About Me

About Seika

Seika is a Korean jogakbo and Korean textile artist based in Zurich. She expresses her artistic voice through a wide variety of different kinds of artworks based on traditional Korean techniques. She also likes to explore unique designs and her own techniques, creating contemporary interpretations of traditional Korean art forms. Her creations range from works that reflect her simple and modest aesthetic to lyrical pieces featuring various colour combinations that she likes to explore. She has exhibited her works internationally, and she also has extensive experience teaching her art worldwide in workshops at museums, ateliers, and quilt shows to both adults and children.

Her Career

Seika was born with Korean heritage in Japan, and used to work as a human resource planner at Hitachi, Ltd. For her German husband's job, she first moved to California, United States, before finally moving to Switzerland in 2019. Now she works as a Korean textile artist and instructor. In 2023, she was selected for a solo exhibition at the Carrefour Européen du Patchwork, France. She graduated from the Kyoto University of the Arts in 2025 through online learning with a bachelor degree focused on art history.
In 2025 during the Hallyu! The Korean Wave exhibition, shown at Museum Rietberg, Zurich, and conceived by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, she taught six fully booked workshops for adults and children with great reviews. In addition, at the museum shop, three of her exhibited artworks were sold, and her books and original kits were popular, selling out often.

Her Artworks

Seika creates a variety of artworks from bojagi and jogakbo works to Korean handicrafts. Bojagi are Korean wrapping cloths that can be used to wrap or cover items. Among them, bojagi made by patchwork are called jogakbo and have often been made for daily use from leftover fabrics. Today they are also appreciated as artworks for their various designs. Traditional Korean handicrafts include pincushions, pouches, and so on. All of her artworks are original designs and handsewn. Inspired by beautiful European nature and the various personal emotions she experienced, such as her nostalgia, for her culture, and her hopes, she has created many unique patchwork bojagi artworks with her own techniques, in addition to traditional techniques. For example, she makes one layered jogakbo featuring smooth circles with her own techniques. She also has challenged applying traditional jogakbo to contemporary interior art through her framed works.
Her creations range from works that reflect her simple and modest aesthetic to lyrical pieces featuring various colour combinations that she likes to explore. For her, the creative process of carefully sewing together small pieces of fabric is both fun, allowing her to express her own sensibilities and philosophy, and provides her a time for healing and self-reflection, as well.
She also enjoys photography. You can see her bojagi artworks here, on instagram, and in her art book.

Her Events

She takes part in exhibitions, gives classes, and offers her original kits, Korean fabrics, etc. Also check out her previous and upcoming events. You can contact her via email and sign up for her newsletter.

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