For her first institutional solo exhibition, Ju Young Kim has transformed the Kunsthalle Mannheim’s STUDIO space into an Incognito Apartment, where familiar objects from the domestic sphere meet components from the industrial context — in this case repurposed airplane parts. The exhibition is curated by Dorothea Lorenz.
Ju Young Kim (*1991, Seoul, KR) explores transitional states and transit zones in her sculptures and installations by combining industrial transportation modules from airplanes and cars into symbolically encoded works. She blends these with stained glass, cast metal, ceramics and plastic, thus bringing together high-tech objects with hand crafts techniques. The works are characterized by surreal elements that have been extracted from their original context and open up a new perspective on the phenomena of the globalized world.
Ju Young Kim
Studio
Kunsthalle Mannheim
5 June – 24 August 2025
