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Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009/2015
Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009/2015
Digital C-Print
103.5 x 170 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Video Still Image from Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009
Deductive Object, 2009/2015
Deductive Object, 2009/2015
Digital C-Print
115.6 x 172.7 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Kimsooja at Cairo, 2009
Deductive Object – Cemetery, 2008/2015
Deductive Object – Cemetery, 2008/2015
Digital C-Print
74.4 x 55.9 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Deductive Object – Father's Grave, 2008/2015
Deductive Object – Father's Grave, 2008/2015
Digital C-Print
74.4 x 55.9 cm
Edition of 8 plus 3 artist's proofs
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Digital Slideshow
Selected 223 Flea-Marktet Photographs from the Artist's on going photo project around the world
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2015
223 Prints on Hahnemuhle Paper Divided into Three Used Wooden Boxes
Print: each 17.3 x 18.4 cm
Drawer: each 21.6 x 27.9 x 15.2 cm
City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding
City Center Transformation, Sydney | Unfolding
Detail Drawing of Proposed Mixed Media Site-specifc Installation
East West Connectors, Sydney, Australia
Bottari – An Island
Bottari – An Island
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Courtesy of Kewenig Galerie, Palma and Kimsooja Studio
[left] ] Bottari, 2009/2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Used Clothes, Clay Basin from Mallorca, 62 x 49cm (approx)
[center] Bottari, 2009/2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Used Clothes, Clay Basin from Mallorca, 63 x 53cm (approx)
[right] Bottari, 2014, Used Korean Bedcover, Fabric, Catholic Mass Reading/Chant Book for Fathers, 80 x 45 cm (approx)
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Digital C-Print
117.5 x 82.5 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Installation at the 1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennial: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, Ithaca, New York, USA
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Steel, Custom Acrylic Panel, Laminated Polymer Film, Circular Mirror
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Installation at the 1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennial: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, Ithaca, New York, USA
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
Unfolding Bottari – Geometry of Possession, 1991-2014
223 Prints on Hahnemuhle Paper Divided into Two Used Wooden Boxes
Print: each 17.8 x 22.2 cm
Box: each 13.3 x 44.5 x 15.9 cm
To Breathe: Obangsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
To Breathe: Obangsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
Courtesy of Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland and Kimsooja Studio
(Left to right)
01 [Left] Mirror of Air, 2010, Single Channel Video, 2:39 loop, Silent / [Right] To Breathe - The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent, HD
02 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent, HD
03 Deductive Object – Unfolding Bottari, 223 prints on Hahnemuhle paper divided into two used wooden boxes, 17.8 x 22.2cm (print, each), 13.3 x 44.5 x 15.9cm (box, each), Unique
04 Deductive Object: Obangsaek, 2014, Wallpaper, Set of 2 rolls 70 x 5(dia) cm
05 Deductive Object: Obangsaek, 2014, Rolled Woven Carpet, 120 x 30(dia) cm
06 An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
07 [Left] Deductive Object: Obangsaek, 2014, Rolled Woven Carpet, 120 x 30(dia) cm / [Right] An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, sound, Commissioned by More Art, New York
08 Deductive Object: Obangsaek, 2014, Woven Carpet, 600 x 120 cm
09 Bottari, 2011, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothings, 52 x 55 x 55cm, Courtesy of Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland and Kimsooja Studio
10-11 To Breathe: Obangsaek, 2014, Site-specific Wallpaper Installation, Dimensions Variable
12 Flag, 2006, Digital Print, 106 x 54.6cm
13 The Seven Wishes, 2004, Seven Iris Prints, 114.1 x 80.5cm (each)
14 [Left] Architecture of Vulnerability 2 / [Middle] Architecture of Vulnerability 3 / [Right] Architecture of Vulnerability 1, 2013, Digital C-Print, 47 x 71 cm (each)
15 Architecture of Vulnerability, 2010-2013, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 48 x 62 x 16cm (each)
16 Thread Routes – Chapter II, 2011, Single Channel Video, 23:50 loop, Sound
17 Mirror of Air, 2010, Single Channel Video, 2:39 loop, Silent
18 To Breathe: Zouz, 2014, Site-specific Installation with Diffraction Grating Film on Window, Dimensions Variable
To Breathe: Obangsaek
To Breathe: Obangsaek
Site-specific Wallpaper Installation
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014-2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Woven Carpet Installation
600 x 120 cm
Site-specific Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Woven Carpet - Semi Worsted Wool Carpet
120 x 30(dia)cm
Site-specific Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014-2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Wallpaper
Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Daegu, Korea
Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Daegu, Korea
Installation view at 2014 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong, Communication Space THE ARC, Daegu, Korea
Courtesy of Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong
Earth - Water - Fire - Air Tierra de Agua / Earth of Water, 2009, Single Channel Video, 6:57 loop, Silent
To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Mixed Media Sound Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
Courtesy of Kewenig Galerie, Berlin & Mallorca and Kimsooja Studio
To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004), Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d)
Thread Routes – Chapter IV
Thread Routes – Chapter IV
Single Channel Video
27:48 loop, 5.1 Sound, HD
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist's proof
A Mirror Woman – The Sun & The Moon, 2008/2014
A Mirror Woman – The Sun & The Moon, 2008/2014
Giclée Inkjet Print
51.4 x 86.7cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Tadahisa Sakurai
This project was possible with the generous support of Shiseido Co., Ltd.
Thread Routes – Chapter I, 2010/2014
Thread Routes – Chapter I, 2010/2014
Giclée Inkjet Print
51.4 x 90.8 cm
Video Still Image from Thread Routes - Chapter I, 2010
An Album: Sewing into Borderlines
An Album: Sewing into Borderlines
Single Channel Video, 11:01 loop, Silent
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
Site-specific Video Installation at Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA
Commissioned through the GSA Art in Architecture Program, Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Lotus: Zone of Zero
336 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure, Cables
Dimensions Variable
Photo by Rachel Topham
Retrospective exhibition at Kimsooja / Unfolding, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium
Architecture of Vulnerability (Series of 3 Prints)
Architecture of Vulnerability (Series of 3 Prints)
Digital C-Print
47 x 71 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Making Space, MCBA, Lausanne, Switzerland
Making Space, MCBA, Lausanne, Switzerland
Installation at Group Exhibition Making Space. 40 Years of Video art, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne(MCBA), Lausanne, Switzerland
Photo by Nora Rupp
A Needle Woman - Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, New York, Mexico City, Cairo, Lagos, London, 1999-2001, 8 Channel Video, 6:33 loop, Silent
To Breathe: Obangsaek
To Breathe: Obangsaek
Site-specific Wallpaper Installation
Variable
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Installation at The Lift, the Bloomberg Building, New York, USA
To Breathe – Bottari
To Breathe – Bottari
Duraclear Photographic Print in Lightbox
119 x 89 x 16 cm
Edition of 8 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Site-Specific Installation at the To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale De Venezia, Venice, Italy, 2013
To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale De Venezia, Venice, Italy
To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale De Venezia, Venice, Italy
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe – Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale De Venezia, Venice, Italy
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Main Space: Mixed media installation with The Weaving Factory, 2004-2013, The artist's voice performance sound, 5.1 channel, 9:14, loop
Anechoic Chamber: Kimsooja, To Breathe: Blackout, 2013, Anechoic chamber in complete darkness
To Breathe – The Flags
To Breathe – The Flags
To Breathe – The Flags, Series of 12 Video Still Images
Photo by Elizabeth Carecchio
Site-specific Installation at the Marseille-Provence European Capital of Culture 2013: Kimsooja, To Breathe - The Flags, Aix-en-Provence, France
Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2013
Encounter – Looking Into Sewing, 1998/2013
Digital Flex Print
203.2 x 116.8 cm
Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Photo by Simon Vogel
Performative Sculpture in 1998