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7100AD: Air, 2022, VR experience, duration variable. Courtesy of the artist
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Born Beneath, 2021, Single channel video, 7min. Courtesy of the artist
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Meet Me at the Beach/MMAB, 2021, Series of five silkscreen prints-Edition of three, Puff-ink and sand printed on cotton, organza fabric, 200-250 x 135cm. On view of KCC Germany, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Image courtesy of the KCC Germany
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Footnotes - Ground Zero, 2018, Multiple-Channel-Video Installation, 4min 28sec Courtesy of the artist
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Vein: Orbital transition, 2022. Jesmonite, aluminium wire, rubber, oyster shell, wire rope, chain, anchor, 202 x 307 x 217 cm, scaffolding 202x130 x 39 cm. Courtesy of the artist
Exhibition
KCC UK x Germany OpenCall 2022 'Begin Again'
23 Nov 2022 – 4 Feb 2023
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Free admission
Address
- Ground Floor, Grand Buildings
- 1-3 Strand
- London
- WC2N 5BW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest tube: Charing Cross or Embankment
- Charing Cross
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) presents a new exhibition 2022 KCC UK x Germany Open Call 'Begin Again', opening on 23 November until 4 February, featuring six international artists: Iden Sungyoung Kim, Kyungmin Sophia Son, Nina Nowak, Sooun Kim, Yambe Tam and Ya-Wen Fu.
About
To expand the opportunity of these talented emerging artists, the KCC Open Call hasbeen designed to travel across two major cities, London and Berlin. Entitled Begin Again, the finalists of the 2022 KCC UK and Germany Open Call creatively reflect upon the notion of change and re-imagination. The title Begin Again means an attempt to look for change through uncertainty. The process of finding innovation in a chaotic situation is achieved through constant questioning.
The KCCUK’s annual Open Call exhibition invites six artists selected by the following four jurors:
Alessio Antoniolli (Director of Gasworks), Dr. Zoé Whitley (Director of Chisenhale Gallery) Dr. Andreas Beitin (Director of the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg) and Dr. Sven Beckstette (Curator of HamburgerBahnhof -Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin).
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Iden Sungyoung Kim, Kyungmin Sophia Son, Nina Nowak, Sooun Kim, Yambe Tum, Ya-Wen Fu
Six artists responded with various types of works in this group exhibition. First, Iden Sungyoung Kim aims to trigger a discussion on sociopolitical irony throughout history and critical reflection on current problems through her images and video works. Kyungmin Sophia Son elaborates on the status of ‘becoming’ within human and non-human relationships, traversing their expanded meaning within contemporary phenomena. Nina Nowak's series of large-scale silk screen prints are related to the speculative imprint of fiction, its impact on how we envision possible futures and how these narratives shape the world we are living in. Sooun Kim presents a video work using multivalent footage and audio influenced by traditional Korean music, contemporary electronic music, and rap to demonstrate the ways in which cultural imperialism, the long-term influence of the Korean War and the Japanese colonial era has influenced his generation. Inspired by bees from the biological point of view, Yambe Tam, uses VR (virtual reality), to help viewers become a bee in a virtual space and experience chemical signals. Lastly, Ya-wen Fu reproduces a part of the body and refers to the relationship between the body and the self. Does my body define me? Or does my ego control the body? She presents works that contain the artist's point of view on the duality of recognising the body.
