KIM Junghyun

Profile

Kim Junghyun is an art critic and an independent curator. Kim writes and organizes exhibitions with an interest in performative aspects of contemporary art and in forms and structures through which critique and creation intervene.

Recent activities
2021 Archive Room of "CORPUS GESTUS VOX" Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Research & Curating)
2020 "This Event/Last Dinosaur" Seoul Museum of Art (co-curator of “This Event”)
2017 "Performance History" Platform-L Contemporary Art center, Platform Live, Seoul, Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

2019~, co-curator of “greenroom” (online curatorial research platform)
2016-2017, co-editor of contemporary dance web journal “Choomin” published by Seoul Dance Center

Awards and residencies
2015 Co-winner of the 1st SeMA-HANA Art Criticism (Seoul Museum of Art)
2017-2018 Winner of the best Platform-Live Performance Art (hosted by Platform L Contemporary Art Center)
2017 SeMA-Nanji Artist Residency
2018 Artist (Researcher) Residency in Fukuoka Asian Art Museum

About works

Kim writes and organizes exhibitions with an interest in performative aspects of contemporary art and in forms and structures through which critique and creation intervene. Kim presented the archive room of CORPUS GESTUS VOX (2021), encompassing performance art from the first generation to contemporary practice, held in Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art; Last Dinosaur, the second section of This Event (2020), held in Seoul Museum of Art, focusing on performance as a problematic genre in contemporary art; Performance History (2017), a (semi-/against-) reenactment performance of the first generation of performance art in Korea; and Change Nothing (2016, 2017, 2020), the critical curatorial series on the condition and process of artmaking.