[갤러리현대] 2025 Highlights 김아영 작가: 77위(아트 파워2025)

2025 Highlights 김아영 작가 Ayoung Kim : 77위(아트 파워 리스트 ART REVIEW 2025)

In 2025, Ayoung Kim engaged in an active international program spanning Korea and abroad. Beginning with a solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, followed by solo exhibitions at Atelier Hermès, Seoul and MoMA PS1, New York. She also participated in group exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Mori Art Museum, and Copenhagen Contemporary. In addition, Kim took part in the Noor Riyadh and Thailand Biennials, presented a newly commissioned work, Body^n, at the Performa 2025 Biennial, and received the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award.

These achievements received continued international attention, including cover features in the spring issue of ArtReview Asia, November issue of Artforum, November and December issue of Frieze, and 2026 January issue of Bijutsutecho (美術手帖), as well as highly acclaimed reviews from major global media outlets including The New York Times.

In addition, Kim was awarded the inaugural ACC Future Prize in 2024. The exhibition catalogue for ACC Future Prize 2024: Ayoung Kim, presented at the National Asian Culture Center, was published, along with a revised edition of Ayoung Kim: Synthetic Storyteller, originally released in February 2024 and subsequently sold out, newly published in 2025.

Gallery Hyundai presents a comprehensive overview of Ayoung Kim’s major exhibitions and activities, press coverage, publications, and other notable developments throughout the year.

김아영은 2025년 한 해 동안 베를린 함부르거반호프 개인전을 시작으로 아뜰리에 에르메스와 뉴욕현대미술관 PS1 개인전, 테이트 모던 소장품전, 국립현대미술관, 모리미술관, 코펜하겐 컨템포러리 등의 기획전, 누르 리야드와 태국 비엔날레 참여와 더불어 퍼포마 비엔날레에서 커미션 신작 〈n승의 신체(Body^n)〉, 2025 LG 구겐하임 어워드 수상 등 국내외를 넘나들며 활발한 활동을 펼쳤습니다.

이러한 성과는 세계적인 미술 매체인 〈아트리뷰 아시아〉 봄호, 〈아트포럼〉 11월호 커버와 〈프리즈 매거진〉 11·12월호 커버, 일본 〈미술수첩〉 2026년 1월호 커버를 비롯해, 〈뉴욕타임스〉와 같은 세계적인 매체들의 호평 가득한 리뷰로 이어지며 국제 미술계에서 지속적인 조명을 받았습니다.

또한, 제1회 ‘ACC 미래상’을 수상하며 국립아시아문화전당에서 열렸던 김아영의《ACC 미래상 2024: 김아영》의 도록과 2024년 2월에 발간되고 곧이어 절판되었던 김아영의 『김아영: 합성의 스토리텔러』가 더 플로어플랜에서 2025년 개정판으로 새롭게 출간되었습니다.

갤러리현대는 2025년, 뜨거운 한 해를 보낸 김아영 작가의 주요 전시 및 활동, 프레스, 출간 소식, 기타 이슈 등을 모아 전합니다.

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‘Neither a techno-determinist nor a techno-pessimist, I have always wanted to comment on the impact of technology in our society by using it,’ Kim noted upon winning the $100,000 LG Guggenheim Award in February. She does this through multimedia installations such as the Delivery Dancer trilogy (2022–25), works built using AI, CGI, gaming technologies and live action that centre on the lives of two fictional female delivery drivers starting in a speculative Seoul, before moving to the multiverse and beyond. Kim’s worlds aren’t one-dimensional dystopias, however: the protagonists wrestle with, but also thrive in, a reality that melds the physical with the algorithmic. It has won her a following as one of the most nuanced operators of a new generation of artists tackling a sci-fi future that is already here. The artist was garlanded with solo shows this year at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; MoMA PS1, New York; and M+, Hong Kong (the latter travelling to Powerhouse Museum, Sydney); as well as appearances in Thailand Biennale Phuket and New York’s Performa Biennial.