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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
To Breathe
Kimsooja's site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, To Breathe is integrated into the Mairie de Saint-Ouen station's exchange hall(Paris Métro - line 13&14). To Breathe is an immersive installation, using the principle of light diffraction to create a sensory and poetic atmosphere designed to resonate with travelers of all ages. On the glass walls that surround the void of the exchange room overlooking the metro tracks, the rays of light break down into multiple spectrums of color, acting as a three-dimensional painting that redefines the space. Each moment within this installation promises a distinct encounter.
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Photo by Pierre Charlier
To Breathe, 2023
Site specific installation with diffraction grating film
Size variable
Permanent installation view at Marie de Saint-Ouen station, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
Courtesy of Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens(RATP) and Kimsooja Studio.
To Breathe – Venice
To Breathe – Venice
Installation view at Group Exhibition Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
2 April 2023 - 26 November 2026
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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
Deductive Object: (Un)fold, Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Deductive Object: (Un)fold, Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
The workshop Kimsooja conceived for Paper Tube Studio originates in her previous body of work, notably the Bottari. It is a “life sculpture”. This surface is used to wrap, or internalize the memory of self and others through the act of making a single knot. It is a work that is at once a painting, a sculpture, and action. In this context, Deductive Object: (Un)fold offers visitors to participate in making a painting that transforms through the physical and emotional dimensions impressed onto the tactile surface of rice paper in the palms of their hands.
Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
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01 Kimsooja, Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023
Installation view at Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
The workshop was conceived and realized by Kimsooja at the invitation of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Production Centre Pompidou-Metz and Kimsooja, Photo by Jaeho Chong
02-03 Kimsooja, Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023
Installation view at Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz.
The workshop was conceived and realized by Kimsooja at the invitation of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
Production Centre Pompidou-Metz and Kimsooja, Photo by Marc Domage
04 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023. Workshop image
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
To Breathe – Zurich, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich
To Breathe – Zurich, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich
Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Zurich, 2023. site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and mirror floor panels, size variable. Courtesy of Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Max Ehrengruber
Meta-Painting, 2019-2023
Meta-Painting, 2019-2023
Nanopolymer Glass, Black Lead Paint, Lead
each 17.5 x 17.5 x 0.5 cm