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Kim Yun Shin working in her studio in 2020. Photos: courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; and Kukje Gallery, Seoul and Busan


KIM YUN SHIN by Olivia Sand


Similarly to Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) and Etel Adnan (1925-1921), Kim Yun Shin (b 1935, North Korea) is gaining international recognition later in life, following a career that spans over 70 years. A pioneer in many ways, not only in her native Korea but also abroad, the artist has relentlessly pursued excellence in her practice, regardless of the political difficulties she faced at home, or in Argentina where she moved in 1984. Taking advantage of local materials, Kim Yun Shin has developed a practice addressing sculpture, painting, collage, and lithography. Her breakthrough came primarily through her sculptures in wood and stone, and Kim Yun Shin is now determined to pursue her endeavour to continue creating unique works. In the interview below, she looks back on her time in Seoul, Paris, and Buenos Aires, the three cities that have shaped her practice as well as her development as an artist.


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Kim Yun Shin at work in her studio


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MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON Te Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston has installed a significant new presentation for its Arts of Korea Gallery. Te new installation focuses on the dynamic, of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), through objects from that era, as well as interpretations by three contemporary artists. Te installation features objects from the growing MFAH collections of Korean art, along with prestigious loans from the National Museum of Korea. Established in 2007, the museum’s Arts of Korea Gallery is the first gallery dedicated to Korean art in the American South. Te museum’s holdings and displays of Korean art have expanded significantly through important gifts, major acquisitions and prestigious loans from the National Museum of Korea. Te artworks shown span several centuries of artistic production from Korea, and include scholars’ accessories, ritual ceramics, ink paintings, and decorative works from everyday life, as well as works by three contemporary artists, Geejo Lee, Ran Hwang and Lee Ufan.


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THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO Te Art Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Kingdom of Tailand, announced that it has initiated the return of an object – a fragment of a pilaster with Krishna lifting Mount Govardhana – to its place of origin in Tailand. Te


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museum is committed to ongoing provenance research of our collection, and after conducting new research on this object, the museum proactively sought out the Tai government to initiate the process to return it. Te object is a 12th-century


fragment of a pilaster, which is a rectangular architectural column in the side of a door frame. Te pilaster was previously attributed to Cambodia, and new research identified that it originated at the Phanom Rung temple in northeast Tailand, a temple that the museum had previously returned an object to in the 1980s. With the confirmation of the pilaster’s origins, the museum reached out to the government of Tailand to share these new findings; this collaboration has led to the recent return. Te Phanom Rung temple is the


place of origin of another object, known as the Vishnu lintel, which was previously in the museum’s collection and that was returned to Tailand in 1988. Since that time, the lintel has been restored to the structure; it is the Art Institute’s hope that the pilaster fragment is able to be restored to the same temple and these objects can be reunited.


YAYOI KUSAMA IN LONDON Yayoi Kusama’s new sculpture Infinite Accumulation (2024) has been unveiled at London’s Liverpool Street rail station, marking the first permanent public installation in the


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UK by the 95-year-old Japanese artist. Around 10 metres tall and 98 metres long, Infinite Accumulation is her largest public sculpture to date. It features gleaming arches adorned with silver mirror balls, reminiscent of her other famous installation, Narcissus Garden (1996). Yayoi Kusama stated that the piece represents the multicultural dynamism of London: ‘Te spheres symbolise unique personalities while the supporting curvilinear lines allow us to imagine an underpinning social structure’. Te sculpture was commissioned in 2017 by the Crossrail Art Foundation for its public art programme. Also currently on show in London is the artist’s tallest bronze pumpkin sculpture to date, standing over six metres tall, installed in Kensington Gardens from 9 July to 3 November.


THE MET FACADE COMMISSION SERIES, NEW YORK Te Metropolitan Museum of Art and Genesis announced in July a five-year partnership to sponsor the annual contemporary art commission series for the museum’s Fifth Avenue facade niches. Each year, Te Met invites an artist to create new works of art, establishing a dialogue between the artist’s practice, Te Met collection, the physical museum, and Te Met’s audiences. Te series will now be called the Genesis Facade Commission, and this year, it will feature new works by Lee Bul from 12 September to 27 May, 2025.


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Lee Bul (b 1964, Yeongju, based in Seoul) has created four new sculptures that combine figurative and abstract elements. Long Tail Halo is the artist’s first major project in the US in more than 20 years and the fifth in the series of contemporary commissions for Te Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches.


SEATTLE ART MUSEUM Te Board of Trustees at the Seattle Art Museum announced that Scott Stulen has been chosen as the museum’s new Illsley Ball Nordstrom Director and CEO. Stulen began his new role at the end of August. His previous post was as the CEO and President of the Philbrook Museum of art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


LOUVRE ABU DHABI Te jury and shortlisted artists have been announced for the fourth edition of the annual exhibition and competition, Art Here 2024 and the Richard Mille Art Prize, which continues to support the region’s dynamic art scene. Tis year, Louvre Abu Dhabi and guest curator Simon Njami invited artists to respond to the theme Awakenings. Te shortlisted artists are tasked with translating the concept of openness into visual forms. Artists on show include Férielle Doulain Zouari, Lamya Gargash, Moataz Nasr, Sarah Amehairi, and Nicène Kossentini. Works are on show from


20 September to 15 December.


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