M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Kimsooja

° 1957

Né à Daegu (KR), vit à New York (US).

Kimsooja

During the period 1980-84 Kimsooja studied painting at Seoul’s Hong-IK University. The following year she goes to Paris with a scholarship from the French Government, in order to study lithography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (1984-85). Although at the beginning of her artistic course she is involved with painting for a while, she very quickly starts to search for new expressive means which will give her the possibility to overcome the boundaries of the two-dimensional painting surface and to ‘get involved’ with the object itself. Her artistic quests lead her towards sewing. Fabrics – second-hand clothes, traditional Korean textiles and especially bed covers – which she collects from friends and strangers, will dominate Kimsooja’s work in the following years.

In her first works with textiles she combines the technique of sewing with that of drawing and painting, while from the early Nineties, Kimsooja’s works begin to metamorphose into three-dimensional objects. During this period she creates her first bundle (bottari) from traditional Korean bed covers. In 1998 Kimsooja relocates to New York. From the mid-Nineties the artist expands her means of expression, adopting video - mainly as a means of recording and documenting performances in which she is the protagonist. It is worth noting that although it appears that in the last fifteen years, the hallmarks of her artistic style (textiles, the process of sewing, bottari), often seem to be missing, in reality they have excelled and now exist on a more conceptual level.

She has shown her works internationally, in important solo and group exhibitions (Sao Paulo Biennale, 1998, Kimsooja, Journey into the World, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2005, Venice Biennale, 1999, 2001, 2013, et al.). 

Oeuvres

> Kimsooja, Bottari, 2005.Installation, traditional korean bedcovers and used clothing, variable dimensions .

Expositions & Ensembles

> Exposition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.

> Exposition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part IV: Dealing with Catastrophe, The Flow of the World. 18 November 2017 - 07 January 2018.

> Exposition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.

Sans photo

> Ensemble: The Flow of the World.