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YOUNG-JUN TAK

YOUNG-JUN TAK

b. 1989, South Korea
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‘...the work is more about the question of how we live our lives. What are we doing and where are we heading?’
Young-jun Tak: 'I look at my approach as a kind of hijacking'
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Group Exhibition
GROUP EXHIBITION Still/ Moving: Korean Video Art Based on Performances SONGEUN Art and Cultural Foundation 9 April–5 June 2026 Seoul

Representative Artworks

Young-jun Tak, Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday (2023) (still). Single-channel 4K video, colour, 5.1 sound. 18 min, 53 sec. Courtesy BB&M, Seoul.
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Young-jun Tak, Wohin? (2022) (video still). Video, colour, sound. 8 min 25 sec. Courtesy the artist.
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Exhibition view: Young-jun Tak, I need to switch myself, COMA, Darlinghurst, Sydney (1–30 March 2024). Courtesy COMA, Sydney.
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Young-jun Tak, Wish You a Lovely Sunday (2021) (still). Single-channel HD video, colour, 5.1 sound. 18 min, 45 sec. Courtesy BB&M, Seoul.
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Young-jun Tak, Wish You a Lovely Sunday (2021). Exhibition view: Doubt, Overgaden, Copenhagen (17 February–29 April 2023). Courtesy BB&M, Seoul.
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Young-Jun Tak in Ocula Magazine

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Young-jun Tak I look at my approach as a kind of hijacking
Conversation Young-jun Tak: 'I look at my approach as a kind of hijacking' Stephanie Bailey Ahead of his solo show in Zurich, Young‑jun Tak elaborates on his film works and the questions they intend to raise about belief and human contradiction.
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