EunIm Ro - Artist Info

About EunIm Ro

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Ro EunNim
  • Biography

    The South Korean Eun Nim Ro originally studied medical science at the University of Seoul. When her mother suddenly died, she stopped studying and went to work as a development aid volunteer to North Korea. Here she came into close contact with shamanism, which inspired her to create her first works of art and that would have a lasting effect on her.

    In 1970, she moved to Hamburg to work as a nurse assistant. She went to the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg and studied from 1973 until 1979 at Hans Thielmann and Kai Sudek painting. She received support from a DAAD grant.

    In 1990, she was called as a professor to the Fachhochschule Hamburg, where she is the director of the summer aca...

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