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Aichi Triennale 2025: A Time Between Ashes and Roses, Period:September 13 to November 30, 2025, 79 days, Venues: Aichi Arts Center, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto City

What’s On

Kwon Byungjun

  • Performing Arts
  • Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum

Performances

World Premiere, New Commission
Speak Slowly and It Will Become a Song
Date

Dates TBD

Venue

Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Lawn Square

Tickets

Tickets for performing arts programs are scheduled to go on sale Saturday, July 12, 2025.

Profile

  • Born 1971 in Seoul, Korea. Based in Seoul, Korea.

Kwon Byungjun commenced his career as a singer-songwriter in the 1990s, and became active in many other fields including film soundtracks and music for theater. In the late 2000s, he went to the Netherlands and studied the development of electronic instruments at STEIM, a center of research and production dedicated to music and technology. Upon his return to South Korea, he developed new media performances fusing music, theater, and art, and came to the fore as a pioneer in sound installations utilizing Ambisonic (an immersive 3D audio system). In 2023, he won the Korea Artist Prize for a work using robots.
For Aichi Triennale 2025, Kwon is making a sound installation that will allow visitors to explore a virtual world built of sound that matches the natural environment in the space outside the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, while strolling around the area wearing headphones. The title represents the process by which song naturally emerges from within through the slow articulation of spoken language. In preparation for this work, he researched Seto pottery and folk songs conveying the traces of traditional life. He likewise collected sounds of the local earth, water, fire, vegetation, and sounds of streets and people. He used them to construct a sonic outdoors sculpture in which the virtual world and nature overlap. Through the application of precision GPS and three-dimensional audio technology, the sounds change in correspondence with the movement of the visitor. The work engenders a special experience that makes the boundary between reality and virtuality fluctuate.

Selected solo and group exhibitions
2023–24
Korea Artist Prize 2023, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea)
2022
Solo exhibition, “We Will Have a Serious Night” by Ghost Theater, Hong-Dong Reservoir (Seoul, Korea)
2021
“We Will Have a Serious Night” by Ghost Theater, Namsangol Hanok Village (Seoul, Korea)
2021
Solo exhibition, Neverland Soundland: Kwon Byungjun - Sound Walk, Busan Museum of Art (Korea)
2020
Solo exhibition, Club Golden Flower, Cosmo 40 (Incheon, Korea)
  • “From Cheongju To Kyiv” 2022
  • Photo: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea