KIM Soun Gui

KIM Soun Gui
Born in 1946, Buyeo, Korea
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
1989-1994
1977-1979
1971-1972
1971-1973
1971
1966-1971
Philosophy Aesthetics, UFR. Lettres, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Semiology, UFR. Lettres, DEA(Diploma d’Etude Approfondie), University d’Aix en Provence
Diploma National d’Art Plastique with Honors, Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif de Nice
Invited artist at Centre Artistique de Rencontre International of Nice
Arrives in France with scholarship by French Government
BFA & Master Course at department of Painting, College of Fine Art in Seoul National University, Seoul
Teaching
2001-2011
1990
1985
1974-2000
1974-1975
Professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art, Dijon
Invited professor at Bristol Polytechnic, Art-Design-Communication, Bristol, U.K
Invited professor at Höchschulefür Bildende Kunst Akademie of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germanay
Professor at Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Marseille
Professor at Ecole Nationale d’Art Décoratif, Nice
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014
Lunes, Où, Par-dessus le marché, Silence, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
2013
Beating the market: Soun-Gui Kim in dialogue with Cage, Derrida, and Nancy, presented by Jean-Michel
Rabaté & Aaron Levy, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia
Video by Soun-Gui KIM, Microscope gallery, NY
2008
Stock +Garden, Gallery 175, Seoul
2008
Platform Seoul ; Soun-Gui Kim, Gallery Ye Mec, Seoul
2006
Soun Gui Kim/Films, The Film Gallery, Paris
2005
Point(s) de vue, Galerie de / di / bY Office, Paris
2001
Stock Exchange III, La Maison de l’Art et de la Commnication de Sallaumine, Sallaumine
2001
P.A.P , Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
2000
Stock Exchange II, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
1999
Stock Exchange I, La Maison du Livre d’Artiste Contemporain, Domart en Ponthieu
1996
“Station O Time”, Interactive multimedia work, Korean Institute of Industrial Technology, Cheonan, Korea
1991
O Time, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice, Nice
1991
Kunitachi Collage of Music, Tokyo
1989
Passages, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Troyes
1988
Soun-Gui Kim, Galerie Donguy, Paris
1985
Ten thousand ugly ink dots, Galerie DAAD, Berlin
1983
Bonjour Paik Name June II, Performance with Paik Name June, Paris
1982
Research on Nam-June Paik, “Bonjour Paik Name-June”(film), NY
1982
Interview with Chang Tai Tien, Taipei
1978
Interpretation of John Cage’s works; “4’33” and O’,O”,O””, Centre Culturel de St. Baume, St. Baume
1977
Soun-Gui Kim, Gallery Kyeon-Ji, Seoul
1975
Soun-Gui Kim, American Cultural Center, Seoul
1973
“Situation plastique III”, Manifestation, Festival; Octobre à Bordeaux, Bordeaux
1971-73
“Situation plastique II”, Manifestation, Nice, Marseille, Grasse, Canne sur Mer, Monaco
1971
“Situation plastique I”, Manifestation, Centre Artistique de Rencontre International, Villa Arson, Nice
1970
“Sori”, Installation, Seoul National University
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
The Future is now, org. By MMCA Korea, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille
2015
2015
2014
2012
2010
2009
2008
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Asian Film & Video Art Forum, MMCA, Seoul
Artists of Origin Buyeo, Buyeo Cultural Center, Buyeo, Korea
Infinite challenge, MMCA, Seoul
Cage Transatlatique Transatlantic Cage, org. by University of Paris 3 & Paris 7, Galerie Cobert, Paris
Media City Seoul 2010, Seoul History Museum, Seoul
Vide&o, ARKO Art Center, Seoul
Platform Seoul : I have nothing to say and I am saying it, Seoul Station, Art Sonje Center, Seoul
Hommage to Paik Nam June: Memories of Wuppertal, MMCA, Gwacheon
When Speeds become form, presented by Werner Krüger, O-Room gallery, Seoul
Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Après dAdA, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Past in reverse, Kemper Museum of contemporary art, Kansas/ Hood Museum, Depauw University,
Indiana/ New Hamspire at Dartmouth College, NH/ Hanover Peeler Art Center, Hanover
Past in reverse, San Diago Art Museum, Contemporary Art in East Asia, San Diego
Soirée nomade / Hommage to John Cage, Contemporary Art center of Cartier Foundation, Paris
Gwangju Biennale PAUSE, Gwanju, Korea
Anecdote Drawing, Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul
Sarajevo 2000, Contemporary Art Museum of Sarajevo, Sarajevo , Yugoslavia
Korean Contemporary Artists : Poetics of time, Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul
Festival vidéo et cinéma de Lyon, Lyon
Sarajevo 2000, Kunst Stfting Ludwig Wien Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna
La Part des Anges, Galerie d’Art et Essai, University of Rennes II, Rennes
Quality, Quantity, Sensation, MMCA, Gwacheon
Rencontre Internationale de la Photographie, Arles
Locality of Desire : Contemporary Art in an International World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Salon de music, Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris
Adlaide Installation, Adlaide, Australia
Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui
Hommage à John Cage, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Caen,Caen
Not Wanting to Say Anything About John, Ecole Régionale d'Art de Rouen, Rouen
John Cage Festival, Exhibition with John Cage, Galerie Graff, Montreal, Canada
Der Güte Ton Zum Schönen Bild, Kunsthaus, Hamburg
Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, Tokyo
Festival; Ars Electronic, presented by Daniel Charles, Lintz
Video & Multimedia/Soun-Gui Kim et Ses Invités, Vieille Charité, Marseille
International Biennale Video CD 85, Cankarjev Dom, Yugoslavia
Festival ; Infermental II, Hamburg
Contemporary art festival; Space 75, Seoul
Painting of 6 days, Marseille
DNBA / 36, Institut de l’Environnement, Paris
Signal / Grasse 73, Grasse
1970, Press Center, Seoul
Collections
National Museum of Modern &Contemporary Art (MMCA), Gwacheon
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Maison Europeene De La Photographie, Paris
O-Room Gallery, Seoul
Kira BM Films, Paris
FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon
Maeil Co.Ltd, Seoul
Writings & Books
2015
“How arrive, Silence, Resistance in the art of Kim Soun Gui : Conversation of Jean-Luc Nancy with Kim
Soun Gui ”, Comparative Korean Studies, vol. 23 N°2, aug. 2015, The International Association of
Comparative Korean Studies, Seoul
2014
Art, or listen to the silence : Soun-Gui Kim in conversation with Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy &,John
Cage, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté & Aaron Levy, pub. Slought Foundation & Art Sonje Center& Institut
français of Korea, Seoul (DVD/Book)
2010
“As-tu entendu le sirocco?”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle serien N°5. 2010, Paris
2006
“Paradox of Paik Name June, Was he Taoist?”, Study of Contemporary Art Museum, MMCA, Kwacheon
2004
“Conversation with Wai-Lim Yip : Contemporary art and Taoism”, Same + different: Art, Artists and
Cultural Space in East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
2003
Montagne, c’est la mer / Tchouang-tseu et Wittgenstein , ed. La Maincourante, La Souterraine
2000
“Saveur du bruit”, reply to the text of Jean-Luc Nancy ; “Les sens du sens”
2000
“Vide & O”, “Station O Time”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
2000
“Liberty of art or tree without quality”, Art review, Seoul
1999
Nuages paresseux , ed. La Main Courante, La Souterrain
1999
“Carnet”, Il Particolore, N°1, Marseille
1999
“A propos de multimedia”, letter to J.L. Nancy, Tympanium, NY
1997
“On Station 0 Time”, Bogoseo-Bogoseo, Seoul
1997
“Vide ou silence”, “A propos de multimedia”, “Emptinesse of Emptiness”, “Station O time”, Monography
II, ed. Sock Jon
1993
“Œuvre de Kaï”, Catalogue of exhibition of Kaï, Contemporary Art Museum of Hiroshima, Hiroshima,
Japan
1993
“The emptinesse of emptiness/ dream of butterfly”, Art and Asia Pacific, vol.1 N°4, Sydney
1988
“La voie(x) du silence, œuvre de Kaï”, catalogue; International Biennale of Painting, Château-Musée de
Cagne sur mer
1988
“John Cage”, Magazine Kanal, n° 37, summer 88, Paris
1986
“Temps de la vidéo et temps de la performance”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle serien n° 10, ed. Private,
Toulouse
1986
“Eclat du vide / Temps et Espace dans l’art japonais”, Travers, n° 38-39, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1986
“De la route de Cezanne à la route de Silence (œuvres de Kaï )”, catalogue; XX me International Biennale
of Painting, Château-Musée de Cagne sur mer, Cagne sur mer
1983
“Note on Nam-June Paik /Time and Video”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle serien° 5, ed. Private, Toulouse
1982
“Semiological study: painting of Shi-Tao”, Archive of Pacific Cultural Foundation, Taipei
1978
“Technology of art in East Asia today in East Asia”, Culture, UNESCO, Paris
1975
“Kim Soun Gui”, catalogue of exhibition; Kim Soun Gui, American Cultural Center, Seoul
1968
Translation in French : Taro Okamoto, The Role of Art in Society of Today (pub.ISFA/6, 1966, Tokyo),
Midehakbo , Seoul National University Press
Critics
2011
2008
2008
2005
2004
2002
2001
Claude Berniolle, “Air de famille de wittgenstein avec Tchouang-Tseu -Sur une idée de Soun-Gui Kim”,
PLAST IR, N.25, dec., 2011
“Interview with Kim SounGui: Kim Sun Jung, Oh Mi Kyung, Lim Bo Ram, Park MiYeon”, Stock+Garden,
Samuso, Seoul
“Conversation with Lee Young-Chul”, Artsit talk in Plateform Seoul 2008, ed.Samuso, Seoul
Wai-Lim Yip, “Soun-Gui Kim and Daoïste Horizon of Great Wu, the Undifferenciated (W) holistic
Composition of All Things”, Same + Different: Art, Artists and Cultural Space in East Asia, San Diego Art
Museum, San Diego, USA
Kang Te-Hee et Betti-Sue Hertz, catalogue; Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art in East Asia , San Diego Art
Museum, San Diégo
“Conversation : Soun-gui Kim with Jacques Derrida and with Jean-luc Nancy”, Wolgan Misool, jul., Seoul
Claire Nedellec, “Soun-gui Kim”, Art Press, N° 270, jul.-aug., Paris
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Kim Aie-Ryong, “Visit of the exhibition:Soun-gui Kim”, Art in Culture, N°5, Seoul
Jérôme Sans, “Jeu comme forme de vie : Interview with Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
Jean –Luc Nancy, “Les sens du sens”, “Stock exchange”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
Jean Pierre Cometti, “Modes d’emploi ou l’art sans qualité de Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
Seong Wan-kyong, “Here, there, everywehre- walk of Soun-gui Kim”, Bonjour, Hong Design, Seoul
Jean-Luc Nancy, “Experiencing Soun-gui”, Tympanium II, NY.
Jean-Luc Nancy, “Stock exchange”, La Maison du Livre d’artistecontemporain, Domart en Ponthieu
Jean Pierre Cometti, “Mode d’emploie ou l’art sans qualité de soun-gui Kim”, Particolore, n°1, Marseille
Jean Pierre Cometti, “Paradoxes de l’usage”, L’Art sans qualité, Farrago, Paris
Jeong Gi-Yong, “Kim Soun-gui / Nuages paresseux à travers le temps et l’espace”, Ideal Architecture ,
Seoul
Yves Michaud, “Non site of Soun-gui Kim”, catalogue; Sarajévo2000 , Kunst Stfting Ludwig Wien Palais
Lichtenstein, Vienna
Sangsoo Ahn, “Conversation with Kim Soun-Gui”, Bogoso-Bogoso, An Graphics, Seoul
Jean-Luc Nancy, “Experience Soun-Gui”, Monographie II, ed. Sock-Jon
Jean Pierre Cometti, “Mode d’emploi ou l’art sans qualité de Soun-gui Kim”, Monographie II, ed. Sock-Jon
Jean Marc Hutorel, catalogue; Photographie d’une collection 2, ed. Hazan, Paris
Sylvie Timbert, “Pas de paysage, mais juste un passage, Soun-gui Kim”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle
serien n°2, Paris
Sylvie Timbert, “Soun-Gui Kim ou les devenirs corps-composite de l’Unique Trait duPinceau”, Doctorat,
Philosophy esthetics, l’University of Nice –Sophia Antipolis
“Getting the message”, Art and Australia, vol. 32 n°1, UNESCO, Paris
Yoo Jin-Sang, “Soun-Gui Kim”, Wolgan Misool(Monthly Art), sep., Seoul
Kim hong- hee, “Soun-gui Kim”, catalogue : The Seoul Fluxus, ed.API, Seoul
Jong Jang-Yol, “Soun-Gui Kim”, Weekly Chosun, aug., Seoul
Clio Mitchell, “Instant Myth”, Art International, feb, London
Anne Coquelin, “Eau-Pierre”, Revue d’Esthétique, Nouvelle serien Printemps89, Paris
Dominique Païni, “Soun-gui Kim”, Art Press, N°138, jul.-aug., Paris
Suzuki Hidénobu et Sylvie Timbert, “Jardin de pierres de Soun-gui Kim”, Music Today, Quartely, ARC,
Tokyo
Daniel Charles, “L’Un et le Multiple”, Monographie I, ed. Sock-Jon
Sylvie Timbert, “Eclisse de Temps”, Monographie I, ed. Sock-Jon
Charles Dréfus, “Soun-Gui Kim, Poétique de la Multiplicité”, Kanal Magazine, N° 36-37-38, Paris
Daniel Charles, “An ear alone is not being”(John Cage)”, Ars Electronica, Festival fürKunst, Technologie
und Gesellschaft-Linz, Lintz
Sylvie Timbert, “Soun-gui Kim, Conte de la tortue du camélion et de dragon”, University of Paris III, Paris
Daniel Charles, “Soun-gui Kim ou Eclat du temps”, catalogue; Vidéo Multimédia/ Soun-Gui Kim et ses
Invités, IMEREC, Marseille
Kim Chi-Sou, “Interview with Kim Soun-Gui”, Journal Seoul, 30 aug., Seoul
Park Song-Ja, “Question of Time & Space, and language in art: conversation with Kim Soun-Gui”, Space, n°
123, Seoul
A. R. Moreno, “Temps-Espace”, catalogue of exhibition; Kim Soun-Gui, American Cultural Center, Seoul
Park Han-Shik, “Space 75, reportage”, Space, n° 101, oct.- nov., Seoul
Park Yong-Ku, “Space 75”, Journal Chosun, 5 oct., Seoul
Sylvie Dupuy, “Octobre à Bordeaux”, Art Press, n° 8, dec.-jan., Paris
Pierre Paret, “Octobre à Bordeaux”, Sud-Ouest, 5&8 oct., Bordeaux