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 Exhibitions
2024
14th Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil *upcoming
2023
Exploring Unknown, Science Gateway, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Dark Matters, Science Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Topologies of the Real: Techne Shenzhen 2023, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China
2023
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
Cabinet of the Ephemeral-Collecting Media Art, Art Center NABI, Seoul, Korea
2022
Barakat Contemporary, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
Future Collection, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
6th International Digital Art Biennale, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Seongsan Art Hall, Changwon, Korea
Invisible, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Entangled: Bio/Media, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China
2021
Quantica, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
Nothing Makes Itself, Arco Art Center Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020
Quantum, Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
Art and Energy, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeollabuk-do, Korea
Reality Errors, Nam June Paik Art Center, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2020, Changwon, Korea
Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
ELEKTRA X HYUNDAI: Metamorphosis, Hyundai Motor studio, Seoul, Korea
Broken Symmetries, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Quantum, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Paradise Art Lab, Paradise City, Seoul, Korea
Asia Digital Art Exhibition 2019, Beijing, China
Quantica, CCCB(Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain
2018
Algorithmic Art: Shuffling space and time, City Hall Exhibition Gallery, Hong Kong
Broken Symmetries, FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, UK
Thinking Machines, EPFL ArtLab, Lausanne, Switzerland
Ars Electronica 2018: Error, Linz, Austria
DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull und die Kunst des Kombinierens, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
I am here to learn: On Machinic Interpretations of the World, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Our place in space, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria
We are star stuff, Doosan Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2017
Touch Me Festival 2017, Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, Croatia
ACT Festival 2017, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
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
Project Daejeon 2016: Cosmos, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Kollision-Im Labyrinth der unheimlichen Zufälle, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2015
ACT Festival-Plastic Myth, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
SOMA Drawing: Mindful Mindness, SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Kontiuum, Im Ersten, Vienna, Austria
The Mechanical Corps., Hartware Medien Kunst Verein(HMKV), Dortmund, Germany
2014
Super Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
International Triennial of New Media Art: Thing World, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Mechanical Corps., Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
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
Beautiful Minds, Klein Humboldt Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Anybody Who is Disturbed by Flow of Information, SAVVY contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2010
6th Electrohype, Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden
Balmoral Blend, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
ISEA2010, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Artefakt Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
2009
Select Media Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
Organ Mix, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Proliferations, Art Space 300m3, Göteborg, Sweden
2008
5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale: Mediacity Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Digital Playground 2008-Hack the City!, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Select Media Festival, Chicago, USA
Elastic Mind, MOMA Online-Exhibition, USA
Kunst unter Strom, LAB30-7, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg, Germany
Universal Electronic Art, Seongnam Arts Center, Gyeounggi-do, Korea
LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg, Germany
2007
CONNECTIVITY, Sibiu, Romania
Klangtransfer, Kulturbunker Mülheim Köln, Cologne, Germany
SOUND//BYTES, Edith-Ruß-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
2006
Electrohype 2006, Lund Kunsthalle, Lund, Sweden
LAB30, Augsburger Kunstlabor, Augsburg, Germany
Ars Electronica 2006, OK Centrum Für Gegenwartkunst, Linz, Austria
La Noche En Blanco, Madrid, Spain
WAVES, the Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2005
L’art de produire l’art, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing, France
Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Expanded Arts NO.2, Gütersloh, Germany
Banquete_comunicación en evolución, Medialab Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2004
Electrohype 2004, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
CPH: DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark
1.Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin, Germany
Split New Media Art Festival, Split, Croatia
1st Beijing International New Media Arts Exhibition, Beijing, China
Galerie Projektraum, KHM, Cologne, Germany
EMAF, Osnabrück, Germany
Transmediale 2004: Fly Utopia, Berlin, Germany
2002
Ars Electronica 2002: unplugged, Linz, Austria
2001
Moltkerei Werkstatt, Cologne, Germany
9th New York Digital Salon, New York, USA
IST, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000
Scheint, Giessen, Germany
Awards
2022 Honorary mentioned at Interactive Art, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
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
Concert
2022 EARTHING, Korean Pavilion, 59th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2019 Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
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_, Cologne, Germany
2002 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
2002 Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2001 One Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 Studio Conzert, Karlsruhe, Germany
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