Yun Hyejeong is a South Korean visual artist and documentary filmmaker based in Berlin. In her practice, Yun explores societal dynamics within hegemonic power structures through personal narratives. She analyses social structures, creates new allegorical connections, and deconstructs colonial myths using moving images, installations, and performances. Her body, voice, language, and poetry focus on a comprehensive localisation of political cartography, encompassing intersectional identities, decolonisation, and the collective memories of migration history.
Her work has been shown at international festivals, including the Asian American International Film Festival in New York City, USA, the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück, Germany, the Bali International Film Festival in Indonesia, and the EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea.
2024
Back to where we have started from (with Eli Cortiñas), Museum für Photographie Braunschweig X Halle267 Städtische Galerie Braunschweig, DE
Tillering (with AFSAR SiSalon), News Museum, Seoul, KR
All In: A Future Agglomeration, OMO Artspace, Berlin, DE
Breath, breath, breath, wind, wind, wind, 6okken Art Festival DAI6OKKAN, Yamanashi, JP
Whispers of the Kawaii Witches (collective with Naomi Shintani Deibel and Johanna Riedl), Same Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Narrowing Forest (with Sara Akiyama), Kusakabe Gallery, Kyoto, JP
Ho-Wa, Myoman-ji Temple, Kyoto, JP
2023
Coming Home. The End of Colonial Phantasms, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, DE
walkingtomonuments.xyz, cur. Aleksandra Domanović, Hochschulgalerie und online, Braunschweig, DE
Präsentation der Deutschlandstipendiat*innen 2022/23, Hochschulgalerie, Braunschweig, DE
Teleidoscope. The Melting Mirror, OMO Artspace, Berlin, DE
I lived in the corner of a room, Kanagawa, JP
2022
Rendering Real, 45th AAIFF Asian American International Film Festival, New York City, US
NOT TOO CLOSE, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, DE
Collections Privées, Rue des Trévires 8, Etterbeek, BE
2021
Random Access Memories, Galerie After The Butcher, Berlin, DE
I’M NOT IN, Galerie byvier, Köln, DE
2020
Spit John, www.spit-john.de, DE
Präsentation der Deutschlandstipendiat*innen 2019/2020, Hochschulgalerie, Braunschweig, DE
2019
Swim John cur. Thomas Becker and Nele Kaczmarek, Freibad Bürgerpark, Braunschweig, DE
10 Jahre Whatever, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, DE
2018
GONE SEXUAL, Galerie tête, Berlin, DE
2024
17. FIWOM Film Festival for Women's Rights, Seoul, KR (upcoming)
Full Time Screen (with Rita Macedo), Humboldt Medientheater, Berlin, DE
2023 Trans Urban X Cinema, Mobiles Kino, Braunschweig, DE
Berlin Artspring Film 2023, Brotfabrik KINO, Berlin, DE
2022
19.EXiS Seoul International Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, KR
MFW8 Bali Internațional Film Festival, Bali, ID
EMAF European Media Art Festival No. 35 campus, Osnabrück, DE
2021
EMAF European Media Art Festival No. 34 campus, Osnabrück, DE
35th BIFF Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, DE
2019
Das Andere Screening, Das Andere Kino, Lehrte, DE
2024
Performance AFSAR SiSalon X Don Mee Choi, AN(8)X festival 1.0: shards, shards, whisper and flare, Berlin, DE
Performance Bluuurrrreeedddd, 6okken Art Festival DAI6OKKAN, Yamanashi, JP
Workshop Visual Poetry Visual Essay: Undocumented ( ) Unlearning ( ) Unrelated ( ), Berlin University of the Arts (UDK), DE (upcoming)
Workshop Sound Hide and Seek, 6okken residency, Yamanashi, JP
2023
Workshop & Talk Kolonialismus als Katalysator von Rassismus, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Niedersachsen & Kunstverein Wolfsburg, DE
Performance DAS NEUE WIR with VITAMIN B, Bundestkunsthalle Bonn, DE
Performance How Kimchi Becomes Red, Braunschweig, DE
Workshop Kimchi Tortillas mit Renato Vazquez Patino, Braunschweig, DE
2022
Talk, RENDERING REAL, 45th Asian American International Film Festival, New York City, US
#Smalltalk, European Media Art Festival EMAF. 35, Osnabrück, DE
Talk, Matbaezip, Daejeon, KR
2021
#Smalltalk, European Media Art Festival EMAF. 34, Osnabrück, DE
2024
Yun Hyejeong: Only a Failed Tiger, publ. Heisse Maroni, Berlin, DE
Feminist Magazine FAQ?‘s ZINE publ. Marina Lisa Komiya, Tokyo, JP
2023
Rehearsed Spontaneity, publ. Luisa Ungar & Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, DE
2022
NOT TOO CLOSE, publ. Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, DE
Objektpermanenzobjekte publ. Fabian Schneiker, Braunschweig, DE
2021
DIY OR DIE ZINE publ. Chelsea College of Art & Design London, UK
SHUN vol. 4: Kontakt, SHUN Photography magazine, Braunschweig, DE
2019
Swim John publ. Kunstverein Braunschweig & Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, DE