Sunjung Kim is a curator and the current president of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation. Since 2012, Kim has also been artistic director of the Real DMZ Project, which researches various issues surrounding the Korean demilitarized zone. From 1993 to 2004, Kim was the deputy director of Art Sonje Center in Seoul, where she later served as the director from 2016 to 2017. At Art Sonje Center, Kim notably curated solo exhibitions showcasing Martin Creed (2009), Haegue Yang (2010), and Abraham Cruzvillegas (2015). In 2005, Kim was appointed the commissioner of the Korean Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, and has held positions at the following institutions: Platform Seoul (Artistic Director, 2006-2010), Media City Seoul at SeMA (Artistic Director, 2010), Round Table at the 9th Gwangju Biennale (Artistic co-director, 2012), and the ACC Archive & Research department at the Institute of Asian Cultural Development in Gwangju (Artistic Director, 2014 – 2015).

11.15 2018 Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders

The 12th Gwangju Biennale, titled Imagined Borders, features 163 artists from 43 different countries participating in a series of seven exhibitions, exploring the political, cultural, physical and emotional concepts of borders in today's global community. For this edition of the Gwangju Biennale, a collective of 11 curators from around the world have devised a program of thematic exhibitions, in addition to a monumental new program, the GB Commission and a series of Pavilion Projects taking place across the city of Gwangju. Multiple curators from the UK to LA, Singapore to Seoul have brought their diverse perspectives and expertise to the Biennale and collaborated on projects inspired by the concept of 'Imagined Borders'.

In this lecture, Sunjung Kim, the President of the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the chief curator, will discuss the structure, curatorial direction and the new programs launched by this year's Gwangju Biennale.