Who’s in Town is a loose programme series that invites curators, writers, researchers, and arts practitioners passing by London to stop at Asymmetry for a casual conversation with our audience. Designed to foster open sharing among aspiring and seasoned practitioners alike, the format offers a unique opportunity to engage and exchange with exciting professionals of different contexts. Each conversation begins with the guest’s current interests, allowing the dialogue to unfold from these initial points of connection.
In this session, we are excited to welcome Hyunjin Kim, international curator and writer, to be in conversation with our Director, Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt.
Hyunjin Kim is a curator and writer based in Seoul. She was the Artistic Director of the Incheon Art Platform (2021), Lead Curator for Asia at KADIST (2018-2020), and Curator for the Korean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Kim also served as Director of Arko Art Center, Seoul (2014–15), and co-curator of the 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008). Rethinking the entanglement of regional history, modernisation, and tradition through women’s and genderqueer narratives, she curated notable exhibitions such as Frequencies of Tradition (Guangdong Times Museum, 2021; Incheon Art Platform, 2021; KADIST, 2022), History Has Failed Us, but No Matter (Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2019), and also co-curated 2 or 3 Tigers (HKW, Berlin, 2017) with Anselm Franke. Kim was an advisory board member for Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2014–16), a jury member for the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence program (2017–18), and currently serves on the committee of LISTE, and as a KADIST acquisition advisor.