Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 24.01.2025

Who’s in TownHyunjin Kim

Hyunjin Kim

Hyunjin Kim is a curator and writer based in Seoul. She was the Artistic Director of the Incheon Art Platform (2021), Lead Curator for Asia at KADIST (2018-2020), and Curator for the Korean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Kim also served as Director of Arko Art Center, Seoul (2014–15), and co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008). Rethinking the entanglement of regional history, modernisation, and tradition through women’s and genderqueer narratives, she curated notable exhibitions such as Frequencies of Tradition (Guangdong Times Museum, 2021; Incheon Art Platform, 2021; KADIST, 2022), History Has Failed Us, but No Matter (Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019), and also co-curated 2 or 3 Tigers (HKW, Berlin, 2017) with Anselm Franke. Kim was an advisory board member for Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014–16), a jury member for the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program (2017–18), and currently serves on the committee of LISTE, and as a KADIST acquisition advisor.

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