Double Solo Exhibition: Yong Joo Kim and Kasimir Oppermann

Artist list

Yong Joo Kim, Kasimir Oppermann

About Galerie Biró
Olga Zobel Biró opened Galerie Biró not far from the city’s large art museums in Munich Schwabing in 1992. At the beginning, the gallery specialised only in plastic jewellery design. The gallery’s strict concept saw its aim as presenting the aesthetic qualities of this material, which has made such an impact on this last century. “Plastic remains impregnated throughout with this wonder: it is less a thing than the trace of a movement” wrote the French philosopher Roland Barthes (Roland Barthes, Mythologies). To her great joy, Olga Zobel discovered the Dutch artists Gijs Bakker und Paul Derrez, as well as Peter Chang from Glasgow, Thomas Gentille from New York and Pavel Opocensky from Prague, to name just a few. They all made extraordinary jewellery from plastics. At the beginning of the 1990s, Galerie Biró published its first catalogue Kunststoff Schmuck Kunst.
 
In 2010, Kinga Zobel became a partner in the gallery and has broadened its scope through her own projects. Particularly memorable was the SCHMUCKshow 2012 in Maximilian Forum in Munich. In 2015, she published the catalogue GUT Germany’s upcoming talents.

Through the mainly solo exhibitions held in the gallery, and through our participation in international fairs, we offer insight into the astonishing range of contemporary art jewellery, showing both the leading names in the field, as well as up and coming talent.


About Yong Joo Kim  
Yong Joo Kim is a Society of Arts and Crafts (SAC) and NICHE award-winning artist with an extensive record of exhibitions across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. She is considered a pioneer in the use of hook-and-loop fasteners as material for art. Her work crosses the genre of both wearable sculpture and installations.
 
She has been a featured speaker at premier conferences and exhibitions such as the Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) and Sculpture Objects Functional Art and design (SOFA). Her work appears in the permanent collection of Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s Art Bank (MMCA), and Velcro Group.
 

Opening Weekend:
Friday, 19.06.2020 and Saturday, 20.06.2020.
Between 11 am and 7 pm. 
 
Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday 3 - 6 pm.
Saturday 11 am - 3pm.
Admission is free.