Exhibition view of "Joon Kim: Tempest" at SongEun, Seoul (October 25 – December 3, 2022). Courtesy of SongEun Cultural Foundation.The SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation has been supporting emerging and promising Korean artists since 2001 through its annual art award program.
Joon Kim (b. 1976) won the 18th SONGEUN Art Award in 2018, and as part of the award, he is holding his solo exhibition “Tempest” at the foundation from October 25 through December 3, 2022, at SONGEUN.
Joon Kim is an artist who investigates and collects various sounds and stories that occur in specific places and transforms them into sensual soundscape installations.
The title of the exhibition, “Tempest,” alludes to a method of spying on information systems by leaking emanations from electronic devices. Borrowing this concept, the artist catches the subtle sounds of the urban ecosystem and presents them in the exhibition space so that the audience can experience the social structure in which we live in a new way.
In “Tempest,” Kim has enhanced the synesthetic experience of his previous soundscape works. For example, the work titled Tempest on the third floor amplifies the inaudible electromagnetic sounds of electric devices that surround us to make visitors aware of the modern system in which we live. The exhibition also features sounds collected from Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, Nanji Park in Seoul, and Australia that compose diverse narratives in the form of various acoustic landscapes.
Joon Kim has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions at Korean art institutions, including the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (Ansan, 2019), Boan 1942 (Seoul, 2017), Ilmin Museum of Art (Seoul, 2017), Project Space Sarubia (Seoul, 2016), Arko Art Center (Seoul, 2016), and Art Sonje Center (Seoul, 2015). His works are in the collections of the Gyeonggi Children’s Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Seoul Museum of Art, and the Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art.
