Description
Young-jun Tak (b. 1989, Seoul, Korea) is a Berlin-based artist who considers the socio-cultural and psychological mechanisms that form belief systems. Working across sculpture and collage, the tension between his native South Korea’s queer and religous communities is a driving force in his practice. Die bunte Gefahr (The Colorful Peril) (2020) is a collage of found images related to centuries-long racism against East Asians, as well as the complex race relations between East Asian and Black communities. The work sprung from reflections on solidarity, as well as the history of subordination and violence both against and between Black and East Asian communities. His work was exhibited in the 11th Berlin Biennale and the 15th Istanbul Biennial as well as at the Hall Art Foundation in Derneburg. He is nominated for the Berlin Masters Prize 2021.
