Solo Exhibition
2022 Gyre, the Korean Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019 Glare, Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2019 Perturbance, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2018 Dawns, Mine, Crystal, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2017 Plenum, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
2017 Gyre, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
2016 Evanescent, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea
2014 Whiteout, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
2013 Eluvial Horizon, Jiri Svestka Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013 Locus Solus, Studio Locus Solus, Seoul, Korea
2012 States of Being, Edith-Ruß Haus, Oldenburg, Germany *with Kerstin Ergenzingers
2012 Genial & Geheim: Etappen 8-10, HNF Museum, Paderborn, Germany
2012 Carved Air, Ernst Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
2011 Celestial Dust, 21Rosendaal Aktuelle Kunst, Enschede, Netherlands
2011 Amorph, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2009 Epiphora, Gallery Kunstdoc, Seoul, Korea
Group show and Festival *selected
2020 Quantica, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France *upcoming
2020 Broken Symmetries, KUMU(Art Museum of Estonia), Tallinn, Estonia
2020 Art and Energy, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonbuk
2020 Reality Errors, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do
2020 Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2020, Seongsan art hall, Changwon
2020 Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
2020 Metamorphosis, Hyundai x ELEKTRA, Hyundai Motor Studio, Seoul
2020 Broken Symmetries, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Broken Symmetries, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Paradise Art Lab, Paradise City, Seoul, Korea
2019 Asia Digital Art Exhibition 2019, Beijing, China
2019 Quantica, CCCB(Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
2018 Algorithmic Art: Shuffling space and time, City Hall Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
2018 Broken Symmetries, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK
2018 Thinking Machines, EPFL ArtLab, Lausanne, Switzerland
2018 Ars Electronica 2018: Error, Linz, Austria
2018 DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull und die Kunst des Kombinierens, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018 I am here to learn: On Machinic Interpretations of the World, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2018 Our place in space, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2018 We are star stuff, Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2017 Touch Me Festival 2017, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 ACT Festival 2017, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2017 Mementos: Artist’ Souvenirs, Artefacts, and Other Curiosities, flagship artistic project of Art Brussels 2017, Tour & Taxi, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Beijing Media Art Biennale 2016, China Millennium Monument Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Project Daejeon 2016: Cosmos, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
2016 Kollision-Im Labyrinth der unheimlichen Zufälle, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2016 Sound, Public art project: Turnstile, U-Bahnhof Schadowstrasse, Dortmund, Germany
2015 ACT Festival-Plastic Myth, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2015 SOMA Drawing: Mindful Mindness, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Kontiuum, Im Ersten, Vienna, Austria
2015 The Mechanical Corps., Hartware Medien Kunst Verein(HMKV), Dortmund, Germany
2014 Super Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 International Triennial of New Media Art: ThingWorld, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2014 The Mechanical Corps., Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2014 Vida 15.0, Espacio Fundación Telefónica Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2013 Out of the Box, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria * Participated as team Liquid Things
2013 Beautiful Minds, Klein Humbolt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013 Anybody Who is Disturbed by Flow of Information, SAVVY contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010 6th Electrohype, Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden
2010 Balmoral Blend, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
2010 ISEA2010, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
2010 Artefakt Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2009 Select Media Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
2009 Organ Mix, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Proliferations, Art Space 300m3, Göteborg, Sweden
2008 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Mediacity Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 Digital Playground 2008-Hack the City!, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2008 Select Media Festival, Chicago, USA
2008 Elastic Mind, MOMA Online-Exhibition, USA
2008 Kunst unter Strom, LAB30-7, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Ausburg, Germany
2008 Universal Electronic Art, Seongnam Arts Center, Gyeounggi-do, Korea
2008 LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburger, Germany
2007 CONNECTIVITY, Sibiu, Romania
2007 Klangtransfer, Kulturbunker Mülheim Köln, Cologne, Germany
2007 SOUND//BYTES, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
2006 Electrohype 2006, Lund Kunsthalle, Lund, Sweden
2006 LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburger, Germany
2006 Ars Electronica 2006, OK Centrum Für Gegenwartkunst, Linz, Austria
2006 La Noche En Blanco, Madrid, Spain
2006 WAVES, the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2005 L’art de produire l’art, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
2005 Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
2005 Expanded Arts NO.2, Gütersloh, Germany
2005 Banquete_comunicación en evolución, Medialab Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2004 Electrohype 2004, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
2004 CPH:DOX, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2004 Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
2004 Split New Media Art Festival, Split, Croatia
2004 1st Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition, Beijing, China
2004 Galerie Projektraum, KHM, Cologne, Germany
2004 EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
2004 Transmediale 2004: Fly Utopia, Berlin, Germany
2002 Ars Electronica 2002: unplugged, Linz, Austria
2001 Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
2001 9th New York Digital Salon, New York, USA
2001 IST, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 Scheint, Giessen, GER
Concerts *selected
2016 Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2016 SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul, Korea
2014 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2013 La réalité réelle inventée, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Berlin, Germany * A concert of electroacoustic works by Yunchul Kim and Jörg Lindenmaier
2012 Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2012 Descend, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
2010 Mediaruimte, Brussel, Bergium
2009 Lange Nacht Musik Cologne, Germany
2009 Futurismus, Cologne, Germany
2009 Mex, Dortmund, Germany
2009 Ellectroconference 4.0, Augusburg, Germany
2006 Nocturn, KHM, Cologne, Germany
2004 Hoam art Hall (zusammen mit Joerg Lindenmaier), Seoul, Korea
2003 Hoam art Hall, Seoul, Korea
2003 LAB30, Augsburg, Germany
2003 WDR Studio Akustische Kunst (Radio Ubertragung), Cologne, Germany
2002 Per->SON_, Colonge, Germany
2002 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2002 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 One Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Studio Conzert, Karlsrhe, Germany
Awards
2016 Collide International Award 2016, The European Organization for Nuclear Research(CERN), Geneva, Swizerland
2013 Third Prize, VIDA 15.0, Vida Telefonica Fondation, Madrid, Spain
2008 New Trend Artist, Seoul Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2006 Honorary mentioned at Interactive Art, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2005 Award for Media Artist, NRW(State of North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
2004 Honorary mention, Transmediale, Berlin, German
Teaching experience *selected
2006-2011 Guest lecturer, Merz Akademie, Hochschule fur Gestaltung Stuttgart, Germany
Research Project *selected
2015-2017 Chief Researcher, Independent research group-Mattereality, Transdisciplinary Research Program, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2012-2015 Material & Technical director, Artistic research project: Liquid Things, Vienna University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2011-2014 Art and Science Project: Fluid Skies, Berlin and Seoul
Invited lecture *selected
2019 Science Walden Lecture Concert, Art Space Boan, Seoul, Korea
2019 Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2019 Kaywon University of Art and Design, Gyeongi-do, Korea
2019 Innovate Korea 2019, Silla Hotel, Seoul, Korea
2019 ISEA 2019, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
2019 Daejeon AI forum, Daejeon Artist House, Daejeon, Korea
2018 Jour Fixe, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, Germany
2018 Wonju University, Wonju, Korea
2018 Art and Technology department, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
2017 Hope University, Liverpool, UK
2017 FACT, Liverpool, UK
2017 Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK
2017 Korea Creative Content Agency, Seoul, Korea
2017 Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2016 Art center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
2016 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 AIT institute, Seoul, Korea
2016 Seoul Art and Culture Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2016 Curatorial Program for International Cultural Exchange, Korea Arts Management Service
2015 Hansung University, Seoul, Korea
2015 Transdisciplinary Research Program, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2014 Curatorial Program for International Cultural Exchange, Korea Arts Management Service, Korea
2009 Yeoung-Nam University, Daegu, Korea
2009 Electronic and Volatiel Time, FMX/09, Stuttgart, Germany, 2009
conference *selected
2018 2018 Fall Conference, The Korean Society of Aesthetics and Science of Art, Korea
2018 Organizer and speaker, International Art and Science Conference and Workshop MatteReal, Asia Art Center, Gwangju and Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2017 Colloquium, Institute for Basic Science, Daejeon, Korea
2016 Korea-UK Art & Culture Conference, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Forum, Beijing Media Art Biennale 2016, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2016 Project Daejeon 2016 : COSMOS – Conference, Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2015 Artience Forum, UTS Science Hall, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
2015 Symposium, The Korea Society of Art Theories: Art+Science+Technology, Seoul City Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2014 Transdisciplinary Symposium: Matter and Energy, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2013 Organizer, International Symposium: Fluid Cosmologies II, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2012 Organized by Fluid Skies, International Symposium: Fluid Cosmologies I, Einstein Hall, Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany
Workshop and Seminar *selected
2017 Workshop, FACT, Liverpool, UK
2017 Organizer, Series Seminar: Non-human Turn, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2016 Organizer, Mattereality workshop: Events, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2016 Organizer, Mattereality workshop: Dispositions, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2015 Organizer, Mattereality workshop: Plasticity, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2015 The 4th Invited Lecture of Transdisciplinary Annual Theme Research Group: Spacetime in Media Art, Commentator, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2015 Fellows Meeting: Analog & Digital–Simulations in Art & Science, Ernst Schering Foundation, Berlin, Germany
2014 Workshop, National Children’s Museum, Gwacheon, Korea
2013 Workshop: Embodying and Liquefying-Imaginary Solution and Problem, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2013 Workshop: Liquid Things, Zurich University of the Arts, Zürich, Swizerland
2013 Seminar: Fluid Skies, the University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
2013 Public Talk: Fluid Skies, the Planetarium of Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
2013 Embodying and Liquefying: Imaginary Solution and Problem, KIAS Annual Theme ‘Images, Artistic and Scientific’ 3rd Research Seminar, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
2012 Project presentation of Liquid Things, in Kunsthalle am Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria
2009 Workshop, FMX, International Animation Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
2009 Workshop, Futurismus-Kunstwerk, Cologne, Germany
2009 Workshop, Open your sense: Pataphysics Afternoon, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Workshop, 300m3 Art Space, Sweden
2009 Workshop, Club Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2009 Seminar, Valand School of Fine Arts, Goeteborg, Sweden
2008 Workshop, Gallery 4020, Salzburg, Austria
2007 Workshop, Pixel, Gergen, Norway
2007 Seminar, Valand School of Fine Arts, Goeteborg, Sweden
2006 Seminar, Bauhaus-University, Weimar, Germany
2001 Interface, Presentation, Sommer Akademie, Essen, Germany
Publication *selected
Catalogues
Gerfried Stocker, Christine Schöpf, Hannes Leopoldseder (Eds.) Ars Electronica: Error. Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH., 2018.
New Acquisitions 2017. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary. 2017
Plastic Myths. Asia Culture Center, Seoul: Asia Culture Institute. 2016.
Evanescent. SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul: SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation. 2016.
Super Nature. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea, 2014.
Graham Harman, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Mark B.N. Hanson, Sean Cubitt, Timothy Morton, WANG Hui, ZHANG Ga (Eds.) 3rd International Triennial of New Media Art: ThingWorld. Beijing: National Art Museum of China; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2014.
Peter Lang, Christoph Tannert, Doreet LeVitte Harten, Thibaut de Ruyter (Eds.) Das Mechanische Corps-Auf den spuren von Jules Verne. Berlin: Kunstlerhuas Bethanien. 2014.
Out of the Box. Vienna: Vienna University of Applied Arts. 2014.
BE#18, Berlin: Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien. 2011.
Sabine Himmelsbach (Ed.) produced@. Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst. Berlin: Revolver Publishing. 2011.
Stefan Riekeles, Andreas Broekmann (Eds.) ISEA2010: 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Berlin: Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg. 2010
Lars Gustav Midbøe, Anna Kindvall (Eds.) Electrohype 2010. Sweden: Wedgepress & Cheese. 2010
Peter Kiefer. Klangraume der Kunst. Berlin: Kehrer Verlag. 2010
FMX/09 14th International Conference on Animation and Digital Media. Berlin. 2009
Mediacityseoul : 5th International Media Biennale. Seoul. 2008.
Anna Kindvall, Lars Gustav Midbøe (Eds.) Electrohype 2006. Lund: Electrohype. 2006.
2006 Ars Electronica: Simplicity. Berlin: Hatje Cantz. 2006.
CyberArts 2006: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica. Berlin: Hatje Cantz. 2006.
Georg Trogemann & Jochen Viehoff (Eds.) Code@Art. Berlin: Springer. 2005.
Electrohype 2004. Lund: Lunds Kunsthal. 2004.
Edited Volumes
Art Science is. Japan: Arina Tsukada. 2018: 156-157.
Roman Kirschner (Ed) Raw Flows: Fluid Mattering in Arts and Research. Germany: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. 2017
Elaine W. Ng, Don J. Cohn, HG Masters, Hanae Ko, Brady Ng (Eds.) Brilliant critics: 10 curators 10 artists. Seoul: Korea Tomorrow. 2017: 165-179.
Ephiphany Vol. 4. Yunchul Kim: Mattereality. Seoul: Publishing Epiphany. 2017: 86-137. 189-192.
Sunam Jo. The Science history of desire and imagination. Seoul: Thought of power. 2017:
Youngsun Park (Ed.) System and Art. Yunchul Kim. Mattereality. Seoul: E-hak Sa. 2017:
Youngsun Park (Ed.) City of connected sum. Seoul: E-hak Sa.
Peter Weibel. The retooling issue curated by Peter Weibel Karlsruhe. Vienna: Parabol Magazine. 2014
Lucia Ayala, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Yunchul Kim (Co-author) Caved Air. Berlin: Argos Books. 2012
Siegfried Zielinski. Thinking About Art after the Media, Research as Practiced Culture of Experiment. Berlin: Routledge. 2010
Leonardo(Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology) Vol.34. The MIT Press: 518-519. 2001
Articles
Yunchul Kim. Mattereality. Art theory and site. Seoul: The Korean society of art theory. 2016
Jens Herder, Michael Cohen. The Helical Keyboard: Perspectives for Spatial Auditory Displays and Visual Music. Journal of New Music Research 31(3): 269-281. September 2002
Sungwook Hong, Yunchul Kim’s Effulge: encounters of Art and Science. Journal of Science & Technology Studies: 319-325. December 2014
Karmen Franinović, Luke Franzke. Luminous Matter Electroluminescent Paper as an Active Material. 9th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement, Politecnico di Milano. DeSForM 2015. 2015
Broadcast and press * selected
Simon Ings, Where art and physics collide: Broken Symmetries showcases Cern’s artists, Financial Times UK, 30 November 2018
Julie Terrason, 3D painting: Comment donner du volume à vos tableaux ?, Tracks on Arte, broadcasted on 23 November 2018
Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Guest artists at CERN illustrate the imperceptible, Physics Today, 2 November 2018
Soo Jeong Kang, The Korean Cultural Centre UK celebrates Yunchul Kim’s Nomination as 2018 Artist of the Year, Art Radar, 20 October 2018
Lidia Ratoi, Yunchul Kim, making technology the ultimate form of art, CLOT Magazine, 4 October 2018
Andrea Morris, Creating Art At The World’s Largest Particle Accelerator, Fobes.com, 29 August 2018
Michael Schirber, Arts & Culture: Artist in Physicist’s Clothing, Physics Journal, 26 April 2017
Christina Chernova, Shining photonic crystals: how the artist helped scientists(Сияние фотонных кристаллов: как художник помог ученым), Futurist, 27 March 2017
Moon Hye Jin, Art-science convergence: High-tech/media/robotics/post-human, Artlink, December 2015