Ayoung Kim’s (b. 1979) first solo exhibition in a German museum spans a decade of her artistic practice.
Image gallery
Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, Detail, 2022
Ayoung Kim, Porosity Valley 2, 2022
Ayoung Kim, Portrait
Using AI, VR, video, game simulations, and sonic fiction, she explores themes like migration, xenophobia, queerness, and geopolitics.
Her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof focuses on the symbiosis between data, humans, and the planet.
- A special exhibition by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video, game simulations, sculptures, references from South Korean webcomics and sound fictions, Ayoung Kim creates a fictional universe with its own temporal and spatial laws at Hamburger Bahnhof. The video installations and sculptures in the artist's first solo exhibition in a German museum thematise migration, xenophobia, queerness as well as bio- and geopolitical issues. Visitors are both spectators and participants who can influence the narrative on display from their own perspective. In doing so, the audience can repeatedly relate the fictional story told in the exhibition to current events in reality.
In her art, Ayoung Kim deals with the symbiosis between data, people and the planet. Kim's protagonists are people, characters, mythological beings and virtual existences that cross the boundaries between realities and allow possible and impossible worlds to meet across different times and spaces. The artist also engages with the respective exhibition space in a site-specific way. The exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof provides an insight into the work of the multidisciplinary artist with works from past years and current artworks.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalogue series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano.
The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, and Charlotte Knaup, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.
The exhibition is part of the European Month of Photography.
