CURRICULUM VITAE
Yunjoo Kwak
(born in Seoul, South Korea, 1977)
Education
September 2009 – June 2011, M.F.A. Dutch Art Institute/ ArtEZ, Arnhem, The Netherlands
March 2006 – February 2008, M.F.A. Photography, Korea National University of Art, Seoul, Korea
March 1997 – February 2002, B.F.A. Painting, Sang Myung University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo exhibitions/ projects/ performances/ screenings
2024 Becoming Stones, with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin, Germany
2019 Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, C20 Library & Collabtive, Surabaya, Indonesia
2018 The Defectors, Museum Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, Indonesia
2017 The Defectors, Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia
2010 Interlude No.5, Reykjavik Museum of Photography, Reykjavik, Iceland
2009 Inverted Odyssey – lecture performance, Duende studio, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2008 Zone d’attente, le tunnel: Contemporary Public Art Project, French Cultural Centre, Seoul, Korea
2007 Heroic Gravity, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea
2006 Triumph of the Will, Gallery 175, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group exhibitions/ projects/ performances/ screenings
2024 Underdeveloped, curated by Reza Afisina, reinaart vanhoe, Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam
2022 Arts and Signs, curated by An Paenhuysen, Duolon Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2022 Transoceanic Memories: Disaster Haggyo Presentation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam
2022 Disaster Haggyo, KAIST Center for Anthropocene Studies, Daejeon, South Korea
2021 Refresh Amsterdam, Sense of Place, Amsterdam Museum, curated by Imara Limon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, Makassar Biennale, Makassar, Indonesia
2018 Seven Questions for Asia, 8th edition Kuandu Biennale, The German Library Pyongyang, a project by Sara van der Heide, curated by Henk Slager, Taipei
2018 Surabaya Design Summit 2018, panel talk on “South East & Asian”, C20 Library & Collabtive, Surabaya, IN
2018 Slauerhofstraat, part of Home Sequence, curated by Sascha Pohle and Tao Vhrvoec, Sambolec, Slauerhofstraat 8HS, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Archiving Resistance, artists forum, IVAA, Yogyakarta, IN
2016 My Dear Country, Art District P, Busan, KR
2016 Mass and Individual: The Archive of Guyana Mass Game, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, KR
2016 Filmic Dialogue: Yunjoo Kwak and Igor Sevcuk, moderated by The Otolith Collective, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2014 VOICE ~ CURATURE OF TRANSITION, Speak up Child - Voicing the Void Between the Subjectivity and Subjection, curated by Ruth Noack, Studium Generale Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL
2014 On the Edge, side program of Unfair Amsterdam, NDSM werf, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Café Downey’s, curated by Clare Butcher, Punt WG, Amsterdam, NL
2013 Printed Matter, book presentation, Wilson Project Space, Sassari, IT
2012 Who is afraid of oriental girls? Mondriaan toren, Delta Lloyd Groep, Amsterdam, NL
2012 The Seamstress [IN CASE OF EMERGENCY] with Eva Schippers, Fringe Festival, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Like Now (would be good); If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Bulego Z/B, Bilbao, ES
2011 Miss Read, Book Art Fair with Casco, KW institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
2011 It Makes More to Stop Us: Book Launching, Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem, NL
2011 Who is afraid of oriental girls? Espace Enny, Laag Keppel, NL
2010 Affectionately Yours; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, PL
2008 Up-and-Comers, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2007 Service Station, Gallery Walsh, Chicago, IL, US
2007 Text in Bodyscape, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2006 Consensus Construction, the National Art Studio Changdong, Seoul, KR
2006 The Power of Imagination, the 47th Special Exhibition of Korea University (Korea University Museum special exhibition hall), Seoul, KR
2005 Women Who Challenge the Phantasy of Mirages, contemporary Photography by 4 Critics, the Museum of Photography, Seoul, KR
2005 Unspecific Subject, Cho-heung gallery, Seoul, KR
2004 Beyond Imagination, Youngeun Contemporary Art Museum, Kyunggi, KR
Filmography
Simbang, 60mins, 2024
Solo show, Becoming Stones, with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin, Germany, 2024
Only The Ports Are Loyal To Us, 16mins, 2020
Makassar Biennale, MARITIME: MIGRATION - RIVER – CULINARY, Kampung Buku, Makassar, Indonesia, 2019
Refresh Amsterdam, Sense of Place, Amsterdam Museum, 2021
Transoceanic Memories: Disaster Haggyo Presentation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2022
The Defectors, 30mins, 2017
Archiving Resistance, Rujak Center for Urban Studies, Jakarta, IN, 2017
7 Questions for Asia, The German Library Pyongyang; a project by Sara van der Heide, 7th Kuandu Biennale, Taipei, 2018
Museum Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, IN, 2018
Chronicle of Plan van Gool, 20 minutes, 2014
A Season in Hell, Project Goleb, Amsterdam, 2014
On the Edge, the side program of Unfair Amsterdam 2014, programmed by EYE film Museum, NDSM werf, Amsterdam, 2014
Rencontres Internationales Paris, 2014
Café Downey’s, 70 minutes, 2013
Here Comes the Summer Sun, curated by Clare Butcher, Punt WG, Amsterdam, May 2013
Artist in Residencies
January — February 2022, Artlab Wasan, Jeju, KR
April — May 2018, C20 Library & Collabtive, Surabaya, Indonesia
July — December 2015, The Otolith Collective, London, UK
March — April 2009, The Association of Icelandic Visual Artists (SIM), Reykjavik, IC
May — June 2009, Artists Initiative Duende Studio, Rotterdam, NL
October — December 2006, the National Art Studio Changdong, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
Public Collection
The Museum of Photography, Hanmi Foundation of Art and Culture, Seoul, KR
Research Institute of Comparative History and Culture, Hanyang University, Seoul, KR
Design studio BAAN, Seoul, KR
Grants/ scholarships/ stipends
2024 praktijkbudget, CBK, Rotterdam
2022 O&O, CBK, Rotterdam
2020 Project investment for artists, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam
2020 Project grants, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam
2019 International project grants, Arts Council Korea
2016 Korea – England research grants, Arts Council Korea
2015 Bijdrage Praktijkverdieping, Mondriaan Fonds, Amsterdam
2012 Research development grant, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, Amsterdam
2010 Huygens Scholarship, Nuffic, Den Haag
2010 Exhibition grants, Arts Council Korea
2009 ArtEZ, Scholarship, ArtEz, Arnhem
2009 Residency grants, Arts Council Korea
2006 Exhibition grants, Arts Council Korea
Publication
2011 Downey’s Ordinary Talking, author: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Yunjoo Kwak, publisher: Casco & Dutch Art Institute
Lecturer/ workshop
August 2020 – present, core tutor, Critical Studies, Autonomous Practice, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam
March 2023, guest lecturer, moving images, graphic design department, Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague
March 2023, guest lecturer, Master’s of Fine Arts, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul
December 2022, guest lecturer, Master’s Interior Design and Architecture, Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
November 2019, guest artist, Dirty Art department, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam
November 2018, artist presentation & studio visit, Jung Ang University, An Seong, Korea
May 2018, Creative Process Workshop, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya
June 2008 – December 2009, Digital Photography, Fine Art Department, Korea National University of Arts, Seoul