Young ja zimmerman

Born in South Korea and living in Berlin and Munich since 1970, she has mainly dealt with the confrontation of different cultures in conceptual terms looking for the general aspects within her particular everyday life. 

After her studies of psychology in Berlin with an emphasis on the intercultural theory of family structure and a long-term collaboration in the field of crisis intervention, her interest was raised in arts therapy, a field, within which she worked in a clinic for addict adolescents in Munich for a long time. This led her ultimately towards painting then. 

Work Her view onto the mediation of tension so acquired expresses itself in the confronting application of materials, especially in works of collage, as well as in the combination of different elements of style from European abstract painting and East-Asian tradition that are charged with immanent conflicts. Hence, conflict and confrontation serve as something which is being resolved by the works in a harmonic manner without however suppressing the original tension or letting it simply disappear. Instead, it remains present in the underlying shifts of colour and reminds on the utopian moment in the effort striving for a possible re-conciliation.  

Artist Vita Young-ja Zimmermann has been educated under the influence of Prof. Ferenc Jadi and Rebecca Uhlig (Berlin) as well as Franz Hitzler (Munich), and particularly by Alfred Darda (Munich). She is a member of the Gedok Berlin and of the House of Artists in Munich. She is also giving private painting lessons. Her paintings have been published as illustrations in the birthday memorial volume for Ingeborg Bachmann and a memorial volume for Isabelle Eberhardt (both with Lidi-Europedition, Berlin) as well as on the cover of the book “Twenty Questions About a Unified Theory of Information” (Litchfield Park, Az., 2010) by Wolfgang Hofkirchner, the cover of a book on Schelling and Bloch edited by Rainer E. Zimmermann (Hamburg, 2018), and a cover of the book “Association” (Berlin, 2021) in honour of Rainer E. Zimmermann. She has presented her works in numerous individual and joint exhibitions in Germany and abroad, among others in Munich, Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg, Seoul, Shanghai and Wuhan. Recently she was awarded the 2018 World KHMA certificate at the 40th HMA Prize Competition in Seoul. In 2020 she was awarded the Special Arts Prize at the Insadong Biennale. 

Participation in recent exhibitions 2018 Incheon Art Festival, 2018 Tancheon Contemporary Artists Association, 2019 Galerie Drächslhaus Munich, 2020 MHK Gallery Seoul, 2020 Arts Center Gallery Gangneung, 2021 GEDOK Berlin  

Website: www.koreanarts.de 

Contact: young-ja.zimmermann@hotmail.de