Works at: Seoul Art Space_GeumCheon
Stays in: 2014
Genre : Installation
Education
2007 M.F.A.
in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2002 M.A.
in Environmental Sculpture, Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
2000 B.F.A.,
Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Artist Lunchbox, Seoul museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
2012 2 Doors, Kira KIM & Hakchul SHIN,
Gallery 157, Seoul, Korea
2010 Common
Good_Climb Every Mountain!, DOOSAN art centre, Seoul, Korea
Great Deed Great Death, BOONTHESHOP,
Seoul, Korea
2009 WOW This wonderful world, BOONTHESHOP,
Seoul, Korea
Super Mega Factory, Kukje Gallery,
Seoul, Korea
2008 The Republic of Propaganda, alternative space
Loop, Seoul, Korea
Gold Crystal, Changdong Art Studio of
the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2007 A Palace of Mirages, King's Lynn Arts
Centre, Norfolk, UK
2006 Gagami V – Je t'aime, Moi non plus,
Paris Cite 8, Paris, France
2003 Window
Exhibition, Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, Korea,
Minority
or Cosmopolitan, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2002 0.000km, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul,
Korea
Standard, gallery boda contemporary,
Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Cultural Code, Springs center of Art,
Beijing, China
K Process, Otherness, Play, MOCATP, Taipei
2014 Achive , MMCA _National Modern and
Contemporary Museum of Art Korea,
Warnth, Culture station 284,Seoul, Korea
Re presentacines Korean Art
Centre Spain, Madrid , Spain
2013 TRANSFER
KOREA-NRW 2011/12/13 Kunsthalle
Dusseldorf, OSTHAUS museum Hagen. Germany
Crystallize – New Media Art Lab UK &
Korea, Old Billingsgate, London, UK.
#1_SCENES VS SCENES, Seoul museum of Art
Bukseoul, Seoul, Korea
The 3th IPAP Interview with Beangnyeong
Island 525,600 time, Inchon Art platform, Inchon, Korea
The 3th IPAP Interview with Beangnyeong Island 525,600
time, Bunker # 7 NLL Beangnyeong Island, Korea
TRANSFORM Exhibition Bangkok Art and Culture Centre & Korean Cultural Center, Bangkok, Tiland
PLAY, Seoul Art centre, Seoul, Korea
Corea Campanella in Venice 2013- what
if _in venice, HOTEL Amadeus and Hotel Principe. Venice, Italy
Archive,
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere,
Art Lab AIch Nagoya, Japan
Move on Asia, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
New & Now_2012 New Collections, Seoul
Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012 Dream Walking in the Magical Reality,
Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Kwachon, Korea
TOTAL SUPPORT 2012, Total Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia, CASA ASIA, LABORAL Art cnetre, Spain
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere,
CASO SPACE GALLERY, Osaka, Japan
Cynical resistance, Canvas International
gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cynical resistance, Nieuw Dakota project gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Historical Parade ; Images from elsewhere,
Nam Seoul annex of the Seoul Museumof Art, Seoul, Korea
SHOW MUST GO ON _ presentation in
Chelsea college, London, UK
Thoughts on Body, Soma Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia, Seogyo art center, Seoul, Korea.
12Rooms _ 12 Events, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
IN THE LOOP, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
2011 The spectrum of Korean art, Kaohsiung
museum of fine arts, Taiwan
TOTAL SUPPORT 2011, Total Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Two gardens, Nanji studio gallery,
Seoul, Korea
5th Open studio_ Nanji Studio, Seoul,
Korea
Root of Imagination, gallery absinthe, Seoul, Korea
Fashion into Art, Samsung Museum PLATEAU, Seoul, Korea
Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the history, Samsung Leeum Museum, Seoul,Korea
Moving
Fast - Inspirational Pan-Asian Artists Screening, Loop gallery, Seoul,
Korea
2010 Enormous eyes, The Guild Mumbai, Mumbai,
India
City States – Media Landscape, Zone East,
Liverpool Biennial 2010,
Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool,UK;The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Korean Contemporary Art, PLASTIC GARDEN,
Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
‘A' Documenta, King's Lynn Art Centre,
Norfolk, UK
A Different Similarity – Aktuelle Kunst aus
Korea, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2009 Variety, National Museum of Contemporary
Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Beginning of New Era, National Museum of
Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from
Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
A Different Similarity: Towards the Sea,
SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Trans-Dimensional Interesting Dynamics in
New Korean Painting, Prague Biennale, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
After Gogo: New Era of Korean Art 2009,
The Bienniel of Graphic Arts, Cankarjevdom Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Meaning of Meals – Eight Stories,
Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Korea
Doors Open – Don’t Panic, Sylvia Wald
and Po Kim Gallery, New York, USA
Doors Open – Open Doors, Gallery Korea
of the Korean Culture Service NY, New York, USA
Saving by Design Plus+, Korea Design
Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2008 Modest Monuments: Contemporary Art from
Korea, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
Correspondence, Artsonje Center, Seoul,
Korea
Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan
Yachting Range, Busan, Korea
The 3rd Nanjing Triennial 2008, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
Design Made 2008-Saving by Design,
Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea
2008 Catlin Art Prize, LSO Space,
London, UK
Technique of Deviation, Interalia Art
Company, Seoul, Korea
Good Morning, Mr. Nam June PAIK, Korean
Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
Is the World Flat?, Arti et Amicitiae,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007 hey jude, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
The art of consumption, White Cross
Gallery, London, UK
Black Powder + White Party, Kyung Hee
University Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
Jungle Juice, Gallery em, Seoul, Korea
Encounter with Contemporary Asian Art,
Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
Contemporary Korean Art – Wonderland,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Multiple Intimacy, Osman Hamdi
Exhibition Space, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
Contemporary Art from Korea – Peppermint
Candy, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
Postgraduate Visual Arts Degree Show 2007,
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Pilot :3 – Live Archive for Artists &
Curators, Monastery of St. Damien and St. Cosimo, La Giudecca, Venice,
Italy
Free Particles: New Generation of Korean
Artists in Europe, Cité
Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
The Drawing Show, Gallery Factory,
Seoul, Korea
A
Matter of Urbanity,
Among Other Things (Cuestiones, entre otras, de urbanidad), Canal de Isabel II,
Madrid, Spain
2006 Still Dynamics: The Korean Contemporary Art
Show, The Jerwood Space, London, UK
Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale? – Art from
China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino, Italy
Circuit Diagram London: An exchange of
curatorial ideas from Britain, Japan & Korea, Cell Project Space,
London, UK
Art in Life – Living Furniture, Busan
Biennale 2006, Haeundae Beach, Busan, Korea
EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball,
Harrods Department Store, London, UK; London County Hall, London, UK
On Difference #2, Württembergischer
Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2005 ATTITUDE: video/ short & experimental
film/ photography festival, Cultural Center Magaza, Bitola, Macedonia
Pocheon Asia Biennale 2005, Pocheon
Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
OK. Video
SUB/VERSION, Jakarta Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia,
Jakarta, Indonesia
Banana Surfer, Ieum Gallery, Beijing,
China
Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai,
China
2004 Digital Homo Ludens (Game and Play),
Media City Seoul – International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea
JACK!, Contemporary Art and Spirits,
Osaka, Japan
Il gioco dell’assurdo – il corpo ludico (The
Game of the Absurd – The Body Play), Video. IT 2004 – Il Gioco del Corpo,
ESPACE, Torino, Italy
The Hall – The Cutting Edge East Asia,
Tsinghua University Museum of Art, Beijing, China
SeNef (Seoul Net Festival), Hollywood
Cinema, Seoul, Korea
Digispace 2004, Gallery THE SPACE,
Seoul, Korea
Move on Asia: Animation & Single Channel
Video Art Festival, SBS Broadcasting Center Mokdong, Seoul, Korea; Remo,
Osaka, Japan; + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
MAC (Media, Art, Culture) 2004: Crash and
Flow, Sinchon Art Festival, Seodaemun Prison History Hall, Seoul, Korea
Unusual Combination, + Gallery, Nagoya,
Japan
SEFORMA (Seoul Forum for Media Art), Art
Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction,
Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan; Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea;
DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
Thai Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
M Gallery, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
AVICON
(Asia Videoart Conference),
VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo, Japan; Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
2003 Books in Resemblance of Persons, Persons in
Resemblance of Books, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
Jiff MIND (Jeonju International Film
Festival – Mobile INteractive Digital), [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland
Where is my friend's home?, Rooseum
Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Dumbo Art Festival, New York, NY, USA
Video on Demand, Galerie PICI, Seoul,
Korea
Digital Salon, Art Space Hue(休),
Seoul, Korea
Wedding, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul,
Korea
Circle for Circle, Gallery FISH, Seoul,
Korea
S.O.S.: Junge Kunst aus Korea (Young Artists
from Korea), Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
CITY ZOOM 2003, International Film &
Art Festival, Bremen, Germany
Mobile INteractive Digital, Jeonju
International Film Festival (JIFF), Jeonju, Korea
Charity, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
International +System, Video Festival
2002-2003, BizArt Center, Shanghai, China
A Name Card, alternative space Loop,
Seoul, Korea
2002 Variables in the Visual Experiment, The 2nd
Indie Video Festival, i-Gong Alternative Visual Culture Factory, Seoul,
Korea
Crash,, The 28th Seoul Independent Film
Festival (SIFF 2002), Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea; Miro Space, Seoul, Korea
Lucky Seoul, the Alternative Space
Network Exhibition – City and Visual Images “My Own Private Seoul”, gallery
boda contemporary, Seoul, Korea
Coming
to Our House, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
The Color of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art,
Seoul, Korea; Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; Osaka Museum of
Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Jepan
Living Furniture, supplement space Stone
& Water, Anyang, Korea
Real_interface : swimming across your eyes,
Space imA, Seoul, Korea
Interproject – Symbiosis, Incheon
Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
Paradise Among Us, Korea Culture Art
Foundation (KCAF) Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Awards and Residencies
2013 Inchon Art Platform Residency, Inchon,
Korea
2012 Transfer
Korea-Germany NRW 2013 artist, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Germany
2010-11 Doosan
Residency Artist, New York, US
2009 Today's
Young Artist Prize, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul,
Korea
2008 Nominated
the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
Nominated
2008 Catlin Art Prize, London, UK
The
National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea
2007 Solo
exhibition, A Palace of Mirages, at King's Lynn Arts Centre supported by British Council, UK
The
National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea
Collections
National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Gwacheon, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
Mongin Art Center, Seoul, Korea
King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
SAMUSO: space for contemporary art, Seoul,
Korea
Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
Kaywon High School of Arts, Seongnam, Korea
+ Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Tate Members Collection, UK 
Society as an Object of a Endless Thinking
Shin Seung Oh
(Director of the Perigee Gallery)
Kira Kim pays attention to the stories about individuals who are living in various structures existing in the modern society. The fixated information which dominated the modern society provides us only with the headline and the core part. And more detailed information is selected, excluded and accentuated by the news providers and invisible to us. Rather, those ways prohibit us from knowing the real events exactly, and what is worse, make those irrelevant to us. For him, the artist and art has a responsibility for maintaining this tension placed between art and reality in this modern society. Therefore, the artist records this and reproduces it into a work in his own way. The objects which he chooses are the individuals who have their own stories hidden by various ideologies, such as the people who lead the labor movement, the separated families and the suppressed artists by the military dictatorships, the poet who does something normal every day. Although all these people can't be tied up under a absolute standard, the reason that the artist selects these people and reflects on his works is that he wants to show the individual's stories which are controlled and excluded by various ideologies and norms maintaining the societal structures with the artist's eyes.
For the purpose, he attempts various ways, such as drawing, sculpture, video, performance and in recent days even psychotherapy, production of a hip-hop album and show. I think that his working ways are proper for capturing our lives in the antagonistic relationship which strengthened through various ideologies made by the universal ideas in Korea. Our society that appears in Kim's works is a place where the individuals are suppressed by the plethora of ideology. This is the message which he obviously wants to show us through the camera angles. Nevertheless, his works are not only for giving the visual stimulus to us. Furthermore, the artist asks about the artist's fundamental identity by asking himself, 'What can the artist do with the work?' in a uncertain and floating society through these workings and hopes to ask the contemporary audience at the same time. This doesn't have the aim for raising awareness about a matter. Because thought and awareness is clearly different. In the case of awareness, if we have a clear aim, we can accomplish and obtain it. Then, the process of awareness is completed. But, because there is not a aim in thought, its process has to last.
After all, what Kira Kim presents through his works is that we not only perceive a certain situation, but we are aware of our surroundings by continuing to think independently. In the pursuit of this purpose, the artist wants to set up solid groundwork for the audience to think for themselves through his works. Therefore, he emphasizes that we have to think about the present environments around us and these are also our stories which we have to look right through various works connoting both the meticulous eyes toward the individuals and the macroscopic viewpoint about the surroundings around them.
