Soojin Kang was born in 1978 in Seoul, Korea and lives and works in Kulmbach, Germany. She graduated with an MFA from Central St. Martins in 2009 and has been committed to her full time art practice ever since. Her practice has been evolving from her early interests in fashion and textile design through a diverse range of media, including soft sculpture, video and installation. Her objective is to infuse the sense and idea of emotional sustainability through craftsmanship.In 2017, her work Fall was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, for the museum’s permanent collection.

At the centre of Soojin Kang’s work is an appreciation of, and truth to her raw materials. Using the ritualistic actions of weaving, knotting, winding and unwinding to explore the sculptural possibilities of textiles, Soojin Kang transubstantiates raw materials into structures that retain unmistakeable traces of their biotic origins. In the artist’s hands,‘thread is warm.’ Textiles become vascular, acting as capillaries generating the vital force of the strange organisms that she brings into being using hand-dyed linen, jute and silk. Subtle nuances of texture, colour and material are combined with an emphasis on sustainable craftsmanship and the handmade. Imperfection and the incomplete are actively welcomed.

Kang creates tactile abstract forms born of reduced, repetitive gestures that act as conduits to the subconscious. Kang’s work places as much importance on that which exists as that which does not. Through her harnessing of the poetic effect found in the‘interval’, the space in-between she creates a dynamic and compelling tension between inner and outer, positive and negative and hard and soft. Intensely organic in form. The collapsed structures offer subtle nuances and expressions through the artist’s use of material, colour and texture. Her works conjure up a wealth of associations of the natural world.