Partial exhibition view of "Sung Hwan Kim, Night Crazing" at Barakat Contemporary, Seoul.Barakat Contemporary presents a solo exhibition “Night Crazing” by Sung Hwan Kim (b. 1975), through October 30.
Kim has been previously introduced on the international stage, such as at the Museum of Modern Art (2021), the Venice Biennale (2017), and the Tanks at Tate Modern (2012). Kim is an artist who brings together personal histories with fantasies, rumors, politics, and culture to reflect issues of modern and contemporary history, social structures, cultural practices, and education systems. He combines various media—such as installations, video, performance, music, light, and drawings—to create an exhibition that responds to the architectural setting of a specific exhibition space.
To present the different elements that have recurred in his work over the past two decades, the “Night Crazing” exhibition will be taking place in mixed media installation form at two locations: Barakat Contemporary 1 (36 Samcheong-ro 7-gil in Seoul’s Jongno District) and Barakat Contemporary 2 (58-4 Samcheong-ro, also in Jongno). Each exhibition space consists of a key video work by Kim, along with drawings and installations that interact with it. At Barakat Contemporary 1 is Washing Brain and Corn (2010), first commissioned by Media City Seoul in 2010 as a video work, at that time shown in a simple installation form. This work has since developed into a multi-layered installation that includes a radio play howl bowel owl (2013, distributed and broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk/Intermedium Records) and text Ki-da Rilke (2011, published by Sternberg Press and Kunsthalle Basel). This work was last shown in its full installation version for the Tanks at Tate Modern in 2012, when Kim was the first commissioned exhibition artist in that new space.
