Born 1952 in Damyang Cholla-Namdo, Korea.
Childhood spent in the mountain village of Mu-worli in the province of Cholla/Damyang.
1969 Graduated from high school in the district town of Gwangju.
1972 Travelled to West Germany, where she spent four years working in a hospital.
1976-1981 Studied at the College of Fine Art in Hamburg (Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Hamburg).
1982 First solo Exhibition Hamburger Kunsthalle and Producersgallery Hamburg.
Was awarded a Hamburg stipend.
1983 Received a Support Award for Painting from the Federal German Federation of Industry.
1984-1985 Studied Korean Art History at the Chonnam University in Korea.
1991 Was awarded a work stipend for Painting from the Kunstfonds e.V. Bonn.
1992-1994 Work on the film, “My Heart is a Bottle” in Korea and Germany.
Preview: Metropolis Cinema Hamburg 1994.
1995 Received a special award from the Hessian Film Prize jury for the autobiographical
film document, “My Heart is a Bottle, The Smallest Story”.
1995-1997 Work on the film “Metamorphosis, The Dragon Splendoured Monster: Childhood”
in Korea and Germany.
Preview: Filmfestival Hamburg 97.
1996 Was awarded the Edwin Scharf Award for Painting of the Free and Hanseatic
City of Hamburg.
1997 Selections Winter´97, for the Drawing Center New York (55 Drawings).
1998 Member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg.
1999 Beginning the work on the film “Wozuhaus” (“Where is my house”) in Korea
and Germany.
Lecture on the CCAC Institute, 11-15, January, Institute California College of Arts
and Crafts, San Francisco.
2004 “Diaspora and Art in Today's World”, Tokyo Keizai University An
International Symposium.
Lives and works in Hamburg, Germany

Solo exhibitions
1982 “My heart is a bottle” Hamburger Kunsthalle and Producersgallery Hamburg, Germany.
1988 “The Firehouse” Art Museum Bern, Swiss.
1989 “Hyun-Sook Song” The Hall of Master drawings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
1990 “Diary” Bonner Kunstverein, Germany.
1991 “Drawings” Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1992 Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1995 “The Stake” Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany.
1995 Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1996 Edwin Scharff Prize Exhibition, “Herzhorn” Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany.
1996 Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
1997 Karl-Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen und Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany.
1997 “Works by Hyun-Sook Song in the Bern Art Museum´s Collection” Art Museum
Bern, Swiss.
1999 Kunstverein Friedrichshafen and Gallery Bernd Lutze Friedrichshafen
(International Bodensee-Festival, Germany/Swiss).
2002 “Drawings” Kulturforum Lüneburg, Germany.
2002 Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg, Germany.
2003 Gallery Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
2003 Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul.
2005 Gallery von Loeper, Hamburg.
2005 Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. Im Rahmen der “Asien-Pazifik-Wochen”,
Berlin, Germany.
2006 Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul.
2006 Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Germany.
2008 Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul.

Selected group exhibitions
1982 “Thorn in the eye” Hamburger Kunstwoche, Hamburg, Germany.
“Speculum” Kunstverein Bremen, Germany.
1983 “Ars Viva” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
“War and Peace” Kunstverein Bremen, Germany.
1984 “Art Scene of Germany” Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany.
“Tempo Circular” Foro de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico.
1986 “Eve and the Future” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany.
1990 “Art Bomb” Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany.
1991 “Collection Carl Vogel” Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.
“Art against the Gulf War” Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany.
1993 “Against Violence and Racism” Hambacher Schloß, Germany.
“Color Contrast” Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany.
1994 “Iron Age” Kampnagel-Kultur-Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany.
1997 “Selections Winter 97” Drawing Center, New York, USA.
97´Gwangju Biennale Special Exhibition “Nomadic Passages: Shamanism and
Korean Contemporary Art”, Gwangju, Korea.
“Gabriel Münter Preis” Frauen-Museum, Bonn, Germany.
1998 “Poetics of Time” Korean Contemporary Art, Samsung Museum of modern Art,
Seoul, Korea.
“Undercurrents and Overtones Contemporary Abstract Painting” California College
of Arts, San Francisco, USA.
“Attack / Injury” Itabashi Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1999 “Held & let go” California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA.
“A Window Inside / Outside” Gwangju City Art Museum, Korea.
“Women’s Art Festival 99” Arts Center Seoul, Korea.
2002 The 2nd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Asian Art Museum, Japan.
“Women’s Art Festival 02” Arts Center Seoul, Korea.
2003 “Leaning forward – looking back” Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA.
2004 “Gabriel Münter Preis” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
2005 “The Elegance of Silence” Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
2007 “Void in Korean Art” Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
International Incheon Women Artists’Biennale, Incheon, Korea.
2008 “Treasures Withhin” Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.
“Voyage Sentimental” Poznan Biennale 2008, Polish.
Literature
Hyun-Sook Song, My heart is a bottle, Hamburger Kunsthalle and Producersgallery Hamburg,
1982, Germany.
Hyun-Sook Song, The Firehouse, Art Museum Bern, 1988, Swiss.
Sarah Kirsch / Hyun-Sook Song, Tiger in the Rain, Ravensburg, 1990, Germany.
Hyun-Sook Song, The Stake, Kunstverein Göttingen, 1995, Germany.
Hyun-Sook Song, Painting, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 1996, Korea.
Tawada Yoko, Brush-tracks/Brush-scars, The Shincho, Tokyo, 1997, Japan.
Hyun-Sook Song, Painting, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum Hagen und Kunstverein Freiburg, 1997, Germany.
Works by Hyun-Sook Song in the Bern Art Museum's Collection, Art Museum Bern, 1997, Swiss.
Hyun-Sook Song, 75 Brushstrokes and Rat, Foundation Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, 1999, Germany.
Hyun-Sook Song, Drawings, Kulturforum Lüneburg, 2002, Germany.
Hyun-Sook Song, 7 Brushstrokes at 1 Brushstrokes, Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg,
2002, Germany.
Song Hyun-Sook, Painting, Hakgojae Gallery, 2003, Seoul, Korea.
Suh Kyungsik, Interview with Song Hyun-Sook, Zen-Ya 5, Tokyo, 2005, Japan.
Hyun-Sook Song, Breath and Brushstrokes, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, 2008, Korea.

Collections
Kunstmuseum Bern, Swiss.
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
Hamburger kunsthalle, Germany.
Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany.
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea.
Leeum-Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea.
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea.
Gwangju City Art Museum, Korea.
Gyeonggido Museum of Modern Art, Korea.
Sungshin Women's Uni. Museum, Seoul, Korea.
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Fukuoka Asien Art Museum, Japan.