Talk with the artist Kimsooja
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| Free admission |
| 12 years and older |
| English |
| 3rd floor |
| Belongs to: Kimsooja – (Un)Folding Bottari |
At the invitation of the Museum of Asian Art, artist Kimsooja has developed a sequence of collection interventions together with guest curator Keumhwa Kim. The exhibition is the prelude to a series of new exhibition projects that mark the Humboldt Forum as a site of contemporary artistic and social debates. It presents 14 works and groups of works by the Korean-born, internationally exhibiting artist, which unfold in media diversity in the exhibitions of the Museum of Asian Art and the Ethnological Museum at the Humboldt Forum. Older works and new ones created especially for the exhibition connect associatively with the historical objects in the museums’ galleries, stimulate dialogues and place collections and their themes in a relationship to the present.
15:00
Curator’s tour
Meeting point Intro room on the 3rd floor.
17:00
Artist talk
3rd floor, room 306
Kimsooja (*1957 in Daegu, South Korea). Initially trained as a painter in Seoul, she then spent time in a studio for lithography at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1984/1985) and at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York (1992/1993). From the 1980s onwards, her artistic practice focused on textiles. Since then, sewing and weaving, folding and unfolding have been formally and conceptually central to the artist’s work. Kimsooja – (Un)Folding Bottari unfolds in multiple constellations in the galleries of the Museum of Asian Art and the Ethnological Museum, tracing the transformation of her work from flat sewing (Mind of the World, 1992) to sculptural objects (Bottari, 2017 and Bottari 1999-2019, 2019) and cinematic works (Thread Routes, 2010 – ongoing).
Keumhwa Kim, art historian and curator. Concerned with questions about the conditions of a (post-)anthropocene world, the responsibilities in the post-colonial awakening as well as performative actions as artistic strategies. Numerous exhibitions and projects in Berlin and Korea, including Getbollab (2023), Speaking to Ancestors (2022-2023), MOSS-이끼 (2022), Terrestrial Assemblage (2021), Das Dritte Land (2019-2024).