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Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. - 20.7.2025, pictured: Delivery Dancer's Sphere, 2022
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. - 20.7.2025, pictured: Delivery Dancer's Sphere, 2022 © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025 © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. - 20.7.2025, pictured: Ghost Dancers A, 2022; Evening Peak Time Is Back, 2022; Orbit Dance North, 2022 (von links)
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. - 20.7.2025, pictured: Ghost Dancers A, 2022; Evening Peak Time Is Back, 2022; Orbit Dance North, 2022 (von links) © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025 © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025 © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025
Ayoung Kim. Many Worlds Over, exhibition view Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 28.2. – 20.7.2025 © Courtesy Ayoung Kim & Gallery Hyundai / Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Photo: Jacopo LaForgia
Ayoung Kim, portrait
Ayoung Kim, portrait © Snakepool / Kanghyuk Lee
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Ayoung Kim
Many Worlds Over

28.02.2025 to 20.07.2025
Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart

Ayoung Kim’s (b. 1979 in Seoul, Korea) first solo exhibition in a German museum spans the most recent years of her artistic practice and explores concepts of time, reality, belonging, and queerness. Using Artificial Intelligence, video, game simulations, and sculpture, Ayoung Kim creates expansive fictional universes governed by their own temporal and spatial laws. Her works are linked by speculative narratives rooted in reality, and viewers become both spectators and first-person players, shaping the story from their perspective.

For her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Kim draws from a cycle of works that follows a female delivery driver and her identical double in a fictional, futuristic Seoul. In her "Delivery Dancer" universe, infinite possible worlds collide, where time is cyclical and non-linear. Her subjects cross the boundaries of possible realities, creating intersections between times and spaces. Ayoung Kim’s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof does not only enable its audiences to be immersed in Kim’s virtual landscapes, but extends those into the physical museum space, completely transforming the gallery’s topology.

Exhibition Catalogue

The exhibition will be accompanied by an edition of the Hamburger Bahnhof catalogue series, published by Silvana Editoriale Milano.

Curators

The exhibition is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, directors of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, and Charlotte Knaup, curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart.

Ayoung Kim is an exhibition within the framework of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography.

This exhibition is supported by: 
Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e. V.
Samsung Foundation of Culture
SBS Foundation

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Open House, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 7 to 9 June 2024
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart / Alexander Rentsch

International Women’s Day: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Programme on 8 March 2025

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