Rain mixed with
sunshine
When Dutch rain falls through sunshine a new colour is born — neither one nor the other. She called it Fluid Sunshine · 흐르는 햇빛. Yellow rays trying hard to illuminate the world from within. These works scale to monumental size: Fluid sunshine2 at 400 × 210 cm, Fluid sunny day at 420 × 160 cm.
"J'ai décidé d'être heureuse parce que c'est bon pour la santé."— Voltaire · the artist's daily practice
Playground
Uzine Park joins Playground at de Bouwput, Amsterdam — a group exhibition bringing together painters and makers for one week only. New works on canvas, exploring the artist's continuing dialogue between Korean memory and Dutch landscape.
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건양다경
Many Sunny Days
A solo show in Seoul — paintings made in Amsterdam alongside new works painted in Korea in 2026. 건양다경: a wish for many sunny days.
The roads she
cannot walk
She misses things she cannot find here. The mountains of Korea — their weight on the horizon. The winding roads between them. And 억새 풀, silver grass — the way it moves in autumn wind. A visit to the Düsseldorf Japanese gardens brought memory flooding back — not as sadness but as material. She mixed both landscapes on a single canvas, growing a new nature as a gardener would. The 2026 works painted in Korea — 둥글게 둥글게 (400 × 167 cm) and Soft Mountain Portrait — return to this landscape directly.
Silver grass
Korean mountains
Winding roads
In winter
a tree without leaves
The bare winter trees appear again and again. Not as symbols of death but of endurance. A tree stripped of leaves still holds its form — the branches, the root system, the structure that will carry growth again when the season turns. She painted them orange, red, vivid even in their nakedness — the image of herself she could not yet say directly. A person far from home. A tree in Dutch winter. But still standing.
"In winter I am
a tree without leaves.
The wind here
is like a blade."
Clouds, wind,
long grasses
She looked at what was here. Dutch clouds — enormous, theatrical, never still. Rain arriving sideways. Grasses bending along the canals. A neutrally coloured world. She began to paint it not as a foreigner observing but as a gardener claiming it — using pastel tones to make her world vivid. Soft cloud day I & II (2026) were painted in Korea, carrying the Dutch sky back to Korean soil.
Growing in
foreign soil
미나리 — Korean water dropwort — grows wherever there is water, even in foreign soil. You cannot stop it from growing. Uzine recognised herself in it. Sweet Home – Sweet Garden (270 × 270 cm, 2023) holds all of it: the longing and the arriving. Sound of Singing Garden (91 × 117 cm, 2025) continues the story. The rooted minari (24 × 34 cm, 2026) — the smallest painting in the collection — was made in Korea and is possibly the most direct.
Water Dropwort
Grows in foreign soil
Food · Medicine · Memory
Roots that
find each other
At Big Art 2025, Uzine brought real minari plants — cuttings in small glass vials, each labelled "Roots" — and gave one to every visitor who came. Over 59 names appeared on the wall beside the installation, each attached to a living plant going home to grow in foreign soil. The plant became a community — bound not by nationality but by roots that spread through food, friendship, and stories.
"Let's keep growing together." — @descendant_of_minari
Everything will
grow here again
건양다경 (建陽多慶) — an old Korean wish: "We wish this year will be many sunny days and that many good and auspicious events will occur." Not optimism — practice. Intention made visible in pigment. She runs Minhwa workshops, teaching traditional Korean folk painting and her story of how to decide to be happy. Soft, Sweet Cloud (2026) was painted in Korea — the circle returning.
Many sunny days
건양다경 · 建陽多慶
Solo exhibitions:
Fikri, Amsterdam 2024
Factor IJ, Amsterdam 2024
Arti et Amicitiae, 2025
gallery THE C, Seoul 2026
Group:
Playground · de Bouwput, Amsterdam 2026
What you call
a weed
I call dinner
A decade before the minari installations, Uzine was already asking the question. In 2014: Weed Consumption — investigating the gap between Western and Eastern perception of the same plant. Nine botanical drawings from red plastic etchings: 곰피, 냉이, 미나리, 산마늘, 엉겅퀴, 우산나물, 질경이.
Alongside: hand-painted infographics comparing the nutritional value of weeds versus supermarket vegetables. Weeds contain three times the protein. The same plant called unwanted in one culture is called nourishment in another. Click any print to view it.
The root of everything was here, ten years before anyone noticed.
Weed Consumption
Gallery the Cup, Seoul 2014 · Cafe Black Bird, Utrecht 2016 · Red plastic etchings · hand-painted infographics