Grace Euna Kim (KR/USA) is a transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, critical researcher, and pedagogue based in Berlin. Drawing from Post-Lacanian psychoanalytic and critical theory, her practice examines ideology, political embodiment, and affect, with a focus on the blind spots between ethics and violence. 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, Euna develops immersive choreopolitical approaches that investigate how contradictions of ideology, desire, knowledge, and power mediate between bodies and macropolitical realities, asking: How can we resolve sociopolitical violence, when we are ingrained in the systems that reproduce it? —Using 360° body-emergent approaches - described as "acid choreography" - her work mobilizes aesthetics as a political mediation between the viewer and social reality, and illuminates psychopolitical drives and dimensions of being and movement. Through this lens, the audience is invited to rethink community and resistance, embracing the unexpected, the subversive, and the sublime.
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.
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.
11. October 2026
After Solidarity. A new participatory performance work by Grace Euna Kim to be presented at the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt, in cooperation with de_colonialanguage.
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Email: graceeunakim[at]gmail.com
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