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Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
The Meta-Painting series explores the fundamental principles of painting and its origins. It began in 2020 at the Wanås Konst Sculpture Park in Sweden, where Kimsooja produced linen spun from flax that she had planted, cultivated, and harvested. It was later woven into a canvas surface as a form of painting that need not be painted. The project reconstructs painting as a life-generating cycle, and the unpainted canvas investigates the conceptual relationship between painting, agriculture, and textiles.
The black Meta-Paintings conceptualize and bring to reality the absence of light and surface. They take form as both a flat and a wrapped surface, continuing the formalistic trajectory of Kimsooja’s folded and unfolded Bottari. While the depth of black color absorbs nearly all light and shadow, its surface resists our discernment. The piece points toward painting as a place of not knowing, a site of vulnerability, and a moment of beginning.
As a counterpart to the Meta-Painting series, To Breathe is a site-specific installation that prismatically diffracts natural sunlight into radiating spectral bands, or concentric double-axis brushstrokes of vertical and horizontal colors. The displacement of lightwaves guides the eyes back and forth across the threshold of architecture, effectively turning the act of gazing into a form of weaving the surface.
Photo by Shim Kyuho
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1 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 160x112cm
2 Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2024, Site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
3 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 162.2x112.1x6cm
4 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53x40.9x4cm
5 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53x40.9x4cm
6 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 90.9x65.1x4cm
7 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 116.8x80.3cm
8 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 116.7x80.3cm
9 Kimsooja, Sewing into Darkness, 2023, Archival pigment print, 59x74cm each
10 Kimsooja, Topology of Time, 2016, Giclée (Inkjet) Print, Print: 170.5x114.1cm, Image: 147.9x91.4cm
Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta – Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta – Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
19 April to 8 September 2024
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Photo by Hyunjung Kwon
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A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
Geometry of Fire –Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
Bottari – a couple, 2020, Used clothing, cloth, 60 × 60 × 50(h) cm.
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
13 July, 2024 – 21 April, 2025
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Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid
To Breathe, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and mirror floor panels, size variable
Installation view at Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Kimsooja, To Breathe - Archive of Prototype, Axel Vervoordt, Patio Gallery
Kimsooja, To Breathe - Archive of Prototype, Axel Vervoordt, Patio Gallery
16 March to 31 August 2024
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Photo by Jan Liégeois
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01 - 05 To Breathe – Archive of Prototype, 2019-2023, Traditional stained glass and dichroic glass, Set of 3, each 80 x 50cm, Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
06 Meta-Painting, 2019-2023, Nanopolymer glass, Black lead paint, Lead, each 17.5 x 17.5 x 0.5cm
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Constellation, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Constellation, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
20 March to 2 September 2024
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Directrice générale / Executive Director: Emma Lavigne
Responsable des expositions: Charles Halperin
© Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier.
Photo by Florent Michel/11h45/Pinault Collection.
© Kimsooja/ADAGP, Paris, 2024.
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01 - 02 To Breathe – Constellation, 2024, Site-specific installation with mirror panels, Courtesy of Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Galerie Tschudi and Kimsooja Studio
03 Geometry of Body, 2013/2024, Archival pigment print on paper, Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Anvers/Hong Kong and Kimsooja Studio
04 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster casting of the artist's arms, Courtesy of KEWENIG, Berlin and Kimsooja Studio
05 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean rice paper, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
06 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Bisque porcelain, Courtesy of KEWENIG, Berlin; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin; Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Germany and Kimsooja Studio
07 (Left) Sewing Into Walking - Kyungju, 1994, Single Channel Video, 19:40 loop, Silent, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio,
(Right) Five Bottari Installation, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
08 Five Bottari Installation, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
09 A Needle Woman – Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, New York, 1999‑2000, 4 Channel Video, 6:33 loop, Silent, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
25 October 2023 to 19 February 2024
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Guest curator: Keumhwa Kim
Curators of the museum: Kerstin Pinther, Uta Rahman-Steinert
Photo by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für
Asiatische Kunst / Pierre Adenis
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01 - 02 Bottari 1999-2019, Shipping Container Painted the Colors of Obangsaek, Containing All of the Artist's Personal Possessions from Her New York Apartment, 20ft high cubic container, 290 x 606 x 244 cm
03 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster Casting of Artist's Arms and Antique Wooden Table, Unique
04 - 06 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Bisque porcelain, Unique
07 Sewing into Soil: Invisible Needle, Invisible Thread, 2023, Bisque porcelain, Unique
08 - 09 Bottari Installation, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Unique
09 (Video) Sewing Into Walking – Kyungju, 1994, DVD, Single Channel Video, 19:40 loop, Silent
10 Deductive Object, 2007, 19th C. Baguette Cart from France, 8 bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords / Deductive Object, 2007, 9th C. Baguette Cart from France, 6 Bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords / Deductive Object, 2007, Used Cloth, Wrapping Cloth
11 Thread Routes – Chapter I, 2010, Bluray disc, Single Channel Video, 24:52 loop, Sound, HD / Thread Routes - Chapter II, 2011, Bluray disc, Single Channel Video, 23:50 loop, Sound, HD / Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014, DVD, Single Channel Video, 27:48 loop, Sound, HD
12 To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004), loop / Mandala: Zone of Zero, 2004-2010, Single channel mixed media sound installation (One Jukebox, Three Chants Mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50, loop
Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void, Sèvres National Manufactory and Museum, Sèvres, France
Kimsooja: Wrapping the Void, Sèvres National Manufactory and Museum, Sèvres, France
9 October - 5 November 2023
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Courtesy of Manufacture de Sèvres – Cité de la Céramique and Kimsooja Studio
Photo by Jaeho Chong
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01 - 03 Deductive Object - Bottari, 2019, A set of 9 pieces of stoneware, terracotta
04 Deductive Object - Bottari, 2019, Bisque porcelain, 45x40cm
05 Deductive Object, 2019, Porcelain, Variable
06 - 09 Deductive Object, 2019, Stoneware, Variable
10 - 12 Sewing into Soil: Invisible Needle, Invisible Thread, Stoneware
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, Germany
8 September - 4 November 2023
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Photo by Lepkowski Studios, Berlin
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01 - 03 Meta-Painting, 2020, Linen Canvases Stretched on Wooden Frame and Bottari Made of Linen Canvases, Used Local Clothes, 200 x 324 cm
04 To Breathe - Kewenig, 2023, Site-specific Installation with diffraction grating film, Variable
05 - 07 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean Rice Paper, 104.5 x 73 x 6 cm
08 - 09 To Breathe - Kewenig, 2023, Site-specific Installation with diffraction grating film, Variable
To Breathe – Venice
To Breathe – Venice
Installation view at Group Exhibition Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
2 April 2023 - 26 November 2026
For more information about the exhibition, please click HERE.
01 - 02 Photo by Marco Cappelletti e Filippo Rossi
03 - 04 Photo by Kimsooja
© Kimsooja
Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
To Breathe - Venice, 2023, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and mirror panel.
Courtesy of Punta della Dogana and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by © Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection
To Breathe, Galeries Lafayette, Paris
To Breathe, Galeries Lafayette, Paris
On Galeries Lafayette’s invitation, Kimsooja illuminates the department store’s magnificent architecture with her light-oriented installation To Breathe. By covering the iconic glass dome in Galeries Lafayette’s Paris Haussmann store with diffraction grating film, Kimsooja transforms the dome’s external surfaces and internal spaces into iridescent landscapes that shift and change throughout the day. For this site-specific installation (the first in Paris on this scale), Kimsooja explores the building’s sensory and meditative qualities by focusing visitors’ attention on light to create an environment conducive to contemplation. Space in between double dome on the 5th floor is exceptionally opened to the public for the installation.
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Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France
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01-05 Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2023
Diffraction grating film installation, size variable
Installation view at Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, Paris, 2023.
Courtesy of the Galeries Lafayette Group and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Jaeho Chong
Weaving the Light, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen
Weaving the Light, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen
In 2023, Kimsooja captures the underground space of Cisternerne. The audience is invited into an etheral space where light, projected into iridescent color spectra, transforms the former water reservoir into a sacred sea of light. Every year, the Frederiksberg Museums invites an artist to create a site-specific work for the 4,400 square meters of Cisternerne, into which the daylight never reaches, the humidity is close to 100%, the reverberation is of 17 seconds, and the temperature fluctuates between 4 and 16 degrees Celsius. In an extensive installation of light and color, Kimsooja transforms Cisternerne into an ephemeral universe, where the light radiates like brushstrokes on transparent canvases and breaks the darkness. The work is comprised of diffraction grating film that is mounted on transparent panels, which altogether let light pass through a microscopic surface of horizontal and vertical prisms. Rays of light split into vibrant colors that dynamically weave in and out of the subterranean colonnades.
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Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Installation view of Weaving the Light, 2023, site-specific installation consisting of 48 diffraction panels, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Denmark.
Courtesy of Frederiksberg Museum and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Torben Eskerod
Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Topography of Body is Kimsooja’s first solo exhibition after several presentations in the city. The exhibition features a selection of work that demonstrates her vast multidisciplinary practice including the video performance, Thread Routes: Chapter III, a series of indigo Indian block prints, new clay and rice paper works, and two prints of Geometry of Body.
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
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01 Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter III - Deductive Object, 2012-2015
block printing table covers, dimension variable
Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Kit Min
02 Kimsooja, Thread Routes - Chapter III, 2012
16 mm film transferred to HD format, sound, 17:35
Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Kit Min
03 Left: Kimsooja, Geometry of Body, 2013/ 2015
Giclée (Inkjet) print on hot press paper, 168 x 112 x 5 cm
Right: Kimsooja, Geometry of Mind, 2023
Clay balls, Diameter 40 cm
04 Right: Kimsooja, Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023
Korean rice paper, 105 x 74 x 6 cm
Left: Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2022
250 sheets of Korean rice paper, 93.5 x 61.5 x 3 cm
05 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting(detail), 2022
250 sheets of Korean rice paper, 93.5 x 61.5 x 3 cm
Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido
Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido
As the first artist to exhibit at Meridiano, Kimsooja is conscious of the gallery’s name, which originates from meridian — a circular line connecting the north and south poles of the earth at the shortest vertical distance — as well as the exhibition space’s architectural elements, which are exposed to the intense direct sunlight along Oaxaca’s Pacific Coast. Jaoseon’s initiates a performance that places the verticality of the body at the moment when the light is transformed into a geometric structure within the gallery.
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Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
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01 Kimsooja, Geometry of Fire, 2023
Site-specific installation for Jaoseon at Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Sergio López
02-03 Kimsooja, Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023
stone, matte black water-based paint, 128 x 176 x 117(LxWxH)cm
production location: Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Sergio López
04-06 Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, 2023, Performance.
Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Sergio López
Archive of Mind, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
Archive of Mind, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
Making Worlds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
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In occasion of Sydney Modern Project's inauguration, Archive of Mind is now on view at Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia. With the artwork, Kimsooja invites visitors to collect a handful of clay, sit at the large work surface, and empty their minds of distraction; to sink into the experience of forming a ball of clay between the hands, rolling and wrapping it into itself like an infinite Bottari. The process transforms simple, everyday actions into moments of meditation and transcendence. As each sphere is completed, it is added to the table, forming an organic arrangement that holds the imprint of each maker. Archive of mind is accompanied by Unfolding Sphere, a subtle soundscape composed of two sounds: the artist gurgling water and clay balls being pressed, rolled and colliding with one another. At some moments it recalls a distant thunderstorm, at others, a burbling stream.
This presentation of Archive of Mind is supported by a grant from the Australia-Korea Foundation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Purchase with funds provided by the Art Gallery of New South Wales Foundation 2018
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Image Copyright AGNSW, Christopher Snee
Archive of mind
Participatory Installation with Clay Ball, Wooden Table and Stools, Sound Performance Unfolding Sphere(2016), 16 Channel 15:35, loop
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
BienalSUR, Buenos Aires
BienalSUR, Buenos Aires
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Based in Seoul, Paris and New York, international conceptual artist Kimsooja (b. 1957) has for the past four decades oriented her practice in alignment with the totality of art and life. Kimsooja participates in BIENAL SUR 2021, an artistic endeavor that seeks to break down cultural barriers and connect the world in the pandemic era, through an exhibition titled KIMSOOJA BUENOS AIRES. Chapter 1: Kimsooja. The Encounter with the Other (2021.09.10-12.23), KIMSOOJA BUENOS AIRES. Chapter 2: Kimsooja. Nomad (2021.09.15-11.21) and Chapter 3 at Korean Cultural Center (CCC). This solo presentation comprises 26 works of video and film, including A Needle Woman, as well as large-scale installations, objects and photographs displayed from September 2 to December 15 in major museums and theaters across Buenos Aires as well as the Korean Cultural Center. The third edition of BIENAL SUR proposes a culturally open topography of art that respects the diversity of different cultures and addresses ecological awareness, ways of living, art politics and issues of transit and migration. Such themes resonate with Kimsooja’s longstanding artistic contemplation of the world’s order, cycles and borders and reflects her efforts to transcend various media with a consistent emphasis on compassion and humanity.
Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina and host city of BIENAL SUR, is a multicultural metropolis that has embraced immigrant populations from Europe, Africa and Asia throughout significant historical incidents including Spanish colonization, World Wars I and II and the Algerian War. Kimsooja installs several works around the city’s harbor, a place where immigrants to Buenos Aires first came ashore, revealing a new symbolic significance as they transpose the meaning of migration from the artist’s personal realm into one of universal empathy. Bottari Truck – Migrateures (2008) symbolically portrays the journey of an immigrant in Paris by wrapping and unwrapping a bottari (bundle) before departing; the concept of movement associated with bottari is visualized in the form of a container in recent works Bottari: 1999-2019 and its extended five-color (Obangsaek) container Bottari:2021; and a documentary film series, Thread Routes (2010-2019), poetically considers the universality of human culture as it merges natural landscapes with traditional textile cultures around the world. Kimsooja’s works actively engage with spaces that symbolize the city’s diversity and history of immigration, opening new possibilities for individuals of different backgrounds to coexist.
The National University of Tres de Febero’s Museum of Immigration (MUNTREF), which was built to commemorate the arrivals of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America in the late 19th century, features Bottari:2021 on its façade, while A Needle Woman (2005) appears inside. Archive of Mind, a participatory installation of dry clay balls set on a large elliptical table, invites audiences to join in a contemplative communal performance by holding the clay balls in their hands and rolling them across the table while listening to the sound of Kimsooja's murmuring voice in Unfolding Spheres (2016). As both discrete individuals and a collective community, the audience shares the materiality of the clay as well as the inner aesthetic journey of clearing one’s mind. The group of uniquely shaped clay balls are produced as the axes of encounters among numerous sets of intersecting hands and signify the meetings of all beings scattered throughout the cosmos, who coexist through connected relations. In To Breathe (2021), installed at the crosswalk that traverses the museum building from east and to west, one can metaphorically yet viscerally experience the artist’s dematerialized artworld of “non-doing, non-making” light painting, where visitors’ breath and refractions of light are transformed through diffraction grating film that illuminates the space with a rainbow light spectrum.
New works presented at MUNTREF are also noteworthy, including new iterations of the artist’s representative bottari, which represent the movements and border crossings that envelop the world’s diversity, as well as To Breathe: the flags(2012), whereby local residents’ old clothes are wrapped in colorful fabrics of Obangsaek tones that are commonly found in everyday Argentine life and made into minimal bottari, thus connecting with and embracing multiple social contexts. Thread Routes (2010-2019) further conveys Kimsooja's perspective toward the links that connect global textile cultures, architecture, nature and handcrafts, allowing viewers to experience the visual connections between dyeing, embroidery, weaving, lacework, tile and pottery practices.
The artist's Deductive Object series installed at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes suggests a new aesthetics of the readymade by loading carts with bottari made out of laundry bags, supplemented by A Needle Woman [Paris, 2009] and lightbox photos of the bottari series. Installed in the mirror room of the Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo is To Breathe, a large mirror installation on the floor is paired with sound from The Weaving Factory (2004); the Korean Cultural Center presents Deductive Object, an Obangsaek carpet work, and Mandala: Zone of Zero; and the historical Margarita Xirgu Theatre screens To Breathe - Invisible Mirror, Invisible Needle (2005). By encountering Kimsooja’s works at culturally significant locations throughout Buenos Aires, audiences are encouraged to reflect on issues of migration and transit in the age of globalization, thereby constructing a visual platform of harmony and solidarity. This project marks the artist’s first large-scale exhibition in Latin America since 1997, when she participated in the Bienal de São Paulo with Cities on the Move - 11163 miles Bottari Truck.
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
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01 : Kimsooja, Bottari: 1999-2019, 2021, Site-specific installation consisting of shipping container painted the colors of obangsaek, containing all of the artist's personal possessions from her New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina, Courtesy of the Bienal SUR 2021 and Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
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The Wanås Foundation presents Sowing Into Painting a multidimensional project including site-specific installations, film, sculpture, and painting. Wana?s Konst is a unique cultural foundation in Southern Sweden, composed of a sculpture park and art galleries on the site of a medieval castle and an organic farm. Kimsooja’s exhibition incorporates the diversity of the location in newly-conceived works investigating the conceptual relationship between painting, agriculture and textiles.
Photo by Mattias Givell
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01 - 03: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Sowing, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
04 - 06: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Blossoming, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Elin Magnusson
07 - 09: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. From flower to fruit, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Martin Lang
10 - 12: Kimsooja, Sowing into Painting, 2020. Seed Capsules and harvesting, Work in progress with two planted varieties of flax seeds (for flax seeds oil and linen) in Wanås Konst open fields. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Martin Lang
13 - 15: Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2020. Various linen canvases stretched on wooden frame and bottaris made of linen canvases, used local clothes. Canvases 200 x 324 cm each, bottari dimensions variable. Installation view at Wanås Konst Art Gallery. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
16 - 17: Kimsooja, A Laundry Field, 2020. Site-specific installation consisting of 100 local Swedish embroidered bedsheets. Installation view at Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Sweden. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
18 : Kimsooja, Thread Routes - Chapters I, II, IV, 2010, 2011, 2014. 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound. Installation view at Wanås Konst. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Mattias Givell
19 - 21: Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2020. Site-specific installation with mirror panels and sound performance The Weaving Factory, 2004-2013, 5.1 channel, 9:14, loop. Installation view at Wanås Konst Hay Barn. Courtesy of Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Mattias Givell.
22 - 24: Kimsooja, Deductive Objects, 1993-2020. Site-specific installation consisting of fabric filled into the existing holes of the century old hay barn wall. Installation view at Wanås Konst Hay Barn. Courtesy of the Wanås Konst and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Mattias Givell.
To Breathe – The Flags, Asia Society Museum, New York
To Breathe – The Flags, Asia Society Museum, New York
Installation at the 1st Asia Society Triennial: We Do Not Dream Alone: Art and creativity under lockdown, Asia Society Museum, New York, USA
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Photo by Bruce M. White
Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent, Courtesy of Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy and Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja: Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation at Kimsooja, Planted Names, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Jan Liegeois
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01 - 04 Planted Names, 2002, Set of 4 Woven Carpets, Unique
05 - 06 Bottari: Alpha Beach, 2001, Single Channel Video, 6:18 loop, Silent
Bottari 2018. Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Perth, Australia, Courtesy of Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand and Kimsooja Studio
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
Kimsooja presents 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France for the inaugural Traversées biennale
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Photo by Jan Liegeois
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01 - 02: Kimsooja, To Breathe - Tour Maubergeon , 2019, site-specific installation with mirror panels. Installation view at Tour Maubergeon, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegois.
03 - 04: Kimsooja, Archive of Mind , 2019, participatory site-specific installation consisting of clay balls, 18m elliptical wooden table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere, 2016. Installation view at Palais des ducs d'Aquitane, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegois.
05 - 06: Kimsooja, To Breathe - La Canopée , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at La Canopée, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
07 - 08: Kimsooja, Bottari Truck , 2007, site-specific installation consisting of 1976 Peugeot 404 pickup truck, bottaris. Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegeois (07) and Yann Gachet (08).
09 - 10: Kimsooja, Planted Names , 2002, site-specific installation consisting of carpets woven with the names of people enslaved at Drayton Hall Plantation. Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
11 - 12: Kimsooja, To Breathe - The Flags , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of mixed nationality flags. Installation view at Rue de Cathédrale, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Raffaella Cortese Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
13 - 15: Kimsooja, Encounter, A Mirror Woman, 2017, site-specific installation consisting of folding mirror screen. Installation view at Confort Moderne, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, le Confort Moderne, Axel Vervoordt Gallery Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegeois.
16 - 18: Kimsooja, Bottari: 1999-2019 , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of shipping container painted the colors of obangsaek, containing all of the artist's personal posessions from her New York apartment. Installation view at Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet (16) and Sebastien Laval.
19: Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter I, II, II, 2010-2012, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound. Installation view at Musée Sainte-Croix, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, the Musée Sainte-Croix and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
20 - 21: Kimsooja, production stills from Thread Routes Chapter VI , 2019, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 5.1 sound, 28:20. Commission of the City of Poitiers. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Thierry Depagne.
22 - 24: Kimsooja, Solarescope , 2019, site-specific lighting installation at Notre-Dame La Grande, Poitiers. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet
25: Kimsooja, Bottari , 2017. Installation view at La Canopée, 2019. Courtesy of the Kewenig Gallery, City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio.
26: Kimsooja, To Breathe , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at Sainte - Radegonde Church, 2019. Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
27: Kimsooja, Mumbai : A Laundry Field , 2007. Installation view at the Maison de l'Architecture, 2019. Courtesy of Kewenig Gallery, the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Installation view at Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, le Confort Moderne, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Galerie Tschudi and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Yann Gachet
(Left to right:)
01 To Breathe, 2019, Site Specific Installation with Mirrors
02 Encounter: A Mirror Woman, 2019, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Folding Mirror Screen.
03 - 04 Mandala: Zone of Zero, 2004-2010, Single channel mixed media sound installation (One Jukebox, Three Chants Mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50, loop, Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d)
05 A Needle Woman, Performed and filmed in Paris, 2009, Single Channel Video, 25:00 loop, Silent, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009, Paris.
Zone of Nowhere, PICA, Perth, Australia
Zone of Nowhere, PICA, Perth, Australia
Site-specific Installation View at at Zone of Nowhere, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts(PICA), Perth, Australia
Commissioned by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts(PICA)
Courtesy of Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Alessandro Bianchetti
(Left to right:)
01 - 06 To Breathe – Zone of Nowhere, 2017, Site-specific Installation Consisting of 30 Polyester Flags, 243 x 152 cm each, Courtesy of Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy and Kimsooja Studio
07 - 10 Bottari, 2018, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Perth, Courtesy of Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth and Kimsooja Studio.
11 - 12 Mandala: Zone of Zero, 2004 – 2010, Single channel mixed media sound installation (One Jukebox, Three Chants Mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50, loop, Courtesy of Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand and Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition at Kimsooja - Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
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Photo by Stefan Müller
(Left to right:)
01 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 8 clay balls, 23.5 x 36.2 x 10.16 cm
02 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 9 clay balls, 20.32 x 28.58 x 6.99 cm
03 Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 40 clay balls, 40.64 x 23.5 x 13.97 cm
04 (Left) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 40 clay balls, 40.64 x 23.5 x 13.97 cm
(Right Back) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 8 clay balls, 23.5 x 36.2 x 10.16 cm
(Right Front) Deductive Object, 2016, antique wooden box and 9 clay balls, 20.32 x 28.58 x 6.99 cm
05 - 06 Bottari, 2017, Black Bedcover and Used Clothing, 48 x 57(dia) cm
07 Bottari, 2017, White Bedcover and Used Clothing from Michael Kewenig, 48 x 57(dia) cm
08 A Laundry Woman, 2017, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Used artist's clothing, Clothesline, Clothespins, and Black Bottari
09 (Left) Geometry of Body, 2013 / 2015, Giclée Inkjet Print, 170.5 x 114.1 cm
(Center) A Laundry Woman, 2017, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Used artist's clothing, Clothesline, Clothespins, and Black Bottari
(Right) Topology of Time, 2016, Giclée Inkjet Print, 170.5 x 114.1 cm
10 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster Casting of Artist's Arms and Antique Wooden Table, 130.81 x 62.87 x 68.58 cm
11 Geometry of Body, 2006 - 2015, Rubber, Jute, and Natural Cotton - Used Artist's Yogamat, 182.88 x 60.96 cm
12 One Breathe, 2004 / 2016, Digital Embroidery on Stretched Silk, Abstract from The Weaving Factory(2004) Sound Performance by the Artist, 61.4 x 179.5 x 7 cm
13 An Album Havana, 2007, Single Channel Video, 6:57 loop, Silent
14 An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, 5.1 Sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
15 (Left) An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009 / 2017, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 152.4 cm
(Right) An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, 5.1 Sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
16 (Back) Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007, Single Channel Video, 9:17 loop, Silent, Performed in Paris, Commissioned by Musée D'Art Contemporain du Val-De-Marne (MAC/VAL)
(Front) Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2008, 2.5 ton truck from France (1976 Peugeot 404 Pickup), Bottaris, Bungee Cords, Performed in Paris, Commissioned by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
17 (Back) Cities on the Move – 11633 Mile Bottari Truck, 1998 / 2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 188.5 x 128 x 25.5 cm,
(Front) Deductive Objects – Bottari Cart, 2007, 19th C. Baguette Cart from France, Bottaris, Bungee Cords, (Bottari cart) 6 Bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords, 106(h) x 100 x 63cm, (Bottari cart) 8 bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords, 100(h) x 100 x 65 cm, (Sigle Bottari) Used Cloth, Wrapping Cloth, 30 x 65 cm
18 To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004), 9:14 loop, Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d)
Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Installation at Solo Exhibition Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Aaron Wax
(Left to right:)
01 Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014, Single Channel Video, 27:48 loop, Sound
02 (Left) Thread Routes - Chapter I 2010, Single Channel Video, 24:52 loop, Sound
(Right) Thread Routes Chapter IV - Lightwaves 2010/2016, Single Channel Video, 27:48 loop, Sound
03 - 04 (Left) Thread Routes Chapter IV - Lightwaves 2010/2016, Single Channel Video, 27:48 loop, Sound
(Right) Thread Routes - Chapter IV, 2014, Single Channel Video, 27:48 loop, Sound
Documenta 14: ANTIDORON, Fridericianum, Kassel
Documenta 14: ANTIDORON, Fridericianum, Kassel
Installation at Documenta 14: ANTIDORON - The EMST Collection, Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel
First exhibited in 2005, Kimsooja, Journey into the World, EMST, Athens, Greece
Courtesy of Documenta 14, Athens, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, EMST Collection, Athens and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Jasper Kettner
(Left to Right:)
01 - 03 Bottari, 2005, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Athens, Collection of EMST
04 - 05 Bottari, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes from Kassel
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Courtesy of CAC Málaga and Kimsooja Studio
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photo by José Luis Gutiérrez
(Left to right:)
01 - 04 Lotus: Zone of Zero, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of 708 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure and Cables, Variable (First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium)
05 - 06 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent
Kimsooja: Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
Kimsooja: Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
Installation at Kimsooja: Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium, Strombeek, Belgium
Courtesy of CC Strombeek and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Sophie Nuytten
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01 - 04 Thread Routes Chapter II - Site II, 2016, Site Specific Installation with Mirrors, Variable
05 - 08 Thread Routes - Chapter II, 2011/2016, Video Installation, 23:50 loop, Sound, HD
09 Architecture of Vulnerability - Darkness, 2011/2015, Series of 5 Digital C-Prints, (each) Print: 63.5x88.9cm, Image: 50.8x76.2cm
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
Installation View at Kimsooja - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA)
Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Aaron Wax
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01 - 06 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, 2016, Participatory Site-specific Installation Consisting of Assorted Clay Balls, 19m Wooden Table, and sound performance Unfolding Sphere(2016), Dimensions Variable
07 - 08 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster Casting of Artist's Arms and Antique Wooden Table, 130.8 x 70.5 x 68.6 cm
09 - 10 Deductive Object, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Painted Welded Steel, Mirror: 10 x 10 m, Sculpture: 2.45 x 1.5(dia)m
11 To Breathe, 2016, Site-specific Installation Consisting of Diffraction Grating Film on Window, Dimensions Variable
12 - 17 Thread Routes – Chapter V, 2016, Single Channel Video, 21:59, 5.1 Sound
18 Geometry of Body, 2006 – 2015, Rubber, Jute, and Natural Cotton - Used Artist's Yogamat, 182.9 x 60.9 cm, Unique
19 One Breath, 2004 / 2016, Digital Embroidery on Satin, abstract from The Weaving Factory(2004) sound performance by the artist, 61.4 x 179.5 x 7 cm, Unique
20 A Study On Body, 1981, Series of 5 Silkscreen Prints, Print: 34 x 34 cm, Paper: 48.1 x 50.5 cm, Frame: 57.1 x 54.4 x 2 cm
The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
Installation at The XIV Cordoba Photography Biennale: Kimsooja: Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Sala Olive, Cordoba, Spain
Commissioned by Lanzerote Biennale and Hermes Foundation, Paris, Courtesy of La Fabrica, Madrid and Kimsooja Studio
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01 Aire de Tierra / Air of Earth, 2009, 6:25 loop, Sound, Fuego de Aire / Fire of Air, 2009, 08:00 loop, Silent, Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009, 06:57 loop, Silent
02 Aire de Fuego / Air of Fire, 2009, 3:47 loop, Sound, Agua de Tierra / Water of Earth, 2009, 05:42 loop, Silent, Fuego de Tierra / Fire of Earth, 2009, 09:22 loop, Silent
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Installation View at Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
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(Left to right:)
01 Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, Stills from the Video
02 Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, Single Channel Video, 17:35 loop, 5.1 Sound
03 - 10 Thread Routes Chapter III - Deductive Object, 2015, Fabric Installation, Cotton Tablecloth for Block Print and Paint Residue, Dimensions Variable
11 - 13 Thread Routes – Chapter III - Lightwaves, 2010 - 2015, Stills from the Video
Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Installation view at Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Courtesy of Guggenheim Bilbao and Kimsooja Studio
Video by Erika Ede
Thread Routes - Chapter I, 2010, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 24:52 loop, Sound
Thread Routes - Chapter II, 2011, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 23:50 loop, Sound
Thread Routes - Chapter III, 2012, 16mm film transferred to HD Format, 17:35 loop, Sound