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Ru Kim is a visual artist who uses performance, sound, video, and installation to speak of resistance to patriarchal, imperial, and colonial violences. They speak from their experience of geographic flux; constant movement between the “West” and the “East”. Ru Kim fluidly navigates languages and cultures in their work by building on site-specific research related to watery movement. As seas, rivers, tears, and blood, water acts as a force of connection and expansive queerness; a liquid that binds us to each other, to the world around us, and to temporalities not our own. Recent projects focus particularly on speculative fictions told through a more-than-human perspective and strategies of water seen through a hydrofeminist lens. |
Bio
| Born in Germany, Ru Kim moved through Cyprus, Canada, Korea, and Brazil, before completing their BFA and MFA at the ÉSAD-GV in France. Ru Kim currently lives and works in Seoul. |
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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 for Frieze LIVE (2025), 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). |