Bottari Truck - Migrateurs, single channel video performance, 10 min, silent, from the Performance in Paris, 2007
A Needle Woman, 2000-2001, video still from Cairo (Egypt), 8 channel video projection, 6:33 loop, silent
One of our most distinguished alumnae, Kimsooja, had multiple exhibitions during the month of October 2009.
www.kimsooja.com
Biennale of Lanzarote
International Museum of Contemporary Art
Canary Islands, Spain
Curated by Olivia Maria Rubio
Director: Maria José Alcántara Palop
October 13, 2009 – January 13, 2010
Kimsooja will present a new comissioned work “Earth-Water-Fire-Air” for the Biennale of Lanzarote.
www.centrosturisticos.com/centros/CENTROS/published_es/DEFAULT/index.html
A Needle Woman, Paris, 2009
Nuit Blanche, Facade of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris
October 3 at 6 PM- October 4 at 6 AM, 2009
Annual all night arts festival
Alexia Fabre, conservateur en chef du MAC/VAL
Frank Lamy, chargé des expositions temporaires du MAC/VAL
www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=9287
Baltic Center for Contemporary Art
United Kingdom
Curated by Katherine Welsh
October 5, 2009 – January 17, 2010
BALTIC presents Korean artist Kimsooja’s first solo exhibition in the UK. The exhibition includes the major works A Needle Woman and A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India. A Needle Woman, composed of eight simultaneous videos, documents the artist as she stands motionless in the crowded streets of Lagos, Nigeria, Mexico City, Cairo, New York, Delhi, Tokyo, Shanghai, and London, putting the viewer at the centre of a global space. The world weaves past the artist’s needle-like figure, acting as an instrument, a medium that establishes connections, relationships and experience, expands time and seeks universal truths. A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India, considers nature, stillness and movement and the cycle of life and death as the river slides by, picking up flotsam and washing away the earth. The works in the exhibition question our notion of the self and contemplate a universality that hints at a possible truth of existence.
www.balticmill.com/
Dress Codes: ICP Triennial
The International Center for Photography
New York, NY
Curated by Christopher Phillips
October 2, 2009 – January 17, 2010
www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.5394877/k.97DE/Dress_Codes.htm
Against Exclusion: The 3rd Moscow Biennale
The Garage, Moscow
Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin
September 24th – October 24, 2009
www.3rd.moscowbiennale.ru/en/
Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century
Kimsooja is featured in the Season 5 (2009) episode Systems, premiering Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. (ET) on PBS
Art21 Access ‘09, our international screening initiative that includes hundreds of public screenings events across the world. Art21 Access ‘09 is partnering with over 400 venues that will host over 567 screenings around the world, from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between September 28 and October 30, 2009. Events are free and open to the public. To attend a public screening please visit: access.art21.org/
Investigations of a Dog
Works from the FACE (Foundation of Arts for a Contemporary Europe) Collections
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Turin, Italy
October 21, 2009 – February 7, 2010
www.art-face.eu/exhibition.html
