Partners in Art is proud to support Kimsooja: Dimensions of a Needle at MOCA.

Leading conceptual artist Kimsooja (b. 1957, Daegu, South Korea) presents site-specific installations across Floors 1 and 3 that illuminate the philosophical and material foundations of her practice. Working across diverse mediums, the exhibition unfolds through the metaphor of the needle​​—an axis, threshold, and point of encounter—through which Kimsooja has long explored handcraft traditions, female labour, nomadism, co-existence, memory, and transformation. Rooted in a philosophy of “non-doing” and “non-making,” her work uncovers rather than imposes. The needle becomes a model of consciousness—piercing yet binding, dividing yet connecting—while stillness emerges as a resistance to the acceleration of contemporary life.

About the artist:

Kimsooja studied in Seoul (1980–84) and Paris (1984–85). Her works have been exhibited in numerous solo shows at renowned international museums, including MoMA PS1 in New York (2001), Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (2006), Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Étienne and Miami Art Museum (both in 2012), Vancouver Art Gallery (2013), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2015), Centre Pompidou-Metz (2015, 2022), MMCA Seoul (2010, 2016), CAC Málaga (2016), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2017), Wanås Konst Sculpture Park in Sweden (2020), Leeum Samsung Art Museum in Seoul (2021), Frederiksberg Museum in Copenhagen (2023), and Bourse de Commerce, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, and Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden (all in 2024). In May 2025, a solo exhibition was organized at Oude Kerk in Amsterdam.

In 2013, Kimsooja represented Korea at the 55th Venice Biennale (Korean Pavilion) and has also participated in the biennials of Istanbul (1997), São Paulo (1998), Sydney (1998), Kassel Documenta (2017), and Gwangju Biennale (1995, 2000, 2012). Her work has been the subject of major site-specific installations, including projects at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Leeum Samsung Art Museum (2021), the Oku-Noto Triennale in Suzu (2021), Metz Cathedral (2022), Desert X AlUla (2024), and Desert X Coachella Valley, California (2025).