The artistic practice follows a simple principle: minimal guidance and maximum freedom. Materials retain their inherent qualities, while the works remain open to the unexpected. Literature and conceptual art converge in installations that become complete only through people. Exchange itself becomes a material.
Origin: Born in South Korea and raised in southern Germany, the same question has recurred since childhood: What is the meaning of life?
This life's different stages tell the story of a search that ends in something rediscovered — ikono.
Focus and Leadership: Years of work in visual communication and marketing, intensive training in karate and iaidō, and many years of conducting choirs refined the ability to direct attention, lead others and oneself.
Failure as Possibility: Approaches to productive failure and the unpredictable developed while helping establish the Galli Theater New York, a transformative nonprofit theatre dedicated to personal growth.
Reduction, Precision & Time: Understanding of reduction and precision deepened while working as a private sushi chef in the international high-end sector, including Beverly Hills, the Hamptons, and the Cannes Film Festival. A sentence from the sushi master has remained a guide ever since: “Don’t speed up. Speed comes by time, and time comes by itself.” It was there that the foundations of a conscious relationship with time were laid.
Social Grounding: Work as a coach at KreaStart, a socially engaged creative initiative in Hamburg brought together art, theatre, culinary practice, and writing in the support of people facing precarious circumstances. This became a legacy — one that continues to take shape as ikono.
Pricing: From existential uncertainty to significant economic freedom, the works explore what forms of exchange become possible under these conditions. Pricing thus becomes part of the artistic process, creating concrete invitations to act.
