Much of this reaching grows out of Korean history: its wars and purges, and the violent speed with which the country tears itself down and builds again. But the work never stays national. She questions how history that isn’t yours can still reach you and implicate you, and whether feeling your way across that distance is even honest.
At its core, her practice is about visibility and the power that governs it: what is granted the right to appear, what is kept from sight, and who decides. She looks for the answer in material things, in the worn surface of a building, a strip of found footage, a body feelings its way through a room, treating each as a place that holds on to what ‘official’ memory is willing to let slip. What she is after is never the finished picture but closer to searching, or remembering.
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won park / Seawon Park (b.1998)
Born in Seoul, Based in Berlin
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2025 Absolventin. Kunst und Medien / Universität der Künste Berlin, Germany
2021 B.A.S. Art&Technology / Sogang University, South Korea
B.A. Philosophy / Sogang University, South Korea
2020 Fine Arts / Lesley University (Academic Exchange), United States
2017 Theatre&Film / Kaywon Highschool of Arts, South Korea
Exhibitions
2026 (upcoming) To whom it may concern / Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2026 Caged Movements / Nadan Gallery, Berlin
2026 Residual Heats / Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Berlin
2025 Nightsoil, Nightmare / LDK, Seoul
2025 tender is the riot / New Fears Gallery, Berlin
2025 After Projection / Half Sister, Berlin
2025 A Trap to Live Within / New Fears Gallery, Berlin
2024 More Strange Things / Silent Green, Berlin
2024 Urban Habitat / Scotty, Berlin
2023 Too Much is Never Enough / Scherben, Berlin
2019 Seoul Sky Media Art Award / Lotte World Tower Seoul Sky, Seoul
2018 Seoul International Fireworks Festival / Hangang Park in Yeouido, Seoul
2018 Seodaemooninn Artfair / Seodaemooninn, Seoul
Performances
2026 <Descending Notes> / Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin
2026 Halbkunst/Halbconnection / 48 Stunde Neukölln, Berlin
2024 Between Heads or Tails There’s a Whole Body / West Germany, Berlin
2023 <Plug UnPlug> / Deutsches Theater, Berlin
2019 <I wish you all the best> / Ansan Street Arts Festival, Ansan, Gyeoggi
2018 <10 : 4 3 2 1> / Youjinsangsang Project, Youjin Mansion & Immersive Hall, Seoul
2018 <I wish you all the best> / Sinchon Street Art Festival, Sinchon Street, Seoul
Grants/Awards/Residency
2024 In:dépendance residency / ETH Zürich
2019 <Parallax> / Seoul Sky Media Art Award, Excellence Prize
2018 Small Creator Group, Korean Ministry of Science and ICT
2018 SYK International Initiative Program, SYK Arts and Culture Foundation
2017 <0 94376 91475 7> / Immersive Media Contest, Grand Prize