and intimate, serve as sites of recovery, where exhaustion can coexist with beauty and vulnerability becomes a source of quiet strength.
Song studied Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Andreas Schulze, receiving her diploma in 2021. Her recent solo exhibitions include built a clay house in my head and live in it (IAH Seoul, 2025), Head in the Sand (HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, 2024), Self Talking (Gallery Muuntotila, Tampere, 2024), Home Alone (Artistellar, London, 2023), and Hallo! (Artothek Köln, 2022).
In 2025, she was awarded the Kunstpreis Junger Westen—Germany’s oldest and most prestigious prize for emerging artists—selected from 690 applicants. She has also received the BALDREIT Stipendium (Baden-Baden, 2026) and the Friedrich-Vordemberge Stipendium (Cologne, 2022).
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Artistellar Gallery (London), IAH Seoul, NADA New York, Muuntotila Gallery (Tampere), and HAGD Contemporary (Aalborg), and is held in public collections such as the Park Seobo Foundation (KR) and Sparkasse Gera (DE).
Jeehye Song
@ART COLOGNE
06.–09.11.2025, Booth B-316
Jeehye Song
(b. 1991, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jeehye Song’s practice in painting and drawing explores the fragile terrain of human emotion in an age that demands control, balance, and productivity. Her works emerge from feelings that contemporary life often rejects—fatigue, fear, tenderness, uncertainty—and create what she calls an “emotional gap”: a quiet space where emotions may linger without the need to be explained, resolved, or optimized.
During an artist residency in Finland, Song experienced what she describes as “the relief of being allowed to be nothing.” This moment of stillness became a counterpoint to the constant urban pressure to become “something.” In response, she began constructing her own versions of nature—paper trees, toy horses, inflatable swans from her bathtub—forming surreal, stage-like landscapes suspended between reality and fiction. These spaces, both artificial and intimate, serve as sites of recovery, where exhaustion can coexist with beauty and vulnerability becomes a source of quiet strength.
Song studied Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Andreas Schulze, receiving her diploma in 2021. Her recent solo exhibitions include built a clay house in my head and live in it (IAH Seoul, 2025), Head in the Sand (HAGD Contemporary, Aalborg, 2024), Self Talking (Gallery Muuntotila, Tampere, 2024), Home Alone (Artistellar, London, 2023), and Hallo! (Artothek Köln, 2022).
In 2025, she was awarded the Kunstpreis Junger Westen—Germany’s oldest and most prestigious prize for emerging artists—selected from 690 applicants. She has also received the BALDREIT Stipendium (Baden-Baden, 2026) and the Friedrich-Vordemberge Stipendium (Cologne, 2022).
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Artistellar Gallery (London), IAH Seoul, NADA New York, Muuntotila Gallery (Tampere), and HAGD Contemporary (Aalborg), and is held in public collections such as the Park Seobo Foundation (KR) and Sparkasse Gera (DE).