Kim Younger-eun, winner of the Korean Artist Prize 2025 / Courtesy of Nationwide Museum of Modern and Trendy Artwork
The Nationwide Museum of Modern and Trendy Artwork (MMCA) has awarded the Korean Artist Prize 2025 to Kim Younger-eun, whose work facilities on sound and listening.
Kim treats sound and listening as phenomena formed by social, political and historic forces. She meticulously data sounds gathered throughout completely different locations and instances, revealing neglected elements of on a regular basis life from new views, in keeping with MMCA on Thursday.
Her latest works, “Listening Visitors” and “Go Again To Your,” each produced final yr, study how the migratory and translational situations of diaspora create communal types of existence that stretch past particular person expertise.
The museum praised Kim for her capacity to seize the social and political contexts embedded in sound, producing highly effective paintings that connects themes like diaspora to non-public expertise.
Since 2012, the nationwide artwork museum has co-sponsored the annual prize with the SBS Tradition Basis to acknowledge excellent artists with eager perception into society and artwork.
Every finalist receives 50 million gained ($34,000) to help their paintings, with the ultimate winner receiving a further 10 million gained.
An MMCA exhibition that includes works by all 4 finalists runs by Feb. 1 on the museum’s Seoul department.
