KIM Soun Gui
Born in Korea
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
1989-1994
Philosophy aesthetics, UFR. Lettres, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
1977-1979
Semiology, UFR. Lettres, DEA(Diploma d’Etude Approfondie), University d’Aix en Provence
1971-1972
Diploma National d’Art Plastique(DNAP) with Honors, Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif of Nice
1971-1973
Guest artist at Centre Artistique de Rencontre International of Nice
1971
Arrives in France with scholarship by French Government
1966-1971
BFA & Master Course at department of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul
Teaching
2001-2011
Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art, Dijon
1990
Guest professor at Bristol Polytechnic, Art-Design-Communication, Bristol, UK
1985
Guest professor at Höchschulefür Bildende Kunst Akademie of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germanay
1974-2000
Professor at Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille
1974-1975
Professor at Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif, Nice
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Soun-Gui Kim – Voice of Silence, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul
2022-2023
Soun-Gui Kim, Lazy Clouds, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
2019-2020
Lazy Clouds – Soun Gui Kim, National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul
2018
KIM SOUN-GUI : 0 TIME, ARARIO Gallery, Seoul
2017
One Stroke of Painting, ARARIO Museum in Space, Seoul
2014
Lunes, Où, Par-dessus le marché, Silence, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2013
Beating the market, Soun-Gui Kim in dialogue with Cage, Derrida, and Nancy, presented by Jean-Michel Rabaté & Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
Video by Soun-Gui KIM, Microscope Gallery, NY
2008
Stock+Garden, Gallery 175, Seoul
Soun-Gui Kim, Platform Seoul, Gallery Ye Mec, Seoul
2006
Soun Gui Kim/Films, The Film Gallery, Paris
2005
Points de vue, Galerie de/di/dY, Paris
2001
Stock Exchange III, La Maison de l’Art et de la Communication de Sallaumine, Sallaumine
P.A.P. , Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
2000
Stock Exchange II, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
1999
Stock Exchange I, La Maison du Livre d’Artiste Contemporain, Domart en Ponthieu
1996
Station O Time, Interactive multimedia installation, Korean Institute of Industrial Technology, Cheonan, Korea
1991
O Time, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice, Nice
Soun-Gui Kim, Kunitachi Collage of Music, Tokyo
1989
Passages, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Troyes, France
1988
Soun Gui Kim, Galerie Donguy, Paris
1985
Ten thousand ugly ink dots, Galerie DAAD, Berlin
1983
Bonjour Paik Nam June II, Performance with Paik Nam June, Paris
1982
Bonjour Paik Nam June, Research on Nam June Paik, Interview and film, NY
Chang Tai Tien, Interview and film, Taipei
1978
4’33” and O’,O”,O”’, Centre Culturel de St. Baume, St. Baume, France
1977
Soun Gui Kim, Gallery Kyeon-Ji, Seoul
1975
Soun Gui Kim / Misulje, American Cultural Center, Seoul
1973
Situation plastique III, Manifestation, Festival Octobre à Bordeaux, Bordeaux
1971-73
Situation plastique II, Manifestation, Nice, Marseille, Grasse, Canne sur Mer, Monaco
Situation plastique I, Centre Artistique de Rencontre International, Villa Arson, Nice
1970
Sori, Seoul National University, Seoul
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
In Pratiques cosmorphes, IAC, Lyon, France
What it’s Worth: Value System in Art since 1960, The Warehouse, Texas, USA
Symposium, Declaration du Printemps, ACC, Gwangju, Corée du Sud, Organisé par ZKM Art & Media Center(Allemagne) et par M+ Art Center(Hong Kong)
2023
We together Art, Bihar Art Museum, Patna, India
Gödel, Escher, Bach, West Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Soft and Weak like Water, The 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2022
Is it morning for you yet, The 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2020-2021
Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging – 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Refocusing on the Medium: the Rise of East Asia Video Art, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Unexpected Time in Hometown, ARARIO GALLERY I Cheonan, Cheonan, Korea
Dancing Queen, ARARAIO GALLERY I Cheonan, Cheonan, Korea
2016
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, MMCA Gwacheon, 30 Years 1986-2016, MMCA, Gwacheon
Memorial Exhibition of Nam June Paik : Nam June Paik ∞ Fluxus, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2015
The Future is now, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
Asian Film & Video Art Forum, MMCA, Seoul
Artists descendants of Baekje, Buyeo Cultural Center, Buyeo, Korea
2014
Infinite challenge, MMCA, Seoul
2012
Transatlantic Cage, University of Paris 3 & Paris 7, Galerie Colbert, Paris
2010
Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul History Museum, Seoul
2009
Vide & 0, ARKO Art Center, Seoul
2008
Platform Seoul, I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Seoul Station, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2007
Hommage to Paik Nam June: Memories of Wuppertal, MMCA, Gwacheon
When Speeds become form, O-Room gallery, Seoul
Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2006
Après dAdA, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
2005
Past in reverse, Kemper Museum of contemporary art, Kansas / Hood Museum, Depauw University, Indiana / New Hamspire at Dartmouth College, NH / Hanover Peeler Art Center, Hanover
2004
Past in reverse, San Diago Art Museum, Contemporary Art in East Asia, San Diego
2003
Soirée nomade / Hommage to John Cage, Contemporary Art center of Cartier Foundation, Paris
Comics in Art, Art in Comics, Museum of EWha Womans University, Seoul
2002
Gwangju Biennale PAUSE, Gwangju, Korea
1999
Anecdote Drawing, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
Sarajevo 2000, Contemporary Art Museum of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1998
Korean Contemporary Artists: Poetics of time, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul
Festival vidéo et cinéma de Lyon, Lyon
Sarajevo 2000, Kunst Stfting Ludwig Wien Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna
1997
La Part des Anges, Galerie d’Art et Essai, University of Rennes II, Rennes
1995
Quality, Quantity, Sensation, MMCA, Gwacheon
Rencontre Internationale de la Photographie, Arles
1994
Locality of Desire: Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Salon de music, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Adlaide Installation, Adlaide, Australia
1993
Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui, Japan
Hommage à John Cage, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Caen, Caen
Not Wanting to Say Anything About John, Ecole Régionale d’Art de Rouen, Rouen
1989
John Cage Festival, Exhibition with John Cage, Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
Der Güte Ton Zum Schönen Bild, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
1987
Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, Tokyo
Festival Ars Electronica, presented by Daniel Charles, Lintz
1986
Video & Multimedia/Soun-Gui Kim et Ses Invités, Vieille Charité, Marseille
1985
International Biennale Video CD 85, Cankarjev Dom, Yugoslavia
1982
Festival Infermental II, Hamburg
1975
Contemporary art festival, Space 75, National Theater of Meongdong, Seoul
Painting of 6 days, Marseille
1973
DNBA / 36, Institut de l’Environnement, Paris
Signal / Grasse 73, Grasse
1970
Press cetner, Seoul
COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Maison Européenne De La Photographie, Paris
O-Room Gallery, Seoul
Kira BM Films, Paris
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
Maeil Co.Ltd, Seoul
Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Philippe Lagayette, Paris
Arario Museum, Seoul
Seoul City Museum, Seoul
Gallery Arario, Seoul
Daegu Art Museum, Daegu
IAC – Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
Busan Contemporary Art Museum, Busan
PUBLICATION
2022
• “Encounters with Soun-Gui Kim Writings, 1975-2021“, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
2019
• “Colporteurs – Paria” in catalog of exhibition “Lazy Clouds – Soungui Kim”, MMCA-Seoul, Seoul
• “Can You Forget?” in catalog of exhibition “Lazy Clouds – Soungui Kim”, MMCA-Seoul, Seoul
2018
• “O Time”, Catalog of exhibition, Arario Gallery, Seoul
2016
• Kim Soun Gui, “Entends-tu?”, Drawing and Poem, Editions O’NW, Seoul
• “Is Art the place of meaning without signification ?”, in Comparative Approches to Emptiness, Nothingness, and Silence in the East & The West, Institut of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
2015
• “How arrive, Silence, Resistance in the art of Kim Soun Gui : Conversation of Jean-Luc Nancy with Kim Soun Gui”, Comparative Korean Studies, vol. 23 N°2, aug. 2015, The International Association of Comparative Korean Studies, Seoul
2014
• Kim Soun Gui, Art, or listen to the silence : Soun-Gui Kim in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy & John Cage, Jean-Michel Rabaté & Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation & Art Sonje Center & Institut français de Corée du sud (DVD/Book), Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
2010
• “As-tu entendu le sirocco?”, Nouvelle Revue d’Esthétique, n° 5, 2010, Paris
2007
• “Silence in Nam June Paik”, Telephonica, Madrid
2006
• “Paradox of Paik Nam June, Was he Taoist?”, Study of Contemporary Art Museum, MMCA, Gwacheon
2004
• “Conversation with Wai-Lim Yip: Contemporary art and Taoism”, Same + different: Art, Artists and Cultural Space in East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
2003
• Kim Soun Gui, Montagne, c’est la mer / Tchouang-tseu et Wittgenstein, La Main courante, La Souterraine
2000
• “Saveur du bruit”, reply to the text of Jean-Luc Nancy, “Les sens du sens”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
• “Vide & O”, “Station O Time”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
• “Liberty of art or tree without quality”, Art review, Seoul
1999
• Kim Soun Gui, Nuages paresseux, La Main Courante, La Souterrain
• “Carnet”, Particolore, n° 1, Marseille
• “A propos de multimedia”, letter to J.L. Nancy, Tympanium, n° 3, Tympanium, NY
1997
• “Station 0 Time”, Bogoseo-Bogoseo, Ahn Graphics, Seoul
• “Vide ou silence”, “A propos de multimedia”, “Emptinesse of Emptiness”, “Station O time”, Monography II, Sock Jon, Les Herbins
1993
• “Œuvre de Kaï”, Catalogue de l’exposition de Kaï, Contemporary Art Museum of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japon
• “The emptinesse of emptiness/ dream of butterfly”, Art and Asia Pacific, vol. 1, n° 4, Sydney
1988
• “La voie(x) du silence, œuvre de Kaï”, catalogue; International Biennale of Painting, Château-Musée de Cagne sur mer, Cagne sur mer
• “John Cage”, Magazine Kanal, n° 37, summer 88, Paris
1986
• “Temps de la vidéo et temps de la performance”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle Série, n° 10, ed. Private, Toulouse
• “Eclat du vide / Temps et Espace dans l’art japonais”, Travers, n° 38-39, Centre Pompidou, Paris
• “De la route de Cezanne à la route de Silence (œuvres de Kaï )”, catalogue; XX me International Biennale of Painting, Château-Musée de Cagne sur mer, Cagne sur mer
1983
• “Note sur Nam-June Paik / Temps et Vidéo”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle Série, n° 5, ed. Private, Toulouse
1982
• “Semiological study: painting of Shi-Tao”, Archive of Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei
1978
• “Technology of art in East Asia today in East Aisa”, Culture, UNESCO, Paris
1975
• “Kim Soun Gui”, catalogue of exhibition; KIM Soun Gui, American Cultural Center, Seoul
1968
• Translation in french: Taro Okamoto, The Role of Art in Society of Today (pub.ISFA/6, 1966, Tokyo), Midehakbo, Seoul National University Press, Seoul
CRITICS
2024
• Choi Yeonha, “Open situation, open esthetique, symphony of open media : Experimentation and expansion of Korean photography, Kim Soun Gui”, Wolgan Photographie, octobre
2023
• “Voix du Silence”, Catalog of exhibition, Arario Gallery, Seoul “
• Hye Jin Mun, “The Place Where Everyone Has Gone Before, But Where Few Have Bothered to Linger”, Catalog of exposition Voice of Silence, Arario Gallery, Seoul
2022
• Sujin Kim, “Soun Gui Kim, A Korean Artist in France: Art as a form of resistance”, AWARE, Paris
• “Encounter with Soun-Gui Kim, Writings, 1975-2021”, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia (Jean-Michel Rabaté, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Arley Ramos Moreno, Wan-Kyung Song, Yves Michaud, Jean-Pierre Cometti, Wai-Lim Yip, Hye-Jin Mun, Jérôme Sans.)
2020
• Kim Young-Joo, “Kim Soun Gui’s analog, Rediscovering Pinhole Photos”, Monthly Photo, Seoul (PDF)
2019
• “Lazy Clouds – Soungui Kim”, Catalog of exhibition, MMCA-Seoul, Seoul
• Soojung Yi, “About the “Work Meeting the Everyday Together with People, Following the Moments, Using What is Not There””, Catalog of exhibition Lazy Clouds – Soun Gui Kim, MMCA, Seoul
• Hyejin Mun, “Video-O Time-One’s Place”, Catalog of exhibition Lazy Clouds – Soun Gui Kim, MMCA, Seoul
• Kim Hyungsoon, “Kim Soun Gui : Exposition Lazy Clouds, MMCA is dog house ?”, 2019. 8. 30, Seoul (Link)
• Han Song-yi, “A Study on Kim Soun-Gui’s ‘Multi media’”, Hongik University, Master’s thesis, Seoul
2018
• Angela Jeeyoung Chun, “Kim Soun-Gui’s Journery to O”, Catalog of exhibition O Time, Arario Gallery, Seoul
2017
• Jeon, Yusin, “Postwar Korean Art as seen through its Relationship with French Art: A Case Study on Korean Artists in France”, Department of Art History, The Graduate School, Doctorat, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul
• Kim Man Na, “Bonjour, Soun Gui Kim”, Heritage Muine, Seoul, 2017 (PDF)
• Ryu Jung Hwa, “Soun Gui Kim, Do you see? Do you hear?”, Noblesse, n° 18, Seoul, June, 2017 (PDF)
2016
• Wai-Lim YIP, “Kim Soungui and the Daoist Horizon of Great Wu 大無, in Comparative Approches to Emptiness, Nothingness, and Silence in the East & The West, Institute of Confucian Philosophy and Culture, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul
2014
• Jeoung Hyun, “Interview with Soun-gui Kim”, Webzine of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, vol 73, May, 2014, Seoul
• Kim Yeon-Hee, “One between Asian philosophy and games of language, Moon, where, under the market, silence”, Sciencetimes, May, 2014, Seoul
2011
• Claude Berniolle, “Air de famille de wittgenstein avec Tchouang-Tseu – Sur une idée de Soun-Gui Kim”, PLAST IR, n° 25, dec., 2011
2008
• “Interview with Kim SounGui: Kim Sun Jung, Oh Mi Kyung, Lim Bo Ram, Park MiYeon”, Stock + Garden, Samuso, Seoul
• “Conversation with Lee Young-Chul”, Artsit talk in Plateform Seoul 2008, Samuso, Seoul
2005
• Wai-Lim Yip, “Soun-Gui Kim and Daoïste Horizon of Great Wu, the Undifferenciated (W) holistic Composition of All Things”, Same + Different: Art, Artists and Cultural Space in East Asia, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego (PDF)
2004
• Kang Te-Hee et Betti-Sue Hertz, catalogue; Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art in East Asia, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego
2002
• “Conversation : Soun-gui Kim with Jacques Derrida and with Jean-luc Nancy”, Wolgan Misool, jul., Seoul
2001
• Claire Nedellec, “Soun-gui Kim”, Art Press, n° 270, jul.-aug., Paris (PDF)
• Kim Aie-Ryong, “Visit of the exhibition:Soun-gui Kim”, Art in Culture, n° 5, Seoul
2000
• Jérôme Sans, “Jeu comme forme de vie : Interview with Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul (PDF)
• Jean –Luc Nancy, “Les sens du sens”, “Stock exchange”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
• Jean Pierre Cometti, “Modes d’emploi ou l’art sans qualité de Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
• Song Wan-kyong, “Here, there, everywhere – walk of Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
• Kim Aie-Ryong, “Search of the artist on the philosophical question of life and death”, Monthly Art, October, Seoul
1999
• Jean-Luc Nancy, “Experiencing Soun-gui”, Tympanum, Tympaum, NY (PDF)
• Jean-Luc Nancy, “Stock exchange”, La Maison du Livre d’artistecontemporain, Domart en Ponthieu
• Jean-Pierre Cometti, “Mode d’emploie ou l’art sans qualité de soun-gui Kim”, Particolore, n° 1, Marseille (PDF)
• Jean Pierre Cometti, “Paradoxes de l’usage”, L’Art sans qualité, Farrago, Paris
• Jeong Gi-Yong, “Kim Soun-gui / Nuages paresseux à travers le temps et l’espace”, Ideal Architecture, Seoul
1998
• Yves Michaud, “Non site of Soun-gui Kim”, catalogue; Sarajévo2000, Kunst Stfting Ludwig Wien Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna (PDF)
1997
• Sangsoo Ahn, “Conversation with Kim Soun-Gui”, Bogoso-Bogoso, An Graphics, Seoul
• Jean-Luc Nancy, “Experience Soun-Gui”, Monographie II, ed. Sock-Jon
• Jean-Pierre Cometti, “Mode d’emploi ou l’art sans qualité de Soun-gui Kim”, Monographie II, Sock-Jon, Les Herbins
• Jean Marc Hutorel, catalogue: Photographie d’une collection 2, La Caisse des Dépôt et de la Consignation, Hazan, Paris
1996
• Sylvie Timbert, “Pas de paysage, mais juste un passage, Soun-gui Kim”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle Série, n° 2, Paris
1995
• Sylvie Timbert, “Soun-Gui Kim ou les devenirs corps-composite de l’Unique Trait duPinceau”, Doctorat, Philosophy esthetics, l’University of Nice –Sophia Antipolis
1994
• Alison Caroll, catalog Adlaide Installation, Adelaïde
• Yoo Kun-Jun, catalog Adlaide Installation, Adelaïde
• Caroline Turner, “Getting the message”, Art and Australia, vol. 32, n °1
• Catalogue, Prix UNESCO 1993 pour la promotion des arts, pub. UNESCO, Paris
1993
• “Fukui International Video Biennale”, Fukui, Japan
• Aomi Okabé, Revue d’Art, Tokyo
• Jong Jang-Yol, “Soun-Gui Kim”, Weekly Chosun, aug., Seoul
• Yoo Jin-Sang, “Soun-Gui Kim”, Wolgan Misool(Monthly Art), sep., Seoul
1992
• Kim hong-hee, “Soun-gui Kim”, catalogue : The Seoul Fluxus, API, Seoul
1989
• Clio Mitchell, “Instant Myth”, Art International, feb., London
• Anne Coquelin, “Eau-Pierre”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle série, Printemps 89, Paris
• Dominique Païni, “Soun-gui Kim”, Art Press, N°138, jul.-aug., Paris
• Suzuki Hidénobu et Sylvie Timbert, “Jardin de pierres de Soun-gui Kim”, Music Today, Quartely, ARC, Tokyo
1988
• Daniel Charles, “L’Un et le Multiple”, Monographie I, Sock-Jon, Les Herbins
• Sylvie Timbert, “Eclisse de Temps”, Monographie I, Sock-Jon, Les Herbins
• Charles Dréfus, “Soun-Gui Kim, Poétique de la Multiplicité”, Kanal Magazine, N° 36-37-38, Paris
1987
• Daniel Charles, “An ear alone is not being”(John Cage), Ars Electronica, Festival fürKunst, Technologie und Gesellschaft-Linz, Lintz
• Sylvie Timbert, “Soun-gui Kim, Conte de la tortue du camélion et de dragon”, University of Paris III, Paris
1986
• Daniel Charles, “Soun-gui Kim ou Eclat du temps”, catalogue; Vidéo Multimédia / Soun-Gui Kim et ses Invités, IMEREC, Marseille
1977
• Kim Chi-Sou, “Interview with Kim Soun-Gui”, Journal Seoul, 30 aug., Seoul
• Park Song-Ja, “Question of Time & Space, and language in art: conversation with Kim Soun-Gui”, Space, n° 123, Seoul
1975
• A. R. Moreno, “Temps-Espace”, catalogue of exhibition; Kim Soun-Gui, American Cultural Center, Seoul
• Park Han-Shik, “Space 75, reportage”, Space, n° 101, oct.- nov., Seoul
• Park Yong-Ku, “Space 75”, Journal Chosun, 5 oct., Seoul
1974
• Sylvie Dupuy, “Octobre à Bordeaux”, Art Press, n° 8, dec.-jan., Paris
1973
• Pierre Paret, “Octobre à Bordeaux”, Sud-Ouest, 5 & 8 oct., Bordeaux