Minouk Lim (born in Daejeon, South Korea, 1968) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Minouk graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1994). Her performance, video, and sculptural works actively engage with political and social issues in contemporary Korea, often mining forgotten histories that have been cloaked by a pervasive rhetoric of progress and urban development. Minouk has exhibited widely in both her native Korea and in Europe, including the exhibitions _Minouk Lim: Social Interstices-Between Images and Dispositif_, iGong, Alternative Visual Cultural Factory, Seoul (2012), _Minouk Lim: Liquide Commune_, PKM Gallery, Seoul (2011), and _Horn and Tail_, Gallery Plant, Seoul (2010). Minouk’s first solo exhibition in the United States, _Minouk Lim: Heat of Shadows_, was held at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in 2012. Her recent artist residencies and performance programs include the _IN>TIME_ Performance Festival, Logan Center for the Art, Chicago (2013) and the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2013). Select group exhibitions include _The Shadow of the Future: 7 Video Artists from Korea_, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2013), _Oh, My Complex_, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2012) and Total Museum, Seoul (2014), and _Intense Proximity_, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2012). Minouk’s works have been featured in several biennials, including the Liverpool Biennial (2010) and the Gwangju Biennale (2008 and 2014). Minouk is the recipient of the 1st Media Art Korea Award (2010) and the Hermes Korea Art Prize (2007).
The opening performance of the 10th Gwangju Biennale, a powerful piece by Minouk Lim, took place on a rainy afternoon. A helicopter hovered over Biennale Square, where ambulances and buses converged, carrying high school students, relatives of civilian victims of the Korean War, and members of the May Mothers’ House, who lost children in the…
