Heryun Kim – Invited Resident Artist at the State Silk Museum

From July 1 to 30, 2025, Heryun Kim is an artist who lives and works between Korea and Germany. She is in Tbilisi for an invited residency at the State Silk Museum. During this period, she is developing a new site-specific exhibition project titled Steppe Route: From Korea to Georgia. The exhibition engages both real and imagined ancient trade routes, exploring themes of movement, cultural intersection, universal perception, and the synthesis of local traditions. The project presents an artistic exploration of the collection, textiles, ornament, patterns, costume, and ancient civilisation scripts, in dialogue with the architectural space of the museum.

Heryun Kim (b. 1964, Changwon, South Korea) is a visual artist whose layered practice includes drawing, ink painting, textile objects, and installation. Her work investigates cultural memory, nature, and identities embedded in historical and geographical landscapes. She gained wide recognition for her Sound of Silence series—meditative works inspired by walks in the forests of Berlin, combining sensory realism with abstract cartography.

Kim studied German Language & Literature and Art Theory at Seoul National University and later pursued painting in Berlin. In 1998, she earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy and has since actively participated in international exhibitions.

Her previous solo shows include Letters Carved on Painting (Soma Museum, Seoul, 2011) and Sound of Silence – German Forest (Kunsthalle Dresden, 2019). Her works are held in major collections such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Korea) and the Louis Vuitton Foundation (France).