The solo exhibition Goyo - Berlin with works by the Korean artist Han Chung Shik (1937 - 2022) at the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V. is the first solo exhibition of this important Korean photographer and intellectual in Berlin.

Han, renowned because of the discourse he developed from the classical and formalist Korean aesthetics and narratives and around the features of abstract landscape photography, significantly changed the perception - shaping its evolution - of the Korean contemporary artistic expressions within photography; during the last decades the artist theorised and then portrayed - while propounding his vision through a literary and philosophical lens - the aesthetics of the idea of 'serenity' as the concept of the inner awareness of the nature of existence and integral part of his artistic research.

In his photography the artist merges distinctive formalist photographic gestures with the development of the forms and shapes of abstract landscapes by tracing the idea of the act of photography as an act enabled by the very nature of the world including (abstract) ideas and their immediate fluxional expression.

Han Chung Shik works are in national and international private and public collections such as The National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea); the Seoul Museum of Art; The Seoul Museum of History; the Hanmi Museum of Photography and the Goeun Museum of Photography among many others.

The exhibition was curated by Chiara Valci Mazzara and Susanne Prinz in collaboration with Ilwoo Lee. It presents a selection of the artist's most representative works as well as some previously unpublished pieces. It has been made possible by the generous support of the Han Chung Shik Estate, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art and the Korea Photographers Gallery, Seoul.