Yena kim
1992
Germany, South Korea
Yena Kim experiments by constantly wandering deep and wide the boundaries of today’s technology-mediated society,such as movements as words, flat sculptures, deep screens, and wandering spaces. In works, The digital world and technology penetrate as materials, subjects, and main media. Through materials such as mass media, hyper images, big data, and AI, recently Yena Kim explored questions about the relationship between technology and humans(Ethic).
CV
UPCOMING
2025.042025.04 ⟪Digital Metapomorsis: Immortality⟫, Wagenhalle stuttgart, Suttugart, Germany2024.11⟪Digital Metapomorsis: Immortality⟫, Seoul Art Space Mullae, Seoul, Korea2024.10⟪Kunst am Wegesrand⟫, Museum MAIIIA, Genova, Italy
2024.10⟪Non-standard Immortal Contract⟫, Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, Korea
EXHIBITION & PROJECT
2024⟪Dear My Telescreen⟫, (PAIK NAM)JUNE Festival, Freiburg, Germany
2024⟪2023 Bath Art⟫, 44AD Gallery, Bath, UK2024⟪Kunst am Wegesrand⟫, am Neckar, Germany
2023 ⟪Kunst am Wegesrand⟫, Kunstverein Böblingen, Böblingen, Germany
2023[2023 Seoul is Museum - Public Urban Art project], Seoul Botanic Park, Seoul, Korea
2023⟪Kunst am Wegesrand-Woman kind⟫, Rive Gauche-Marche, Seoul, Paris, France
2023⟪Abstract Mind_Group exhibition⟫, CICA museum, Gimpo, Korea
2023
⟪2023 Contemporary Young Artist⟫, CICA museum, Gimpo, Korea
2022GIAF(Gwanghwamun International Art Festival), Sejong museum, Seoul, Korea2014⟪Come up 3⟫, fnart SPACE, Seoul, Korea
AWARDS
2024Heussen Perspectives Award, Academy POSITIONS Berlin Artfair
2024KOCCA Short Pitch, EIDF(EBS International Documentary Festival)
2024ChunMan Art for Young, Chunman Scholarschip
2024ONSO MEDIA ARTIST, Hyundai Motor Chung Mong-Koo Foundation2024Seoul International Fine Arts, Seoul Fine Arts Association
2022Contemporary Young Artist, CICA museum2014Today's fortune, Bae bien-u Fine Art (Photography)_scholarschip, SIA
SCHOLARSHIPS & FUNDS/GRANT
2024KOCCA Short Pitch, EIDF (EBS International Documentary Festival)2024Atist Independence Support Fund, Supported by GGCF(Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation)
2024<Non-Standard Immortal Contract>, Supported by ARCO(Arts Council Korea)2023[2023 Seoul is Museum - Public Urban Art project] Commissioned by Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul Urban Art Project, Seoul Botanic Park2023⟪Kunst am Wegesrand-Woman kind⟫, das Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung
und Kunst Baden- Württemberg, die Cité International des Arts Paris, die SV SparkassenVersicherung, die Stiftung der Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, die Marli Hoppe-Ritter Stiftung, Kreissparkasse Böblingen und den Kunstverein Böblingen e.V..
2023ArtxTechnology Project(ArtECH),Supported by ARCO(Arts Council Korea)
2023Hyper Window_Round Earth,Supported by SWCF(Suwon Cultural Foundation/municipal)2023Hyper Window_P_VLOG,Supported by SNART(Sungnam Cultural Foundation/municipal)2017Young Artist Stiftung, Supported by SFAC (Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture)
PROJECT & PROGRAMS
2017TeamPL Book project, MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), Seoul
IMMERSIVE THEATER
2017Wave and Light, Writer/Director, Haenghwatang, Seoul, Korea
FILMOGRAPHY
2017A Rusty Night, Short-film, Writer/Director
EDUCATIONS
2024-
Academy of Fine Arts Munich(AdBK), Emergent Digital Media(Class Hito Steyerl), Gaststudium, Germany
2020-Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Fine Art(Class Birgit Brenner), Diplomstudium, Germany2023-24Germany & England Erasmus+, Bath spa University, UK
2011-15Seoul Institute of the Art(SIA), Media Photography, South Korea