Yenah Kim

About

My curatorial practice is based on care, involving gentleness towards others and myself. Care means seeing deeply into ourselves and creating a space where diverse voices are seen and heard. I am interested in holding space for socially, culturally, and ecologically unnoticed narratives. My current research focuses on exploring decentralised curatorial practices, inviting more-than-human agencies as collaborators and protagonists in art-making, and embodying a more inclusive idea of care.

Sharing conversations and experiences is a crucial source of narrative-building in my curatorial practice. I believe it formulates knowledge and interweaves diverse narratives slowly, poetically, and collectively. Making visible the process-driven approach in my practice, I am interested in publication-making as a curatorial platform that gathers voices and creates narratives collaboratively. Traversing exhibition and publication-making and writing, I would like my art practices to convey more inclusive and gentle narratives from more-than-human perspectives.

In the Graduate Project ‘The Woven Project: Everyone Needs a Place’, we gathered conversations around ‘Why are we here in London?’ and ‘What do centre and periphery mean to us socially, culturally, ecologically, and personally?’ Questioning a problematic concentration of resources and visibility within the city, The Woven Project held space to reflect on an alternative and decentralised model that builds a bridge between the centre and periphery. The project responded in three curatorial formats: Workshop, Publication, and Display at Battersea Space in collaboration with artist Noé Iwai, workshop participants, and publication contributors.

Yenah Kim is a curator and writer based in London and Seoul. Prior to her studies at the Royal College of Art, Kim studied Art History at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. She holds a BFA in Curatorial Studies and Art Management from Dongduk Women’s University in Seoul and a BA in French Language and Literature from Chungnam National University in Daejeon.

Email: yenah.kim@gmail.com