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Ji Young Kim

Jeweller  /  MunichSchmuckFair2025
Published: 25.02.2025

Bio

I do not easily trust completed forms.
What appears closed often feels provisional to me.
Some objects already carry the face of jewelry.
I ask how that face is constructed.
My work does not expand the surface.
It designs tension within.
Structures that may open,
be withdrawn,
and return.
An object may become an object again.
But once it has passed through operation,
it does not remain the same.
Form is an outcome.
I work with conditions.

Statement

A seed was buried.

The soil promised nothing.

Leaves rose and grew.
People wondered
what kind of flower would appear.

No flower came.

Seasons turned.
The stem withered.
Time passed.

Then, once again,
leaves emerged.

A passing wind asked,

“What kind of flower are you?”

After a long while,
the leaves replied,

“I am not a flowering plant.”

The wind paused.

Somewhere,
the scent of earth rose.

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Events      View / hide events

2026:
Exhibition  05 Mar 2026 - 07 Mar 2026  ALL IN.
2025:
Award giving  01 Oct 2025 - 01 Oct 2025  Romanian Jewelry Week 6.0 Award Winners 2025.
Exhibition  22 May 2025 - 24 Jun 2025  Chaos & Control in Madrid.
Award giving  12 Mar 2025 - 12 Mar 2025  Amberif Design Award Winners 2025.
Exhibition  25 Feb 2025 - 02 Mar 2025  Temporary Dwelling: Memories and Emotions in Transit.
2024:
Exhibition  27 Nov 2024 - 12 Dec 2024  Arachne Eye.
Exhibition  03 Oct 2024 - 10 Oct 2024  Persistence of Desire.
Exhibition  19 Sep 2024 - 03 Dec 2024  Enjoia't Awards 2024. Selected Artworks and Sales.
Exhibition  07 Sep 2024 - 31 Oct 2024  AGCpunto24. Contemporary Stories in Tarragona.
Exhibition  06 Jul 2024 - 13 Jul 2024  AGCpunto24. Contemporary Stories.
2022:
Exhibition  16 Nov 2022 - 21 Nov 2022  Back of the Moon by Ji Young Kim.
Exhibition  30 Oct 2022 - 30 Dec 2022  20th Silver Triennial International.
Exhibition  23 Sep 2022 - 23 Oct 2022  Enjoia't Awards 2022 Sales.
2021:
Exhibition  24 Nov 2021 - 30 Nov 2021  Ji Young Kim: Back of the Moon.
Award giving  29 May 2021 - 29 May 2021  Legnica International Jewellery Competition 2021 Winners.
2020:
Exhibition  17 Dec 2020 - 09 Jan 2021  Absolutely Abstract.
Exhibition  04 Nov 2020 - 10 Nov 2020  Back of the Moon by Ji Young Kim in Seoul.
Exhibition  08 Aug 2020 - 11 Aug 2020  Chinese Mythology.
2019:
Exhibition  18 Dec 2019 - 24 Dec 2019  Back of the Moon by Ji Young Kim in KCDF.
Exhibition  27 Oct 2019 - 09 Jan 2020  Silver Triennial, 19th International Competition Exhibition.
Exhibition  18 Oct 2019 - 28 Oct 2019  Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition 2019.
Exhibition  20 Sep 2019 - 20 Oct 2019  Selected Artists at Art Jewelry Night Budapest 2019.
Award giving  15 Mar 2019 - 15 Mar 2019  Amber Trip Award 2019 Winners.
Exhibition  19 Feb 2019 - 24 Feb 2019  Artistar Jewels in Milan.
Award giving  09 Feb 2019 - 09 Feb 2019  Amberif Design Award 2019 Winners.
2018:
Exhibition  30 Nov 2018 - 08 Nov 2018  Schoonhoven Silver Award 2018 exhibition.
 Nederlands Zilvermuseum, Schoonhoven, Nederlands.
Exhibition  21 Nov 2018 - 26 Nov 2018  Back of the moon- First solo Kim Jj Young.
 Korea Craft & Design Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Rep of Korea.
 
Exhibition  21 Nov 2018 - 26 Nov 2018  Back of the moon by Ji Young Kim.
Award  25 Aug 2018 - 07 Oct 2018  Cominelli Foundation Award 2018.
Award  25 Aug 2018 - 07 Oct 2018  Cominelli Foundation Award 2018.
Meeting  01 May 2018 - 10 Jun 2018  Legnica International Jewellery Festival Silver 2018.
Award  21 Mar 2018 - 24 Mar 2018  Amberif Design Award 2018.
2017:
Meeting  27 Apr 2017 - 11 Jun 2017  Legnica International Jewellery Festival Silver 2017.
2016:
Exhibition  08 May 2016 - 16 May 2016  My Home.
Meeting  26 Apr 2016 - 05 Jun 2016  Legnica International Jewellery Festival Silver 2016.
Award giving  13 Feb 2016 - 13 Feb 2016  Amberif Design Award 2016 Winners.

Publications      View / hide publications

Article:  The Contemporary Jewel as never seen before. Engenia GadaletaArtistar Jewels:  Milan,  2017
Book:  The Grate Dictionary of Marriage. JungJuHeeSeoul,  2017
Interview:  Breaking Preconception,Baltic Jewellery News31,. Vilnius,  2016