Installation view at Palais des ducs d'Aquitaine, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
First exhibited in a different configuration at the the Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA), Seoul, Korea

Installation view at Sainte - Radegonde Church, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at La Canopée, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at La Canopée, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at Maison de l'Architecture, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation at Kimsooja: Archive of Mind, Peabody Essex Museum (PEM), Salem, USA

Installation view at Chapelle Saint Louis, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at Le Confort Moderne, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at Place de la Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation view at Rue de la cathédrale, For Traversées / Kimsooja, 13 site-specific installations around the city of Poitiers, Poitiers, France

Installation at Group Exhibition Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
First exhibited in a different configuration at the Palais Rameau, Lille, 2003, Courtesy Dijon Consortium

Installation at Solo Exhibition Gazing Into Sphere, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

To Breathe – The Flags is a series of site specific print installations for the Perth International Arts Festival Visual Arts Tour 2017, Perth, Australia. The installation was developed in tandem with he artist’s first Australian solo exhibition Zone of Nowhere. The exhibition featured a new, awe-inspiring installation of 30 large translucent flags suspended above PICA’s central gallery space, drawing upon her previous artwork commission by the International Olympic Committee for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.


The exhibition extends beyond the walls of PICA, with the same colorful layered flags appearing on public facades throughout Northbridge and the Perth CBD. The flags, at such a monumental size, placed in the most central parts of Perth, produce an inescapable encounter despite their imaginary status.

Site-specific Installation at Culture City of East Asia 2017 Kyoto: Encounter - A Mirror Woman, Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan

Installation View at Group Exhibition Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Itally
First exhibited in a different configuration at the the Kimsooja, Archive of Mind, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea(MMCA), Seoul, Korea

Site-specific Installation Consisting of Used artist's clothing, Clothesline, Clothespins, and Black Bottari

Black Bedcover and Used Clothing, 48 x 57(dia) cm
White Bedcover and Used Clothing from Michael Kewenig, 48 x 57(dia) cm

Site-specific Installation Consisting of 656 Lotus Lanterns, Tibetan, Gregorian, and Islamic Chants, Steel Structure and Cables
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Galerie Kewenig, Berlin and Kimsooja Studio

Site-specific Installation Consisting of 27 Fabrics, 5 Bottaris, 6 Fans
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France and Kimsooja Studio
Collection of the Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Black casted Aluminum on Mirror, Mirror: 8 x 5m, Sculpture: 1.83 x 1.1m
Courtesy of Art Front Gallery Co., Ltd. and Kimsooja Studio

Site-specific Installation Consisting of Video Installation
The Flags(2012), Single Channel Video, 40:41 loop, Silent
Courtesy of Art Front Gallery Co., Ltd. and Kimsooja Studio.

호흡 To Breathe
2016
site specific installation consisting of diffraction grating film, dimensions variable
Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio
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지난 30년 동안 작가는 세계의 수직 수평 구조에 근거한 천지인삼재와 회화의 평면성에 대한 질문들로부터 작품들을 전개해왔다. <호흡>은 특수필름을 이용한 장소 특정적 설치 작품으
로,<거울여인>이라는 명제로 2006년 마드리드의 레이나 소피아 국립미술관의 크리스털 궁전에서 처음 발표한 이후, 2013년 베니스비엔날레 한국관에서 선보인 바 있다. 공간의 허공성(虛
,void)을 건축물의 표피로 확장함으로써 보따리의 개념을 빛의 언어로 비물질화하는 작가의 초기 명상의 결정체이다.
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For the last 30 years, Kimsooja has worked on an ever-evolving tableau, which continuously builds on, and transforms the question of surface in painting. Her site-specific installation using diffraction film originates in 2006 at Reina Sofia’s Crystal Palace, and has been introduced at the Korean Pavilion in Venice Biennale, 2013. By way of extending the interior void of architecture to its outermost limit, To Breathe culminates in a new definition of Bottari in the language of light and immateriality.

연역적 오브제 Deductive Object
2016
Site-specific Installation Consisting of Painted Welded Steel
Courtesy of MMCA and Hyundai Motor Co. and Kimsooja Studio
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<연역적 오브제>는 필름 설치 작품인 <호흡>과 더불어 국립현대미술관(서울관) 마당에 설치된 야외 조각이다. 이 작품은 ‘우주의 알’로 알려진 인도 브라만다의 검은 돌에서 영감을 받았으며, ‘보따리 기하학’의 또 다른 표현으로써 오방색 띠를 두른 타원형으로 브라만다 형태를 보따리로 형상화했다. 작품 하단의 거울 평면은 그 대각선의 중심에서 구형상의 오브제를 지지하는 플랫폼으로서, 물질과 비물질의 경계로 기능한다. 이 작품은 작가의 초기 작업과 더불어 신체와 기하학에 대한 작가의 관심이 지속함을 보여준다.
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Presented in the museum’s courtyard is Deductive Object, a large-scale ovoid sculpture suspended on a mirrored plinth. Light diffracting film installed along the courtyard’s windows unfolds sunlight into a radiant color spectrum, while the sculpture’s “Obangsaek” (Korean traditional colors) surface enfolds the visible spectrum back into a geometric definition. This work is inspired by the Indian tradition of Brahmanda Stones, also known as “cosmic egg,” signifying the birth of totality

마음의 기하학 Archive of Mind
Wooden table, assorted clay
Dimensions variable
2016
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<마음의 기하학>은 작가가 무언가를 ‘만드는 행위’ 자체에 관해 사유한 바를 제시한다. 이 작품은 관객이 직접 작품에 개입하는 참여형 워크숍으로 진행된다. 작가는 캔버스의 기능을 겸하는 19m 길이의 타원형 나무탁자 위에 관객이 찰흙 덩어리를 구형으로 만들어 놓도록 요청한다. 작가는 그의 초기 작업에서 ‘보따리’라는 개념을 물질과 비물질을 감싸는 방법론으로 풀이했던 데에서 영감을 얻어 찰흙 구를 만드는 작업을 구상했다. 구를 만들기위해 손으로 찰흙을 감싸며 굴리는 순환적인 행위는 관객이 자신의 마음 상태를 물질로, 물질을 다시 무(無)로 전환하도록 만드는데, 이 과정에서 자신의 두 손바닥에 가하는 균형적인 힘 사이의 양극성을 체험하도록 한다. 이 작품과 함께 전시되는 사운드 퍼포먼스 신작 <구의 궤적>은 찰흙 구 표면의 기하학적 구조를 소리의 실타래로 풀어내고, 탁자 위에 흩어져 있는 구들과 조응하며 우주적 조형성을 드러낸다.
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Archive of Mind offers the artist’s reflections on the canonical problem of the act of making and will transform with audience participation throughout the exhibition period. Expanding on the artist’s concept of “Bottari” as a method of wrapping, this participatory workshop invites the audience to roll a lump of clay into spherical forms on a 19 meter long wooden table, which doubles as a canvas. The cyclical act introduces a polarity between symmetrical forces of the participants’ palms that
transpose their state of mind into matter and matter into void. A new sound performance piece titled, Unfolding Sphere, presents an acoustic counterpart to the rhythmic constellation of the clay spheres.

Installation at Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Courtesy of Kewenig Galerie, Palma and Kimsooja Studio

Steel, Custom Acrylic Panel, Laminated Polymer Film, Circular Mirror

Site-specific Wallpaper Installation

Woven Carpet Installation
600 x 120 cm

Single Channel Video, 11:01 loop, Silent
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof