SOLO OSLO: KIM HANKYUL Artist Talk
Kim Hankyul has become renowned for his striking kinetic installations that explore sensory meetings between technology, myth, and marginalized bodies. At MUNCH he has had the opportunity to scale up, and his SOLO OSLO exhibition, entitled Shore, is his most complex and ambitious to date.
This is the fifth edition of the SOLO OSLO series in which an emerging Oslo-based artist has a solo exhibition of new work at MUNCH. SOLO OSLO is supported by Talent Norge and Canica.
Kim Hankyul (b. 1990, Busan, South Korea) lives and works in Oslo. He holds a bachelor's degree in Aesthetics from Seoul National University and a master's degree in Art from The Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen. Hankyul held the solo exhibition, Bildungsroman, at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art in 2023. Other exhibitions include Entree in Bergen, and Oslo Kunstforening, where he was awarded the Sparebankstiftelsen DNB's grant 2022 for the kinetic sound installation, AV Buddha, which was acquired by the Astrup Fearnley Museum. He has also held exhibitions at Kunstnerforbundet, Atelier Nord, and Høstutstillingen in Oslo, where he was awarded the Kistefos Prize in 2021; and Ekko-festivalen, KRAFT and Northing Space in Bergen. He has had several residencies including at the Pilchuk Glass School i Stanwood (USA), BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts and NKD – Nordic Artists’ Centre in Dale.
Kim Hankyul ©Euna Lee
Tominga O'Donnell ©Munchmuseet
Dr Tominga O’Donnell is Senior Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at MUNCH. They curated the programme Munchmuseet on the Move (2016–2019), adopting a queer curatorial approach and commissioning a range of off-site art projects. At MUNCH, O’Donnell is the curator of several solo exhibitions including Camille Henrot, Sandra Mujinga and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, two editions of the MUNCH Triennale, and a number of commissioned works in MUNCH's performance program.
