Artist Song Jeehye (award winner) and Lee Sojeong are participating in the exhibition at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen.
21.09-16.11.2025
Address : Große-Perdekamp-Str. 25-27, Recklinghausen, Germany 45657
About artists : Son Jeehye & Lee Sojeong
From 690 submissions, the jury selected 22 artists for the group exhibition.
The art prize „junger westen“, named after the artist group of the same name, is the oldest municipal award for pioneering art in Germany since 1945. Established in 1948 by the city of Recklinghausen, it has been open to the public since 1956 and is awarded every two years in different categories, 2025 for painting.
“The jury unanimously decided to award the prize to the artist Jeehye Song,” said museum director Dr. Nico Anklam. “Her painting not only impresses with its extraordinary pictorial invention and formal precision, but also with a depth of content that goes far beyond a purely visual experience. Song’s work moves between painterly tradition, contemporary visual language and conceptual reflection – and she uses precisely this field of tension to raise central questions about the role of the artist and the function of the medium of painting in the present. In doing so, she remains deeply rooted, in the best sense, in the traditions of the genre of painting.”
