Works
In 2008, Yu Yeon Kim curated "Corporeal/Technoreal", a Media Art project for the Poland Mediations Biennale. In the same year she curated the first exhibition of Korean contemporary art in Cuba. The project, "Los Puntos del Compas" (The Points of the Compass) was exhibited at the Fundacion Ludwig de Cuba and other satellite sites in Havana. The exhibition was also hosted by the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City.
In 2007, she curated "Counterpoint", (an international exhibition of art that is part of a series exploring cultural, political and territorial divisions - using the schism of Korea as a relative point) at Bund 18 in Shanghai, and the Coreana Museum of Art in Seoul as well as venues in Poznan, Poland. This subject was also manifested in other exhibitions of international artists Yu Yeon Kim has curated - including, "Pyongyang Report" at the Book House, Has II and Jung Han Sook Memorial Hall in Heyri Art Valley, S. Korea
Yu Yeon Kim was an International Researcher of the Liverpool Biennale 2004 (UK). She was also the Commissioner and curator for Latin America for the 3rd Kwangju Biennale 2000 (Exotica Incognita) in South Korea and a principle curator of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa, 1997–1998, (for which she curated Transversions at the Museum Africa).
In 2001, she produced and curated the controversial exhibition, Translated Acts - Performance and Body Art from East Asia, which was initially presented at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2001) and then traveled to the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2001–2002) and the Museo de Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (2002–2003).
Yu Yeon Kim's curatorial projects also include:
- Fragmented Histories, (Asia-Pacific section) for Cinco Continentes y Una Ciudad (Five Continents and One City) exposition at the Mexico City Museum in Mexico (1998);
- In the Eye of the Tiger, a survey of Korean contemporary art at Exit Art/The Third World, New York, and the Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (1997–98);
- DMZ_2000 (Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea) at Korean Cultural Services in New York, DMZ_2005 International Art Exhibition (40 artists from all around the world) in Paju, Korea (2005)
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