Donghwan Kam

Donghwan Kam (b.1985, Busan, South Korea; lives in Seoul) is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, photography, writing, and installation, often incorporating fermentation as both material and methodology. His practice explores the boundaries produced through relationships, the tensions between the entities that constitute them, and the shifting range and intensity of these boundaries over time. To make visible the often invisible structures of interrelation and contamination, he brings human and non-human performers—as well as microbes and the processes of decomposition and fermentation they generate—into his work as metaphorical agents. These elements come together through installation, sculpture, and time-based media to form an organic structure, centering the perception of tension as a fundamental condition of relational existence.

Kam has presented solo exhibitions and projects at Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, BOOST Amsterdam, and Anaesthesia Disco, Milan. He has participated in group exhibitions at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Utrecht, Singapore Biennale, Singapore and Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center, Ramallah, Palestine. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2019–21), Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang,and Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea