Ayoung Kim’s (b. 1979 in Seoul, Korea) first solo exhibition in a German museum spans over the past five years of her artistic practice.

Using Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, video, game simulations, sculpture, and sonic fiction, Ayoung Kim creates expansive fictional universes with their own temporal and spatial laws. Her works are often linked together by speculative narratives that are still connected to the actual world that we live in and the viewers themselves are transformed into spectators as well as first person players, controlling the narrative from their own point of view.

Her subjects are humans, characters, mythological beings and virtual entities who cross the boundaries between different possible realities, making possible and impossible worlds collide across different times and spaces. Ayoung Kim’s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof explores themes like migration, xenophobia, queerness, and geopolitics and looks closely at the symbiosis between data, humans, and the planet.

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.

A special exhibition of the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin