Yuni Kim

Born in Busan, South Korea, Kim is a Berlin-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans text, sculpture, painting, photography, installation, drawing, and sound. Her work navigates the intersections of subjectivity, emotion, and materiality, engaging objects, plants, and animals as conduits of meaning.

Kim collects and repurposes found materials from urban landscapes, weaving them into layered narratives through processes of duplication, distortion, and spatial reconfiguration. By bending and repositioning these objects, she challenges conventional perceptions of form and function, expanding her practice beyond the physicality of exhibition spaces. Through a reinterpretation of architectural contexts, her work dissolves boundaries between space and time, creating immersive, thought-provoking experiences.

Kim received her Meisterschüler degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) in 2018. In 2015, she participated in the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) program at Hunter College University, New York City, as an exchange student upon the recommendation of her University.

 

Exhibitions / Performances

2024

appartement témoin, 31 rue des 7 arpents, 93500 Pantin, FR

kochen, gärtnern, reparieren, TEILE 2o46, Berlin, DE

2023

Jahresendzeitfiguren, SOX, Berlin, DE

Shapes of Action, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, DE

Looking through, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, DE

2022

Winter Garden, Teile 2o46 e.v., Berlin, DE *Solo

Standard Leinwand, Galerie Lusvardi Art, Milano, IT

15 Jahre IBB-Preis für Photographie, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, DE

2021

밥, 배, 나비 – Bab, Bae, NaBi, SOX, Berlin, DE *Solo

WALKING THROUGH THE WOODS, Air-Performance Aerodynamic by Team Magic, Kulturkapellen, Berlin, DE

Air-Performance, Aerodynamic, by Team Magic, 48 stunden neukölln, im Park Lessinghöhe, Berlin, DE

2020

FREITOD, KUNSTSAELE Berlin, DE

Backstage – Hands on the Wall, KUNSTSAELE, Berlin, DE

Retina, Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin, DE

2019

Stilles Leben, Part of the IBB-Preis für Photographie 2019, IBB Atrium Berlin, DE *Solo

Schrein der Freundschaft (2), BKV Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam e.V., DE

2018

DIE KUNST GEHT NACH BROT, Baeckerei, Berlin, DE

Spiele mit der Ewigkeit, Grimmmuseum, Berlin, DE

OFFBEAT, Schau Fenster, Berlin.

Cheated Eyes, Seeing Tongues, Studio Picknick, Berlin, DE

2017

scheinbar|offensichtlich, with Dagmar Weissinger **Duo

Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, DE

Heimsuche, Studio Picknick, Berlin, DE *Solo

Good Friends, Kunstpunkt, Berlin, DE

The presence of Absence, Kunstverein Neukölln e.v.,Berlin, DE

NOON, Projektraum Messing, Berlin, DE

2016

Silence as Attitude, Arndt Gallery, Berlin, DE

VIEW-MASTER, Gallery Aanant & Zoo, Berlin, DE

Fresher than Fresh, Kunstraum Baeckerei Moabit, Berlin, DE

2015

Wo die verschwundenen Dinge sind, Galerie im Tempelhof Museum, Berlin, DE *Solo

Die andere Seite des Lichts: Kein Wunder, dass es zittert, Novila, Berlin, DE

2014

Love, Aids, Riot, Sex, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE

IF IT FIT, Streichholzmuseum, Jönköping, SE

Ab sofort: zwei Zimmer möbliert, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, DE

Homo Ludens, nominees for the 12th Kunstpreis des Bezirks Schöneberg-Tempelhof, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin, DE

Schauwerk Berlin 06, Malzfabrik, Berlin, DE

Leiko Ikemura’s XXVI, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin, DE

2012

キ(KI), Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, DE

 

Grants / Awards / Residencies

2018-2024 

Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max – Artists in Residence in Schools

2019 

IBB Prize for Photography, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft

2016 

Ursula Hanke-Förster Foundation Award

2015 

Diffring Award (Diffring Prize for Sculpture)

2014 

1st Prize at the 12th Art Prize of Haus am Kleist Park

 

selected talks / workshops  

2024
Whisper of the Tides, Workshop with Students, Performance, IUAV University, Venice, IT

After Work Walk and Talk, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, DE

Sugungga 수궁가 水宮歌, Workshop with Teachers, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, DE

2023
Beyond UdK, Talk, University of the Arts Berlin, DE
Shapes of Action, Talk, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, DE
Looking through, Talk, Kommunale Galerie Berlin, DE

Sommergarten, Workshop with Teachers and Students, Askanisches Gymnasium, Berlin, DE
2022
Tag der offene Tür, Workshop with Children, Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, Max Liebermann Haus, Berlin, DE

 

 

*This website will change constantly. Every time the artist learns the meaning of a new word, the title will change as well