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Junghun Kim

sculptuur, schilderen, Objecten, natuur, keramiek, interactief, installatie, Globalisering, Experimenteel, Ecologie, Diversiteit, Communicatie

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).

BREATHE A MENDING SONG INTO THESE EARTHLY WOUNDS, 2023 - Solo Exhibition at RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft, Netherlands In this project, I addresses the scope of man-made ecological wounds on the planet’s interspecies relationships. As a response, I aspires to overstep the physical and spiritual thresholds towards more embodied and regenerative ways of living on Earth. Informed by research on evolutionary biology—including molecular DNA, comparative embryology, fossil records, and anatomical evidence—cosmologies, and technologies of extraction, the exhibition cultivates a practice of attunement and resilience, to address narratives around the critical state of the planetary ecologies. Encompassing ceramic, painting, sculpture, installation, and meditation, work is an invitation to sharpen our five senses in imaginative, meditative, and spiritual ways in order to navigate anthropocentric wounds. This exhibition is a proposition to re-situate ourselves within a planet that is relational and contingent, for what we make of it is woven with larger systems of reciprocity and responsibility.
The space between each objects are trajectories of your imagination (Geological meditation series 2020-ongoing) - Installation, Ceramic, natural objects, fruits, vegetables, plants, and acrylic on Jute, oil paint on hard paper, dimensions variable, 2020- 2023 (ongoing) Geological meditation is an interactive practice that I am developing every year with natural objects, vegetables, ancient, modern, futuristic contexts, and artworks to open up as collective meditation. Aim to activate new relations between individuals and our environment and understand and feel sympathy with other lives and phenomena by getting closer to the ecosystem and coexistence by training our imagination in more dynamic, sympathetic ways as decolo-nizing practice and resisting strategy against the speed of techno capital influence. It is an environment where various ecological and critical layers coexist to evoke performative and meditative practice to stimulate envisioning deep interrelation between the natural world and human beings. The provided natural objects, fictional stories, images, drawings, and sounds offer multiple trajectories and emotional stories that can work in a dynamic way to stimulate and share the participant’s imagination. And, guiding collaboratively each other to see beyond the natural objects: embodying and imagining from their actual networks, colonial history, micro and macro level of their emotions, migration, ref-uges, and until planetary condition in this Capitalocene era. It is a prac-tice for collective imagination and overcoming our educated perspective by treating non-human beings in a respectful and conscious ways.
Causal transition, Front: Mountain’s scars: The vanishing point of regeneration, 2021 - This is an exhibition view at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. In this commissioned project, I focus on the interconnected network between the human and natural world, coexistence, and our human responsibility. The installation comprises seven sculptures, a small rounded entrance (170cm), and a big exit (370cm), which guide the audience toward a reflective and sympathetic direction and expand a sense of time and synesthesia, creating a field of causation. I created an environment where the audience can see the circumstance of causation through detailed sculptures.Each sculpture contains integrative messages about the paradox of human exploitation and extractivism, showing how its violent patterns are radically changing the entire balance of the earth's circulatory system. Throughout, I am interested in showing other specie's struggles of nowadays and future generations from different perspectives. In the main exhibition ground, we find mutated plants capturing man's manipulation on the earth body in the work "Rootless mutation, 2021", and salmon's frustration of reproduction generated by soil extraction, providing an unavoidable narrative within the work "On the horns of a dilemma, 2021". In the middle of the installation space, "A sense of parallel species,2021", a porcelain work is layering a connected human, horse, bird, frog's skull, and a snail. This work is the key to broadening the audience's perspective together with the big circular door, revealing the interconnection between humans and other species. After the audience passes the main exhibition ground and experiences all stories contained in the sculptures, they go through the big round exit, facing the mirror of the work "Scars of the mountain, vanishing point of regeneration, 2021," which reflects how we humans are being supported by the network of the ecosystem. To find an empathic mind towards the dying codependency of biodiversity, the reflection of our responsibility makes everyone aware of this codependency.
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Becoming One and Many Through Your Soul - Installation, seed, soil, stone, bark, paper mache, plaster, cotton, iron, recycled wooden panel, acrylic on linen, variable size, 2021 “Becoming One and Many Through Your Soul” is a participatory installation that shows and enables people to meditate through an interconnected environment that reflects on the relation between humans and other species' conditions in this unbalanced ecological period. The collective practice invites people to step into the environment in order to activate an empathetic imagination through meditation. After the meditative experience, participants are welcome to take the seed bags around the soil structure to plant them around neighborhood, in the park, streets, schools, and maybe some at home. Through this action, audiences are contributing to the possible regeneration of our environment by remembering where the seeds have been planted to visit and look after them as an ongoing practice of care.
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Geological meditation workshop view (Inter connective layers for another perspective & Integrative breathing)
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Selected painting series- exhibition view- 2019 - Ordinary objects, symbols and landscapes, together with invisible and intangible phenomena, are visualized through an imaginative approach which aims to question our perception of reality and the structure of cognitive divisions. In the painting, many movements of time, circulation, gravity, balance, resistance and collectiveness coexist in the paintings. By connecting the continuity of Yin and yang’s dynamics to cosmological principles and the natural collaboration (circulating earth, water, air, and fire for regeneration and balancing the entire planet), I provide a unified vision for opening up our body and spiritual relation to the natural world, while questioning our perception of reality and the structure of capitalism.

"Sikgu" Group exhibition, Fanfare Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Locatie: Fanfare Amsterdam,

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

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Locatie: Kalverbos 20, 2611 XW Delft
In samenwerking met: RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology

Interactive Meditation Workshop

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Locatie: Justus van Effenstraat 44
In samenwerking met: A Tale of a Tub

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

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Locatie: Justus van Effenstraat 44
In samenwerking met: A Tale of A Tub

"TEST CASE XXVIII" Open Studio

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In samenwerking met: (EKWC) European Ceramic Work Center

(EKWC) European Ceramic Work Center Artist Residency Program

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Locatie: Oisterwijk
In samenwerking met: European Ceramic Workcenter (EKWC)

Residency program

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

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Locatie: Hong kong
In samenwerking met: Para Site

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/

While we are embattled (Group Exhibition)

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Locatie: Hong kong
In samenwerking met: Para Site

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/

Residency program at Het Wilde Weten

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Locatie: Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Het Wilde Weten

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/

Resilience

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Locatie: Gyeongju
In samenwerking met: Alcheon Art Museum

Group exhibition

Wild Summer of Art

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Locatie: Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: BRUTUS

Group exhibition

https://brutus.nl/nl/programma/programma/wild+summer+of+art+part+i/

Whereabout

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Locatie: Winschoterkade 10, 9711 EA Groningen
In samenwerking met: Sign Project Space

Whereabout presenteert werk van Wouter Stroet, Bruno Neves, Till Schönwetter, Junghun Kim en Polina Shuvalova, die zich in hun werk bezighouden met het visualiseren van echte, virtuele en mentale plekken.

Hiervoor hebben de kunstenaars een overeenkomstige aanpak. De betekenis van het werk komt tot stand door (subjectieve) ‘mapping’, topografisch scannen en het gebruik van cartografische methoden van echte, virtuele, mentale plekken.

https://sign2.nl/events/whereabout-wouter-stroet-bruno-neves-till-schonwetter-junghun-kim-polina-shuvalova/

Material context

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Locatie: Robert Fruinstraat 52, 3021 XE Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Het Archief, Piet Zwart Institute

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 historic injustices weigh on our everyday consciousness.

https://www.pzwart.nl/blog/2021/06/21/material-context/

Ancestral Fortune

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Locatie: Witte de Withstraat 29
In samenwerking met: MaMA

Ancestral Fortune is a cosmic journey where past fuses into 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/

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

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Locatie: 313 Gwangmyeong-ro, Gwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
In samenwerking met: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, MMCA, South Korea

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

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Locatie: Witte de Withstraat 50, 3012 BR Rotterdam
In samenwerking met: Kunstinstituut Melly

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

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Locatie: Out_sight and OS
In samenwerking met: Out_sight and OS

International group exhibition

http://www.out-sight.net/out_sight/bbs/board.php?bo_table=c_exhibition&wr_id=29&ckattempt=1

Open Studio

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Locatie: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Fine Art
In samenwerking met: Piet Zwart Institute, Master Fine Art

Open studio + group exhibition

Fragmented measure, vitality of the spirit

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Locatie: Seoul
In samenwerking met: Seoul Museum of Art

Solo exhibition

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

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Locatie: Lumsden
In samenwerking met: Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)

Jaguar

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Locatie: Santander
In samenwerking met: Fundación Botín

Collaborative exhibition

Selected Artist for Carsten Höller's Game Workshop

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Locatie: Santander
In samenwerking met: Fundación Botín

Workshop residency for creating artisic games

https://www.centrobotin.org/en/carsten-holler-arrives-in-santander-to-lead-the-villa-iris-visual-arts-workshop/

Spring, summer, short

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Locatie: Seoul
In samenwerking met: Artspace Boan 1942

Grroup exhibition

Dam: Liquid Wounds on the Planetary Body
Junghun Kim Dam: Liquid Wounds on the Planetary Body
BREATHE A MENDING SONG INTO THESE EARTHLY WOUNDS
Junghun Kim BREATHE A MENDING SONG INTO THESE EARTHLY WOUNDS