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Seongmin Kim is an artist and designer whose practice is structured as a series of speculative scenarios, each initiated through a “what if” question that opens up spaces for debate and discussion.

She is particularly interested in how the SF genre reflects current conditions of deficiency—where something is missing, misaligned, or yet to be understood—and how these conditions can be staged as states, systems, and behaviours. Her work focuses on the thresholds where human perception can no longer fully recognise or cope with the world. It interrogates the gaps between the visible and the perceived, the discrepancies between the environment and the body, and the changing structures of perception following the intervention of technological systems.

Operating across the overlap between artistic practice and scientific enquiry, this process is a mix of science fiction, science fact, and design for the near future.

Training Log

HEAD – Genève, Haute école d’art et de design, Switzerland
Master of Arts HES-SO in Design, Space and Communication, GPA 5/6
Thesis Title: Beyond Human Vision - Liam Young’s Choreographic Camouflage
Sep 2020 – Feb 2023

Scholarship
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
Sep 2021 – Aug 2022

Hans Wilsdorf Foundation Scholarship
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021

Mokwon University, Daejeon, Korea
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture – First Class Honours, PG 93.10/100

Scholarship
Academic Excellence Scholarships, 2013–2017

Residencies

Changnyeong Hotel Artist in Residency,
Changnyeong, Korea
May – Oct 2019

Programmes

Experimental Realism
May - Jan 2024

Recognition

Silver Prize for Junk Art (K-ECO Chairman’s Prize)
2013

Display

HEAD Campus Inauguration
Bâtiment H of HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland
2022

DIPLOMA SHOW
Le Cube, Geneva, Switzerland
2022

Physical Editing
Pavilon Sicli, Geneva, Switzerland
2021

180 Days of Travel
Gallery DM, Changnyeong, Korea
2019

Check-in
Gallery DM, Changnyeong, Korea
2019

ABRAXAS –
The Bird Struggles to Get Out of The Egg
Mokwon University Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2018

PREVIEW
57th Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015