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Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany

Kimsooja: (Un)folding Bottari, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, Germany

25 October 2023 to 19 February 2024
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Guest curator: Keumhwa Kim
Curators of the museum: Kerstin Pinther, Uta Rahman-Steinert

2023

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 (Video) 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

2023

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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2023

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

Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong

Topography of Body, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong

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.


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Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong

2023

Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery and Kimsooja Studio. Photo by Kit Min

(Left to right)
01 Kimsooja, Thread Routes Chapter III – Deductive Object, 2012-2015, block printing table covers, dimension variable
02 Kimsooja, Thread Routes – Chapter III, 2012, 16 mm film transferred to HD format, sound, 17:35
03 [Left] Kimsooja, 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] Kimsooja, 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 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting(detail), 2022, 250 sheets of Korean rice paper, 93.5 x 61.5 x 3 cm

Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido

Jaeoseon, Meridiano, Puerto Escondido

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.


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Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico

2023

Photo by Sergio López
Courtesy of Meridiano and Kimsooja Studio

(Left to right)
01 Kimsooja, Geometry of Fire, 2023, Site-specific installation for Jaoseon at Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
02-03 Kimsooja, Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, stone, matte black water-based paint, 128 x 176 x 117 cm, production location: Meridiano, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
04-06 Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, 2023, Performance.

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