The people / Grounding

Meet the
artists.

Artists, researchers, organizers, and collaborators connecting practices across South Korea and the Netherlands.

01 / South Korea

RE#SISTER
Korea.

RE#SISTER is a group of non-binary or women who are interested in sound or electronic music based around WORM's sound studio in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded in 2018. Members of RE#SISTER make, learn, and help together to make and play electronic and experimental sounds. In March 2022, RE#SISTER Korea, the South Korean branch of RE#SISTER, was formed in Seoul and has continued to exchange music, art, and creation of interesting performances through their regular meetings (Plug-In).

Instagram: @resister.korea ↗YouTube ↗resister.korea@gmail.com ↗

Mina

Mina Kim (she/her) is a media artist and artist-researcher whose work has been presented across South Korea and the Netherlands. Currently based in Seoul, she is interested in what is left behind by technological progress and explores, through artistic research, more sustainable ways for humans to coexist with digital remnants. Her practice examines the material foundations of digital technologies from an environmental perspective, with a particular focus on developing environmentally sustainable methods of artistic creation and practice. She works across installation, video, web-based work, sound, performance, workshops, and zines.

Her work has been presented at TEC ART, SIGN Gallery, and NP3 in the Netherlands, and she has led workshops at Sonic Acts on several occasions. In South Korea, she has exhibited at Unfold X, SAPY, and PowerPlant, and presented sound performances at WeSA, dotolim, New Music in Jeju, and Arts Korea Lab. She has also facilitated workshops at Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art, SAPY, and Seoul Arts & Culture Education Center Yongsan.

Mina also produces sound work under the name Vitamina. Since 2022, she has led RE#SISTER Korea, a community for women and queer people interested in experimenting, playing, and learning together through diverse sounds.

www.mina-vitamina.net ↗Instagram: @mina.kim.vitamina ↗

Jisoo

Jisoo Park is a media artist, researcher and teaching student. Currently, she is interested in research and exhibitions on spacetime and sound.

Marina

Marina (Morgan Jeong) is an audio engineer and sound designer who explores the latent meanings of everyday sounds and lives alongside ‘Companion Sounds.’ By embracing auditory stimuli as companions, she cultivates a habit of perceiving the world through sound. She continues to record ordinary and mundane sounds, exploring the value of time embedded within them and the layers of our times. She runs the community Field Recording and participated as an artist curation and field recording artist for the compilation album The Departing (2025). She focuses on processing sounds and exploring the dynamics of sound signals, intentionally intersecting and converting them across physical, electrical, and electronic layers. She contemplates how sound system designs can amplify the inner dynamics of listeners to refresh their daily experiences. She has taken up amateur radio (HAM) as a hobby and is observing sounds within radio waves.

Instagram: @bbe.morgan ↗

Younwon

Younwon Sohn creates sculptures, installations, and sound with an interest in a sense of hospitality. Most of her site-specific works extend from physical domestic architectural elements such as floors and windows to non-material digital encounters that connect one another's scenery. She presented her solo show ‘Ear Eye Mouth Nose (耳目口鼻)’ at Amado Art Space (Seoul, KR, 2026) as the recipient of the Amado Artist Award, ‘Side Lying’ at Factory2 (Seoul, KR, 2026), ‘Underfoot Overhead’ at Insa Art Space (Seoul, KR, 2024), and ‘Housewarming, dear ghost ants’ at NEVERNEVERLAND (Amsterdam, NL, 2020). Most of her work has been presented in group exhibitions at several art institutions and artist-run spaces such as ARKO ART CENTER (KR), Art Sonje Center (KR), LDK (IT), MACAO (IT), Rongwrong (NL), Zone2Source (NL), Tiefkeller (DE), etc. She has participated in residencies at KARTS (Seoul, KR, 2023), NEVERNEVERLAND (Amsterdam, NL, 2020), and MACAO (Milano, IT, 2019).

www.younwonsohn.com ↗

Sujin

Sujin Kim is a sound artist and electronic music composer based in Seoul. Her work translates contemporary and social subjects into sound, and asks what is assumed to be inaudible, and what has been made inaudible.

Since 2019 she has worked from material that resists being heard directly — a recorded speech broken into its phonemes, the noise of demolition sites, a massacre for which no recording was ever made. Alongside this, she works with non-human life — mushrooms, cyanobacteria, slime moulds, trees — treating these entities not as data to be represented but as co-composers, and building systems whose behaviour she deliberately does not fully control. Her work has been presented at ICMC, SICMF, NYCEMF, Sónar+D, Festival Futura and Festival Supersonique, and received a Special Mention at PAYSAGES | COMPOSÉS 2026, Grenoble.

Instagram: @lowlights1 ↗

Soo-hyun

Soo-hyun Moon is a pansori singer and composer based in South Korea. Trained in pansori since childhood, she works from the voice as a whole body: years of training slowly build muscles she had never used, and out of that process a timbre unfamiliar to her begins to appear. She carries the tradition as it was handed to her while opening it toward electronic sound, improvisation, and movement — not as a choice between old and new, but as one continuous practice. Her recent works — Feminication, Fermented Sound, Is It All Right to Stop?, Essence and Accessory, The Violence of Numbers, What Are We Searching For — all begin in the thinking of ordinary days, where a question that starts in her own life widens into one addressed to the present and to the people living in it.

She collaborates with composers and artists from Germany, Taiwan, Iran, and Korea, and took part in IRIDISCENCIA by Spanish visual artist and choreographer María Ibarretxe del Val. She was musician-in-residence at Art Omi (New York, 2023) and Azala (Spain, 2024), and premiered newly commissioned works in Pansori Prisms (Faust, Hannover, 2025). She is a member of Re#sister Korea and the Korean Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and has taught pansori to non-Korean learners for over ten years.

Instagram: @pansorimoon ↗

Hyeeun

Hyeeun Kwak is an olfactory artist whose practice begins with body odor and explores relationships between people and places, as well as the wishes and longings embedded within them, through the language of scent. Interested in how individual sensations and memories extend toward experiences shared with others, places, and communities through the sense of smell, the practice unfolds across installation, performance, and scent-based live practices. More recently, the work has expanded toward encounters between smell and other senses and media, including sound and movement, approaching smell as a sensory language.

In 2025, the solo exhibition <Nice to Sniff You> was presented in Seoul, exploring traces of individual lives, relationships, and wishes through performance and worn clothing carrying accumulated traces of each person's body odor. In 2026, Hyeeun participated in the Scent + Art Festival in Riga, Latvia, presenting an installation and performance using locally collected clothing and reconfiguring relationships between body odor, place, and community within a new environment.

02 / The Netherlands

Irene de
Boer.

Irene de Boer (b. 1994, Delfzijl) lives and works in Amsterdam and grew up in the farmlands at the epicentre of the Netherlands’ gas-mining industry. After completing her Master of Arts in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen in 2018, she stayed at CalArts (California Institute of the Arts) and Otis College of Art and Design in the USA. She worked in fault-line and earthquake-prone areas in New Zealand and Japan and collaborated with Medialab Matadero in Madrid on The Metabolic Sublime. Her work has been shown at W139, Amsterdam; S.M.A.K., Ghent; and NP3, Groningen.

Instagram @irenedeboer ↗

Practice

Irene de Boer’s practice engages with the intersections of nature, culture, and technology, exploring how organic patterns and synthetic forms influence one another. Through video, sculpture, painting, and text, she investigates processes of transformation and adaptation within natural and artificial environments. Her work creates bridges between traditional media, contemporary techniques, subcultures, pop culture, and street culture. Central to her inquiry is how patterns originating in nature are adopted by culture and, conversely, how cultural constructs are synthesised into artificial versions of nature. Moving from the material to the metaphysical, her work reveals hidden forces at play in ecological systems, bodily processes, and industrial mechanisms. Her practice reflects a particular interest in the physical, historical, and mythical dimensions of the natural world, especially crystals and other elemental materials.

The ongoing project Min[d]ing Crystals extends this investigation into the role of materials as mediators between the body, technology, and environment. Her work forms a continuous dialogue between scientific and aesthetic inquiry, seeking to unveil unseen connections that shape our understanding of the world. Through playful yet critical exploration, she creates works that evoke both nostalgia and optimism, inviting reflection on how we navigate and reshape an increasingly synthetic world.

03 / The space

Happening
in Seoul.

Happening is an artist-run space in Hapjeong, Seoul, founded and run by artist Seyeon Sol Park. Rather than functioning solely as an exhibition venue, Happening provides a space where artistic practices can unfold through exhibitions, research, workshops, technological experiments, conversations, and collaborations.

The name Happening draws from Peter Brook’s The Empty Space and the idea that an event can begin through a simple encounter between a space, an action, and someone who witnesses it. With this in mind, Happening is interested not only in finished works, but also in the processes through which works, people, ideas, sensations, plans, and unexpected situations meet and form new relations.

Located in a basement formerly used as a karaoke venue, Happening retains traces and temporal layers of its previous use rather than transforming the space into a completely neutral white cube. It operates simultaneously as an exhibition space, workspace, laboratory, and place for conversation and exchange, creating conditions in which different artistic encounters and unexpected happenings can emerge.

Instagram @_a.happening ↗

Seyeon Sol Park

Seyeon Sol Park is a Seoul-based media artist and the founder and director of Happening. Beginning with photography and moving image, her practice has expanded across sound, interactive media, sensors, and AR/VR.

Her work explores perception, presence and absence, mediation, and the conditions through which an event, object, or presence becomes perceptible. She is particularly interested in the gaps between what exists and what can be sensed, and between what is visible and invisible. Rather than treating technology and space simply as tools for representation, she approaches them as conditions that shape perception, experience, and relations between the work and its audience.

More recently, her practice has expanded from individual artworks toward the spatial, temporal, and relational conditions in which art is encountered. Through Happening, she extends this practice into exhibition-making, research, programmes, technological experiments, and collaborations.

www.seyeonpark.com ↗Instagram: @seyeon__park ↗

04 / Collaborators

Across
relations.

Karolína Voleská

Karolína Voleská is a Prague-based curator and art writer specializing in contemporary art. Her curatorial practice investigates the entanglements of nature and technology, approaching them as mutually constitutive domains shaped by material processes, infrastructures, and cultural frameworks. Her theoretical research examines representations of planetary scale in contemporary art, focusing on technological and the metaphysical dimensions of planetarity. She considers how art can render processes extending beyond immediate human perception tangible, connecting situated experience with broader spatial and temporal scales. This research formed the basis of her master’s thesis in the Theory of Contemporary Art at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Through her exhibitions, she explores social issues and their intersections with environmental questions in the context of post-nature, as well as the materiality of artworks, their role as carriers of information, and the possibilities of intergenerational dialogue. She is a co-curator at Berlínskej model gallery in Prague and has presented curatorial projects at venues including INDUSTRA in Brno, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, and Galerie UM in Prague and others.

MinOhrichar

MinOhrichar is an artist and researcher working across video, sound, installation, and performance, centered on media art. He received his BFA in Industrial Design and his PhD in Design, majoring in Media, both from Seoul National University College of Fine Arts. His practice extends directly from this research, carrying forward a concern with accepting contemporary pain and otherness as they are, through media, rather than erasing or suturing them.

Working from the premise that media holds possibility and that images carry a capacity for otherness, he constructs future-oriented relationships across various senses and situations, reaching toward others and worlds beyond the media itself. Through this, he seeks to discover the other standing before him, and to build media experiences that can affirm “My Other” and their world. This attitude is distilled in the notion of small talk that he proposes — an approach to conversation that, unlike declarations or promises, neither succeeds nor fails, and so can continue even where arrival is impossible.

Through works such as the Rocket Sequence series (2019– ) and related video and installation pieces, noise performances, and academic research, he has explored how contemporary media can host, transmit, and reframe collective misfortune and otherness. His recent interest lies in finding ways to make contact possible again at points where relation is believed to be impossible, an inquiry he extends into designing and building his own custom synthesizers and audio-processing devices.

Instagram: @minohrichar ↗

Erik Peters

Erik Peters is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in the Netherlands, working across new media, audiovisual installation, performance and speculative storytelling. Their practice is rooted in queer ecology as a tactic for exploring the multispecies entanglements that persist through planetary crises, uncovering how speculative fiction can germinate new modes of relation through collaborative formats of creating and organising. Peters constructs immersive scenarios through a wide range of methods and materials, exploring how collective imagination becomes a generative tool for existing beyond the extractive logics of the present.

They are an organising member of Rotterdam-based media lab and glitch feminist collective .zip, and co-curator of collective.wasteland, an interdisciplinary research platform and festival focused on waste ecologies. In recent years, they have served as guest curator for The Overkill Festival (2023, 2024), and as Ocean Ambassador for the Bauhaus of the Seas (2025), an EU initiative focused on ocean literacy.

Peters holds an MA in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute and a BA in Art and Crossmedia Design from AKI Academy of Art and Design. Their work has been presented internationally across exhibitions and festivals, including Nieuwe Instituut (NL), Kunsthal (NL), FIBER Festival (NL), Balance Festival (DE), Las Cigarreras (ES), Umanesimo Artificiale (IT), Ocean Space (IT), Modeka Art (PH) and DOX Centre for Contemporary Art (CZ), among others.

www.erikpeters.work ↗Instagram: @e_ptrs ↗

YANNY

YANNY is a Tokyo / Berlin-based DJ, curator, and founder of Killian. Through both his performances and curatorial work, he has become part of a new generation of artists contributing to the evolution of underground dance music across Asia.

Rooted in hypnotic / tribal techno, trance, psychedelic rhythms, and groove-driven sounds, YANNY’s sets are known for their ritualistic and immersive nature. Moving beyond rigid genre boundaries, he approaches DJing as a form of storytelling — carefully building tension, emotion, and release to create a shared journey between himself and the dance floor. His sound balances raw energy with deeper, introspective moments, transforming club spaces into environments of collective experience and connection.

His dedication to underground culture has led him to perform at internationally respected institutions and festivals including FOLD in London, SMUT in Greece, Organik Festival in Taiwan, and Rural Festival in Japan. He is also in charge of residencies at WOMB and VENT in Tokyo. These experiences continue to shape a musical perspective informed by diverse communities and underground movements across Asia and Europe.

Instagram: @killian.tokio ↗Instagram: @seemslikeyanny ↗

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