About

Yunchul Kim is an artist and electronic music composer who works in installation, drawings, sound, texts and other media explores and stages ‘TransMatter,’ matter in transit/ion. Working in installations, drawings, sound, texts and other media, he blends math, science, technology, music, philosophy, poetry and cosmology into his practice to unravel a universe of mattereal entanglements, articulating various pataphysical sites of fluid encounters among things including nonhuman matter. Kim’s unique ‘TransMattereal’ work has been recognized with the 2016 Collide International Award (CERN) along with awards at Ars Electronica, Transmediale and VIDA 15.0 among others. A member of collaborative research projects as well such as Mattereality (KIAS, Leader, Korea), Liquid Things (Univ. of Applied Arts, Vienna) and Fluid Skies, he has exhibited his work, most recently, at Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020), KUMU, Estonia (2020), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2020), iMAL, Belgium (2020), CCCB, Spain (2019) and ZKM, Germany (2018); other international venues where he showed his work include International Triennial of New Media Art, China; ISEA, Germany; VIDA15.0, Spain; FACT, UK; and New York Digital Salon, USA, among others. In 2013 he foundedfound Studio Locus Solus in Seoul, where he is currently working from.is a transdisciplinary artist and electronic music composer who works in installations, drawings, sound, texts and other media. Dynamically integrating science, technology, music, philosophy and poetry into his practice, Kim unravels a universe of mattereal entanglements, and his transmaterial work has been recognized with the 2016 Collide International Award (CERN) and awards at VIDA 15.0, Ars Electronica and Transmediale, among others. Also an active member of many cutting-edge collaborative research projects such as Mattereality (KIAS, leader), Liquid Things (Univ. of Applied Arts, Vienna) and Fluid Skies. His works have been shown internationally including: Korean Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2022, Venice; Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama; KUMU, Tallinn; CCCB, Barcelona; FACT, Liverpool; ZKM, Germany; Ars Electronica, Austria; International Triennial of New media art, China; VIDA15.0, Spain; Transmediale, Germany; ISEA, Germany; and New York Digital Salon, amongst others. In 2013 he founded Studio Locus Solus in Seoul, where he is currently working from.