From 11. November to 12. December 2025, P61 Gallery in Berlin-Schöneberg presents the exhibition “uni form: Broken Twill – Berlin Edition”. This exhibition is the Berlin-based development of a project from Seoul and creates a fascinating connection between art, fashion, and technology.
Image above: uni form: Broken Twill. Courtesy of P61
The exhibition focuses on the work of artist and fashion designer Chul Yong Choi, who explores the concept of the “uniform” and the tension between collectivity and individuality. The Berlin edition takes this approach further by transferring the physical exhibition into a digital format that combines painting, data, and AI-based experiments—including collaborations with artists from the OpenAI Creative Lab Seoul.
The Berlin edition goes a step further, pursuing a complete digital transformation. All elements of the Seoul exhibition—from the planning and images to the texts—have been transferred into a dataset. This data now forms the basis for AI-based creative experiments and generative recompositions. The exhibition is therefore not conceived as a finished product, but as an ongoing process in which art, technology, human practice, and AI develop new forms of visual expression.
Chul Yong Choi is a fashion designer and contemporary artist. He studied at Hongik University and the Domus Academy in Italy. After working as an art director for European fashion brands, he founded his own label, Cy Choi, in 2009.
The exhibition focuses on his series of paintings on the theme of “Uniforms.” Choi uses the textile technique of broken twill as a visual leitmotif. For him, this weave, in which the diagonal line is deliberately shifted, represents the subtle irregularities that arise within systems of order.
His canvases explore the tension between regulation and freedom, as well as between institutional structures and individual expression. This deliberate deviation within the structure (“broken body”) serves as a conceptual starting point for expanding his artistic practice towards AI and data, as demonstrated in the Berlin exhibition.
The Berlin edition expands on the theme with selected additional works, including pieces by artists from the OpenAI Creative Lab Seoul program. These artists view AI not only as a tool, but as an active participant in the creative process.
In a curatorial experiment of unprecedented scale worldwide, they draw inspiration from Chul Yong Choi’s paintings and transform his visual language using AI-based methods. The exhibition explores how the materiality of painting and artistic sensibility can be reinterpreted through the perceptual and processing structures of AI.
The following invited works are part of the exhibition:
„Broken Twill Study I–IV” (2024–2025) – Hyojung Seo. As a leading Korean generative artist, Seo translates the structure of textile fabrics into the language of data. Her series experiments with how physical fabric can be reinterpreted as an algorithmic pattern.
„Office Ladies“ (2025) – Emi Kusano. In her series (full title: Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow), the internationally acclaimed AI artist visualizes the subtle tensions between human labor, gender, and social roles. Her work humorously and critically explores the conflict between technology and culture through a posthuman aesthetic.
„We Were Here“ (2018–2020) – Anton Shebetko. This photographic work deepens the social and ethical dimension of the exhibition. It portrays LGBTQ soldiers in Ukraine and raises the question of how individuals can maintain their dignity and identity within the collective discipline of the uniform. The work lends the exhibition human and political weight and expands the meaning of the uniform as a symbol of dignity, diversity, and resistance.
„The Beauty of Dégagement“ (2025) – Kim Jinyoung. This work is listed as an invited work in the exhibition. (The provided text does not contain a detailed description of this work.)
„Open-flow Drift“ – Kim Jiyoung. This work is listed as an invited work in the exhibition. (The provided text does not contain a detailed description of this work.)
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 11. November until Friday, 12. December 2025
Opening hours: Mo-Su, 12 to 7 pm
WHERE?
P61 Gallery
Potsdamer Str. 61
10785 Berlin-Schöneberg
COST?
