Woong Yong Kim explores the relationship between memory and record derived from and mediated by the body—such as voice and gesture—within a historico-cultural context. In the remnants of ruin and psychological traces, he tracks the immense forces that once shaped images and the moments of decay they caused, reinterpreting them as persistent acts of transformation and combination to weave into an organic story that generates new relations. To achieve this, he evokes emotions found in the struggle and frustration left as bodily residues, the psychological traces of ruins, and the anxieties and desires, translating across media such as video, performance, and soundtracks, constructing them allegorically through myths, symbols.
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︎ work and research
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︎ CV
Solo Exhibitions and Performances
2018 Night and Fog, Mullae Art Space, SFAC, Seoul, Korea
2015 Self-Moving Reproduction: Soft Copy Drama, Pre-Post JEONJAGI supported by Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Avoided names under the hard skin, Multi-Art Project, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2014 Songs in a voicemail box, Centre Européen d’Action Artistique Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2014 Ohotsk High Pressure, Mullae Art Space, SFAC, Seoul, Korea
2012 Around nothing and everything, Digital Arts Studio, Belfast, Northern Ireland-UK
Group Exhibitions
2021 SAPY Collection 26, Seoul Artist Platform New and Young, Seoul, Korea
2021 Media Wall Arcade, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2021 Hacking Open Mine, Seoul Museum of Art Collection, Seoul, Korea
2019 Media Punk, Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2018 Digital Promenade, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2017 Abstract, Hapjeongjigu, Seoul, Korea
2016 Dialogue Development, Audio-Video Pavilion, Seoul, Korea
2016 Now Watching , CEEAC, Strasbourg, France
2016 Memories Reinvented, Freud Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2015 Random Access, NamJunPaik Art Centre, Gyonggi-do, Korea
2014 Young Korean Artists, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
2014 19 performance relay , Art space LOOP, Seoul, Korea 2014 Situation, Amado art space, Seoul, Korea
2011 Master Piece, Espace d’Art Saint-Valentin, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 Fantômes, Espace d’art Labo, Geneva, Switzerland
2008 C’est arrivé près de chez vous, HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland
SELECTED IN FILM FESTIVALS/SCREENING
2025 Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris, France
2023 Dear Life, Seoul Independent Film Festival, short competition, Seoul, Korea
2023 Expansion of Entangled Bodies, Alternative film and video festival, Seoul, Korea
2016 Oculo Screening, Ilmin Museum, serial video screening, Seoul, Korea
2015 Mind Control project, Indie Space, Seoul, Korea
2013 Why Not? Seoul Independent Film Festival, special short, Seoul, Korea
2008 Free movement image festival, Experimental short film section, Bangkok, Thailand
2007 Black Movie Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
PUBLICATION
2019 Exhibiting the Moving Image, Ed. François Bovier & Adeena Mey, Trans. Woong Yong Kim, MediaBus
2015 Quartz Cantos, DVD, 37 mins, BW, Stereo, 16:9, NTSC, printed in Korea, MMCA ISBN: 978-89-6303115-6
2015 Self-moving reproduction: soft copy drama, color, printed in Korea, SeMA ISBN: 978-89-94849-67-6 16680
RESIDENCIES
2025 Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, SFAC, Seoul, Korea
2019/2023 ACC-Rijksakademie Exchange and Dialogue, Gwangju, Korea/Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Changdong Residency, Mind Control Project, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2014 Centre Européen d’Actions Artistique Contemporaines, Strasbourg, France
2014 Goyang Residency, MMCA, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2012 Digital Arts Studio, International Artist Residency, Belfast, Northern Ireland-UK
GRANTS/AWARDS
2018 SFAC Multi-art project support, Korea
2015 SeMA Emerging Artists and Curators Supporting Program, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
2014 SFAC Mullae Arts Plus, Korea
2011 Prix Master Arts Visuels, Fondation AHEAD, Switzerland
2009 Prix Arts Visuels, Fondation AHEAD, Switzerland
PUBLIC COLLECTION
SAPY, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands
2022 PhD Candidate. Dept. of Film and Media Studies, Chungang University, Seoul, Korea
2011 MA Visual Arts, Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 BA Visual Arts/Cinema, Geneva University of Art and Design, Geneva, Switzerland
ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL FIGURE
We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.)
