HYEONYOUNG  KIM
Selected Exhibitions



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Title

Institution

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2026Shells and Folds/ 껍질과 주름Iseurrat art roomSeoul, Korea2024(Solo) A Poem of Nameless Thing / 이름없는 것들의 시BOOFY-SEOUL Seoul, Korea 2024(Solo) Diary Written with Ashes / 재로 쓴 일기198, Hongjecheon-roSeoul, Korea2024Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale(International Competitions) / 경기도자 비엔날레(국제 공모전)Gyeonggi Museum of Life and CeramicsYeoju, Korea2024 Still, a Happy Ending / 그래도 해피엔드1F, 65, Yongmasan-ro 1-gil
Seoul, Korea
2023(Solo) Heart to HeartGallery IN-HQSeoul, Korea
2023Perigee Winter ShowPerigee GallerySeoul, Korea2023When do rolling stones wake up
/ 뒹는 돌은 언제 잠깨는가 (ROS-project)
GUVSPaju, Korea
2023 Made, Created, Formed / 만든, 만들어낸, 만들어진DIVE-SEOULSeoul, Korea2022(Solo) To My Lover, My Enemy and Comrade
/ 나의 적이자 동지에게
Artian SeoulSeoul, Korea
2022Two HereHongik University of ArtsSeoul, Korea2022United Art ProjectUnited GallerySeoul, Korea2021(Solo) Formula for May  / 5월의 수식NoncontempoSeoul, Korea2021(Solo) Alchmy / 연금술Gallery isSeoul, Korea2021Be Building Up, Be Broken Up / 쌓이고, 무너지고Gallery INSeoul, Korea2021Everything in Its Place / 모든 것은 그 자리에SeMA-WarehouseSeoul, Korea2021The 12th International Ceramics Festival Mino(International Competitions)Ceramic park MINOTajimi, Japan2021LE VOLONTAIRE ET L ’ INVOLONTAIRE / 의지적인 것과 비의지적인 것Eulgiro ofSeoul, Korea2021Collecting Pieces / 정원의 채집Print bakery Samcheong(OA SEOUL)Seoul, Korea2021My Age, My Material / 나의 시대, 나의 물질WWW SPACESeoul, Korea2020Asia International Ceramic Exchange Exhibition
/아시아 국제 도자 교류전
Clayarch Gimhae MuseumGimhae, Korea
2019Asia Contemporary CeramicsChina Academy of ArtHangzhou, China2018ASYAAFDDPSeoul, Korea2017The Interchange Exhibition between Korea and Japan @KUCA Gallery Kyoto City University of ArtsKyoto, Japan
Selected Work



The chance that I’ll meet a rainbow Today
오늘 하루 내가 무지개를 만날 확률
(2024~)  ceramic, epoxi clay, 200x182x70(mm)
Forms of time/시계(2024)
ceramic, 240x220x35(mm)


Autonomic Drugs / 자율신경제(2024-2020)
ceramic, 120x140x70(mm)
Autonomic Drugs-White(2021)
feldspar, silica, alumina, calcium carbonate, 160x200x160(mm)

Thesis and Antithesis
정의 편지, 반의 편지
(2023)
ceramic tile, 150x150x30(mm)
If There is Such a Thing as Will
의지라는게 존재한다면
(2023)
ceramic, 180x180x160(mm)
love is A+B=AB(2021), Film photography 
Shape of love/사랑의 형태(2021-2024),  ceramic, fabric on canvas
Silhouette of life/생의 실루엣(2022)
pigment print




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    도예를 하며 생각한 것

    Thoughts While Working with Ceramics

    김현영(b.1995)은 도자를 기반으로 서로 다른 성질들이 충돌하고 스며들며 함께 존재하는 상태를 탐구한다.
    그녀는 광물질과 산화물을 직접 배합하며, 열과 시간 속에서 물질이 변화하고 반응하는 과정을 관찰해왔다. 예측할 수 없는 흐름과 우연한 변형, 녹아내리거나 스며드는 상태에 주목하며,
    고정된 형상보다 ‘되어가는 과정’ 자체를 작업의 중요한 언어로 삼는다.

    그녀는 현대 사회의 구조가 효율과 규격화를 중심으로 작동하며, 생물과 무생물이 지닌 고유한 개성을 생략하고 소거하는 방향으로 나아가고 있다고 느낀다.
    예외와 우연, 느린 변화는 종종 제거되거나 관리의 대상으로 취급되고, 존재들은 기능과 역할 안에서 단순화된다. 작가는 이러한 시대 속에서 인간적인 감각이란 각자가 지닌 불완전한 차이를 포용하고, 서로의 개성에 관심을 기울이는 일에 가깝다고 생각한다. 이러한 감각 속에서 그녀는 도자를 하나의 매개로 삼아, 물질 각각이 지닌 고유한 성질과 의지를 다시 감각하려 한다.

    그녀의 작업은 단순히 물질을 통제하거나 재현하는 데 머물지 않는다. 서로 다른 성질들이 충돌하고 기대며 함께 존재하는 상태, 완전히 동일해지지 않은 채 관계를 만들어가는 형상에 관심을 가진다.
    식물, 타일, 욕실의 사물, 광물성 표면 등 반복적으로 등장하는 이미지들은 인간과 비인간, 생물과 무생물 사이의 경계를 고정하기보다, 서로 스며들며 영향을 주고받는 감각적 장면들을 만들어낸다.
    최근에는 설치, 글쓰기, 퍼포먼스 등의 방식을 통해 물질들이 하나의 생태적 관계망 안에서 공존하는 상황을 탐구하고 있다. 그녀는 작품을 통해 세계를 설명하기보다, 사라져가는 경이와 감각을 다시 경험하게 하는 공간을 만들고자 한다.
    Kim Hyeonyoung (b.1995) explores states in which different properties collide, seep into one another, and coexist through the medium of ceramics. She has worked extensively with minerals and metal oxides, directly formulating and combining materials while observing how they transform and react through heat and time. Focusing on unpredictable flows, accidental deformations, and states of melting or permeation, she regards the process of “becoming” itself—rather than fixed form—as a central language of her practice.

    She perceives contemporary social structures as increasingly driven by efficiency and standardization, moving toward the omission and erasure of the unique characteristics inherent in both living and nonliving beings. Exceptions, chance, and slow transformations are often treated as things to be removed or managed, while beings are simplified into functions and roles. Within this context, the artist understands human sensitivity as the capacity to embrace imperfect differences and to remain attentive to the individuality of others. Through ceramics, she attempts to reawaken a sensitivity toward the distinct properties and latent agency of materials.

    Her work does not remain at the level of controlling or merely representing matter. Instead, she is interested in states where differing properties collide, lean on one another, and coexist—forms that build relationships without ever becoming completely identical. Recurring images such as plants, tiles, bathroom objects, and mineral surfaces do not fix the boundaries between human and nonhuman, living and nonliving; rather, they construct sensory scenes in which these entities permeate and influence one another.

    Recently, she has expanded her practice through installation, writing, and performance, exploring situations in which materials coexist within an ecological network of relations. Rather than explaining the world, she seeks to create spaces where fading senses of wonder and perception may be experienced once again.
    In 2021, She completed her studies in the Graduate Program of Ceramics at Seoul National University of Science and Technology,
    having previously earned her Bachelor’s degree at the same institution in 2019.
    She has received an Excellence Award at the International Ceramics Competition Gyeonggi in Korea in 2024,
    as well as at the Mino competition in Japan and the FRANZ Rising Star Project in Taiwan in 2021.
    Since that year, She has participated in several group exhibitions, including Everything is in its Place (2021) at SeMA Storage, Made, Created, Formed(2023),
    Still, a Happy Ending (2024), Art Busan (2024). Additionally, she has held 6 solo exhibitions during this period.



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