YoungEun Kim's work examines sound and listening as sociopolitical and historical products and practices. Her recent works explore how sound and listening are constructed and technically developed within specific historical contexts, and what possibilities listening offers in knowledge production and decolonization processes. Her work has been presented at the Gwangju Biennale; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland; Samsung Museum of Art, Korea; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, USA; and many others. She is the recipient of the 2026 ACC Future Prize and has won the Korea Artist Prize, and the SongEun Art Award. Her work has also received Honorary Mentions at the Prix Ars Electronica.
CV is provided by inquiry: studioyoungeunkim@gmail.com
[Upcoming]
We Are Becoming
Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
May 8 - Jul 12, 2026
NGV Triennial
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Dec 13, 2026 - Apr 11, 2027
[Current]
Direct Bodily Empathy – Sound, Signal, Feedback
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery & Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Apr 4 - Oct 11, 2026
[Past]
74th Trento Film Festival
Galleria Civica, Trento, Italy
Apr 27, 2026
Qonaqtar: Stories of Koryo-saram
Almaty Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Apr 25, 2026
Avant-Garde Now: Hidden Spaces
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Feb 7, 2026
[Award] Winner of the 2025 Korea Artist Prize
[Award] Recipient of the 2026 ACC Future Prize
Korea Artist Prize
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Aug 29, 2025 - Feb 1, 2026
Gwangju Biennale: Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century
Gwangju, Korea
Sep 7 - Dec 1, 2024
[Artist Lecture + Talk] Gwangju Biennale: GB Talk
Gwangju, Korea
Sep 5
[Conference] Sound and Writing in East Asia
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Apr 26 - 27, 2024
Beyond the Crest
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Oct 10, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Image Forum Festival
Theater Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Sep 30 - Oct 6, 2023
The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Nov 17 - 19, 2023
Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan
Nov 23 - 26, 2023
Monitoring: This Image Will Become Important Later, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
Kasseler KulturBahnhof, Kassel, Germany
Nov 14 - 19, 2023
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Prague, Czech Republic
Oct 24 - 29, 2023
Panorama
SONGEUN, Seoul, Korea
Aug 16 - Oct 28, 2023
[Artist Talk] Music Research Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
Sep 13, 2023
Jecheon International Music & Film Festival
Jecheon, Korea
Aug 10 - 16, 2023
*Awarded Korean Short Winner
Asian American International Film Festival
New York, New York, USA
July 26 - Aug 6, 2023
Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul
Seoul, Korea
July 20 - 27, 2023
[Conference] Atmospheres of Violence
Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
May 3 - 5, 2023
[Conference] After After
Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Feb 24 - 25, 2023
[Symposium] Korea, East Asia, and/or Other Asian Diasporas
Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Feb 10, 2023
[Lecture] Science and Justice Research Center, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA (with Dorothy Santos & Anna Friz)
Feb 6, 2023
Real DMZ Project
Basel Peace Forum, kHaus, Basel, Switzerland
Jan, 2023