Kim Jae-min, a senior designer at Korea Minting and Safety Printing Corp. (KOMSCO), is presenting a solo exhibition that highlights the fragile steadiness between artistry and safety in foreign money design.
Titled “Portraits of Objects: Tales of Silent Beings,” the exhibition runs from Nov. 4 to 23 on the Forex Museum of Korea in Daejeon, operated by KOMSCO.
This marks Kim’s first solo exhibition after greater than 22 years on the state-run KOMSCO — Korea’s sole producer of banknotes and cash — the place he has mastered the artwork of mixing aesthetic expression with superior anti-counterfeiting applied sciences.
“This exhibition originated from my work exploring the shapes, supplies and security measures of cash,” Kim, KOMSCO design mission supervisor, stated in an interview with The Korea Instances.
He added, “I needed to point out how artwork and technical precision can exist collectively in one thing we use every single day however not often discover,” briefly referencing his intensive public and commemorative initiatives, together with the cash designed for the 2025 Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) Financial Leaders’ Assembly, held in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 1.
“This exhibition is deeply private to me, because it encapsulates my journey as a foreign money designer — a steady dialogue between concealment and revelation,” he stated, explaining that revelation highlights the inventive facets whereas concealment applies to anti-counterfeiting options.
The poster for Kim Jae-min’s solo exhibition, “Portraits of Objects: Tales of Silent Beings” / Courtesy of Kim Jae-min
The whole exhibition house is conceived as what Kim describes as “a single large-scale set up,” integrating visible media — together with work, graphic design and video — with on a regular basis supplies reminiscent of plastic, stone and light-weight.
“The exhibition reimagines odd objects across the query, ‘What needs to be revealed, and what needs to be hid?’” Kim stated.
He went on to say that this interactive strategy displays how foreign money capabilities each as a social software and a tangible object that engages the senses.
“Guests do extra than simply take a look at the works,” he added. “They’re invited to suppose in three dimensions, see on a regular basis gadgets in new methods, and refresh their notion whereas exploring the connections between sensation, expertise and humanity.”
Kim has beforehand participated in group exhibitions, together with the Korean Typography Society’s “Untouchable” in 2021 and the Jeonju Worldwide Movie Pageant’s “100 Movies 100 Posters” in 2023.
His works have additionally been acknowledged on the worldwide stage, together with the Gwangju Biennale in 2021, the Korea Institute of Design Promotion in 2022, the Peruvian Design Biennale in 2022, and the Oesol Worldwide Typography Awards in 2023.
Requested about his future objectives, Kim stated, “I intention to reinterpret objects by way of three-dimensional installations, experimenting with the experiences I’ve gathered as a foreign money designer in a type that’s uniquely my very own.”
