Eunju Hong

Ausbildung
2019-2023 Akademie der Bildende Künste München, Klasse Rosefeldt, München, Deutschland
(Diplom, Meisterschülerin)
2021-2022 Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Deutschland (Stipendium für ein einjähriges
Studienprogramm)
2014-2015 Beaux-arts de Paris, Paris, Frankreich (Austauschstudium)
2013-2017 Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, SüdKorea (BA Fine Arts)

Einzelausstellung

2025 she seemed devastated when I was weeping with Joy : A story that ends from the beginning, Apartment der Kunst, München

2024 Suture: Rewired, Arcade Seoul, Seoul, SüdKorea
2024 Somnium, Akademiegalerie, München, Deutschland (Kooperation mit Sammlung Goetz)
2023 Joy of the Worm, Adbk München, Deutschland
2022 I want to mix my ashes with yours, Gallery175, Seoul, SüdKorea

Gruppenausstellung
2025 Interior, City, Day, Maximiliansforum, München, Deutschland
2025 Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, Deutschland
2024 The 3rd Two, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, Deutschland
2024 TAV S2 Residency Ausstellung, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2024 ZUHÖREN, Schafhof – Europäisches Kunstforum Oberbayern, Freising, Deutschland
2023 Dialog der Künste, HFF München, München, Deutschland
2023 Red like the Sea, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Deutschland
2023 Videodox, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, Deutschland
2023 Office for unsolved Issues, Zurich, München, Deutschland
2023 Ketterer Kunst Masterclass, Köln/München, Deutschland
2023 Tacker 2023, Galerie der Künstler*innen, München, Deutschland
2023 Sterling Darling, Kunstarkaden, München, Deutschland
2022 The Postmodern Child, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Busan, SüdKorea
2022 POST-IT!, Same Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2022 LASSITUDE, Goethe Institut Paris, Paris, Frankreich
2021 Knick-Knack Paddler, Guangzhou, China
2021 Superbooks, Haus der Kunst, München, Deutschland
2021 $ S=-k_B sum_ip_i ln(p_i) $ Filmscreening Hi!A Festival Bayern
2021 Body without Organs, Sugar Mountain, München, Deutschland
2021 Sugar Pie Honey Punch, Boxwerk, München, Deutschland
2020 In the dark times will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark
times. Blitzclub, München, Deutschland
2019 PERFORM 2019, Ilmin Museum of Arts, Seoul, SüdKorea
2019 PERFORM 2019, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, SüdKorea
2018 RERERERE Collection, Keep-In-Touch, Seoul, SüdKorea
2016 YASISI, Space IMDAE, Seoul, SüdKorea
2016 No One Has Our, KNUA, Seoul, SüdKorea
2015 Panic Room, ENSBA, Paris, Frankreich
2015 In the doorway, MICA, Maryland, USA
2015 Creative Living, B104, Seoul, SüdKorea

Preis / Stipendium
2025 Förderung für junge Künstler, Arts Council Korea
2025 Projektförderung-Verbindungslinien BBK Bayern
2024 Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 2024 - Bildende Kunst
2024 Medienkunstpreis der Kunststiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz
2024 Projektförderung, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture
2023 Projektförderung-Verbindungslinien BBK Bayern
2023 Nominierung Ketterer Kunst Masterclass
2022 Stipendium für Internationale Studierende
2022 Kunst und neue Wege Stipendium Bayern innovativ
2020-2022 DAAD Stipendium für Master of Arts
2021-2022 Stipendium für das Studium an der HfG Karlsruhe

Residency
2024 Otte1 Künstlerhaus, Eckernförde, Deutschland (gefördert vom Ministry of Education, Science
and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein)
2024 Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan (gefördert vom Goethe Institut)
2023 Kair Residency, Košice, Slowakei (gefördert vom Slowakischen Kunstrat)

Collection
Sammlung Goetz, Deutschland

Screening/Artist talk
2025 Yellow Carpet, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München, Deutschland
2023 High Fever, Šopa Gallery, Košice, Slowakei
2023 Annagreen, TUKE Faculty of Art, Košice, Slowakei
2023 Dialog der Künste, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich, Germany
2023 Schöne Welt, wo bist du?, LICHTSPIEL Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

Veröffentlichungen/ Presse
2024 Süddeutsche Zeitung : Keplers Mondvisionen als Videoinstallation
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/mu... Design Magazine, Seoul, SüdKorea
Montly Design Magazine, Seoul, SüdKorea
2021 Projekt Notfallgepäck, München, Deutschland
2020 Heavy Magazine v.01, Seoul, SüdKorea
2017 90apt, Seoul, South Korea

Last year, as part of the residency program (in collaboration with Taipei Artist Village, the Munich Department of Arts and Culture, and Goethe-Institut Taipei), Eunju Hong spent three months at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. The exhibition at Apartment der Kunst is based on the artist’s time there. It was during this stay that she first encountered the world of traditional East Asian theatre and puppetry.

This experience became the starting point for a long-term project, which is being presented to the public for the first time in this exhibition. In traditional East Asian theatre, mysterious and non-human beings frequently appear—monsters, ghosts, and spiritual apparitions. These figures symbolically embody human joy, suffering, and conflict. Puppet and mask theatre, in particular, serve as a portal through which the human body transforms into something “other” and enters into different realms.

In her work, the artist explores the complex relationships between performer and puppet, character and actor, manipulator and object. Operating from a meta-level, she reflects—through the act of animating and speaking with and through the puppet—on the fragility of the human body, on the emotional traces that linger within the act of performance, and on the inherent power and violence of these gestures. At the same time, she turns her gaze to the form—or formlessness—of theatre itself.

The earliest form of the stage was a courtyard. Seats were carved into stone, and the courtyard became a theatre where people witnessed the events of tragedy. It was an act of viewing and a ritual event at the same time. The ancient Greeks called this space theatron, meaning “place of seeing.” Over time, this became the word “theatre.” The exhibition opening is accompanied by the performance.


Eunju Hong (b. 1993, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Germany and South Korea. She explores the intersection of technological advancements with individual stories and emotion. Based on research into the impact of technology in history, she creates video, performance and installation that weaves surreal, nonlinear narratives. Her work investigates the physical, sensory, and emotional adaptation of the body to the new materiality, considering technology as a medium that can reflect fears, impulses, desires and traumas. She studied at Korea National University of Arts, Beaux-Arts de Paris and HfG Karlsruhe. In 2023, she graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München in Julian Rosefeldt’s class as a Meisterschülerin. She was a DAAD scholarship holder from 2020 to 2022, and in 2024, she received the Medienkunstpreis der Stiftung Ingvild und Stephan Goetz and the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis. Her first solo exhibition was held in Seoul in 2022, and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and artist residencies, including at the Goethe-Institut Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Kunstarkaden Munich, and Taipei Artist Village. In 2024, she held two solo exhibitions, one in Munich and another in Seoul.