Aichi Triennale

Kwon Byungjun started his career as a singer-songwriter in the early 1990s. Kwon’s oeuvre consists not only of six music albums whose genre range from alternative rock to minimal house, but musical operations and performative acts in diverse platforms of movie soundtracks, theater, fashion show, and modern dance. He spent the late 2000s in the Netherlands studying art-science and working as a hardware engineer at STEIM, a research center for new musical instruments in the electronic performing arts. Since returning to Korea in 2011, he has developed and utilized new musical instruments and stage devices to produce dramatic ‘scenes,’ creating and directing new media performances that encompass music, theater, and art. He is a leading player in multi-channel sound installation using Ambisonic technology. He won Korea Artist Prize 2023 for his sense-stimulating performative installation work with robots.

Selected exhibitions

2023–24

Korea Artist Prize 2023, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (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)