Ahn Kyuchul was born in Seoul and studied sculpture at
Seoul National University. After graduation, he worked as a journalist for
Quarterly Art magazine for seven years. In 1985, he
joined ‘Reality and Utterance’, a key artists’ collective of the Minjung Art
movement. In 1987, he left for France, later relocating to
Germany to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Since then, he
has developed a conceptual practice centered on everyday objects and language.
From 1997 to 2021, he served as Professor and Dean at the Korea National
University of Arts. He
currently works as an independent artist.
