Byoungho Kim 金炳昊

 

Byoungho Kim uses metal and media to create sculptures and installations. He graduated from Hongik University College of Fine Arts in 2000 and studied Art Engineering for three years starting in 2002 as a researcher in the National Research Laboratory Program funded by the South Korean Ministry of Science and ICT before commencing his career as an artist. Kim produces his works using a fully divided and specialized production system that follows a carefully detailed blueprint prepared in advance, rather than working with rough sketches as is traditionally done. To him, a work of art is no different from products made by social consensus, such as rules and systems.

 

Kim is also interested in the identity of human individuals torn between the systems of society. As a person living in the contemporary age, exposed to modern social structures and environments, he engages with both mechanical exquisiteness and deceptively beautiful art forms, thus demonstrating a paradoxical critique.

 

Kim has presented his work in 14 solo exhibitions, including The Climax (chi-K11 Art Space, Shenyang, China, 2022), Enchantment (Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China, 2018), Invisible Object (SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, 2010), and Two Silences (Gastatelier der Stadt, City of Frankfurt Department for Culture, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2009) among others. He has also participated in more than 100 group exhibitions worldwide, including Mediated Memory (Songgwangsa Temple, Suncheon, Korea, 2016), Jing’an International Sculpture Project (Shanghai, China, 2012), and Korea Eye (Saatchi Gallery, London, UK, 2012). His work is part of collections at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Gwacheon, Korea), Amorepacific Museum of Art (Seoul, Korea), City of Frankfurt Department for Culture (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Seoul National University Museum of Art, Government Complex Seoul, Panlong Tiandi (Shanghai, China), New World Development (Hong Kong), and Hyundai Motor Company (Korea).