Seeing Things the Way We See the Moon
September 11, 2025–January 4, 2026
Berlin 10969
Germany
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 12–7pm
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is pleased to present Jiyoung Yoon: Seeing Things the Way We See the Moon at daadgalerie, Berlin. The first solo exhibition in Europe by Korean artist Jiyoung Yoon opens on September 10 at 6pm, as part of Berlin Art Week, which runs from September 10 to 14, 2025.
In her multi-layered work, which moves between sculpture, installation, text and video, Yoon explores the boundaries of perception, memory and visibility. Her works revolve around the question of how (bodily) experiences—both personal and collective—can be translated into spatial and media forms and material languages. Her artistic vocabulary often moves on the threshold between objecthood and absence, between intimacy and social observation.
Many of her sculptural works are created from materials with bodily connotations such as wax or silicone, which Yoon transforms into poetic and fragile constellations. The resulting scenarios are often based on narratives around beliefs, behaviors, and verbal expressions that stem from a particular culture, mythology or religion. In the video works, the analysis of materials and form is combined with language and sound, questioning the relationship between body and environment, inner and outer reality.
Some of the works shown in Berlin were first presented at the MMCA Seoul in 2024 as part of the shortlist exhibition for the Korean Art Prize. In the exhibition Seeing Things the Way We See the Moon at the daadgalerie, this work is now presented in an expanded context, together with earlier works that make visible her ongoing engagement with body, language and memory.
About the artist
Jiyoung Yoon (b. 1984 in South Korea) lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. She studied fine arts in Seoul and Chicago. Her works have been shown at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul; Art Sonje Center, Seoul; and the Seoul Museum of Art, among others. In 2023/24 she was a fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.
Curated by Melanie Roumiguière
Produced by Malte Roloff
The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is funded by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the Berlin Senate.
Production sponsored by Korea Artist Prize Promotion Fund, from SBS Foundation and National Museum of Mondern and Contemporary Art, Korea.
