Ayoung Kim uses artificial intelligence, virtual reality, videos, game simulations, sculptures, references to South Korean webcomics and sound fictions to create 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, which can be seen in a German museum from 28 February 2025, focus on migration, xenophobia, queerness as well as bio- and geopolitical issues. Visitors are both spectators and actors who can influence the narrative on display from their own perspective. The audience can repeatedly relate the fictional story told in the exhibition to current events in reality.
Image above: Ayoung Kim, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere, 2022, Filmstill © Ayoung Kim, Gallery Hyundai
In her art, Ayoung Kim (born 1979) 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.
WHEN?
Vernissage: Thursday, 27 February 2025, 7 pm
Exhibition dates: Friday, 28 February – Sunday, 20 July 2025
WHERE?
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart
Invalidenstraße 50/51
10557 Berlin-Mitte
