Junghun Kim

diversity - ecology - interactive - ceramics - nature - objects - painting - sculpture

Junghun Kim (South Korea, 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist. His work researches the effects of economic and technological development on humanitarian and ecological consequences in relation to the restless techno capital world. Kim's works are conceived as activation systems where poetic, spiritual, and political gestures reveal the dimension of causalities that have remained invisible to our anthropomorphic vision. While searching for regenerative ecological care and its distribution, his work guide audiences into interactive and collaborative environments.

Junghun received his MFA from The Piet Zwart Institute. He was selected for “Korean Young Artist 2021” exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, South Korea, and “SeMA Emerging Artists Support Program,” Solo Exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art Storage, South Korea (2019). He exhibited at Para Site, Hong Kong (2022), MaMA, Rotterdam (2021), Sign Project space, Groningen (2021), Villa Iris, Foundation Botin, Santander (2017).

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    • BREATHE A MENDING SONG INTO THESE EARTHLY WOUNDS (Solo Exhibition)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-12-2023 t/m 11-02-2024
    • In collaboration with: RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology
    • Location: Kalverbos 20, 2611 XW Delft, Delft,

    Interactive Meditation Workshop

    Workshop

    • 12-08-2023 t/m 12-08-2023
    • In collaboration with: A Tale of a Tub
    • Location: Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam

    "The Ground Up And The Washed Down" (Group Exhibition)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 08-07-2023 t/m 27-08-2023
    • In collaboration with: A Tale of A Tub
    • Location: Justus van Effenstraat 44, Rotterdam

    "TEST CASE XXVIII" Open Studio

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 25-06-2023 t/m 25-06-2023
    • In collaboration with: (EKWC) European Ceramic Work Center
    • Location: , Oisterwijk

    (EKWC) European Ceramic Work Center Artist Residency Program

    Residencies / exchange

    • 23-02-2023 t/m 17-05-2023
    • In collaboration with: European Ceramic Workcenter (EKWC)
    • Location: Oisterwijk, Oisterwijk
    • residency program

    Residency program at Het Wilde Weten

    Residencies / exchange

    • 01-10-2022 t/m 31-01-2023
    • In collaboration with: Het Wilde Weten
    • Location: Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • During the residency period, Junghun Kim will focus on creating critical visual narratives about extractive approaches to the natural world and its causalities produced by human hegemony and researching several cases of destruction, climate change, and techno-capital media dependency.
    • https://hetwildeweten.nl/artist-in-residence-junghun-kim/

    While we are embattled (Group Exhibition)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 02-10-2022 t/m 20-11-2022
    • In collaboration with: Para Site
    • Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • Marking the seventh edition of Para Site's annual Emerging Curators exhibition, Para Site is proud to present 'While we are embattled' curated by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela and Thiago de Paula Souza. The exhibition brings together works by Noor Abed, Morehshin Allahyari, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Sara Haq, Junghun Kim, Carolyn Lazard, Sabelo Mlangeni, Jota Mombaça, Avery Z. Nelson, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, and Contemporary And (C&) and Asia Art Archive Library Collection.
    • http://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/while-we-are-embattled/

    Ecological meditation: Becoming One and Many Through Your Soul (Hibrid meditation)

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 19-11-2022 t/m 19-11-2022
    • In collaboration with: Para Site
    • Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    • To mark the closing of the exhibition 'While we are embattled', artist Junghun Kim will lead an ecological mediation session taking place inside his interactive installation Becoming One and Many Through Your Soul.
    • http://www.para-site.art/programme/ecological-mediation-with-junghun-kim/

    whereabout

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 07-05-2022 t/m 10-06-2022
    • In collaboration with: Sign Project Space
    • Location: Winschoterkade 10, 9711 EA Groningen, Groningen
    • Whereabout presents work by Wouter Stroet, Bruno Neves, Till Schönwetter, Junghun Kim and Polina Shuvalova, whose work involves visualizing real, virtual and mental places. The artists have a similar approach for this. The meaning of the work comes about through (subjective) 'mapping', topographic scanning and the use of cartographic methods of real, virtual, mental places.
    • https://sign2.nl/events/whereabout-wouter-stroet-bruno-neves-till-schonwetter-junghun-kim-polina-shuvalova/

    Wild Summer of Art

    Exhibition / presentation

    Resilience

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 16-07-2022 t/m 22-09-2022
    • In collaboration with: Alcheon Art Museum
    • Location: Gyeongju, Gyeongju
    • group exhibition

    Ancestral Fortune

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 18-06-2021 t/m 15-08-2021
    • In collaboration with: MaMA
    • Location: Witte de Withstraat 29, Rotterdam
    • Ancestral Fortune is a cosmic journey where past fuses into the future. This exhibition invites you to let go of your human perception and step into the universe of the nonhuman that lives side by side with us. In this space, we respect those who can see without eyes, hear without ears and speak without mouths. Slowly and communally we observe the fluid patterns of nature and learn to understand their rhythmic changes.
    • https://thisismama.nl/en/events/home-en/voorouderlijk-geluk/

    Material context

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-07-2021 t/m 11-07-2021
    • In collaboration with: Het Archief, Piet Zwart Institute
    • Location: Robert Fruinstraat 52, 3021 XE Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • The Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art celebrates the graduates of 2020 and 2021 with an exhibition of their recent works. Through lockdowns and uprisings over the last year, artists have had to question how to engage artistic practice and life within both turbulence and monotony. Art practices have had to renegotiate new awarenesses of health, safety, grief, and isolation. Meanwhile movements for social justice seeking recourse to historical injustices weigh on our everyday consciousness.
    • https://www.pzwart.nl/blog/2021/06/21/material-context/

    Young Korean Artists, 20th edition of MMCA's biennial

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 28-05-2021 t/m 22-09-2021
    • In collaboration with: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA, South Korea
    • Location: 313 Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, Gwacheon-si
    • Young Korean Artists 2021 is the 20th exhibition of the MMCA's Young Korean Artists program, which first began in 1981and now, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary, has become Korea's most time-honored and authoritative program dedicated to discovering young and emerging artists. The program has introduced emerging artists at the forefront of contemporary art and forecast the future of Korean art over its 40 years of activity.
    • https://www.mmca.go.kr/eng/exhibitions/exhibitionsDetail.do?exhId=202101210001365

    Geological meditation within "Communities" Online

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 21-04-2021 t/m 21-04-2021
    • In collaboration with: Art Institute Melly
    • Location: Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam, Rotterdam
    • In response to the question: “How does your artistic practice help to navigate the present situation?”⠀
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/B_PemYDgK_R/

    The SugarCumPro

    Exhibition / presentation

    Open studio

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-02-2020 t/m 02-01-2023
    • In collaboration with: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Fine Art
    • Location: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Fine Art, Rotterdam
    • Open studio + group exhibition

    Fragmented measure, vitality of the spirit

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 05-07-2019 t/m 28-07-2019
    • In collaboration with: Seoul Museum of Art
    • Location: Seoul, Seoul
    • solo exhibition

    Nightshift, “Frontiers in Retreat” residency at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)

    Residencies / exchange

    • 13-01-2018 t/m 14-02-2018
    • In collaboration with: Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)
    • Location: Lumsden, Lumsden

    Selected Artist for Carsten Höller's Game Workshop

    Residencies / exchange

    Jaguar

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 20-09-2017 t/m 20-09-2017
    • In collaboration with: Fundación Botín
    • Location: Santander, Santander
    • Collaborative exhibition

    Spring, summer, shorts

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 01-08-2017 t/m 30-08-2017
    • In collaboration with: Artspace Boan 1942
    • Location: Seoul, Seoul
    • Group exhibition

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • International Cultural Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, Korea.

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, Stokroos Foundation, Utrecht, Netherlands.

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • EKWC Grant, European Ceramic Workcenter, Oisterwijk, Netherlands.

    • 2023
      Scholarship

    • SeMA Emerging Artists & Curators Support Program, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea.

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • Project Grant, GyeongJu Foundation of Arts and Culture, South Korea.

    • 2019
      Pricing

    • Short-listed, Foundwork Artist Prize, Los Angeles, California, United States.

    • 2023
      Publication

    • "Artist Dialogue" Foundwork, interview by Joal Stein, Los Angeles, United States.

    • 2023
    • Foundwork, Los Angeles, United States. -
      Publication

    • "Shot pieces that move" publication, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

    • 2020
    • Piet Zwart Institute, Netherlands. -