Gisoo Kim
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Gisoo Kim's camera is her constant companion. Her motifs are people, landscapes and spaces. Her photographs emerge from the moment. She assembles individual photographs or cutouts into collages and stitches them together into abstract or new poetic pictorial worlds. She consciously leaves traces of her artistic intervention on the photographic image surface. Only on closer inspection does it become apparent that individual elements have also been sewn and embroidered by hand onto the photographs.
Gisoo Kim expands the photographic surface with her embroideries, adding a new layer. The embroidered and sewn elements expand the real photographed image space and stand in a mythological, surreal dialogue with her photography. She virtually sews a second reality, multilayered and full of poetry.
Biography
Born 1971 in Seoul, Korea.
Lives and works in Essen, Germany.
Member of German Photographic Academy and VG Bild-Kunst.
2010
Artist in Residence, Seoul Art Space-Geumcheon (SASG), Seoul, South-Korea
2004
Master student of Prof. Irmin Kamp
Master degree at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf by Prof. Magdalena Jetelová and Prof. Irmin Kamp, Germany
1997 - 2001
Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, Germany by Prof. Franz Ehrhard Walter
and Prof. Wiebke Siem
1995
Bachelor of fine arts in Seoul City University, Seoul, South-Korea
1997 - 2001
Study of sculpturing in the Seoul City University, Seoul, South-Korea
Solo shows (selection)
2025
Fototextile Objekte, Elbeforum Brunsbüttel Stadtgalerie, Brunsbüttel, Germany
2024
SEAM, AN INC., Seoul, Korea
SEWN, A Space for Photography, Arles, France
Broderie et Photographie, Espace Lézard, Colmar, France
2023
beautiful connections, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022
Kunsthalle Cloppenburg, Cloppenburg, Germany
Mianki Gallery, Berlin, Germany
BBK Leipzig, Germany
Traumwelt, Kleppart, Paderborn, Germany
2021
“Einschnitte", Mianki Galerie with Marc Dittrich, Berlin, Germany
2019
Extended Spaces, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
Der Fluss der Fäden, Raum für Kunst, Möckmühl, Germany
Tag Träume, Schloss Mitsuko, Thürkow, Germany
Kunstverein Rastatt, Germany
2018
Dreaming, Brühler Kunstverein, Germany
Neue Landschaften, Neuer Kunstverein Regensburg, Germany
dress_code, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
daydream, Palacio Belmonte, Lissabon, Portugal
Vernähte Welten, Kunst & Co, Flensburg, Germany
Vernähte Orte, Kunstverein Würzburg, Germany
2016
Gestickte Fotocollage, Kunstverein Paderborn, Germany
Metamorphose, Kunstraumnr. 10, Mönchengladbach, Germany
2015
Fotografie bestickend, Künstlerhaus Göttingen, Germany
2014
point par point, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Paris, France
Fremde Orten, Kunstverein Bayreuth, Germany
Gestickte Welt, Koenraad Bosman Museum, Rees, Germany
2012
Fotografie bestickend, Kunstverein Heinsberg, Germany
Genähte Landschaft, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
Genähtes Wasser, Galerie S, Aachen (Festival across the borders), Germany
Zwei Welten, Kunstverein Trier, Germany
2011
Fadenspiel, Kunstverein Landshut, Germany
2010
Landscape sketch Fotocollage, Stadtgalerie Altena Haus Köster Emden, Altena, Germany
Seoul Diary, Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen, Germany
2009
Genähte Fotografie, Kunstverein Biberach, Germany
2008
Neue Realitäten, Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen, Germany
2007
Naad, Draad, En Fotografie, V.I.A.P. Galerie, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Räume, Baustelle Schaustelle, Essen, Germany
2006
Genähte Landschaften, Wasserturm, Merzenich, Germany
2005
In Between, tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Gisoo Kim, di.vitrine, Bilker Bahnhof, Düsseldorf, Germany
Group shows (selection)
2025
LEERRAUM 3.0, Künstlerverein Walkmühle, Wiesbaden, Germany
2024
4 Hosts 4 Guests, Atelierhaus Aachen e.V., Aachen, Germany
Photo Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Art Düsseldorf 2024, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
2023
Fotografie (durchgestrichen), Kunst und Haltung e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany
Embossed and Tossed, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany
Leerraum, Kunstraum Braugass, Hoyerswerda / Germany
2022
traurig heiter, 2 Wolken, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
Layers of the real, Kunsthaus Sans titre, Potsdam, Germany
2021
Einschnitte – Mianki Gallery with Marc Dittrich - Germany
Linear - China
2020
With Stitch and Thread Expressionist and Contemporary Art Juxtaposed, Museum August Macke Haus, Bonn, Germany
2019
Cubes & Boxes, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Connections, COELNER ZIMMER, Düsseldorf, Germany
2017
Grosses Fressen_Heimat_Wiedersehen, Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
MAY I RESET YOUR MIND?, Bunsen Götz Galerie, Nürnberg, Germany
Eyes on nature, Künstlerhaus Metternich, Koblenz, Germany
Stick Bilder, Deutsches Textilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany
Die Grosse, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
orinoco, Photo Weekend Düsseldorf, plan.d., Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
Fibrish, Miami Beach Urban Studios, USA
Künstler entdecken Europa, Forum, Leverkusen, Germany
C.A.R., Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, Korea
2015
C.A.R. Künstlerprogramm, Forum Kunst & Architektur, Essen, Germany
2014
Alles im Kasten, Kunstverein Emmerich, Germany
re-con-nect, Gallery Korea, New York, USA
2013
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
Postludium, Juozasart Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuanian
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseledorf, Germany
Fables of time, bcs Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Dem Gerhirn auf der Spur, Los Angeles Art association, Wilhelm Fabry Museum, Hilden, Germany
Not a C.A.R., Los Angeles Art Association, USA
2010
Project Space 333, Seoul Art Space, Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zeche Zollverein, contemporary art ruhr, Essen, Germany
2008
Märkisches Stipendium für Zeichnung, Städtische Galerie, Iserlohn, Germany
Trennwände, Kunstraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Frauen bei Olympia, Frauenmuseum, Bonn, Germany
„Contemporary Art Ruhr 08 – Das Forum“, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2007
contemporary art ruhr, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
The Art of Drive and Control, IHK, Würzburg, Germany
Awards
2021
Scholarship, Ministery for culture and science of North Rhine-Westphalia
2015
Artists program, Alfred Cläre Pott Foundation, Essen, Germany
2013
Young Talent Promotion of Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
2011
2th Prize, Wilhelm Fabry Museum, Hilden, Germany
2009
Young Talent Promotion of Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
