Installations
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Sowing into Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020
To Breathe
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020
A Laundry Field
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020
Meta-Painting
Installation at Kimsooja: Sowing into Painting at Wanas Konst, Wanas, Sweden
2020
To Breathe
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Tour Maubergeon, Poitiers, France
2019
Archive of Mind
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Palais des ducs d'Aquitaine, Poitiers, France
2019
To Breathe
Installation at Traversées\Kimsooja at the Cloître des Augustins, 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
To Breathe – The Flags
Site-specific installation for Perth Festival, 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
Bottari, 2017
Installation at Documenta 14, Fridericianum, Kassel
2017
Deductive Object, 2016
Site Specific Installation at Art Basel | Hong Kong
2017
Bottari, 2017
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Bottari, 2017
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Bottari, 2017
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
To Breathe: Mandala, 2010
Installation at Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Kewenig Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
A Laundry Woman
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
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Installation at Kimsooja: To Breathe - Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
2016
Bottari, 2005
Installation at Urgent Conversations: Athens - Antwerp, EMST, Athens
2016
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
Thread Routes - Chapter II
Installation at Kimsooja, Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
2016
Deductive Object
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 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
Bottari
Installation at 20 Bienal De Arte Paiz, Guatemala
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
Thread Routes
Installation at Kimsooja: Thread Routes, The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2015
Deductive Object: Obangsaek
Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek,Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland, 2014 - 2015
2014
Bottari - An Island
Installation at Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca
2014
To Breathe #001
Site specific installation in private collection, New York, 2014
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
To Breathe: Mandala
Installation at Busan Biennial, Busan Museum of Art, 2014
2010
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: Bottari
Solo Exhibition at The Korean Pavilion, Venice
2013
Photo by Jaeho Chong
An Album: Borderlines
Site specific installation at Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona, USA
2013
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
Bottari
Installation at Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2012
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 Axel Vervoordt Foundation and Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan.
Photo by Jean-Pierre Gabriel
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
A Mirror Woman, 2002
Installation at MUDAM, Luxembourg
2010
Mumbai: A Laundry Field
Installation at Continua Gallery, Le Moulin
2009
Photos by Thierry Depagne
Bottari
Installation at La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Negron, France
2009
Photos by Andre Morin
Lotus: Zone of Zero
Installation at Galerie Ravenstein, Brussels
2008
Photo by Mikåel Falke
Mumbai: A Laundry Field
Installation at Continua Gallery, Beijing
2008
Photo by Oak Taylor Smith
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
Bottari Truck - Migrateurs
"Je Reviendrai"
Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris
2008
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
To Breathe / Respirar
Teatro La Fenice, Venice
2006
Photo by Luca Campigotto
Bottari
Installation at Kewenig Galerie
2005
Photo by Simon Vogel
Always a Little Further
51st Venice Biennale in Arsenale, Venice
2005
Photo by Giorgio Zucchiatti
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
Bottari
Installation at Raffaella Cortese Gallery
2004
Photo by Antonio Maniscalco
A Laundry Woman
Installation at Hydra School, Greece
2004
Photo by Gerassimos Domenikos
Parallel Meetings
Installation at Centre D'art Contemporain, Basse-Normandie, France
2004
Photo by Didier Morel
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
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
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
Central Post Office, Trieste
2001
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Kim Sooja: A Needle Woman
P.S.1, New York
2001
Photo by Marty Heitner
Bottari
Installation at Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2001
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
Bottari Installation
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
Deductive Object - dedicated to my neighbors
City Art Museum, Nagoya
1996
Photo by Fukuoka Sakae
Deductive Object
Installation at The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
1996
Deductive Object
Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo
1995
Photo by Kimsooja
Bottari
Yongyou Island, Corée
1995
Photo by Ju Myung Duk
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 Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
1994
Bottari
Yangdong Village, Kyungju
1994
Photo by Ju Myung Duk
Deductive Object
Installation at Women - The Difference Hankook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1994
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Artist with Bottari
Yangdong Village, Korea
1994
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Lie on the Nature
used bed covers
Oksanseowon Valley, Korea
1994
Photo by Ju Myung Duk
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 at Ise Art Foundation, New York
1993
Deductive Object
Installation at Trade Routes at The New Museum, New York
1993
Deductive Object
installation details, dimensions variable
MOMA PS1
1993
Photos by Andrew Kearney
Courtesy of PS1 and Kimsooja Studio
Deductive Object
MOMA PS1 Open Studios
1992
Courtesy of PS1 and Kimsooja Studio
Deductive Object
Installation at Triangle Workshop at Pine Plains, New York
1992
Untitled
Installation of 7 iron rings
1991
Photo by Lee Dong Kun
Deductive Object
Installation at Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1988
Deductive Object
Installation at Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1988
Deductive Object
Installation at Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
1988