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A Mirror Woman

A Mirror Woman

Korean Bedcovers, Mirrored Walls, Four Industrial Fans, Cables, Clothespins, Tibetan Monk's Chant
Dimensions Variable

2002

A Laundry Woman

A Laundry Woman

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

2001

Installation at Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien, Vienna, Austria

A Laundry Woman

A Laundry Woman

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

2001

Installation at the Group Exhibition Art Through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway,

Kimsooja, Bottari, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Kimsooja, Bottari, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Installation at the Solo Exhibition Kimsooja, Bottari, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

2001

(Left to right:)
01 - 04 Bottari, 2001, Used Korean Bedcovers and Used clothes, Dimensions Variable Courtesy of Sprengel Museum and Kimsooja Studio

A Laundry Woman

A Laundry Woman

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

2000

Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery(Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Brandts Klaedefabrick and Kimsooja Studio

2000

Installation at Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape at Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark

Bottari Truck

Bottari Truck

2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

2000

Installation at Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery (Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea

Bottari

Bottari

Used Korean Bedcovers and Clothing
Dimensions Variable

2000

Photo by Pierre Laborde

Installation at Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France

A Laundry Woman

A Laundry Woman

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

1999

Installation at The 3rd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art: Beyond the Future, Brisbane, Australia

d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile

d'Apertutto, or Bottari Truck in Exile

2.5 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

1999

Installation at The 48th Venice Biennale: dAPERTutto, Venice, Italy

Encounter – Looking into Sewing

Encounter – Looking into Sewing

Performative Sculpture
Used Korean Bedcovers, Mannequin

1998

Installation at Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Group Exhibition

Cities In The Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck

Cities In The Move – 11633 Miles of Bottari Truck

2 ton truck from South Korea, Bottaris, Bungee Cords

1998

Installation at The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale: Cultural Anthropophagy, São Paulo, Brazil

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Marriage

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Marriage

Fragments of Fabric from Used Clothes and Bedcovers

1997

Installation at The 5th International Istanbul Biennale: On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, Istanbul, Turkey

A Laundry Field

A Laundry Field

Used Korean Bedcovers
Variable

1997

Installation at Kimsooja, A Laundry Field — Sewing into Walking. Looking into Sewing, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1997

Installation at Kimsooja, Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, Solo Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

1997

Installation at Setagaya Art Museum Group Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1996

Installation at The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, Group Exhibition

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used Clothing
Dimensions Variable

1996

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Korean Food, Korean Music
Dimensions Variable

1996

Installation at Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen Group Exhibition

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Neighbors

Deductive Object – Dedicated to My Neighbors

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable

1995

Installation at Group exhibition Circulating Currents: Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers and Used clothes
Dimensions Variable
Courtesy of The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul and Kimsooja Studio

1995

Installation at The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers
Dimensions Variable

1995

Installation at Fruitmarket Gallery Group Exhibition

Sewing Into Walking – Dedicated to the Victims of Gwangju

Sewing Into Walking – Dedicated to the Victims of Gwangju

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes, Speakers
Dimensions Variable

1995

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Korean Bedcovers, Used Clothes
Dimensions Variable

1994

Sewing Into Walking

Sewing Into Walking

Video Installation
20 Monitors, Surveyor Camera, 16 Bottaris, Used Clothes, Sound

1994

In Their Own Images, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

In Their Own Images, MoMA PS1, New York, USA

Installation at MOMA PS1 Open Studios

1993

(Left to right:)
01-07: Deductive Object, 1993, Dimensions Variable, Courtesy of PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York and Kimsooja Studio

Towards the Flower

Towards the Flower

Used Cloth, Thread, Wooden Pole, Used Bedcover, Bottari
357 x 348 x 355cm

1992

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Used Clothing Fragments, Acrylics, Thread and Chinese Ink on Canvas Cloth
132 x 50 x 17cm

1992

Mind and the Mother Earth

Mind and the Mother Earth

Thread and Ink on Used Korean Clothing Fragments
270 x 217cm

1992

Deductive Object

Deductive Object

Wind, Used Cloth, Grass
Variable

1992

Installation at Pine Plains, Triangle Workshop

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