Installations
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Sowing into Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020

Sowing into Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020

Sowing into Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020

Sowing into Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020

Archive of Mind
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Palais des ducs d'Aquitaine, Poitiers, France
2019

To Breathe - The Flags
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at rue de la cathédrale, Poitiers, France
2019

Bottari 1999-2019
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Saint-Pierre Cathedral square, Poitiers, France
2019

Solarescope
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Eglise Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers, France
2019

Bottari Truck - Migrateurs
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Chapelle Saint Louis, Poitiers, France
2019

Planted Names
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Chapelle Saint Louis, Poitiers, France
2019

Zone of Nowhere
Installation at Zone of Nowhere at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
2018

Encounter – A Mirror Woman
Installation at Kimsooja – Gazing into Sphere at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium
2018

Gazing into Sphere
Site-specific installation at Kimsooja – Gazing into Sphere at Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, Belgium
2018

A Laundry Woman, 2000
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017

Lotus: Zone of Zero
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017

A Needle Woman, 1999 - 2001
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017

Thread Routes
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017

Encounter - Looking into Sewing
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
2017

Encounter - A Mirror Woman, 2017
Installation at Asia Corridor Contemporary Art Exhibition, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
2017

Archive of Mind, 2017
Performative Site Specific Installation at Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Itally
2017

To Breathe: Mandala, 2010
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017

Deductive Object
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017

Bottari Truck - Migrateurs, 2008
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017

Thread Routes - Chapter II, Site II
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
2016

To Breathe - The Flags
Installation at Gangoji Temple, Commissioned by Culture City of East Asia, 2016, Nara Japan
2016

마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind
Installation at MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2016

Deductive Object
Installation at Gangoji Temple, Commissioned by Culture City of East Asia, 2016, Nara Japan
2016

Deductive Object
Installation at MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2016

To Breathe
Installation at MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - 마음의 기하학 / Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2016

To Breathe
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe, Centre Pompidou - Metz, France
2015
Photograph by Jaeho Chong

To Breathe
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe, Centre Pompidou - Metz, France
2015
Photograph by Jaeho Chong

Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
2014

Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
2014

To Breathe: Obangsaek
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
2014

A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
Installation at Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, Cornell University, New York
2014
Photograph by Jaeho Chong

To Breathe: Obangsaek
Installation at The Lift, the Bloomberg Building, New York
2013
Photo by Jaeho Chong

To Breathe Flags
Instillation for the Contemporary Art Trail 2012 Aix-en-Provence, France
2012
Photo by Elizabeth Carecchio

To Breathe - Invisible Needle / Invisible Mirror
& A
Needle Woman 2005
Permanent installation at
The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation, Seattle
2012
Courtesy of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Photo by
Kimsooja

Encounter - Looking into Sewing
Installation at FIAC 2012
2012
Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin.
Photo by
Simon Vogel, Berlin/ Cologne

A Needle Woman, 2005
Installation at Daegu Art Museum, South Korea
Site specific
installation curated by Daegu Art Museum
2012
Courtesy of Daegu Art Museum, Photo by Park Myungrae

Bottari: The Island
Site specific 8 Bottari installation at Palazzo Fortuni, Venice
2011
Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Foundation.
Photo by Jaeho Chong.

Mumbai: A Laundry Field
Four channel video projection, sound, 10:25 min loop
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

Lotus: Zone of Zero
Installation at Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul
2011
Courtesy of Plateau, Samsung Museum, Seoul

To Breathe: Mandala
Installation at Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
2011
Courtesy Kimsooja Studio and Kewenig Galerie, Berlin.
Photo by
Uwe Engels

To Breathe: Zuoz
Installation image Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
2010
diffraction grating film on window, 5 windows
133.8 x 83 cm
each, sound

Mandala: Zone of Zero
Installation image Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
2004 - 2010
single channel mixed media sound installation (one jukebox, Three Chants mixed with Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic), 9:50 loop

Earth - Water - Fire - Air
Installation view at Nuclear Power Plant Art Project - Yeonggwang, Korea
2010

Mandala: Chant for Auschwitz
Installation at Poznan Biennial in Hitler's former office at Zamek, Poznan
2010
Photo by Adam Ciereszko

Mumbai: A Laundry Field, 2008
Video projection at Johanniterkirche Feldkirch, presented by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein
2010

A Needle Woman
Installation at Nuit Blanche, Paris
2009
Commissioned by Nuit Blanche Paris 2009
Photos by Thierry
Depagne

The House Project
Laukvik, Lofoten Islands, Norway
Installation at Lofoten International Art Festival
2008
Photo by Kjell Ove Storvik

A Mirror Woman - The Sun & The Moon
Video installation at Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
2008
Photo by Tadahisa Sakurai

Sewing into Walking
Installation image Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto
2007
Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid

Respirar - Una Mujer Espejo / To Breathe - A Mirror Woman
Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid
2006
Photo by José Luis Municio and Jaeho Chong

Bottari Truck
3 wheel, 1 ton truck from Germany, bottaris, bungee cords
Installation view Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
2005
Photo by Simon Vogel

Conditons of Humanity
Installation at Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2004
Courtesy of Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf

Parallel Meetings
Installation at Centre D'art Contemporain, Basse-Normandie, France
2004
Photo by Didier Morel

Mandala - Zone of Zero
Three Channels sound installation
with jukebox, mixed sound
from Tibetan monk chant, Gregorian chant, and Islamic chant.
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
2004

Lotus: Zone of Zero
307 lotus lanterns, 6 speakers, sound from Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chant
Palais Rameau, Lille
2003
Photo courtesy Le Consortium, Dijion and Kimsooja Studio

Solarescope
9 different lighting sequences, 18:00 loop
Solares - The 2nd Valencia Biennale
2003
Photo by Kimsooja, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Mandala: Zone of Zero
Single Channel, Tibetan Monk Chant.
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
2003
Photo by Blaise Adilon

A Mirror Woman : The Ground of Nowhere
Installation in Honolulu City Hall
2003
Photos by Kimsooja and Hal Lum

A Mirror Woman
Korean bedcovers, parallel mirror structure walls, 4 fans, cable, Tibetan Monk Chant
Installation at Peter Blum Gallery, NYC
2002
Photo by Bill Orcutt, Collection of MUDAM, Luxembourg

A Lighthouse Woman
9 different lighting sequences, 30:00 loop
Memory of the Water - Spoleto Festival USA
Morris Island,
Charleston
2002
Photo by Ryan King
Courtesy of Spoleto Festival and Kimsooja
Studio

Planted Names
set of 4 woven carpets, unique
Installation at Drayton Hall Plantation House,
Charleston,
South Carolina
Spoleto Festival
2002
Photo by Ryan King, Courtesy of the Spoleto Festival and Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
Central Park, Whitney Biennale
2002
Photo by Malisa Simond
Courtesy of the Public Art Fund

A Laundry Woman
used korean bed covers, tibetan monk chant, fans
Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz
2002
Photo by Christian Wachter

A Laundry Woman
Installation at Art Through the Eye of Needle at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway
2001
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

A Laundry Woman
Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery (Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
2000
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
Installation at Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape at Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrick, Odense, Denmark
2000
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Bottari Truck
used clothes and bed covers
Rodin Gallery, Seoul
2000
Photo by Kim Hyun Soo
Courtesy Samsung Museum, Seoul

Bottari
used Korean bedcovers and clothing
Installation at Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France
2000
Photo by Pierre Laborde
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

A Laundry Woman
Installation at The 3rd Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia
1999
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Bottari
Installation at Kim Sooja + Jeannett Christensen, Inaugural Exhibition at Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach, Austria
1999
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile
2.5 ton truck stacked with Bottaris,
20m x 6.5m mirror
structure
49th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
1999
Photo by Luca Campigotto, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Encounter Installation
Performative Installation at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
1998
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Cities on the Move - 11633 miles Bottari Truck
2 ton truck from Korea, bottaris, bungee cords
Installation view Sao Paolo Biennale, Brazil
1998
Collection of Monsoon London

A Laundry Field
used bedcovers
Installation at Oakville Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1997
Courtesy of Oakville Gallery and Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object - Dedicated to My Marriage
Installation at the 5th Istanbul Biennale
1997
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
used bedcovers and used clothes
Installation at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
1997
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
used bedcovers and used clothing
Installation at Arken Museum, Copenhagen
1996
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
Installation at Manifesta 1 at Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996

Deductive Object
used bedcovers and used clothes
Installation at Roles of the Couple at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura
1996
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Sewing Into Walking - dedicated to the victims of Kwangju
1st Kwangju Biennale
1995
Photo by Fukuoka Sakae

Deductive Object
Installation at Tiger's Tail National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon, Korea
1995

Deductive Object
Installation at Information and Reality at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1995

Deductive Object
Installation at Women - The Difference Hankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Sewing into Walking - Multi Channel Video Installation
Seomi Gallery, Seoul
3 channel video, multiple monitors, fabric installation
1994
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

Deductive Object
installation details, dimensions variable
MOMA PS1
1993
Photos by Andrew Kearney
Courtesy of PS1 and Kimsooja Studio