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Ru Kim (b. 1995, Hamburg) is an artist who enjoys using performance and video installations to question the use of art in resisting and reappropriating perpetuations of violence generated by patriarchal, imperial, and colonial ideologies of domination. Employing various media such as video, photography, sound, performance, installation, and text, they seek to develop forms that challenge binaries and fixed identities. Moving through their own fluidity in language, culture, and identity, Ru Kim is nourished by hydro-, Black, and queer feminist theories to lead deconstructivist analyses of oppressive, racist and colonial representations. Recent projects focus particularly on stories told through the lens of the more-than-human witness, strategies of water as seen through a hydrofeminist lens, documentation of queerness in Korean history, and archives revealing the "Asian" construction enacted by the Western gaze. |
Bio
Ru Kim grew up in transit between Germany, Cyprus, Korea, Canada and Brazil, before moving to France to pursue their studies in art. They obtained a fine art bachelor and master’s degree with honors at the École Supérieure d’Art et Design, Grenoble.
Ru Kim currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
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Recently, Kim has opened their solo show I KNOW WHAT I’VE DONE (2024) at This Is Not a Church in Seoul, Korea, and has performed at the ARKO Art Museum (2024) and the Gwangju Biennale (2024). They have exhibited at PSLA (2024) in Los Angeles and News Museum (2024) in Seoul, Korea. They have also hosted solo shows in Space 413 (2023), Post Territory Ujeonguk (2022) in Seoul. They exhibited in ANOZERO ‘21-’22 Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art Meia-Noite (2022) in Portugal, the Seoul National University Powerplant exhibition Non-Binary (2022) in Seoul, Fascination (2021) at the Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain (CRAC Alsace) in France, Non-/Human Assemblages: Sea Art Festival 2021 (2021) and N ARTIST 2021: Working with Uncertainties (2021) at the Gyeongnam Art Museum in Korea, and School of Waters: Mediterranea 19 Young Artists Biennale (2021) in San Marino. They have exhibited in group shows at Artist Residency TEMI (2021), the Clayarch Gimhae Museum (2020), Choi & Lager Gallery (2020), Hwangumhyang (2020) in Korea, Galerie Xavier-Jouvin (2015, 2018) in France and the Victoria Art Center (2017) in Romania, and organized performative events at the MAC/VAL Museum (2019), and at KADIST Paris (2019). Kim has participated in the Artist Residency TEMI (2021), and the Clayarch Museum C.C.C. Residency (2020), and is a recipient of the COLLATERALE Performance Award (2023-2024), the ARKO Multidisciplinary Art Grant (2024, 2023) and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Project Grant (2022). |