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Ayoung Kim

AYOUNG KIM

Many Worlds Over Hamburger Bahnhof 28 February–20 July 2025 Berlin
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Ayoung Kim’s (b. 1979 in Seoul, Korea) first solo exhibition in a German museum spans the most recent years of her artistic practice and explores concepts of time, reality, belonging, and queerness. Using Artificial Intelligence, video, game simulations, and sculpture, Ayoung Kim creates expansive fictional universes governed by their own temporal and spatial laws. Her works are linked by speculative narratives rooted in reality, and viewers become both spectators and first-person players, shaping the story from their perspective.

For her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof, Kim draws from a cycle of works that follows a female delivery driver and her identical double in a fictional, futuristic Seoul. In her “Delivery Dancer” universe, infinite possible worlds collide, where time is cyclical and non-linear. Her subjects cross the boundaries of possible realities, creating intersections between times and spaces. Ayoung Kim’s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof does not only enable its audiences to be immersed in Kim’s virtual landscapes, but extends those into the physical museum space, completely transforming the gallery’s topology.

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Kim has long interrogated societal issues—discrimination, gender, and labour rights—through a range of media and cutting-edge technologies.
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About the Artist

Ayoung Kim is a Seoul-based contemporary artist whose speculative, research-driven works span video, VR, performance, game simulations, and immersive installations, and she is profiled extensively on Ocula. Working across moving image and immersive environments, she constructs intricate narrative worlds that interrogate how reality is mediated by technology, power, and storytelling.

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About the Gallery
Housed in a former railway station, the Hamburger Bahnhof is the third location of Berlin’s Nationalgalerie. Following extensive renovations the museum was opened in 1996 with a focus on art since 1960. The museum is distinguished by its holdings of seminal 20th Century artists including John Cage, Bill Viola, Peter Campus, Wolf Vostell, Rebecca Horn, Carolee Schneeman, Reinhard Mucha, Marcel Broodthaers, Fritz Rahmann, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Johan Grimonprez and Aernout Mik.

In 2002, the collection was enlarged significantly by the acquisition of Egidio Marzona’s study collection of Conceptual Art and Arte Povera. It is also home to the Joseph Beuys Media Archive. In 2004 the museum was further extended to house the Friedrich Christian Flick collection of contemporary art which includes a large and virtually unique collection of works by Bruce Nauman. The collection is also renowned for its holdings of German painting including works by influential artists such as Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz and also younger painters including, Neo Rauch, Daniel Richter and Belgian artist Luc Tuymans.
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Invalidenstraße 50-51
Berlin
Germany
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Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Thursday, 10am – 8pm
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Berlin Invalidenstraße 50-51
Hamburger Bahnhof contemporary art institution in Berlin Germany
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstraße 50-51, Berlin, Germany
+49 3039 783411
http://www.hamburgerbahnhof.de

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm
Thursday, 10am – 8pm
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