Minji Choi (b. 1988) is a Korean artist, designer, and researcher, currently based in Eindhoven (NL) and Milan (IT).

She investigates the interconnections between plants symbolism in relation to gardens, landscape architecture and socio-politics, in order to explore culture through nature and manifest the vulnerable borderlines between them. By acknowledging the dignity of plants, her research aims to reframe society's multilayered relationship with nature. In doing so, she reframes the subtle boundaries between natural and artificial, the moral notions of good and bad, and the consideration for the individual and the ecosystem.

Her work embraces various mixed media such as installation, photography, painting and drawing, which she interweaves in order to deal with the complexity of the topic, according to the specificity of the context.

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Education

Design Academy Eindhoven

MA Contextual Design

Eindhoven, NL, 2018

Sungkyunkwan University

BFA Fine Art

BA Philosophy

Seoul, KR, 2013

Awards & Recognition

Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries NL

Grant Programme for Talent Development

August 2019 – October 2020

Design Academy Eindhoven

MA Contextual Design / Cum Laude

Eindhoven, NL, 2018

Design Academy Eindhoven

Gijs Bakker Award / Shortlisted

Eindhoven, NL, 2018

Group Exhibitions

Netherlands consulate-general Istanbul

Istanbul Biennial 2021
Looking for Stigmergy, Episode 2 – 'Sempiterno'

Istanbul, TR. September 2021

MU Artspace

'Polarities–Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological'

Eindhoven, NL, November 2019–March 2020

ING Bank, Van Abbe Museum

Dutch Design Week 2019

GEO–DESIGN 'Junk. All That Is Solid Melts into Trash'

Eindhoven, NL, October 2019

TAC.nu

‘Fraud’

Eindhoven, NL, September 2019

Alcova

Milan Design Week 2019

‘WaterSchool’

Milan, IT, April 2019

Upominki

‘Seed to Seed’

Rotterdam, NL, April 2019

De Campina 

Dutch Design Week 2018

‘G18’ Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show

Eindhoven, NL, October 2018

Hôtel Droog

‘Design Academy Eindhoven Masters 2018’

Amsterdam, NL, September 2018

Atelier NL

Dutch Design Week 2017

‘Glass Bar / DAE x HBK’

Eindhoven, NL, October 2017

Sungkyunkwan Gallery

SKKU Graduation Show

Seoul, KR, November 2011

Talks & Lectures

Art school Avans/St. Joost

'Speculative design: Design a Non-Human Centered Story Experience for Future Ecologies' Artist talk
's-Hertogenbosch, NL, December 2020

Amsterdam Academy of Architecture 

Master in Landscape Architecture / 'Three Nature' lecture series 

'American Black Cherry (Prunus Serotina Ehrh.) in the Netherlands: A reflection of cultural and historical relationships' lecture

Amsterdam, NL, November 2020

MU Artspace

Polarities–Psychology and Politics of Being Ecological

'(NON)Native' Presentation

Eindhoven, NL, March 2020

Design Academy Eindhoven

MA Open-day, Contextual Design Alumni Talk

Eindhoven, NL, January 2020

TAC.nu

PechaKucha #33

Eindhoven, NL, June 2019

EHV Innovation Cafe, Kazerne

Bringing Back The Value of Nature

‘The Dignity of Plants’  Presentation

Eindhoven, NL, February 2019

The Arena ‘G18’, De Campina

‘The Dignity of Plants’ Presentation

‘Artificial and Natural’ Panel Discussion with Filippo Bertone, Kuang-Yi Ku, Alexandra Genis, Marie Caye, Gijs de Boer

Eindhoven, NL, October 2018

Experience

Internship at EMMERIK garden design and research

Rotterdam, NL. February – July 2021

BIO 26 – The 26th Biennial of Design in Ljubljana

Designathon#1 / Challenge 5: Connecting Plants and People

Ljubljana, SI, May 2019 

Publications

Plant Fever Journal

The paradox of alien plants – Between protection and destruction

Online Publication, March 2020