Yunjoo Kwak
Yunjoo Kwak is an artist and a lecturer at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. She graduated from the Dutch Art Institute/ArtEZ (MFA, 2011) in Arnhem and the Korean National University of Arts (MFA, 2008). Yunjoo was an artist-in-residence at The Otolith Group (2015) in London and has participated in various exhibitions and collaborated with different institutes such as the Amsterdam Museum; Kuandu Biennale Taiwan; Makassar Biennale; the Korean Cultural Center, London; Studium Generale Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam; Seoul Museum of Art and The Museum of Photography Seoul.
Her major video works include ‘Café Downey’s’ (2013), ‘Chronicle of Plan van Gool’ (2014), ‘The Defectors’ (2017) and ‘Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us’ (2020). Her practice is research-based and process-oriented, with a focus on architecture and history intersection with the filmmaking process. She works across the disciplines of ‘essay’ film, photography, digital montage, publication and archiving. She is interested in the blind spots of historical representation and seeks ways to haunt them through her artistic practice.
