soeun bae

Installation shot of “My Private Sleepover Service” at @ahlfoundation , part of the group show “Feminism Is Not Your Enemy” This sleepover project began as my interest in detachment, sensuality, synchronization, and rest. Sleep as a site for performance, labor, and intimacy. My body as a source of production.  It’s the last week to catch it in person! 2605 Fredrick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10030 Wed-Sat, 12-6pm Special thanks to @imfivethankuo and @jonathandinetz for help on building the softest and hardest portion of the installation 🎀

Exhibition view of my show at @wavehill from last month. 2nd pic with my mom at the wave hill garden 🪷 thanks everyone that came to see the show!

performance documentation of “Provider (Breeding/Breathing)” at @wavehill from 9/15 1pm “Soeun Bae’s Sunroom Project Liquid Arrangement is accompanied by Provider (Breeding / Breathing), a site-specific performance that builds on procedures of dependency and regeneration to complicate the relationship between body and object, reflect on the relationship between two people and create a new system of care contingent on agency and bodily autonomy.“ Duration: 20min Special thanks to: Duet partner: Sylvia Ke @riverspeakk Styled by: Janette Oh @imfivethankuo Video by: Meiyi Zhou @insomniatofu Photos by: Samantha Blumenfeld @roribleu I’ll be around Wave Hill for the fall arts opening this Sunday, September 29 at 2:30-4:30 pm! Come say hello 🌱🌱

My winter residency at @sculpture_space in upstate ny after a long hiatus. New things coming soon 😸

@dubaex2 and @_sbae__ presents Bae2Bae at @evening.seoul this Saturday. If you’re around come dance with us <3 9pm sbae 10pm dubae 11pm-1am b2b Oct 11 (sat) 9pm-1am 2F, 141 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul Doors at 8pm Music charge 5000 won from 9pm Poster @andgoodnessknows

Dual Synthetic Circulation (2022) On view at @g.u.c_archive organized by @apexartnyc “Bad Lament 나쁜 애도” curated by @roribleu @3_2_5_4_9 Pseudo-living sculpture with two circulating fluid channels: one circulating from interior of a bulb to the other, and one piercing through the two bulbs. One of the bulbs is defective and needs a performer-caretaker to extract and inject fluids into the body manually for full function. 📷 @renee.chacha

Hello Seoul! Excited to share info for my upcoming exhibition opening next saturday :) 🥀 Bad Lament 나쁜 (애)도 Dates: September 13 (Sat) – October 11 (Sat), 2025 Opening Reception: September 13 (Sat), 5–7 PM Venue: G.U.C (Garage Under Construction), B1, 23 Samgaksan-ro 34-gil, Gangbuk-gu, Seoul @g.u.c_archive Operating Hours: 1PM to 9 PM (Closed on Tuesday) Please note: G.U.C is located on the basement level and is not wheelchair accessible due to stairs. If you need assistance entering, please contact us via DM. Artists: Camila Pizarro @lartefacto , Jun!yi Min @iamperformanceartist , K Rawald @silica.slinger , Soeun Bae @_sbae__ , Black Jaguar @artist_blackjaguar , Lee Jungsik & Kim Hyoungju @comme_de_mignon @hyoungjuice , On Lee @onleeonelee , Ru Kim @rupauls.hair , zozo @nightynight________ Curated by: Sam Blumenfeld @roribleu , Minseon Kim @3_2_5_4_9 Graphic Design: zozo @nightynight________ Supported by: G.U.C Special thanks to: Munhee Han @minimanimunimo Hojin Lee @hojinajina Organized by: apexart intl. exhibition – Seoul @apexartnyc "Bad Lament 나쁜 (애)도 responds to this “Disenfranchised Grief” by creating queer times and spaces. The artists propose mourning not as ritual perfection, but as resistance in its incompleteness; as entangled fragments of memory; as gestures, cries, and care that remain necessary. Without denying the figure of the “bad person(나쁜 애)” and even when forms are broken or unruly, this project seeks to hold space and time where anyone can attempt their own mourning safely."

“ProtoMod D” is at Anderson Ranch @andersonranchartscenter as a part of their silent auction this Saturday, July 12 💋 silicone, steel, concrete, 8.5 x 6in

There are two more weeks to see “Celestial Bodies” curated by Neena Wang @neenaneen at @stove_works 🌟Check it out if you are in the area! My project “Provider (Breeding/Breathing)” is alongside work by AAPI artists with ties to the South and Midwest. Grateful to be a part of this wonderful show and missing new friends met at Stove Works :) Feb 21 - June 7, 2025

This Saturday 5/3, my performance video “Breeding/Breathing” will be showing at @millennium_film 🎬 would love to see you if you’re around ny! “Breeding/Breathing” is a duet performed at Wave Hill @wavehill in 2024 with Sylvia Ke @riverspeakk . I build on procedures of dependency and regeneration to complicate the relationship between body and object, reflect on the relationship between two people and create a new system of care contingent on agency and autonomy. 나쁜애도 Bad Lament is an exploration of what it means to mourn through the queer lens. Experiences of loss like immigration, transitioning, and death must not go “un-mourned”, and instead can represent transformative change and healing by the process of community care, understanding, and shared lamentations. Including films and performance documentation by: zozo (@nightynight________ ) Journey with the Inevitables / 어쩔 수 없음의 여정 Ru Kim (@rupauls.hair ) I KNOW WHAT I’VE DONE On Lee (@onleeonelee ) Autopsicografia / 절대연대측정법 Black Jaguar (@artist_blackjaguar ) Ghost sunset / 서울에서 오신 예술가분들 Anto(n) Astudillo (@antopoiesis ) Almargen Lee Jungsik & Kim Hyoungju (@comme_de_mignon @hyoungjuice ) Dancing in Yokohama 2008 / 요코하마에서의 춤 2008 K. Rawald (@silica.slinger ) Then and Now, Now and Then Soeun Bae (@_sbae__ ) Breeding/Breathing Camila Pizarro (lartefacto) Fundir and Co-curated by @roribleu and @3_2_5_4_9 Doors will open at 6pm @millennium_film , with a collaborative performance at 6:30pm and the screening beginning at around 7:30pm. Please dress in funeral-appropriate attire.

Video documentation of “My Private Sleepover Service” from 3/15 @ahlfoundation with Yuqing @6yuqing Text by the curator @_joycechung 💜 “Soeun Bae invites viewers to an intimate sleepover experience where two female bodies become a central site of production which constantly dismantles ambiguous boundaries between individual zones. The performance brings a collective display of the artist’s ongoing exploration of self-regulation and autonomy. As a testament to the organic connectedness of the whole, the work examines the questions raised by the dual and its split–between private and public, autonomy and dependency, and intimate and antagonistic partners.“

My Private Sleepover Service (2025) is now on view at @ahlfoundation 3/15-29, as a part of the AAPI Women Artist Cohort's exhibition titled "Feminism Is Not Your Enemy" curated by @_joycechung This work was performed with Yuqing (@6yuqing ) on 3/15, alongside performances by Lena Chen(@lenachen ), hamsa fae(@hamsalefae ), and Ibuki Kuramochi(@ibuki_kuramochi ). Thank you to those who came <3 More performance vids soon! And thanks to @muuseuum :)