Kyungrim Lim Jang (1992, Seoul) is an artist who is currently based in Western Asian city of Vienna. She has been constantly moving from one place to another in different parts of North America and Eurasia. Living as a foreigner in communities of different scales, ranging from families to societies, shaped her interest in often contradictory desire/needs for social integration and self-preservation that coexists within an individual.
Reoccuring topics in her works include elastic distance that lies in between 'Us' / 'Them', and how the embedded direction of desire to belong somewhere is manifested. She spends most of her time lingering around crossroads of borders, landmarks, identifications, and the narratives that carry these distinctions. What is amplified, deleted, and distorted during the recording / translation process of a narrative, and the motives of the programming is also of her keen interest. Complications that take place between action, demonstration, and representation of the action is something that she thinks about regularly.
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Education
Rhode Island School of Design '15 BFA Illustration - Providence, USA
University of Applied Arts Vienna (Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien) '20 MA Transarts - Vienna, Austria
Selected Exhibitions
2020 Transarts Austellung der Abschlusssarbeiten, Web, Web
2019 Refreshing memory vernissage performance, Zagreb, Croatia
2019 Forogalerie Wien Propeller exhibition, WUK, Vienna, Austria
2019 For/against group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
2018 And|or—but, yeah* group exhibition, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria
2018 And|or—but, yeah* group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
2018 ‘Would you marry me?’ Performance project, Oscar Kokoschka Platz, Vienna, Austria
2018 Wandzeitung group exhibition, Vienna, Austria
2016 If you don’t pay attention to me, I don’t pay attention to you group exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2016 Fumetto internationals comix –festival Luzern competition exhibition, Luzern, Switzerland
2015 L’espace gallery group exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Synesthetic room installation, Providence, USA
2014 Tableau and performativity performance group exhibition, Providence, USA
Residencies
2020 CCN-Stipendium der Kulturvermittlung Steiermark, Graz, Austria
2016 Affect Residency Agora collective, Berlin, Germany
2016 Glasslåven Arts Centre residency, Gran, Norway
2015 Addlip+ studio artist residency, Seoul, South Korea
Curatorial
2020 Arkabarka Artist residency, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 For/against group exhibition, Vienna, Austria