RYU HYEDU (b. 1978, Seoul) is a visual artist based in Seoul.
She received her BFA from Hansung University in Seoul and later moved to Germany, where she lived and worked for nine years, developing her artistic and conceptual practice.
In 2011, she obtained her Diplom and was awarded the Meisterschülerin title under Prof. Henk Visch at the University of Fine Arts Münster.
Her work investigates fundamental questions of human existence, focusing on the dynamics of collapse, fragmentation, and transformation within the structures of consciousness.
She currently lives and works in Seoul.
Curriculum Vitae
♥︎ academic studies
• Diplom (Meisterschülerin), Academy of Fine Arts Münster | 2011
Kunstakademie Münster, Fine Arts, Germany
Awarded the Meisterschülerin title under Prof. Henk Visch
• BFA, Hansung University | 2002
Fine Arts, Seoul, Korea
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• Art Therapy Certification | 2014
♥︎ Selected Grants & Programs
2025
Gyeonggi Arts Support Program (Second Round, First-Time Support – Visual Arts), Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2021
Research on Mental Labor of Humans Trapped in Mental Catastrophe, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, SEARCH: Artistic Distancing Strategies (COVID-19 Arts Support Program), Seoul, Korea
2020
MEET Creative Preparation Track, Mullae Arts Factory, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul, Korea
♥︎ solo exhibitions
2025
“The Archetypal Context of Love”, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art(GMoMA) Project Gallery, Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, Ansan, KOR
“사랑의 원형적 맥락”, 경기도 미술관 프로젝트 갤러리, 경기문화재단, 안산
2010 “Umwandlung_Katastrophenszene: Transformation_Catastrophe scene”, Kunstakademie Münster | DEU
2008 Jahresausstellung Quartier 7, Münster | DEU
♥︎ group exhibitions•projects
2022
Tasty Market 2022 “Project_mwa kit”, Curator mwa press, Art Space Hue, Paju-si | KOR*
2021
A Study on Mental Labor of Human Trapped in Mental Disaster, project SEARCH 2021,
Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul | KOR*
정신적 재난에 갇힌 인간의 정신노동(Mental Labor)에 관한 연구,
서울문화재단 SEARCH_예술적 거리두기 해제법 2021 코로나19 예술지원 사업, 서울
2020
Mullae Art Space MEET project preparing track, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul | KOR
문래예술공장 MEET 창작준비트랙, 서울문화재단, 서울
Decode: Harm: Detoxify, Art Hall Yeongdeungpo Foundation for Arts and Culture, Seoul | KOR*
제 2회 우정과 환대의 예술제, “해독”전, 영등포 아트홀,
영등포 문화재단, 서울
2019
Come on common,Artists Network Exhibition in Mullae Art Festa, Space 9, Seoul | KOR
Project “Arts Shop Mullae” in Mullae Art Festa, Sangsangmines, Seoul | KOR
2013
Open Studio “Project RoomRoom” with Mi Kyung Kim, Chang Hun Lee and with curator Kimwho, Seoul | KOR
2011
Zentrale - Kunstort Münster “Project 4.9.”Atelier 4.9 in Speicher II Münster | DEU
2010
Das Fremde und Wir, Marktkirche Hannover | DEU
EMSCHERKUNST / RUHR 2010 Film-program ‘GOLDENES DORF’, Stadthafen Recklinghausen | DEU *
2009
Bilder, Plastik, Trallala..., Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen | DEU *
Project and exhibition “We love you”, Klasse Henk Visch, curator Kimwho and coordinator Youngran Kim, Gallery Artlink, Seoul | KOR *
Värmland Wood Festival, Alma Lüv Museum, Suune | SWE *
2008
Exhibition with Pawel Podolak, Isabelle von Schilcher, Chung-gi Park, Zhivko Dzhelyouv and Henk Visch, Gallery Krabbedans, Eindhoven | NLD *
Neuland, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf | DEU
2007
This must be the case, Wewerka Pavillon Münster | DEU
2003
Wish, Gallery Boda, Seoul | KOR *
2002
Direction of Art 2002, Gallery Dongduk, Seoul | KOR *
1999
1st Factory Art Festival “Nomadic Zone” in Company Samae, Icheon | KOR *
* with Publication