Korean artist Yoora Park (b. 1991) has been selected as a recipient of the ‘Ars Viva Prize 2027’, one of Germany’s leading awards for emerging artists.
 
Established in 1953, the Ars Viva Prize is a major contemporary art award in Germany presented to artists under the age of 35 who are based in the country. Renowned figures of German contemporary art, including Candida Höfer and Wolfgang Tillmans, have previously received the prize, and more than 350 artists have been selected to date.

Currently based between Düsseldorf and Seoul, Yoora Park has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning video, installation, and performance, exploring embodied experience, sensory perception, social relations, and memory. Her work carefully combines sound, sculpture, video, and installation to construct spatial and sensory situations that engage the realm of affect.
 
The jury commented on Park’s work, noting that “she demonstrates a keen sensitivity to how sound exists in the world and shapes our environment,” adding that “her work reveals how sonic structures influence our relationship to space.”

Park studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Her work is included in the collection of K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, and has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues including Art Basel, Khoshbakht Gallery (Cologne, Basel, and New York), Kunstverein Gastgarten in Hamburg, and Städtisches Museum Wesel. She is also scheduled to hold a solo exhibition at the Bonner Kunstverein this April.
 
Meanwhile, an exhibition of the Ars Viva Prize 2027 winners will be held next year at contemporary art museums in Lübeck and Munich, Germany.

References

• 2027 아르스 비바 상, 박유라 (Ars Viva Prize 2027, Yoora Park)
• 울산메일, 울산 출신 박유라 작가, 독일 ‘아르스 비바 상’ 수상, 2026.03.10