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BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 3 - An Inner Experience, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 3 - An Inner Experience, Buenos Aires, Argentina
21 September – 21 October 2021
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The BIENALSUR project Kimsooja Buenos Aires features exhibitions of the Korean artist in different parts of the city: Centro Cultural Coreano en Argentina.
Curatorship: BIENALSUR, Diana B. Wechsler (ARG)
With the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, and the grant program Fund for Korean Art Abroad.
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
Courtesy of the BIENALSUR 2021 and Kimsooja Studio
(Left to right:)
01 Encounter – Looking into Sewing, 1998/2013, Digital Flex Print, 203.2 x 116.8 cm / To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004)
02 Deductive Object VI, 1996/2013, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 74.7 cm / Deductive Object VII, 1996/2013, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 74.7 cm
03 Deductive Object – Obangsaek, 2014, Woven Carpet - Semi Worsted Wool Carpet, 600 x 120 cm
04 An Album: Hudson Guild, 2009, Single Channel Video, 31:40 loop, 5.1 Sound, HD
BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 2 - Nomad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 2 - Nomad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
16 September – 21 Nobember 2021
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The BIENALSUR project Kimsooja Buenos Aires features exhibitions of the Korean artist in different parts of the city: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA).
Curatorship: BIENALSUR, Diana B. Wechsler (ARG)
With the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, and the grant program Fund for Korean Art Abroad.
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);
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
Courtesy of the BIENALSUR 2021 and Kimsooja Studio
(Left to Right:)
01 – 02 Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 95.5 x 65 x 20.5 cm / Cities on the Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck, 1998/2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 65 x 95.5 x 20.5 cm / Bottari, 2009/2012, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box
03 – 04 Deductive Object – Obangsaek, 2014, Rolled Woven Carpet, 120 x 30(dia) cm / A Needle Woman – Paris, 2009, Performance Video, Single Channel, 25:00 loop, Silent, HD / Deductive Objects – Bottari Cart, 2021, Bottaris - Used Bed Clothes and Bungee Cords
05 [Right] Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007/2009, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 125 x 188 x 16 cm
BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 1 - The Encounter with the Other, Buenos Aires, Argentina
BienalSUR 2021, Kimsooja Buenos Aires: Chapter 1 - The Encounter with the Other, Buenos Aires, Argentina
10 September – 23 December 2021
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The BIENALSUR project Kimsooja Buenos Aires features exhibitions of the Korean artist in different parts of the city: MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Venue Hotel de Inmigrantes, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Centro Cultural Coreano.
Curatorship: BIENALSUR, Diana B. Wechsler (ARG)
With the support of Ministry of Culture, Sports & Tourism of Korea, Korea Arts Management Service, and the grant program Fund for Korean Art Abroad.
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 – Migrateurs (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.
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
Courtesy of the BIENALSUR 2021 and Kimsooja Studio, Photo by Guillermo Monteleone
(Left to right:)
01 Bottari: 1999-2019, 2021, Site-specific installation, Container painted with colors of Obangsaek, containing all of the artist's personal possessions from her New York apartment
02 Bottari, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
03 Archive of Mind, 2021, Site-specific installation with clay spheres and sound performance
04 A Needle Woman, 2005, Performance Video, 6 channel Video, Silent, 10 min 30s
05 - 06 Thread Routes, 2010-2019, Video installation, 16 mm film transferred to HD, sound, 23 min 53s
07 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video, Silent, 40 min 41 s
08 – 10 To Breathe, 2021, Site-specific installation with light diffraction film, Dimensions variable
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
Kimsooja: Sowing Into Painting, The Wanås Art Foundation, Wanås, Sweden
9 May 2020 – 1 November 2020
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The Wanås Foundation presents Sowing Into Painting a multidimensional project including site-specific installations, film, sculpture, and painting.
Wanås 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.
(Left to right:)
01 – 03 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 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 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 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 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 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 Thread Routes – Chapters I, II, IV, 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 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. Photo by Mattias Givell.
22 – 24 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. Photo by Mattias Givell.
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
Traversées / Kimsooja, Poitiers, France
12 October 2019 – 19 January 2020
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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(Left to right:)
01 – 02 To Breathe – Tour Maubergeon, 2019, site-specific installation with mirror panels. Installation view at Tour Maubergeon, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio, Photos by Jan Liegois.
03 – 04 Archive of Mind, 2016/2019, 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, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Jan Liegois.
05 – 06 To Breathe – La Canopée , 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at La Canopée, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
07 – 08 Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007, 1 ton truck from France (1976 Peugeot 404 Pickup), 56 Bottaris, Bungee Cords, 470 x 170 x 200(h)cm, Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, Photos by Jan Liegeois (07) and Yann Gachet (08).
09 –10 Planted Names, 2002/2019, site-specific installation consisting of carpets woven with the names of people enslaved at Drayton Hall Plantation. Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
11 – 12 To Breathe – The Flags, 2019, site-specific installation consisting of mixed nationality flags. Installation view at Rue de Cathédrale, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, Raffaella Cortese Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photos by Yann Gachet.
13 – 15 Encounter – A Mirror Woman, 2017/2019, site-specific installation consisting of folding mirror screen. Installation view at Confort Moderne, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers, le Confort Moderne, Axel Vervoordt Gallery Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Jan Liegeois.
16 – 18 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 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 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 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 Bottari, 2017/2019, Installation view at La Canopée, Used black bedcover, used clothing, Courtesy of the Kewenig Gallery, City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio.
26 To Breathe, 2019, site-specific installation consisting of diffraction-grating film. Installation view at Sainte - Radegonde Church, Courtesy of the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
27 Mumbai : A Laundry Field, 2007. 3 Channel Video, 10:25 loop, Sound, Installation view at the Maison de l'Architecture, Courtesy of Kewenig Gallery, the City of Poitiers and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Yann Gachet.
Traversées \ Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Traversées \ Landscape of Beings, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
12 October 2019 – 18 January 2020
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 – Paris, 2009, Performance Video, Single Channel, 25:00 loop, Silent, HD, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009, Paris.
Kimsooja: Archive of Mind, Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, USA
Kimsooja: Archive of Mind, Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, USA
22 June 2019 – 20 January 2020
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Archive of Mind
2016/2019, Site-specific Participatory Consisting of Clay balls, Elliptical Wooden Table, and Sound Performance Unfolding Sphere(2016)
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja: To Breathe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Kimsooja: To Breathe, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
30 March 2019 – 29 September 2019
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To Breathe
Site-specific Installation with Mirrors Panels and Diffraction Grating Films, and Sound Performance The Weaving Factory(2004-2013)
Courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, and Kimsooja Studio
To Breathe – The Flags, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
To Breathe – The Flags, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
14 March 2018 – 5 May 2018
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Photo by Lorenzo Palmieri
01 – 03 To Breathe – The Flags, 2018, 15 Polyester Flags, each 200 x 137 cm
04 – 06 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent, HD
To Breathe / Respirare, Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, Italy
To Breathe / Respirare, Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio, Milan, Italy
11 March 2018 –
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Permanent Installation
Photo by Paola Di Bello
To Breathe, Mirror, 2018, Holographic Film
Screen Space – Kimsooja, The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth, Australia
Screen Space – Kimsooja, The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), Perth, Australia
17 February 2018 – 21 May 2018
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(Left to Right:)
01 Sewing Into Walking – Kyungju, 1994, Performance Video, Single Channel Video, 19:40 loop, Silent
02 – 03 Sewing Into Walking, 1994, Fabric and Performance Video Installation, Fabric + Three Channel (Kyungju: 19:40, Yangdong Village: 2:41, Mai Mountain: 1:43), Silent
Gazing Into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Gazing Into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
20 January 2018 – 7 April 2018
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Photo by Sebastian Schutyser
Gazing into Sphere
Site-specific Installation with mirrors, Waveform Audio Unfolding Sphere(2016)
Courtesy of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Axel Vervoordt, Wijnegem, and Kimsooja Studio
To Breathe - The Flags, Northbridge, Perth, Australia
To Breathe - The Flags, Northbridge, Perth, Australia
9 February 2018 – 4 March 2018
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
To Breathe – The Flags
2017, series of site specific print installations for the Perth International Arts Festival Visual Arts Tour 2018, Perth, Australia.
Courtesy of Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth and Kimsooja Studio
Zone of Nowhere, PICA, Perth, Australia
Zone of Nowhere, PICA, Perth, Australia
17 February 2018 – 29 April 2018
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, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Kimsooja, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
22 December 2017 – 17 March 2018
(Left to right:)
01 Bottaris, 1994/2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 128 x 188.5 x 25.5 cm
02 The Sun – Unfolded, 2008, Giclée Inkjet Prints on Epson Paper, Set of 6 prints, each 114.3 x 96.5 cm
03 Deductive Object – Obangsaek, 2014, Woven Carpet - Semi Worsted Wool Carpet, 600 x 120 cm
Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Encounter - A Mirror Woman, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Encounter - A Mirror Woman, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
19 August 2017 – 15 October 2017
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Photo by Takeru Koroda
Encounter – A Mirror Woman
Site-specific Installation consisting of mirror screen and mirror floor panels, installation view at Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
Courtesy of Culture City of East Asia 2017, Kyoto and Kimsooja Studio
Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Weaving the World, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
22 September 2017 – 21 January 2018
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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
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: Geometry of Breath, Gallery Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
28 April 2017 – 29 July 2017
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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 (Left Thumb), 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)
Kimsooja: Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
Kimsooja: Weaving the World, CC Strombeek, Belgium
18 November 2016 – 18 December 2016
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Photo by Sophie Nuytten
(Left to right:)
01 – 04 Thread Routes Chapter II – Site II, 2016, Site Specific Installation with Mirrors, Variable, Courtesy of CC Strombeek and Kimsooja Studio
05 – 08 Thread Routes – Chapter II, 2011/2016, Video Installation, 23:50 loop, Sound, HD, Courtesy of CC Strombeek and Kimsooja Studio
09 Architecture of Vulnerability – Darkness, 2011/2015, Series of 5 Digital C-Prints, (each) Print: 63.5 x 88.9 cm, Image: 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Zone of Zero, CAC Málaga, Spain
7 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
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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), Courtesy of CAC Málaga and Kimsooja Studio
05 – 06 To Breathe – The Flags, 2012, Single Channel Video Animation, 40:41 loop, Silent
Culture City of East Asia 2016: Kimsooja, Gangoji Temple, Nara, Japan
Culture City of East Asia 2016: Kimsooja, Gangoji Temple, Nara, Japan
3 September 2016 – 23 October 2016
Commissioned by Culture City of East Asia 2016: Kimsooja, Gangoji Temple, Nara Japan
Photo by Keizo Kioku
Deductive Object, 2016, Painted cast aluminum, mirror, Sculpture: 183 x 110 cm, Mirror: 800 x 500 cm
Courtesy of Art Front Gallery Co., Ltd. and Kimsooja Studio
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Hyundai Motors Series 2016: KIMSOOJA - Archive of Mind, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
27 July 2016 – 5 February 2017
Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Aaron Wax
(Left to right:)
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
Kimsooja: To Breathe, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
Kimsooja: To Breathe, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
26 October 2015 – 4 January 2016
Commissioned by Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France.
Courtesy of Institut français/Année France Corée, Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio
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Photo by Jaeho Chong (01 –06 / 18–22)
Photo by Thierry Depange (07 – 17)
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01 – 16 To Breathe, 2015, Site-specific Installation consisting of Video Projection To Breathe: Invisible Mirror, Invisible Needle(2005), Mirror, Diffraction Grating Film, and Sound Performance 'A Weaving Factory'(2004)
17 – 22 To Breathe, 2015, Site-specific Installation consisting of Diffraction Grating Film
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Thread Routes – Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
30 April 2015 – 15 July 2015
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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
12 March 2015 – 5 July 2015
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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
To Breathe: Obangsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
To Breathe: Obangsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
20 December 2014 – 14 March 2015
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Courtesy of Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland and Kimsooja Studio
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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 / [Center] Architecture of Vulnerability 3 / [Right] Architecture of Vulnerability 1, 2013, Digital C-Print, each 47 x 71 cm
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
Kimsooja, To Breathe, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Kimsooja, To Breathe, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
24 September 2014 – 13 November 2014
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01 To Breathe, 2014, Site Specific Installation with Diffraction Grating Films, Variable
02 To Breathe: Bottari, 2013, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 119 x 89.5 x 16 cm
03 To Breathe (IV), 2013, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, 124 x 186 x 16 cm
04 The Sun – Unfolded, 2008, Giclée Inkjet Prints on Epson Paper, Set of 6 prints, each 114.3 x 96.5 cm
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, New York, USA
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, Cornell University Arts Quad, New York, USA
15 September 2014 – 12 December 2014
1st Cornell Council for the Arts(CCA) Biennial: Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy Was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir
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A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory Earth is a Souvenir, 2014, Steel, Custom Acrylic Panel, Laminated Polymer Film, Circular Mirror, 1402.08 x 137.16 cm
To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Mallorca, Spain
5 June 2014 – 2 October 2014
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To Breathe: Mandala, 2010, Single Jukebox with the Artist’s Voice Performance “The Weaving Factory”(2004), Juke box: 81.28cm(dia), 30.48cm(d), Courtesy of Kewenig Galerie, Berlin & Mallorca and Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja, Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
Kimsooja, Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
4 February 2014 – 6 April 2014
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01 [Left] Deductive Object VI, 1996/2013, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 74.7 cm
[Right] Deductive Object VII, 1996/2013, Digital Flex Print, 101.6 x 74.7 cm
02 [Left] The Sun – Unfolded, 2008, Giclée Inkjet Prints on Epson Paper, Set of 6 prints, each 114.3 x 96.5 cm
[Center] Encounter – Looking into Sewing, 1998/2013, Digital Flex Print, 203.2 x 116.8 cm
[Right] To Breathe: Invisible Needle / Invisible Mirror, 2007, Digital Flex Print, Set of 6 Prints, each 67.6 x 101.6cm
03 The Sun – Unfolded, 2008, Giclée Inkjet Prints on Epson Paper, Set of 6 prints, each 114.3 x 96.5 cm