Hayen Kim
(de)Fine art bachelor
Wdka Willem De Kooning Academy
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Textiles
My location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Hayen Kim
First Name: Hayen
Last Name: Kim
University / College: Wdka Willem De Kooning Academy
Course / Program: (de)Fine art bachelor
Graduates: 2023
Specialisms: Fine Art / Textiles
My Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Website: Click To See Website
About
Hayen Kim is a South Korean artist based in Rotterdam and Busan who creates conceptual works to unravel her narratives of moving and adjusting, and to respond to social events and phenomena, especially in her home country. Kim's artistic practice acts as a ground to polish her thoughts and a channel to enunciate her research findings to the outside world. Kim uses diverse mediums ranging from painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, photography, artist books, and workshops to communal projects to transmit her thoughts. Born in 1997, Kim grew up in South Korea and the Philippines. She studied Visual Art at Walnut Hill School for the Arts (Natick, MA), foundation in Fine Arts at the School of Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Fine Arts at Paris College of Art (Paris, France), and is currently majoring in deFine Art at Willem de Kooning Academy in the Netherlands. In recent years, she showed her works Remember 0146 at Delbridge Family Center for the Arts in Massachusetts and Conforming at TENT Rotterdam, collaborated with LoveRePaper in Incheon, and worked as a volunteer artist for the Democratic Party of Korea.
To Where Do We Flow: Finding Our Lost Half is an archive of my grandmother’s food from the North before the division of Korea – the food she made throughout her life to continue belonging to her old home in Kaesong that she could never return to. Current South Koreans have a difficult time imagining a future where we could reunite with the North, despite them being the other half of our roots and home to many elders. My project "To Where Do We Flow" looks into what we, South Koreans, have been missing while Americanizing and Westernizing ourselves. www.towheredoweflow.com
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