ABOUT

KIM BIT OCK MIN

Artist Statement

I treat thread, textiles, and stitching not simply as materials, but as acts of recording the movement of emotion and life.

Using thread, textiles, and sewing as my primary materials and technique, without drawing a boundary between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, I connect life and death by layering textile fragments onto canvas or creating sculptural forms. Through the process of a needle piercing and passing through fabric, I repeatedly kill the self as it hardens and bring it back to life, looking forward to recognizing our interconnectedness and living together.

Contact

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Solo Exhibitions

  • 2025 [Pain, Forward]
    Ayang Gallery, Ayang Art Center, Daegu
  • 2023 [Back to the Beginning]
    Private Studio, Daegu

Group Exhibitions

  • 2025 Young Artists Project (YAP)
    EXCO, Daegu
  • 2024 The hidden side of a mutated society
    openARTs spaceMERGE?, Busan
  • 2024 Naeil [Échos de l’âme coréenne]
    Galerie Le Cerisier, Paris
  • 2024 Asia Contemporary Young Artists Award
    Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul

WORKS

Alongside

Alongside

150 cm (W) × 50 cm (H) | Recycled fabric with machine embroidery and stitching | 2026

A Perforated Heart Becomes a Path for Wind

A Perforated Heart Becomes a Path for Wind

Variable dimensions | Organza, satin, thread, beads | 2025

“Move slowly or quickly through the work, and notice how it naturally sways in response to you.”

Complete Metamorphosis

Complete Metamorphosis

Overall length per piece: under 1 m | Textile, wire | 2025

What Wants to Be Connected?

What Wants to Be Connected?

Overall within 55 cm | Textile | 2025

Swimming

Swimming

40.9 × 31.8 cm | Mixed media and fabric on canvas | 2025

Branchlike, Reaching and Bent

Branchlike, Reaching and Bent

Variable dimensions (within 1 m in width, height, and depth) | Machine embroidery on cotton | 2024

New Cell

New Cell

Variable dimensions (maximum height 30 cm, maximum width 70 cm) | Mixed media and fabric | 2024

Drying

Drying

Variable installation; machine-sewn drawing on cotton; water tank | 2024

Installation: Three white shirts hung on a clothesline. Water from a fountain in a tank filled with red liquid beneath them continually splashes upward, contaminating them. In front of them, the circulator fan's blades do not turn; only the head spins idly.

Point of Focus

Point of Focus

40 × 50 cm / 50 × 50 cm | Improvisational machine embroidery and hand embroidery on fabric | 2024

Head of a Contradiction Species

Head of a Contradiction Species

26 * 10 * 24 cm | Fabric, thread, wire | 2024

Lost Escape Route

Lost Escape Route

15 x 10 x 10 cm | Fabric, thread, wire | 2024

What Is the Failure of Failure?

What Is the Failure of Failure?

70 x 35 x 70 cm | Mirror, motorized mechanism, thread | 2023

A motor-driven device that repeatedly winds and unwinds a spool.

Manifestation

Manifestation

(27.5 x 22cm) x 6 | Mixed media and fabric on canvas | 2023

PROJECTS

FOOL LUCK SUCKS

Drawing on the spirit of Fluxus, which emerged in the 1960s, I aim to parody the standardization and institutionalization of human experience, which have grown increasingly pronounced in the present. I question situations in which we wait blindly for luck without attempting anything, and explore boredom and oblivion as ways of finding new meaning within meaninglessness and escaping thought exhausted by the countless stimuli of contemporary life.

The Possible Within the Impossible

2026-06-28

WEDDING CEREMONY

2026-05-31

Throwing Away Trash, Picking It Up, Throwing It Away, Picking It Up...

2026-04-18

Washing My Face

2026-04-01

Boredom (Yawning Dog)

2026-03-11