Ayoung Kim Wins 2025 LG Guggenheim Award

Portrait of AYOUNG KIM. Photo by Kanghyuk Lee (snakepool). Courtesy the artist and Gallery Hyundai, Seoul.

South Korean artist Ayoung Kim has won the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award for her innovative fusion of art and technology. Known for integrating AI, virtual reality, and game simulation into her work, Kim creates immersive worlds that blend ancient cosmologies with modern digital advancements. She sees technology as a tool to explore its societal impact rather than as inherently good or bad. Guggenheim deputy director Naomi Beckwith praised her for addressing deep questions about time and human experience in a fast-changing digital age. Kim, the award’s third recipient since 2023, will receive a USD 100,000 honorarium and be featured in an upcoming Guggenheim program in New York.

Ayoung Kim, Porosity Valley 2: Tricksters’ Plot, 2019. © Ayoung Kim. Photo: Swan Park.

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Exhibitions

Celebrating 50 years of the Jakarta Biennale, featuring international visual arts, with an opening on October 1 - November 15, 2024, at Selasar Galeri Emiria Soenassa, Taman Ismail Marzuki, showcasing performances and music by various artists and communities, and free for the public.	"PANORAMA: Radetyo Itok," a solo exhibition by Radetyo Itok, curated by Rizki A. Zaelani and officiated by Yudi Wanandi, explores imaginative expressions of daily life experiences through a series of artworks, running from October 2 to November 2, 2024, at Galeri ZEN1 in Jakarta.	"THE QUEST," a solo exhibition by Samsul Arifin, showcases his journey through paintings and installations featuring fabric dolls and pencils, exploring the unpredictability of life and the importance of roots and spiritual guidance, from October 1 to October 31, 2024, at Nadi Gallery in Jakarta.
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