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Berlin-based, US-American artist Christine Sun Kim will create a site-specific installation for Mudam’s Henry J. and Erna D. Leir Pavilion. Her multidisciplinary practice focuses on the visual, social and political dimensions of sound and language. Materialising the world of sound visually – through infographics, musical notations and American Sign Language (ASL) – Kim shares her lived experiences as a Deaf person questioning the power systems and unperceived norms that govern the public and the private space. Her incisive self-devised strategies – laced with lyrical irony – expose entrenched forms of exclusion and amplify perspectives that are too often overlooked.
Biography
Christine Sun Kim (1980, Orange County, California) has presented solo exhibitions and performances at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2025); Art Institute of Chicago; Secession, Vienna (2023); Queens Museum, New York (2022); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2021); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston (2020); De Appel, Amsterdam (2017) and Tate Modern, London (2016). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions and biennials including at SFMoMA, San Francisco (2024); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023); The Drawing Center, New York (2022); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2021); MASS MoCA, Massachusetts; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2020); Whitney Biennial 2019, New York (2019); 9th Berlin Biennale; 11th Shanghai Biennale; New Museum, New York (2016) and MoMA PS1, New York (2015). Her works are held in numerous prominent collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Tate, London; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Espoo Museum of Modern Art; Busan Museum of Contemporary Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Christine Sun Kim lives and works in Berlin.