Recent Projects
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The Middle Land : When Time Unfolds into a Land
ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2021
Breaking the Monument (Images of Resistance)
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostelle, Spain
2021
We Do Not Dream Alone
Asia Society Triennale, New York, USA
2020
Photo by Bruce M. White, courtesy of Asia Society
The Light House
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2020
Photo by Jan Liegeois
Kimsooja: Planted Names
Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2020
Photo by Jan Liegeois
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting
Wanås Foundation - Wanås Konst, Sweden
2020
Photo by Mattias Givell
Traversées / Kimsooja
Inaugural biennale in the city of Poitiers, France
2019
Photo by Jan Liegeois
Landscape of Beings
Le Confort Moderne, as part of Traversées\Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
2019
Photo by Yann Gachet
Kimsooja, Archive of Mind
Installation at Peabody Essex Museum
2019
Photo by Bob Packert
Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero
Installation at The Rubin Museum of Art
2019
Photo by David De Armas
To Breathe
and
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2018 / 2019
Photo by Mark Reeves
Zone of Nowhere
Solo Exhibition at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2018
Photo by Alessandro Bianchetti
To Breathe – The Flags
Installation for the Perth Festival, Perth, Australia
2018
Photo by Alessandro Bianchetti
Kimsooja – Gazing into Sphere
Solo Exhibition at Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem, Belgium
2018
Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
Kimsooja, Weaving the World
Solo Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017
Photo by Aaron Wax
Encounter - A Mirror Woman
Installation at Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Archive of Mind
Performative Installation at Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Itally
2017
Photo by Georg Malfertheiner
Bottari
Installation at Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel
2005 / 2017
Photo by Jasper Kettner
The Urge to Create Vision
Exhibition at Centrum Rzezby Polskiej, Oronsko, Poland
2017
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Kewenig, Berlin
2017
Kimsooja, Deductive Object
Site Specific Installation at Art Basel | Hong Kong
2017
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of the Flanerie
Group Exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Kimsooja: To Breathe - Zone of Zero
Installation at CAC Málaga, Spain
2016
Kimsooja, Weaving the World
Installation at CC Strombeek, Belgium
2016
Kimsooja
Installation at Gangoji Temple
Commissioned by Culture City of East Asia, Nara Japan
2016
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016:
KIMSOOJA - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind
Solo Exhibition at MMCA, Seoul
2016
Bottari, 2005
Installation at Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp at
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Greece
2016
Bottari
Installation at 20 Bienal De Arte Paiz, Guatemala
2016
Unfolding Bottari - Geometry of Possession
Installation at Public to Private: Photography and Korean Arts SInce 1989
at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2015
Kimsooja: To Breathe
Solo Exhibition at Centre Pompidou - Metz
2015
Photograph by Jaeho Chong
Kimsooja: Thread Routes - Chapter III
Exhibition at Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp
2015
Kimsooja: Thread Routes
Solo exhibition at The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2015
Kimsooja: Earth - Water - Fire - Air
Exhibition at XIV Bienal de Fotografía de Córdoba
2015
To Breathe: Obangsaek
Solo exhibition at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2014-2015
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, 2014
Installation at Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, Cornell University, New York
2014
Photograph by Jaeho Chong
Kimsooja, Bottaris, 2014
Solo Exhibition at La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
2014
Thread Routes - Chapter I, 2010
Installation at Total Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
2014
Photograph by Lee Stalswortha
Earth of Water, 2009
Installation at Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Gangjeong
2014
Courtesy of Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Gangjeong
To Breathe: The Flags, 2012
Installation at Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2014
Photograph by Weng-rong Chen
To Breathe: Mandala, 2014
Installation at Kewenig Gallery, Palma
2014
Courtesy of Kewenig Gallery, Palma
An Album: Sewing into Borderlines, 2013
Site specific installation at Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA
2013
Kimsooja Unfolding, 2013
Retrospective exhibition at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2013
Photo by Rachel Topham
Mandala: Zone of Zero, 2004 - 2010
Installation at Zacheta National Gallery, Poland
2013
Photo by Maciej Landsberg
A Needle Woman, 1999 - 2001
Installation at Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
2013
Photo by Nora Rupp
To Breathe: Bottari, 2013
Solo Exhibition at The Korean Pavilion, Venice
2013
Photo by Jaeho Chong
To Breathe - Flags, 2012
Instillation for the Contemporary Art Trail 2012 Aix-en-Provence, France
2012
Photo by Elizabeth Carecchio
To Breathe, 2012
Solo exhibition at Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2012
Photo by Sang Tae Kim
Bottari Tricycle, 2012
Installation at GLStrand, Copenhagen
2012
Courtesy of GLStrand, Copenhagen
Encounter - Looking into Sewing, 1998 - 2011
Solo exhibition at 44Møen, Denmark
2012
Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin. Photo by Simon Vogel, Berlin/ Cologne
Earth - Water - Fire - Air, 2012
Installation at PERM Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia
2012
Installation photo by Aleksey Gushchin
A Needle Woman, 2005
Installation at Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne
2012
Photo by Yves Bresson
A Needle Woman, 1999 - 2001
Exhibition of the collection of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2011
Photo by Myung Yi-Shik
Kimsooja, Solo exhibition at UMASS
Video installation at Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amhurst
2011
Photos by Stephen Petegorsky
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2007 - 2008
Four channel video projection, sound, 10:25 min loop, 2007 - 2008
Site specific installation at Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011
Courtesy of the Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Photo by James Prinz
Bottari: The Island, 2011
Site specific 8 Bottari installation at Palazzo Fortuni, Venice
2011
Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Foundation and Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan. Photo by Jean-Pierre Gabriel
Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2011
Installation at Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul
2011
Courtesy of Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul
An Album: Hudson Guild, 2011
Single channel projection, sound, 31:39 min loop, 2009
Site specific screening at SVA theater, New York
2011
Commissioned by More Art, New York. Photo by Jason Schmidt
To Breathe: Zuoz
Installation image Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
2010
diffraction grating film on window, 5 windows
133.8 x 83 cm each, sound
Photo by FBM Studio, Zürich
Earth - Water - Fire - Air, 2009 - 2010
Installation view at Nuclear Power Plant Art Project - Yeonggwang, Korea
2010
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2008
Video projection at Johanniterkirche Feldkirch, presented by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein
2010
Mandala: Chant for Auschuwitz, 2010
Installation at Poznan Biennial in Hitler's former office at Zamek, Poznan
2010
Photo by Adam Ciereszko
Earth - Water - Fire - Air, 2009 - 2010
Installation view at Atelier Hermes, Seoul
2010
A Needle Woman
Installation at Nuit Blanche, Paris
2009
Commissioned by Nuit Blanche Paris 2009. Photos by Thierry Depagne
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2009
Installation at Continua Gallery, Le Moulin
2009
Photos by Thierry Depagne
Bottari, 2009
Installation at La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Negron, France
2009
Photos by Andre Morin
Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2003
Installation at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels
2008
Courtesy of the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels and
the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Korea. Photos by Mikåel Falke
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 1999 - 2001
Installation at Continua Gallery, Beijing
2008
Photos by Oak Taylor Smith
The House Project, 2008
Laukvik, Lofoten Islands, Norway
Installation at Lofoten International Art Festival
2008
Photos by Kjell Ove Storvik
A Mirror Woman - The Sun & The Moon, 2008
The Sun - Unfolded, 2008
Video installation and framed photographs
Installation views from Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, 2008
This project was possible with the generous support of Shiseido Co., Ltd.
Photos by Tadahisa Sakurai
Bottari Truck - Migrateurs, "Je Reviendrai", 2007
Commissioned by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
Performance in Paris, November 10, 2007 and
Installation at MAC/VAL, Paris, 2008
Photo by Thierry Depagne
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, 2006
Theatre du Chatelet
Nuit Blanche, Paris
October 7, 2006
Photos by Thierry Depagne
To Breathe / Respirar
Respirar - Una mujer espejo, 2006
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Palacio de Cristal. Parque del Retiro. Madrid
April 27 to July 24, 2006
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Photos by José Luis Municio and Jaeho Chong,
Courtesy Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
To Breathe / Respirar, 2006
The Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
January 27 to March 20, 2006
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Photos by Luca Campigotto