LOCATION
Logenhaus
MOURNING HEAT (열곡(熱哭))
Performance
Mourning Heat (열곡(熱哭)) is a performative installation exploring loss and transition through heat. At its core, a “mourning device” generates thermoacoustic sound as heat expands and moves air within ceramic tubes held by performers. Each performer finds their own mourning sound, which builds into a collective resonance, amplified by rising heat. This sound, evoking farewell rituals, symbolizes releasing the departed into the sky. In a time where mourning is often condensed, Mourning Heat offers an extended space for grief, transcending language through sound, heat, and resonance.
BON KIM
Bon Kim is an artist based in South Korea and Germany whose work explores the boundaries between the living and non-living through performative installations and new media. Her practice integrates thermal phenomena, sculpture, performance, and the body.
INTERVIEW
In her interview, the artist explains how her work ‘Mourning Heat’ is connected to LICHTROUTEN and how it explores grief through the medium of luminous heat. The installation utilises heat as a physical and emotional element to enable resonance and collective experience. The exhibition is given special significance by its location: the ‘Freimaurer’ building, which is otherwise not open to the public. Through her work, Kim transcends both physical and emotional boundaries by bringing grief to life as a universal experience in a new context.
Link to interview
SOLO EXHIBITION
2024 Seoul (kr), TINC(this is not a church): 꼬리를 삼키는 연습 – Mourning heat, Granted by Art Council Korea
2023 Seoul (kr), EULJIRO OF A flowing body does not decay, Granted by Seoul Metropolitan City, Seoul Foundation of Arts and Culture
GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Liége (be), IMPACT FESTIVAL Société libre d’Émulation asbl
2024 Brussel (be), KIKK FESTIVAL Hospice d’Harscamp
2024 Seoul (kr), BUKCHON TRADITIONAL CULTURE CENTER Bukchon Weaving Day 2024
2024 Gelsenkirchen (de), GOLDSTÜCKE Licht Kunst Project Gelsenkirchen, Diplopia
2024 Seoul (kr), ARKO MUSEUM Young Artist Day – Emerging Artist Portfolio Exhibition
2024 Bremen (de), HOCHSCHULE FÜR KÜNSTE: AUDITORIUM What will be there in the end
2023 Linz (at), ARS ELECTRONICA CAMPUS Matter matters, Curated by Ralf Baecker
2024 Bremen (de), HOCHSCHULE FÜR KÜNSTE: GALLERY FLUT Scapes of Coexistence, Curated by Bojana Petković
2024 Brixen (it), BRIXEN WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL: NEUSTIFT ABBEY NOVACELLA Spill Curated by Bettina Pelz
2024 Gyeonggi Province (kr), CITY MUSEUM OF ART YANG All in one
2022 Bremen (de), HEC BREMEN, Sponsorship Final Presentation
2022 Bremen (de), HOCHSCHULE FÜR KÜNSTE: SPEICHER XI Hochschultage Bremen 2022
2022 Bremen (de), HOCHSCHULE FÜR KÜNSTE: CIRCA 106 Open studio where is the rest of my body
2022 Bremen (de), HOCHSCHULE FÜR KÜNSTE: GALLERY NEBENFLUT Learning to draw Curated by Ralf Baecker
2022 Bremen (de), FROM THE A Fair art fair no fear
2019 Seoul (kr), EULJI ART FAIR PRIZE Eulji Art Fair Prize
2019 Seoul (kr), KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART Good afternoon Good evening Good night
2019 Gyeonggi Province (kr), CITY MUSEUM OF ART YANGJU New Drawing Project
2018 Seoul (kr), SOORIM ART CENTER Hold the Breath
2018 Seoul (kr), ARTSPACE NOTSUN Ladder Game
2018 Tai Po (hk), CCA ART STUDIO GALLERY KHU-EdUHK Exchange Exhibition
2018 Gyeonggi Province (kr), SPACE+ GALLERY Where am I who am I
2017 Seoul (kr), KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART Not yet finished
2017 Seoul (kr), SEOUL MUSEUM OF ART The Gallery Little Myths (an citizen curator curating exhibition)
2017 Seoul (kr), SPACE JAG-EUN-MUL Failed Photo:graphs
2017 Seoul (kr), KYUNG HEE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART peep
2016 Seoul (kr), ARTSPACE HONGHAPBELLY Meaning of Meaningless
2016 Seoul (kr), YOGIGA GALLERY A Plate
2015 Seoul (kr), KYUNGHEE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF ART First step
STUDIES
2021 — present Bremen (de), University of art: Master Program Digital Media
2015 — 2019 Seoul (kr), Kyung-Hee University: Bachelor of Fine Arts
2012 — 2014 Seoul (kr), Sunhwa High School of Arts
BIO
Lives in Bremen (de)
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