Junghun Kim

Lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Artist statement

➖Bio Junghun Kim (South Korea, 1991, Based in Rotterdam Gyeongju and Jeju Island ) Junghun Kim is a multidisciplinary artist. His work researches the effects of economic and technological development on humanitarian and ecological consequences in relation to the restless techno capital world. Kims works are conceived as activation systems where poetic, spiritual, and political gestures reveal the dimension of causalities that have remained invisible to our anthropomorphic vision. While searching for regenerative ecological care and its distribution, his work guide audiences into interactive and collaborative environments. Junghun received his MFA from The Piet Zwart Institute. He was selected for “Korean Young Artist 2021” exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art, South Korea,and “SeMA Emerging Artists Support Program,” Solo Exhibition at Seoul Museum of Art Storage, South Korea (2019). He exhibited at RADIUS Center for Contemporary Art and Ecology, Delft (Solo, 2023-2024), A Tale of a Tub (2023), Para Site, Hong Kong (2022), MaMA, Rotterdam (2021), Sign Project space, Groningen (2021), Villa Iris, Foundation Botin, Santander (2017) ➖Statement A different way of sensing current planetary conditions is a matter of collective awareness about breathing and its interrelations: We share millions of years of breath and time with other dead and living species. As breathing means our minds and actions are circulating, the past, present, and future are...

Artwork

• BREATHE A MENDING SONG INTO THESE EARTHLY WOUNDS /Exhibition view, 2023. Mixed media
• Evolutionary seed: Rising ancient future, the roots as integration to be one and many precious breathes, 2023. Ceramic, paper mache, pipe, color pigments, graval
• Becoming Planetary Souls, 2023. Five channel audio, ceramic, paper mache, pipe,wooden panel, jute, sand, gravel, color pigment, vegetable, fruits, latus and bamboo leafs
• Circulating Hopes: Degradation and Regeneration of Species's Emotions, 2023. Pastel on paper
• Causality of extracting loaf of soil, cosmological soil as all species’s soul , 2023. Pastel, watercolor, acrylic on canvas
• From the cells of the mother, 2023. Single channel video
• The space between objects is trajectories of your imagination, 2023. Mixed media
• A one time breathing is a world, 2022. Porcelain, ceramic pigment
• Integrative Breathing, workshop series, 2022. mixed layers
• Exhibition view (Front: Mountain's scars: The vanishing point of regeneration), 2021. porcelain, ceramic pigment, iron plate, mirror, stones, roots, soil, mixed media
• Installation view/ Front: A land that circulates and collapses by an angle., 2021. porcelain, ceramic pigment, paper mache, pipe, iron panel, plaster, acrylic color, black stone powder,
• A sense of parallel species , 2021. porcelain, paper mache, plaster, pipe
• On the horns of a dilemma, 2021. paper mache, iron, wire net, plaster, roots, acrylic color, collected styrofoam, accessory, black stone powder, mixed
• The flower: a launched signal from the soil, 2021. ceramic, ceramic pigment, stone, soil, roots, pipe, iron panel, mixed
• Mountain’s scars: The vanishing point of re-generation, 2021. porcelain, ceramic pigment, iron plate & mirror, stones, roots
• Geological meditation: Interconnective layers for another perspective, 2021
• Becoming One and Many Through Your Soul, 2021. Ceramic, seed, soil, stone, bark, paper mache, plaster, cotton, iron, recycled wooden panel, acrylic on linen
• Co-breathing organism, 2020. black porcelain,
• Rootless mutation, 2020. porcelain, iron pipe, paper mache, black stone
• The same water and tears, tears of other lives become yours, (mask series), 2020. porcelain, ceramic pigments
• Gold hole (mask series), 2020. porcelain, ceramic pigments
• A message that broke through the boundaries (mask series), 2020. porcelain, ceramic pigments
• The speed of desire, integrated erosion, 2020. black porcelain, paper mache, natural pigments, iron pipe, wire, mixed media
• Exhibition view. , 2020. porcelain, paper mache, natural pigments, iron pipe, wire, mixed media
• Geological meditation, 2020 (On going), 2020
• Plant Massage, 2020. Single-channel video, 1m 18 s
• A network of resistance: echoes to revitalize the gate , 2020. Lumber, tree trunk, branch
• Eco dynamics, 2019. Installation, ceramic, glass, stainless, iron, clay, resin, animal bone, mixed media
• Eco dynamics, 2019. Installation, ceramic, glass, stainless, iron, clay, resin, animal bone, mixed media, Variable dimensions
• 0.01 ☓ 100, The Vertex of the Vanishing Point , 2019. Single-channel Installation, 4k video,
• Exhibition view/ Co-eyes and pressure/Series , 2019. oil on linen
• Co-eyes and pressure, 2019. Oil on canvas
• Overlapping of visions and the weight of breath, 2019. Oil on canvas
• Time color, Distinct slough, 2017. Oil painting on hard paper
• Co-epic narrative, 2018. Stones, wood, stone clay, glass, bones, organic materials, silver paper, Variable dimensions
• Invisible landscape, 2018. Single channel video