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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
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:)
1 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 160 x 112cm
2 Kimsooja, To Breathe, 2024, Site-specific installation with diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
3 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 162.2 x 112.1 x 6cm
4 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53 x 40.9 x 4cm
5 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 53 x 40.9 x 4cm
6 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 90.9 x 65.1 x 4cm
7 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on linen canvas, 116.8 x 80.3cm
8 Kimsooja, Meta-Painting, 2024, Black paint on glass, 116.7 x 80.3cm
9 Kimsooja, Sewing into Darkness, 2023, Archival pigment print, each 59 x 74cm
10 Kimsooja, 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
Installation view at Light: Visionary Perspectives, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
Fukuoka Prize Commemoration Exhibition: Kimsooja, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fukuoka Prize Commemoration Exhibition: Kimsooja, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
14 Sep – 29 Oct 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 to 20 October 2024
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Photo Giorgio Benni
Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
To Breathe
2024, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film, Dimensions variable
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.
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 to 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. Photograph by Sergio López
Deductive Object – Bottari, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
Geometry of Fire –Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph by Sergio López
A Needle Woman – Jaoseon, 2023, Archival pigment print on paper, 75 × 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Photograph 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 – 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 to 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.
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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 to 31 August 2024
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Photo by Jan Liégeois
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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 to 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
Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
2 April to 26 November 2023
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Photo by Matteo De Fina
© Palazzo Grassi, Pinault Collection 2023
(Left to Right:)
01 - 03 To Breathe – Venice, 2023, Site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film and mirror panel., Dimensions variable
04 A Needle Woman – Delhi, Mexico City, Cairo, Lagos, 2000-2001, 4 Channel Video, 6:33 loop, Silent
Installation view at Icônes, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy