Geumhyung Jeong

Geumhyung Jeong is an artist whose work ranges from performance, dance, choreography, theatre, video and installation. Since the beginning of her career, Jeong’s work has investigated the relationship between the human body and the objects that surround it, by way of productions that combine languages and techniques from the fields of contemporary dance, puppet theatre and the visual arts. In the course of the physical interaction between her body and the objects, it becomes ambiguous who controls whom, blurring the line between inanimate and animate.

Jeong studied Acting at Hoseo University in Asan (South Korea), Dance and Performance at the Korean National University of Arts and Film Animation at the Korean Academy of Film Arts (both in Seoul). Jeong has participated in performing arts festivals internationally, such as ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna (2022, 2014); Frankfurt Positions, Mousonturm, Frankfurt (2021); ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio (2020); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2019); Theater Spektakel, Zurich (2019, 2017, 2014, 2012); Spielart Festival, Munich (2019, 2013); Kyoto Experiment, Kyoto (2018); BOUGE B Festival, deSingel, Antwerp (2018); Push International Performing Arts Festival, Vancouver (2017); La Bienale de Performance, Buenos Aires (2017); TBA Time-Based Art Festival, PICA Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland (2016); Tanz im August, Berlin (2015); Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival, Black Box Teater, Oslo (2015); Malta Festival, Poznan (2013); Festival Tokyo, Tokyo (2011); Festival Bo:m, Seoul (2010, 2009) and many others.

Her solo exhibitions in international contemporary art institutions include: Upgrade in Progress, FMAV Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Modena (2020); Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2019); Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong, Tate Modern, London (2017); Private Collection, Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2016).

She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including: The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2022); Copenhagen – Red Light Green Light (In the Realm of the Senses), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2022); Immortality, The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg (2019); APT9 The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (2018); ANTI, AB6 The 6th Athens Biennale, Athens (2018); The Public Body 02, Artspace, Sydney (2017); The Promise of Total Automation, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2016); Surround Audience: New Museum Triennial 2015, New Museum, New York (2015); The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona (2015); East Asia Feminism: FANTasia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2015); Gesture, WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2014); Burning Down the House, The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014).

In 2016 Jeong was the winner of the Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award and in 2014 of Zürcher Theater Spektakel Kantonalbank Acknowledgment Prize. In 2009 she won the Excellence Award for Alternative Vision at the Seoul New Media Art Festival and in 2007 Dokkebi Award at the Chuncheon International Mime Festival. Her participation in artist residency programs by international art organisations: Incheon Art Platform, Incheon (2021); Delfina Foundation, London (2017); Hermès Foundation Missulsang Residency, Paris (2016); PACT Zollverein, Essen (2014); Akademie Schloss Solitue, Stuttgart (2013). Geumyung Jeong lives in Seoul and currently her atelier is in Bucheon in South Korea.