Kim, Haeju

Haeju Kim is a Senior Curator and Head of Residencies at Singapore Art Museum. Haeju has experience curating numerous contemporary art exhibitions and performance programs across various disciplines, with an emphasis on the body, time, and memory as key elements. Her work also engages with topics such as ecological perspectives, locality, and its planetary connections. She co-curated Asia Art Biennial 2024 in Taiwan and curated Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024. She was the Artistic Director for Busan Biennale 2022: We, on the Rising Wave, and previously was the Deputy Director at Art Sonje Center 2017-2021. At Art Sonje Center, Haeju curated group exhibition Transposition (2021), Dust, Clay, Stone (2020), The Island of the Colorblind (2019) and solo exhibitions by artists such as Koki Tanaka (2020) Hwayeon Nam (2020), Donghee Koo (2019) and Lee Kit (2019) among others. Other exhibitions curated by Kim include two solo exhibitions by Shitamichi Motoyuki and Manon de Boer at Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark in 2022, as well as Moving/Image, a three-chapter exhibition and performance programme that was presented at Seoul Art Space Mullae (2016), ARKO Art Center (2017) and Seoul Museum of Art (2020). Currently, she is serving as the guest curator for the Roppongi Crossing show at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, which will open in December 2025, and is conducting a research project at the Singapore Art Museum that explores artists’ works by employing archiving as a method.