JeeMin Kim
- About
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There is a ghostly sense of déjà vu, a poignant nostalgia for lost civilisations, the ancient times we have never experienced. This uncertain origin is what Kim continuously trace and reconstruct through ongoing research and exhibition series, .
unfolds as a series of spatial stages built from a mixture of architectural forms and ruins from diverse civilisations. Within this hybrid space, the work questions the fabricated nostalgia produced by Western archaeology and the colonial gaze.
As an artist who grew up at the centre of a former empire and now looks back as a migrant, Kim explores hybrid civilisations, postcolonial rewriting of history, violence and memory, trauma and recovery.
Rather than the familiar fear of the “invader” often depicted in narratives about ancient worlds, imagines the spectator as a third figure, one who is warmly welcomed into the splendour and journey of past civilisations.
- Education
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2019
MA in Contemporary Art Practice (Critical Practice), Royal College of Art, London, UK -
2016
BA in Fine Art (Sculpture), Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, UK
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- Solo Exhibition
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2025
Prototype Temple: We Shall Rest, Sewoon Hall, Seoul, Korea -
2024
Prototype Temple: The Murder Case, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea -
2023
Prototype Temple: In Defiance of Fond Adversaries, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea -
2022
Prototype Temple: 6ft Under_Valley, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea -
2021
Prototype Temple: At Night, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea
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- Group Exhibition
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2025
Edging the Unscratchable Digital Itch, InterAccess, Toronto, Canada -
2025
Where Time Leaves Traces, Onsu Gonggan, Seoul, Korea -
2025
Black Point, BUG, Tokyo, Japan -
2025
Displaced Nostalgia: Impermanence,Platform-L Contemporary Art Center, Seoul, Korea -
2025
Displaced Nostalgia: Not So Personal, as part of Basel Art Fair Hong Kong's Program, WMA Space, Hong Kong -
2025
DIALOGUE: Unread, Hwigyumjae, Seoul, Korea -
2024
Bad Timekeepers, Toronto, Canada & TINC(This is Not a Church), Seoul, Korea -
2024
Public Art New Hero, K&L Museum, Gwacheon, Korea -
2023
Tomorrow, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea -
2023
Nuclear Disarmament Declaration vol.1, Namsan Library, Seoul, Korea -
2023
Another Materiality, HongIk Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea -
2022
Connecting Time and Space, Culture Station Seoul 284 RTO, Seoul, Korea -
2021
Literature on Stage, Sahng-up Gallery, Seoul, Korea -
2019
Terminal O, Horse Hospital Gallery, London, UK -
2015
Best Before, 5th Base Gallery, London, UK
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- Other activities
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- Collection
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Painting
No.126
2024-
- JeeMin Kim
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Painting
No. 80
2022-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: At Night
2021-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: 6ft Under_Valley
2022-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: In Defiance of Fond Adversaries
2023-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: In Defiance of Fond Adversaries
2023-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: The Murder Case
2024-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: The Murder Case
2024-
- JeeMin Kim
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Painting
No. 131, 134
2024-
- JeeMin Kim
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Installation/Sculpture
Prototype Temple: We Shall Rest
2025-
- JeeMin Kim
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Solo Exhibition
Prototype Temple: At Night
2021-10-26~2021-11-28
Sahng-up Gallery -
Solo Exhibition
Prototype Temple: 6ft Under_Valley
2022-09-02~2022-09-18
Sahng-up Gallery -
Solo Exhibition
Prototype Temple: In Defiance of Fond Adversaries
2023-01-28~2023-03-12
Sahng-up Gallery -
Solo Exhibition
Prototype Temple: The Murder Case
2024-03-09~2024-04-20
Sahng-up Gallery -
Solo Exhibition
Prototype Temple: We Shall Rest
2025-10-25~2025-11-22
Sewoon Hall