Heecheon Kim
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ABOUT
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Heecheon Kim
Born in 1989, at the dawn of the Internet, Heecheon Kim delves into questions of cognition and sensation in the interstices between the imagined, the virtual, and the real arising from the prevalence of new technologies in contemporary society. Using readily available apps and software such as GPS trackers, AR filters, and VR environments, Kim critically examines images and virtual experiences shaping our encounters in an evolving digital culture.Shortly after graduating from Korea National University of Arts in 2015 with a degree in architecture, Heecheon Kim exhibited a loose trilogy of video works that spliced autobiographical elements into hybrid environments melding the real and the digitally generated. Soulseek/Pegging/Air-twerking (2015), Wall Rally Drill (2015), and Lifting Barbells (2015), shown in a group exhibition at Seoul’s Ilmin Museum of Art, quickly placed him at the forefront of the “post-Internet” generation of Korean artists. While conversant in the visual language and aesthetics of our techno-utopian age, Kim’s interest lies not so much in technological media per se but in the dissonant gap between the human aspiration to be loosed from corporeal bounds and the intractable parameters of the everyday world.Heecheon Kim has held solo institutional exhibitions at Hayward Gallery, London (2023); Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2019); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2018); and Doosan Gallery, New York (2018) and Seoul (2017). He has participated in international biennials at Cairo (2019), Gwangju (2018), Istanbul (2017), and in museum shows at Centre Pompidou-Metz (2023), Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (2022); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2021); and ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2019), among others. His work has also been screened at the St. Moritz Art Film Festival, Switzerland (2022) and online in Modern Mondays (MoMA, New York, 2021) and Out of Blueprints (Serpentine Galleries & NOWNESS, 2019).Kim’s work is in the collection of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Seoul Museum of Art; Nam June Paik Art Center, Yong-in, Korea; Han Nefkens Foundation, Barcelona; Frac Île-de-France, Paris; Frac Lorraine, Metz, France; and KADIST, San Francisco, among others.
He is the recipient of the 20th Hermès Foundation Missulsang (2023), awarded biennially to recognize a young contemporary Korean artist of exceptional promise and he is slated to have a solo exhibition in the second half year 2024.
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HEECHEON KIM
HEECHEON KIM: DOUBLE POSER | HAYWARD GALLERY HENI PROJECT SPACE, LONDON December 2, 2023READ IN KOREAN Heecheon Kim: Double Poser | Hayward Gallery HENI Project Space December 1, 2023 – January 7, 2024 Heecheon Kim’s solo exhibition Double Poser at the Hayward Gallery,... -
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WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age | Centre Pompidou-Metz July 27, 2023READ IN KOREAN WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the digital age | Centre Pompidou-Metz June 10, 2023 – January 15, 2024 Heecheon Kim’s work Sleigh Ride Chill is now being... -
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Game Society | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul May 12, 2023READ IN KOREAN Game Society | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul May 12 – September 10, 2023 Heecheon Kim’s new work “Cutter III” is now being showcased... -
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Awarded the 20th Hermès Foundation Missulsang March 4, 2023read in KOREAN Congratulations to Heecheon Kim, who has received the 20th Hermès Foundation Missulsang. The prestigious prize is awarded biennially to recognize a young contemporary Korean artist of exceptional... -
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Interview | Dazed Korea December December 8, 2022Interview | Dazed Korea (December 2022) The current December issue of Dazed & Confused Korean edition features an interview with Heecheon Kim and Jidon Jeong. As close friends and as... -
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Field Memory | Nam June Paik Art Center October 14, 2022Field Memory | Nam June Paik Art Center 25 August 2022 – 20 November 2022 Heecheon Kim has collaborated with the renowned contemporary composer Okkyung Lee on Field Memory, a... -
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The Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific in focus: Heecheon Kim | Apollo Magazine September 22, 2022The Apollo 40 Under 40 Asia Pacific | In Focus: Heecheon Kim by Andy St. Louis 22 September 2022 Congratulations to Heecheon Kim, who has been selected as one of... -
Magnetic Fields
5 Shows to See During Frieze Seoul | ARTnews August 30, 20225 Shows to See During Frieze Seoul | ARTnews 30 August 2022 by Andrew Russeth 'The four swirling, undulating abstractions that Lee Bul has forged from acrylic paint and mother... -
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Worldbuilding | Julia Stoschek Foundation August 4, 2022Worldbuilding | Julia Stoschek Foundation 05 June 2022 - 10 December 2023 Text by Sophie Cavoulacos Heecheon Kim’s “Sleigh Ride Chill” is currently being shown in “WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art...
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