Vita
1978Born in Korea
2000Rescue Diver, Apnoe Diver
2001-2004Psychomotor specialist, Kinestetic specialist, Occupational therapist
2006 – 2009Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee (Vordipl.), Berlin, Germany
2009 – 2012Institut für Raumexperimente with Olafur Eliasson, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany
2012Master student of Prof. Olafur Eliasson at the Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin, Germany
2020Wild Life Researcher, Berlin, Germany
from 2023Professor for Kunst Digitale Medien (Arts Digital Media) at Karlsruhe University of Art and Design
Grants, awards and titles
2023Neustart Plus Stipendium Bonner Kunstfond
2022Grass Fellowship BAC and Uppsala University Graduate School in Sustainability Studies, Schweden
Residency, Diesseits von Eden, Stiftung St. Matthäus Kirche, Germany
2021Nomination Schering Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
Nomination Gasag Prize, Berlin, Germany
Nomination Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
2020Nomination for Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße 2020, Bremen, Germany
2019Nominated for Hector Award, Mannheim, Germany
Work scholarship, Stiftung Kunstfond, Bonn, Germany
2016Research Stipend by the Senatskanzlei for Cultural Affairs, Berlin, Germany
Goethe Institut Agency of Living Organisms
2015Delegation Award for Young German Leaders, Embassy of Israel
Landesstipendium (State Fellowship) NRW, MMK (Märkischer Kreis)
2014Goethe Institut Rabat, Morocco, If You Are So Smart, Why Ain’t You Rich?, Marrakech Biennale, 2014
2012-2013Artist in Residence, Flux Factory New York, USA
2012Selected for Chosen Poems / anthology Bibliothek Deutschsprachiger Gedichte
2011Science and Art Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany
2008Taiwan Travel Grant / Taipeh Artist Village, Taiwan
2006Selected for Chosen Poems of the Bibliothek Deutschsprachiger Gedichte
2005Winner 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)
2023I 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)
2022The 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
2021Sensing 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
2020A Handful of Dust (with Viron Erol Vert), Berlin, Germany, Curators: Pauline Doutreluingne & Petra Poelzl
2019Ziggy goes Wild, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany, Curator: Ursula Ströbele
Staying with the Trouble (from Donna Haraway), Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
2018Ziggy on the Land of Drunken Trees, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany, Curators: Bonaventure Ndikung & Solvej Helweg Ovesen
2017Into the Wild, Food Art Week, Berlin, Germany
2016Entanglement of Little Things, Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland
Sonntag, Berlin, Germany
2015Städtische Galerie, Iserlohen, Germany
Far from any Road with Ralf Teekat, NON Berlin, Germany, Curator: Elisa Rusca
2014Of bodies changed to various forms, I sing, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Pauline Doutreluingne
Das Lied der Leere, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2011If hope exists…there is no wasted land, Galerie cubus-m, Berlin, Germany
Metrotopie, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Keumhwa Kim
2010Compassion, UdK, Berlin, Germany
Update Art 2010, Artforum, Berlin, Germany
Impulse, Munich, Germany
Group Exhibitions
2024Artefact 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
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)
2022YOYI! 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
2021force 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
2020Kunstpreis 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
2019The 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
2018OvNI 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
2017Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Art Rotterdam (with Balzer Projects), Rotterdam, Netherlands
King of the Table, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Keumhwa Kim
2016Historicode, 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
2015Katzengold – 20th Anniversary exhibition of the Landesverband Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Curator: Stephan von Wiese
A meal for All, Berlin Food Art Week, Berlin, Germany
2014Oblivion, 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
2013Dossier 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
2012The 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
2011Video Screening – Institut für Raumexperimente, Goethe Institut, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2011 Berlin 2000-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan