Grace Euna Kim (KR/USA) is a transdisciplinary choreographer, critical researcher, and pedagogue based in Berlin. Drawing on psychoanalytic and critical theory, her practice examines ideology, political embodiment, and affect, with a focus on the blind spots of invisible violence within community and conflict. Centering imagination as a political act, she explores the transformative potential of the encounter through site-specific performances and interventions that are immersed with the people—across public space, visual arts sites, performing arts stages, and radical education- and research-based formats. Through her long-term Acid Bodies research, she develops 360° choreopolitical approaches that unpack desire, systems of knowledge, and power, asking: How can we disrupt recurrent cycles of sociopolitical violence, when we are embedded in the systems that reproduce it? How can we imagine futures beyond violence, without reproducing the conditions for its return? How can we enact solidarity without producing other forms of exclusion? How can we embody resistance without producing other forms of oppression?
Euna holds an MA in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has taught theoretical praxis courses and workshops at institutions including MA Raumstrategien/Spatial Strategies - Weißensee Kunsthochschule, PYR FYR School of Performance Moscow, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, and Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, and was a lecturer/mentor at House of Europe, Goethe-Institut Ukraine. She has presented her performances, research, and visual artworks in contexts including Seoul Museum; Incheon Art Platform; Schauspiel Leipzig; Frankfurt Lab; Haus der Statistik (Berlin); ZK/U–Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin); SOMA Art Space (Berlin); Cité de l’image–Clervaux (Luxembourg); Galerie Madé (Paris); Museum of Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg); Solyanka VPA (Moscow); Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona); WhiteBox (New York); ASCA University of Amsterdam; and Foam Magazine/Foam Fotografiemuseum (Amsterdam). She is a recipient of the AHL Foundation Visual Art Award and Foam Talent distinction, and has been awarded grants from Fonds Darstellende Künste, Gwärtler Stiftung, Nationales Performance Netz (NPN), Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, and Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
Current/Upcoming
28. August 2026
Resisting Within. Workshop by Grace Euna Kim at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU3). Presented under the framework of Tanz im August and Backstage Club Berlin.
15.–.29 September 2026
After Solidarity Collective Research Sessions at ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics Berlin. Info
11. October 2026
After Solidarity. A new participatory performance work by Grace Euna Kim at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, in cooperation with de_colonialanguage.
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