Jeehye Song: hey I'm still here
Wentrup is pleased to present Jeehye Song's first exhibition with the gallery hey I'm still here, opening Friday, January 30th, from 6 to 8 pm. Song was awarded the 2025 Junger Westen Art Prize for painting, accompanied by a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen. Song depicts figures that dissolve, shift and refuse to solidify.
Dr. Nico Anklam, Director of Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, says about her work: 'Jeehye Song’s painting convinces not only through exceptional image-making and formal
precision, but through a depth of content that extends far beyond a purely visual experience. Song’s work moves impressively between painterly tradition, contemporary visual language, and conceptual reflection and she harnesses precisely this tension to raise central questions concerning the artist’s role and the function of painting as a medium in the present. At the same time, she remains, in the best sense, deeply rooted in the traditions of the genre of painting.'
