Yunchul Kim (b.1970) | #transmattereal #installation #locossolus
Working in installations, drawings, sound, texts, and other media, Kim blends math, science, technology, music, philosophy, poetry, and cosmology into his practice to unravel a universe of material entanglements, articulating various metaphysical sites of fluid encounters among things, including nonhuman matter.
Kim’s work embodies the material world imagined by the artist, telling a story of a dimension before humans formed cultures or were defined by language. His works, in which humans, non-humans, machines, materials, and substances are considered equal, exist as a “non-human agency” and “initiating agent,” as the subject of imperceptible events.
Kim’s unique ‘TransMattereal’ work has been recognized with the 2016 Collide International Award (CERN) along with awards at Ars Electronica, Transmediale, and VIDA 15.0, among others. A member of collaborative research projects as well such as Mattereality (KIAS, Leader, Korea), Liquid Things (Univ. of Applied Arts, Vienna) and Fluid Skies, he has exhibited his work, most recently, at Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020), KUMU, Estonia (2020), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2020), iMAL, Belgium (2020), CCCB, Spain (2019) and ZKM, Germany (2018); other international venues where he showed his work include Venice Biennale, Italy; International Triennial of New Media Art, China; ISEA, Germany; VIDA15.0, Spain; FACT, UK; and New York Digital Salon, USA, among others. In 2013, he founded Studio Locus Solus in Seoul.
@studio_locus_solus
yunchulkim.net
Words: Yunchul Kim, Barakat Contemporary, Arts at Cern, edited by
@janejaneyleeee
PC: Yunchul Kim, Roman März
#artistsinKorea #Koreanartists #artinKorea #Koreanart #Korea #한국작가 #한국예술 #yunchulkim #kimyunchul #김윤철 #김윤철작가 #studiolocussolus