Hajin Jeong: Soft Hours

 

„Soft Hours” is Hajin Jeong’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany. It brings together the artist’s paintings: large-scale, expressively colorful artworks in which Jeong subtly places figures of people and animals within fragmentary landscapes composed of collected impressions. These are emotionally charged scenes that are unconsciously captured and preserved in memory. The works begin with fleeting landscapes and moments, with views and places that leave a lasting emotional impact. Rather than recreating these scenes exactly as they once were, Hajin Jeong allows memories and feelings to transform them. Through the openness of painting, the artist evokes her own place-bound memories and makes them accessible to viewers, inviting them to connect with their own thoughts.

 

The landscape changes depending on the inner state from which it is viewed. Traces of movement remain. Through the color and physicality of the painting, fleeting impressions take on a new form. What emerges is not a lifelike depiction of a place, but a psychological landscape shaped by what has been felt, remembered, and lost.

 

„Soft Hours” lies somewhere between seeing and remembering, between a landscape that once existed and the one that lives on within us. What remains is not a fixed view, but rather each viewer’s personal perception, which penetrates the image and intertwines with memory and emotion to become a landscape all its own.

 

In Caspar David Friedrich’s landscapes a threshold opens up between the outside world and the viewer’s inner world in a similar way. His horizons and figures leave room for the viewer’s own mood and feelings. This conception of landscape as a place of inner experience forms a connection between Friedrich’s and Jeong’s painting.

 

Hajin Jeong’s works, which are in part provocative and unsettling, are also characterized by great versatility. In addition to painting, she creates artist’s books, drawing on literary narratives in the process.

 

Opening & award ceremony: 10 October 2026, 2:00 pm 

Duration: 10 October– 19 December 2026

Opening hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 5 pm

Admission: €8.00 standard; €5.00 reduced; free for children under 12 and members of the Caspar David Friedrich Society.

 

Further information about your visit can be found here.

11 November 2026 – 3 pm

16 December 2026 – 3 pm