Vita

1978

Born in Korea

2000

Rescue Diver, Apnoe Diver

2001-2004

Psychomotor specialist, Kinestetic specialist, Occupational therapist

2006 – 2009

Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (Vordipl.), Berlin, Germany

2009 – 2012

Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany

2012

Master student of Prof. Olafur Eliasson at the Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany

2020

Wild Life Researcher, Berlin, Germany

from 2023

Professor for Kunst Digitale Medien (Arts Digital Media) at Karlsruhe University of Art and Design

Grants, awards and titles

2023

Neustart Plus Stipendium Bonner Kunstfond

2022

Grass Fellowship BAC and Uppsala University Graduate School in Sustainability Studies, Schweden

Residency, Diesseits von Eden, Stiftung St. Matthäus Kirche, Germany

2021

Nomination Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany

Nomination Gasag Prize, Berlin, Germany

Nomination Villa Romana, Florence, Italy

2020

Nomination for Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße 2020, Bremen, Germany

2019

Nominated for Hector Award, Mannheim, Germany

Work scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfond, Bonn, Germany

2016

Research Stipend by the Senatskanzlei for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany

Goethe Institut Agency of Living Organisms

2015

Delegation Award for Young German Leaders, Embassy of Israel

Landesstipendium (State Fellowship) NRW, MMK (Märkischer Kreis)

2014

Goethe Institut Rabat, Morocco, If You Are So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich?, Marrakech Biennale, 2014

2012-2013

Artist in Residence, Flux Factory New York, USA

2012

Selected for Chosen Poems / anthology Bibliothek Deutschsprachiger Gedichte

2011

Science and Art Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany

2008

Taiwan Travel Grant / Taipeh Artist Village, Taiwan

2006

Selected for Chosen Poems of the Bibliothek Deutschsprachiger Gedichte

2005

Winner of Poetry Contest of the Brentano Literature Prize

Accepted into the Frankfurter Bibliothek

Solo exhibition

2024

(A)I Tell You, You Tell Me, ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe), Germany (upcoming)

2023

I Must Alter Myself Into A Life – Form Which Can Exist On This Planet, HEK, Basel, Switzerland, Curator: Sabine Himmelsbach

Worlds Away, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany

Worlds Away, ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany

I will always weather with you, The Bass, Miami, Florida, USA, Curator: James Voorhies (upcoming)

2022

The Worm: Terrestrial, Fantastic and Wet, as a part of GRASS Fellowprogram with Bac and Uppsala Universiy, Research School in Sustainable Development, Gotland, Sweden

Brakfesten – La Grande Bouffe with Pauline Doutreluingne, Baltic Art Center and Public Art Agency Stockholm, Gotland, Sweden

Artificial Biotopes: Lehmbruck, Kolbe, Mies van der Rohe and Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany

2021

Sensing Nature: Intimacy With Strangers, MOMENTA Biennale de L’image, Museum of Fine Arts Montréal, Canada, Curators: Stefanie Hessler, Camille Georgeson-Usher, Maude Johnson & Himali Singh Soin

The Worm: Terrestrial, Fantastic & Wet, Urania Berlin, Germany, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

Making Kin 3.0, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium, Curator: Simon Delobel

2020

A Handful of Dust (with Viron Erol Vert), Berlin, Germany, Curators: Pauline Doutreluingne & Petra Poelzl

2019

Ziggy goes Wild, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, Curator: Ursula Ströbele

Staying with the Trouble (from Donna Haraway), Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany

2018

Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Bonaventure Ndikung & Solvej Helweg Ovesen

2017

Into the Wild, Food Art Week, Berlin, Germany

2016

Entanglement of Little Things, Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland

Sonntag, Berlin, Germany

2015

Städtische Galerie, Iserlohen, Germany

Far from any Road with Ralf Teekat, NON Berlin, Germany, Curator: Elisa Rusca

2014

Of bodies changed to various forms, I sing, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

2012

Das Lied der Leere, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

2011

If hope exists…there is no wasted land, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany

Metrotopie, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Keumhwa Kim

2010

Compassion, UdK, Berlin, Germany

Update Art 2010, Artforum, Berlin, Germany

Impulse, Munich, Germany

Group Exhibitions

2024

Artefact Festival 2024: At The Still Point of the Turning World, STUK, Belgium, curators: Karen Verschooren & Zeynep Kubat
Loving the Alien, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, Curator: Laura López Paniagua
Title life bestowing cadaverous soooooooooooooooooot, CCA Glasgow, Scotland, curator: Rae Yen Song
RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, FOMU Foto Museum, Belgium, curator: Alona Pardo
Wälder: Von der Romantik in die Zukunft, Deutsches Romantik-Museum, Germany

2023

In the garden of David Horvitz, Swiss Institut, Los Angeles, USA, Curator: David Horvitz

Gedanken, Spielen, Verstecken, A Contemporary Art Exhibition for Kids and Adults Ephra im Haus Kunst, Mitte, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Rebecca Raue 2023

1,5 Grad – Verflechtungen von Leben und Kosmos, Technik, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW! ZUR NACHAHMUNG EMPFOHLEN!, Uferhallen Berlin, Germany, Curator: Adrienne Göhler

So Long, and thank you for all the fish, Soft and Weak like Water, Gwangju Biennale, Korea, Curated by Artistic Director Sook-Kyung Lee, Associate Curator Kerryn Greenberg and Assistant Curators Sooyoung Leam and Harry C. H. Choi

NDSM Amsterdam, Netherlands

IN NEED OF PROTECTION, Goethe Institute in collaboration with På Sergels tort, Sweden

Touch Nature, Embassy of Austria, Berlin, Germany

(Co)Owning More-than-Truth, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

RE/SISTERS: A Lens on Gender and Ecology, Barbican Art Gallery, England, London, Curator: Alona Pardo (upcoming)

2022

YOYI! Care, Repair, Healig, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Curators: Brook Andrew, Kader Attia with Giscard Bouchotte, Natasha Ginwala and Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, Stephanie Rosenthal

Terra incognita – Fragen an die Erde, Lantzsche Skulpturen Garten, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curators: Friederieke Fast and Lena Schleifenbaum

Illusion, Spiegel|Arche, Roldisleben, Germany, Curator: Cornelia Saalfrank

Ghosts of the Machines – Ziggy and the Starfish, Polygon Gallery, Canada, Curator: Elliott Ramsey

How to Perform Collectively, Wasserschloss Quilow, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Germany

Tales of the Seven Seas, Munkeruphus, Øresund North of Copenhagen, Denmark, Curator: Anna Holm

Thunder in Your Throat, n.b.k, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Layla Burger-Lichtenstein & Michaela Richter

Ichbla willbla wasbla ichbla willbla!, alexander levy, Berlin, Germany

Abrasive Paradise, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands

2021

force times distance: on labour and its sonic ecologies, Sonsbeek, Netherlands, Curators: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Zippora Elders, Vincent van Velsen, Antonia Alampi & Aude Christel Mgba

For Refusal, Transmediale, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Nora O Murchú

Banquet of Consequences* Food Consumption in the Era of Climate Change, Stockholm, Sweden, Curators: Jonas Kleerup & Lina Aastrup

Sex Ecologies, Trondheim Kunsthall and The Seed Box, Trondheim, Norway, Curators: Katja Aglert & Stefanie Hessler

Das Ich Im Wir, Galerie Saalbau, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa

Overview Effect, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia, Curators: Blanca de la Torre & Zoran Erić

Terrestrial Assemblage, Floating University Berlin, Germany, Curators: Pauline Doutreluingne & Keumhwa Kim

Die Balkone, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Övül Ö. Durmusoglu & Joanna Warsza

Notes of a Seeress, ifa-Galerie Berlin, Germany, Curators: Inka Gressel & Susanne Weiß

Ponds Among Ponds, ICA at NYU Shanghai, China, Curators: Anna-Sophie Springer & Etienne Turpin

2020

Kunstpreis Böttcherstraße Prize Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Nominated by: Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Down to Earth – Immersion, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Julia Badaljan, Thomas Oberender, Anja Predeick, Tino Sehgal & Jeroen Versteele

OK Park, Berlin, Germany, Curator: raumwww

Making Kin, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany, Curator: Anna Nowak

Airborne, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Euan Williams and Diana Sprenger

Die Balkone, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Ovül Durmusoglu & Joanna Warsza

2019

The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On The Distribution Of The Toxic, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Antonia Alampi & Caroline Ektander

Sensing Nature From Within, Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden, Curator: Joa Ljungberg

LIAF Lofoten International Art Festival, Lofoten, Norway, Curator: Hilde Methi, Neal Cahoon, Karolin Tampere & Torill Østby Haaland 2019

Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem, Israel, Curator: Vera Kormann

Roskilde Festival, Denmark, Curator: Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Lorena Juan, Lena Johanna Reisner & Anïis Senli

2018

OvNI Festival Nizza, France, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

Die Informale, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, Curator: Lutz Henke

Everything was forever, until it was no more, Riga International Biennial, Lettlands, Curator: Katarina Gregos & assosciate curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen

The End is Where we Start From. On Tsunamis, Nuclear Explosions and other Fairy Tales, Basel, Switzerland, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

Beaufort Triennale, Ostend, Belgium, Curator: Heidi Ballet

Der Linke Tisch, Acud Galerie, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne & Petra Poelzl

2017

Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Art Rotterdam (with Balzer Projects), Rotterdam, Netherlands

King of the Table, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Keumhwa Kim

2016

Historicode, International Art Festival, Nanjing, China, Curator: Lü Peng & Letizia Ragaglia

Agency Of Living Organisms, Tabakalera, Spain, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

Sacred Food, Entretempo Kitchen Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Taina Guedes

2015

Katzengold – 20th Anniversary exhibition of the Landesverband Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Stephan von Wiese

A meal for All, Berlin Food Art Week, Berlin, Germany

2014

Oblivion, Ticino, Switzerland and Galerie Zweigstelle, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Elisa Rusca

Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Michal Ron

The Ultimate Capitel is the Sun, nGbK, Berlin, Germany

If You Are So Smart, Why Ain ́t you Rich?,Marrakech Biennal, Curator: Bonaventure Ndikung & Pauline Doutreluingne 2014

Emergeandsee, Media Art Festival, Berlin, Germany

2013

Dossier N.0, Atelierhöfe Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Tanja Sokolnikova & Ksenia Telepova

In Word Drown I, Carneval, Long Island City, USA, Curator: Hojerslev Nielsen

Logik als Inlay, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany

Anything, Anything, Flux Factory, Long Island City, USA, Curator: Hojerslev Nielsen

Handlungsbereitschaft – Motorenhalle, Dresden, Germany, Curators: Julian Malte Schindele, Julia Müller & Mona El-Bira

2012

The Enchanted Loom: Writers, Artists & the Brain, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, San Francisco, USA

The Lovers, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne

Transformation City, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany

Positioning Osmotic Impulses, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Bonaventure Ndikung and Pauline Doutreluingne

The world Is Not Fair- Die grosse Weltausstellung, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany

2011

Video Screening – Institut für Raumexperimente, Goethe Institut, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2011 Berlin 2000-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan