Sensory overload instead of tranquillity

The South Korean artist Eunjeong Kim is coming to Schwalenberg as a new scholarship holder. Her works create new worlds at the interface of analogue painting and digital AR and VR technology.

From the first of May 2025, a new scholarship holder from the Landesverband Lippe will move into the Künstlerhaus in Schwalenberg for six months and work towards her final exhibition at the Robert Koepke Haus in October.

The jury, consisting of Jörg Düning-Gast, head of the Lippe Regional Association, Jochen Brunsiek, head of the Lippe Regional Association’s cultural agency, Dr Mayarí Granados, the art officer/art historian at the cultural agency who supervises the scholarship, art historian Vera Scheef (Lippe Regional Association’s cultural agency), Schieder-Schwalenberg’s mayor Jörg Bierwirth, Prof. Andreas Beaugrand (Kunstverein Oerlinghausen), André Köller (Phoenix Contact company), Prof. Ernst Thevis (artist) and Axel Plöger (artist), chose the South Korean artist Eunjeong Kim, who lives in Duisburg, from over fifty applications from Germany and abroad this year.

Eunjeong Kim impressed the jury with her fascinating combination of analogue painting and digital art such as VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality). In her works, she explores spatial perception and the immersiveness of pictorial spaces. She questions the boundaries between digital and analogue media and transfers digital effects into the digital world.