I’m Chaeheun Park. I live and work in Frankfurt am Main. I graduated from Städelschule in 2024, I'm mainly working on painting and drawing. I was born in Cheongju. I wanted to write something interesting and sort of funny for you like in the same tone than the things that I'm currently into, like a situation from Hong sang soo movie, like this scene from <Like you know it all>,2009,46:35.. but I don't feel I can tap into myself through writing in English and that's how it is right now. I've been more focused on this complexity of communication within visual realms which has proven to be fruitful for making paintings.

I collect online and off-line images from different platforms,

For example in eBay kleineranzeigen, an online second-hand marketplace in Germany, some screenshots taken during the pandemic when I was taking German online language courses, and any kind of floating images that I find in my daily life. And rearranging, combining them with my drawings. I think of painting as a malleable interface existing between culture and daily life. My work is often diaristic in nature.

Films by Hong sang soo, Hal Hartley, David lynch
a short story <A Hunger Artist> by Franz Kafka
Korean technological heptic sounds by SAMSUMG washing machine, fries machine from LOTTERIA, Background musics from the online game MapleStory.

I’m working with acrylic, oil, pencil, water color on canvas and paper. Throughout preparing Korean art school entrance examination in the past, I’ve got some academic skills to govern the mediums, but simultaneously having immature way of painting because of my impatience and ignorance.

Often interesting accidents happened when I’m not able to fully control them, and somehow they’re properly driven to the absorbing moment when I’m in between of being under control and out of control.

“To paint well is to have enough stamina, and to have enough stamina is to exercise regularly”—To honor what my aunt had told once me, I started hitting the gym every other morning and coming to the studio. I encounter the paintings what I did, and I look at the paintings are done by my studio mate last night. The moments of looking at fresh made paintings and guessing what kind of wind blew in the other night are a kind of indulgence at times.

Thinking of what should I work on today. If my mind is foggier than usual, I opt for physical labor, such as stretching the canvas; if my body feels heavy, I prefer to sit and draw, or work on my laptop. As my life outside the studio almost always, to a large extent, connects back to my own practice, it wouldn’t be so easy to separate the two. A well-written diary entry doesn’t make my life more beautiful, however it can often boost my confidence.

How to make money
Makeover

https://youtu.be/rSz-6ht8o_c?si=GDPg19IXNFbhzJcn

Getting a job.

eating and drinking well with my friends )often) and having a perfectly equipped  kitchen!!!

marinated