Kyungrim Lim Jang (장경림, *1992, Seoul, South Korea) is an artist and an aspiring theorist who lives and works in the Western Asian city of Vienna. Living as a foreigner in communities of different scales—ranging from families to societies—shaped her interest in the construction of home and how the embedded direction of a desire to belong is manifested across contemporary media. She explores how unspoken agreements are maintained and broken through performative speech and silence.
She often spends time observing what is happening at the crossroads of borders, 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 are also of her keen interest. Her recent works deal with dialect language and its reception in different social spheres. She attempts to interfere in the language technology and respectively, grammar, by merging and splitting tongues that she acquired in life. She made her first standup in Belgrade, Serbia where she barked on behalf of border police.
Another important theme in her work is the complicity entailed in participation. Taking this inevitability as a condition for her work, she tries to find out ways to participate in the world on her own terms, which sometimes heavily define the form of her work.
She is a co-initiator of an artist collective Slug and Saliva, together with Hannah Sakai.
The collective works to materialize the gap between sound and meaning.
Write me at: liimjang [at] gmail [dot] com
(Beware of the two iis!! )
Education
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy (Current) — Vienna, Austria
with mentorship of Dr. Marina Gržinić
University of Arts in Belgrade MA in Cultural Policy and Management (Current) — Belgrade, Serbia
Joshibi University of Art and Design, Exchange semester in MA Art Produce — Tokyo, Japan
University of Applied Arts Vienna '20 MA Transarts, graduated with distinction — Vienna, Austria
Rhode Island School of Design '15 BFA Illustration — Providence, USA
Group Exhibitions
2022 A shop is a shop is a shop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2021 Thicket of ideas, Thicket of Times, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna: Schillerplatz, Vienna, Austria
2021 The project and its time, Brut Nordwest, Vienna, Austria
2021 Mume exhibition: Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop, Naschmarkt, Vienna, Austria
2021 Home when you are, Neuegallerie Malmoe edition 96, Vienna, Austria
2021 Fotobiennale Graz, Graz, Austria
2021 Inframisc, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria
2021 Crystal Clear, BRUX Freies Theater Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2021 Hair salon group exhibition, Afro Asiatische Institute, Graz, Austria
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, 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, Berlin, Germany
2016 Fumetto internationals comix –festival Luzern competition exhibition, Luzern, Switzerland
2015 L’espace gallery group exhibition, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Synesthetic room, Providence, USA
2014 Tableau and performativity group performance, Providence, USA
Residencies and Fundings
2021 Impulstanz DanceWEB scholarship, co-funded by Arts Council Korea
2020 BRUX Freies theater Innsbruck VORBRENNER program, funded by Land Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria
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
2022 "Porous Projections" group exhibition, Afro-Asiatische Institut Graz, Austria
2020 Arkabarka International Artist in Residence program, Belgrade, Serbia
2018 "For/against" group exhibition, Vordere Zollamstrasse 7, Vienna, Austria
Teaching
2022 “Analysis of Exhibitions, Projects and Institutions” Co-teaching with Andreas Spiegl (Current)
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2020 “Tomorrow Girls Troop Lecture”, on behalf of Tomorrow Girls Troop
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in class of Felicitas Thun- Hohenstein
2019 “Traveling Visual Culture and Global Solidarity”
Tokyo University, in class of Yoshiko Shimada
Publication
2022 “Not working is working: Performativity of Active Deferral in Necropolitics and Compartmentalization of
Time” in Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities: For Radical Change,
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, edited by Marina Gržinić and Jovita Pristovšek
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-8164-7