Gyeonggi Ceramics Biennale 2026

Myung-Joo Kim’s Double Room brings elements of the artist’s studio into the Biennale exhibition space. Finished works are shown alongside sculptures in progress, paintings, and a sofa brought from her studio, revealing the process and time involved in the making of her work.

Kim has long explored human anxiety and vulnerability, as well as the boundary between the conscious and unconscious, through clay. She transfers the movements and sensations of her hands into the material, while also embracing the distortions and changes in color that emerge through the heat of the kiln as part of the work. Look closely at the ceramic head placed on the sofa and the elongated standing figure with its reddish surface. The colors and traces left by the flowing glaze reveal the transformations produced by clay and fire.

A carpet runs through the space, while paintings on the wall connect with ceramic sculptures across the floor, blurring the boundary between painting and sculpture. The unfamiliar figures, seeming human yet somehow other, create a scene in which the familiar and the strange overlap.

Rather than presenting a single fixed narrative, Kim leaves the work open for viewers to bring their own memories and experiences, allowing each person to form a story of their own.