Overhauled Stories by Sung Hwan Kim. Photo: Suin Kwon / Framer Framed Sung Hwan Kim: Protected by roof and right-hand muscles travels to ZKM | Center for Art and Media
After creating artworks at Framer Framed, Sung Hwan Kim’s largest solo exhibition in Europe to date, first presented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven from 2 December 2023 to 26 May 2024, travels to ZKM | Center for Art and Media. Bringing together complex installations as well as video and performance works made in musical collaboration with musician and composer David Michael DiGregorio (aka dogr), Protected by roof and right-hand muscles brings together works from more than two decades of his artistic career.
As an artist, Sung Hwan Kim works as a storyteller, engaging with layered histories, folklore, myths and gossip. He weaves together video, music, light, performance, drawing, and sculpture in the exhibition space. The Honolulu-based artist develops a unique narrative approach to themes such as migration and immigration, translation and renewal.
For Protected by roof and right-hand muscles, Kim also become exhibition designer, creating a unique architectural environment for his installations. The exhibition space highlights in nuanced ways the theme of “borders,” and exploring various states of subjectivity. The exhibition design for the respective venues (including light and sound) is done by the artist in collaboration with David Michael DiGregorio.
Following on from the prelude presentation Overhauled Stories at Framer Framed, the new exhibition was produced by the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where it was curated by Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide in close consultation with the artist.
Overhauled Stories was an open studio project by Kim. He reconfigured previous works to create new installations during a residency at Framer Framed. To overhaul is the act of taking apart—a piece of machinery or equipment—in order to examine and repair it if necessary. Sung Hwan Kim re-visited his previous artistic practice, mending and re-inhabiting video, music and storytelling in order to offer us allegories for everyday life.
Saturday 23 November 2024 – Monday 21 April 2025
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Location
Atrium 8+9
Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Germany
Exhibition Team
Idea: Alistair Hudson
Concept and Scenography: Sung Hwan Kim in cooperation with: David Michael DiGregorio (aka dogr)
Curator Van Abbemuseum: Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide
Curatorial Project Management: Janina Hilberer
Technical Project Management: Felix Pausch
Registrar: Natascha Daher
Restauration: Marlies Peller, Leonie Rök
Museum Communication: Janine Burger, Lisa Bartling, Banu Beyer, Regine Frisch, Alexandra Hermann, Ulrich Steinberg, Shania Weiß
Marketing: Marlen Ernst, Anouk Widmann
Editorial Department & PR: Anne Thomé, Emma Teuscher
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Exhibitions
Open Studio: Overhauled Stories
Open studio project by artist Sung Hwan Kim, hosted by Framer Framed and in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
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Sung Hwan Kim
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