HYEONYOUNG  KIM
Selected Exhibitions



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Title

Institution

Location
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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    Thoughts While Working with Ceramics



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    나는 물질을 통해 공존의 형식을 탐구한다.

    오랫동안 광물질과 산화물을 직접 배합하며 물질이 변화하는 과정을 관찰해왔다.
    내가 흥미를 느끼는 것은 완성된 형태가 아니라 서로 다른 성질들이 만나 예기치 않은 결과를 만들어내는 순간이다.
    가마 속에서 인간의 개입이 멈추는 동안 물질들은 각자의 방식으로 반응하고 변형된다.

    나는 이러한 장면을 인간과 비인간, 생물과 무생물, 나와 타자가 관계 맺는 방식에 대한 은유로 바라본다.
    각각은 저마다의 성질과 의지를 지니고 있으며, 세계는 그 의지들이 충돌하고 스며들며 형성된다.
    나의 작업은 어떤 이상적인 상태를 제시하기보다, 존재들이 함께 살아가며 끊임없이 되어가는 과정과 그 안에서 발생하는 우연한 사건들에 대한 관찰에 가깝다.

    최근에는 설치, 글쓰기, 퍼포먼스 등의 방식을 통해 물질들이 하나의 생태적 관계망안에서 공존하는 상황을 탐구하고 있다.
    작업은 이러한 존재들이 각자의 성질과 우연을 지닌 채 만나고 충돌하는 장을 구성하며,
    그 과정에서 인간 중심적 시선 너머에 존재하는 세계와 마주하고 예기치 못한 경이와 호기심이 발생하는 조건을 탐구한다.

    I explore forms of coexistence through materials.

    For many years, I have observed the transformative processes of materials by directly formulating minerals and metal oxides. What interests me is not the finished form, but the moment when different properties encounter one another and produce unexpected outcomes. While human intervention ceases inside the kiln, materials react, transform, and negotiate according to their own tendencies.

    I see these processes as metaphors for the ways humans and nonhumans, living and nonliving beings, selves and others come into relation. Each possesses its own characteristics and agency, and the world is shaped through the collisions, permeations, and entanglements of these forces. Rather than proposing an ideal state, my work is closer to an observation of beings continuously becoming together and of the contingent events that emerge through their coexistence.

    Recently, I have expanded my practice through installation, writing, and performance to explore situations in which materials coexist within ecological networks of relations. My work constructs fields where different entities, each carrying their own properties and contingencies, encounter and affect one another. Through these encounters, I investigate the conditions under which viewers may experience worlds beyond anthropocentric perspectives and encounter unexpected moments of wonder and curiosity.

    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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