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In Search of the Present: On Rootlessness, EMMA, Espoo, Finland
In Search of the Present: On Rootlessness, EMMA, Espoo, Finland
14 March 2026 – 7 February 2027
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Photo by Paula Virta
To Breathe, 2026
Video projection, mirror, Dimensions variable
Courtesy of EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York and Studio Kimsooja
Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, Tschudi Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, Tschudi Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
20 December 2025 – 14 March 2026
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Photo by Ralph Feiner
(Left to Right:)
01 Geometry of Body, 2013 – 2015, giclée (inkjet) print on Hot Press Paper, 170.5 × 114.1 × 5 cm (framed)
02 Deductive Language, 2024 – 2025, artist's hand photo on archival pigment print, each 41.3 × 41.3 × 3.5 cm
03 – 04 Meta Painting – Seven Colors, 2025, glass, wooden frame, each 80 × 73 × 4 cm
05 Meta-Painting, 2025, black paint on linen canvas, 50 × 40 × 2 cm
06 Meta Painting – Glass Samples, 2025, glass, metal, 36.3 × 93.5 × 6 cm
07 Meta-Painting, 2024, black paint on linen canvas, 162.1 × 112.1 × 6 cm, 116.7 × 80.3 × 5 cm, 90.9 × 65.1 × 4, 53 × 40.9 × 4 cm, 53 × 40.9 × 4 cm
He Art Museum (HEM), Guangzhou, China
He Art Museum (HEM), Guangzhou, China
26 September 2025 –
Permanent Installation, Comissioned by He Art Museum (HEM)
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Chen Yuxin © He Art Museum
To Breathe, 2025, Site-specific Installation with Diffraction Grating Films, Courtesy of He Art Museum, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong and Studio Kimsooja
Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s – Now, M+, Hong Kong
Dream Rooms: Environments by Women Artists 1950s – Now, M+, Hong Kong
20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026
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Photo by Ringo Cheung ©M+
To Breathe, 2025, Site-specific Installation with Diffraction Grating Films
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Open Studio, September 2025
Photo by Shim Kyuho
(Left to Right:)
01 – 03 Meta Painting – Seven Colors, 2025, glass, each 80 x 73 cm
04 Meta Painting – Glass Swatches, 2025, glass, 36.3 x 93.5 x 6 cm
05 Deductive Object, 2025, wooden canvas frame, 220 x 210 x 15 cm
06 Meta Painting – The Grid 2025, steel grid, each 36 x 32 x 5 cm
07 Meta Painting – The Grid 2025, steel grid, each 36 x 32 x 5 cm, A Needle Woman: galaxy was a memory, earth is a souvenir – The Grid, 2025, steel, Sculpture: 200 x 18.2 x 18.2 cm, Base: 90 x 90 cm, Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, 160 x 109 x 5 cm, Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, paint, 64 x 70 x 5 cm
08 Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, 160 x 109 x 5 cm, Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, paint, 64 x 70 x 5 cm
09 Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, 36.2 x 100 x 5 cm, A Needle Woman: galaxy was a memory, earth is a souvenir – The Grid, 2025, steel, Sculpture: 200 x 18.2 x 18.2 cm, Base: 90 x 90 cm, Meta Painting – The Grid, 2025, steel grid, 164 x 106 x 5 cm
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Open Studio, September 2025
Photo by Shim Kyuho
(Left to Right:)
01 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 116.7 x 80.3 cm
02 – 03 Meta-Painting, 2024, black paint on linen canvas, 162.8 x 112.6 cm, Deductive Object, 2025, black paint on linen canvas, 40 x 30 cm
04 Meta-Painting, 2024, black paint on linen canvas, 162.8 x 112.6 cm, Deductive Object, 2025, black paint on linen canvas, 40 x 30 cm, Meta-Painting, 2025, black paint on linen canvas (Triptych), 162 x 112 x 6cm, 116 x 80.3 x 5cm, 90.9 x 65.1 x 4 cm
05 – 06 Deductive Object – Black Garden, 2024, matte black paint on wooden sculptures, wooden board, 56 x 112.7 x 26 cm
07 Deductive Language, 2024-2025, artist’s hand photos, archival pigment print, set of 12 prints, each 41.8 x 41.8 cm, Deductive Object – Black Garden, 2024, matte black paint on wooden sculptures, wooden board, 56 x 112.7 x 26 cm, Deductive Object, 2025, black paint on cast, 90 x 57 cm
08 Deductive Object, 2025, black paint on cast, base, 90 x 57 cm
To Breathe – Sunhyewon, Kyongheunggak, Seoul, Korea
To Breathe – Sunhyewon, Kyongheunggak, Seoul, Korea
8 September 2025 – 19 October 2025
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“Located in Samcheong-dong, Seoul, Sunhyewon is a site steeped in the history and tradition of SK Group, recently reopening as the group’s new research institute. To introduce this special place to the public and expand its role as a cultural platform, PODO museum has launched a new cultural program, “Sunhyewon Art Project 1.0.” The inaugural project presents an exhibition by Kimsooja — a world-renowned artist representing Korea.
This exhibition marks a special moment where the historical depth of Sunhyewon meets Kimsooja’s artistic universe, offering visitors a contemplative experience that transcends time and space. The central work, To Breathe—Sunhyewon, 2025, is a site-specific installation that transforms Kyeongheunggak, a traditional Hanok building that retains the dignity of Korean architecture, into a whole piece of contemporary art. By covering the floor with mirrors, Kimsooja reflects the architecture, light, and viewers, dissolving boundaries between built structure and individual. This immersive space reinterprets the stillness of Hanok into a sensorial experience where the past and the present, the space and being intersect. Even the seemingly fixed architecture begins to shift and flow as it blends with ephemeral light and reflections.
Notably, this is the first time Kimsooja’s To Breathe series has been installed within a traditional Hanok structure, adding symbolic significance to the juxtaposition between the work and the historic context of Kyongheunggak. As suggested by the title, To Breathe, the piece captures the subtle movement of light and air within the tranquil beauty of the Hanok, drawing the viewer’s breath and footsteps into the artwork itself.”
Photo by PODO Museum
(Left to Right:)
01 – 02 To Breathe – Sunhyewon, 2025, Site-specific installation with mirrors panels
2 Sewing into Soil: Invisible Needle, Invisible Thread, 2023, Bisque porcelain, approx. 70 x 58 cm
3 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Bisque porcelain, Dimensions variable
04 – 05 Bottari, 2022, Used Bedsheets and Towels, 50 x 50 x 50 (h)cm
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Mokum, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kimsooja: To Breathe – Mokum, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
24 May 2025 – 9 November 2025
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Photo by Natascha Libbert
To Breathe – Mokum, Poetic Installation about migration, displacement and the idea of home, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and Bottari
MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
1 May 2025 – 3 May 2026
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Photo by image Joom
Bottari Truck – Migrateurs, 2007, Performance Video, Single Channel, 9:17 loop, Silent, HD
Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
5 April 2025 – 7 June 2025
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Meta-Painting, 2020, Seven Bottari and 7 canvases, each canvas 200 x 324 cm
Kimsooja: A Homeless Woman, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
Kimsooja: A Homeless Woman, Elizabeth Myers Mitchell Art Museum, Philadelphia, USA
23 January 2025 – 6 April 2025
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Photo by Tony J.
A Homeless Woman – Cairo, 2001, Performance Video, Single Channel, 6:33 loop, Silent
Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, Tsuyama, Japan
Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, Tsuyama, Japan
28 September 2024 – November 2025
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Photo by Takeshi Asano, Kenryou Gu
To Breathe, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
Installation view at Forest Festival of the Arts Okayama, Tsuyama Railroad Educational Museum, Tsuyama, Japan
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Kimsooja Studio, Seoul
Open Studio, September 2024
The Meta-Painting series explores the fundamental principles of painting and its origins. It began in 2020 at the Wanås Konst Sculpture Park in Sweden, where Kimsooja produced linen spun from flax that she had planted, cultivated, and harvested. It was later woven into a canvas surface as a form of painting that need not be painted. The project reconstructs painting as a life-generating cycle, and the unpainted canvas investigates the conceptual relationship between painting, agriculture, and textiles.
The black Meta-Paintings conceptualize and bring to reality the absence of light and surface. They take form as both a flat and a wrapped surface, continuing the formalistic trajectory of Kimsooja’s folded and unfolded Bottari. While the depth of black color absorbs nearly all light and shadow, its surface resists our discernment. The piece points toward painting as a place of not knowing, a site of vulnerability, and a moment of beginning.
As a counterpart to the Meta-Painting series, To Breathe is a site-specific installation that prismatically diffracts natural sunlight into radiating spectral bands, or concentric double-axis brushstrokes of vertical and horizontal colors. The displacement of lightwaves guides the eyes back and forth across the threshold of architecture, effectively turning the act of gazing into a form of weaving the surface.
Photo by Shim Kyuho
(Left to Right:)
01 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 160 x 112cm
02 To Breathe, 2024, Site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
03 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 162.2 x 112.1 x 6cm
04 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53 x 40.9 x 4cm
05 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53 x 40.9 x 4cm
06 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 90.9 x 65.1 x 4cm
07 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 116.8 x 80.3cm
08 Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 116.7 x 80.3cm
09 Sewing into Darkness, 2023, Archival pigment print, each 59 x 74cm
10 Topology of Time, 2016, Giclée (Inkjet) Print, Print: 170.5 x 114.1cm, Image: 147.9 x 91.4cm
Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
13 July 2024 – 21 April, 2025
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Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid
To Breathe, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and mirror floor panels, size variable
Fukuoka Prize Commemoration Exhibition: Kimsooja, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka Prize Commemoration Exhibition: Kimsooja, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
14 September 2024 – 29 October 2024
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Photo by Nagano Satoshi
(Left to Right:)
01 – 04 Deductive Object, 1997, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes, Fabric: 572 x 375 cm
05 – 06 A Needle Woman – Tokyo, 1999, Performance Video, Single Channel, 6:33 loop, Silent
Ambienti 1956-2010 Environments by Women Artists II, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Ambienti 1956-2010 Environments by Women Artists II, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
10 April 2024 – 20 October 2024
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Installation view at Ambienti 1956-2010 Environments by Women Artists II is an exhibition by MAXXI and Haus der Kunst München.
The original exhibition Inside Other Spaces. Environments by Women Artists 1956-1976 is conceived and produced by Haus der Kunst München 2023.
Photo Giorgio Benni
Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
To Breathe 2024, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta – Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
Every Island is a Mountain, Palazzo Malta – Ordine di Malta, Venice, Italy
19 April 2024 – 8 September 2024
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Photo by Hyunjung Kwon
(Left to Right:)
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sergio López
Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sergio López
Geometry of Fire –Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Sergio López
Bottari – a couple, 2020, Used clothing, cloth, 60 × 60 × 50(h) cm.
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Kimsooja: Meta-Painting, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
12 April 2024 – 14 June 2024
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Photo by Pierre Le Hors
(Left to Right:)
01 – 02 To Breathe, 2024, Site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
03 – 08 To Breathe, 2024, Video projection, mirror, Dimensions variable
09 – 10 Deductive Object, 2022, Fiberglass Steel and Paint, 250 dia cam circular Polished stainless steel
11 – 12 Meta-Painting, 2024, Linen canvas stretched on wooden frame, Bottari made of linen canvas and used linen clothes
13 – 14 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean rice paper
15 – 16 Meta-Painting*, 2024, 500 sheets of Korean rice paper
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Constellation, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Constellation, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris
20 March 2024 – 2 September 2024
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Directrice générale / Executive Director: Emma Lavigne
Responsable des expositions: Charles Halperin
© Tadao Ando Architect & Associates, Niney et Marca Architectes, agence Pierre-Antoine Gatier.
Photo by Florent Michel/11h45/Pinault Collection.
© Kimsooja/ADAGP, Paris, 2024.
(Left to Right:)
01 – 02 To Breathe – Constellation, 2024, Site-specific installation with mirror panels, Courtesy of Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Galerie Tschudi and Kimsooja Studio
03 Geometry of Body, 2013/2024, Archival pigment print on paper, Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Anvers/Hong Kong and Kimsooja Studio
04 Deductive Object, 2016, Plaster casting of the artist's arms, Courtesy of KEWENIG, Berlin and Kimsooja Studio
05 Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean rice paper, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
06 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Bisque porcelain, Courtesy of KEWENIG, Berlin; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Museum für Asiatische Kunst Berlin; Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, Germany and Kimsooja Studio
07 [Left] Sewing Into Walking – Kyungju, 1994, Single Channel Video, 19:40 loop, Silent, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio,
[Right] Five Bottari Installation, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
08 Five Bottari Installation, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
09 A Needle Woman – Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, New York, 1999‑2000, 4 Channel Video, 6:33 loop, Silent, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Archive of Prototype, Axel Vervoordt, Patio Gallery
Kimsooja, To Breathe – Archive of Prototype, Axel Vervoordt, Patio Gallery
16 March 2024 – 31 August 2024
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Photo by Jan Liégeois
(Left to Right:)
01 – 05 To Breathe – Archive of Prototype, 2019-2023, Traditional stained glass and dichroic glass, Set of 3, each 80 x 50cm, Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio
06 Meta-Painting, 2019-2023, Nanopolymer glass, Black lead paint, Lead, each 17.5 x 17.5 x 0.5cm
Kimsooja – Thread Roots, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
Kimsooja – Thread Roots, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, The Netherlands
2 March 2024 – 21 July 2024
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Curated by Kimsooja, Nicole Roepers, Tanja Elstgeest
Photo by Joep Jacobs
(Left to Right:)
01 Bottari, 2022, Used Korean bedcovers, clothes, Courtesy Alex Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
02 [Left] Bottari, 2000, Used Korean bedcovers, clothes, Courtesy Alex Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
[Right] Encounter – Looking into Sewing, 1998/2013, Digital Flex Print Sandwich Mounted, Courtesy of KEWENIG Berlin, Kimsooja Studio
03 [Left] Deductive Objects – Bottari Cart, 2007, 19th C. Baguette Cart from France, Bottaris, Bungee Cords, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
[Right] Cities on the Move – 2727km Bottari Truck, 1997/2001, Duraclear Photographic Print in Light Box, Courtesy Amira en Tom Moeskops, Axel Vervoordt Gallery
04 – 06 Meta Painting – Fabric Samples, 2024, Textile Samples on Handmade Cotton Paper, Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio
07 Thread Routes – Chapter IV, 2014, Single Channel Video, 5.1 sound, 16mm film transferred to HD, 27:48 loop, Sound. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio / Thread Routes – Chapter VI, 2019, Single Channel Video, 5.1 sound, 16mm film transferred to HD, 28:18 loop, Sound. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kimsooja Studio
08 Meta-Painting, 2020, Linen Canvases Stretched on Wooden Frame and Bottaris Made of Linen Canvases, Used Local Clothes. Courtesy Wanås Konst, Kimsooja Studio, KEWENIG Berlin
Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany
25 October 2023 – 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
(Left to Right:)
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, 2017, Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing, Variable, Unique
09 [Center] 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
(Left to Right:)
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
(Left to Right:)
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, RATP, Paris, France
To Breathe, RATP, Paris, France
31 August 2023 –
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Permanent installation view at Marie de Saint-Ouen station, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
Photo by Pierre Charlier
To Breathe
2023, Site specific installation with diffraction grating film, Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens(RATP) and Kimsooja Studio.
Weaving the Light, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Weaving the Light, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
26 March 2023 – 30 November 2023
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Photo by Torben Eskerod
Weaving the Light
2023, site-specific installation consisting of 48 diffraction panels, Cisternerne, Frederiksberg Museum, Denmark.
Courtesy of Frederiksberg Museum and Kimsooja Studio.
To Breathe, Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, Paris, France
To Breathe, Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann, Paris, France
14 April 2023 – 29 October 2023
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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Photo by Jaeho Chong
To Breathe
2023, Diffraction grating film installation, Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of the Galeries Lafayette Group and Kimsooja Studio.
Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
18 March 2023 – 27 May 2023
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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.
Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong
Photo by Kit Min
(Left to right)
01 Thread Routes Chapter III – Deductive Object, 2012-2015, block printing table covers, dimension variable, Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio.
02 Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, 16 mm film transferred to HD format, sound, 17:35
03 [Left] 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 [Left] Meta-Painting, 2022, 250 sheets of Korean rice paper, 93.5 x 61.5 x 3 cm, [Right] Kimsooja, Deductive Object: (Un)fold, 2023, Korean rice paper, 105 x 74 x 6 cm
05 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(PTS), Centre Pompidou- Metz, Metz, France
Deductive Object: (un)fold, Paper Tube Studio(PTS), Centre Pompidou- Metz, Metz, France
4 February 2023 – 6 November 2023
New York apartment, installation view at MUNTREF, Buenoes Aires, Argentina
Photo by Jaeho Chong
Deductive Object: (Un)fold
2023, Paper Tube Studio, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Dimensions Variable
Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido
Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido
3 February 2023 – 19 August 2023
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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.
Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
Photo by Sergio López
(Left to right)
01 Geometry of Fire, 2023, Site-specific installation for Jaoseon at Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico, Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio
02 – 03 Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, stone, matte black water-based paint, 128 x 176 x 117 cm, production location: Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico, Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio
04 – 06 A Needle Woman, 2023, Performance, Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio