Kiwan Choi
Kiwan Choi (born in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee, where he graduated in 2021with a master's degree under Prof. Pia Linz.
In a playful freedom of form, Kiwan Choi works his way to abstraction, engaging in a dialogue of forms and colours. His painting opens up spaces, each surface and each application expands the pictorial cosmos and its effect, with every stroke representing a personal expression. It is a warm-hearted, open, tender and very colour-intensive way of working with a great painterly talent. His impressive abstract works are based on situations in playgrounds, which he interprets freely. For Kiwan Choi, the dynamics, movement and social encounters of groups serve as the basis of the Erased place series. In doing so, he reduces perceptible reality and uses painting as an emotional force.
Kiwan Choi received a special award along with a catalogue at the Young Art Award 2022, and his works have been included in the collection of the Kistefos Museum Norway.
