Yong Sun Gullach, born 1967, Seoul, Korea
Chronological list of works here

Performances, exhibitions and screenings

 “Afterlife of a mermaid” (Artfilm)

Slagtryk’s Literature festival, Copenhagen 12th. of October 2013

“A home is a home is a home” (performance)

Collective performance with Public Society, Performance Køkkenet, Nørrebro 6th of April 2018

“Amager Pedestrians” (collective exhibition)

Collective exhibition by Performance Køkkenet, Eks-rummet, Amager 18th – 27th of May 2018

“Be mindful to the Pedestrians” (performance)

Performance at  Eks-rummet, Amager 26th of May 2018

“Besættelse” (performative reading)

Vernissage for EU Anti-Trafficking Day and HopeNow 10th Anniversary, 18th of October 2017
Feministisk Varieté, Teater Republiques Reaktor scene, 29th of September 2017
Part of “Country of Loss”, Hovedbiblioteket, Copenhagen 3rd of March, 2017
Part of Hvid[]Archive, 2017
Friktion Magazine “Opsamling 2015-16” launch, Huset Copenhagen, 25th of November, 2016
Dansk Sociologiforening, Jazzhouse Copenhagen, 26th of October, 2016 – hear sound file here

“Cocoon”

“International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes” curated by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Verdenskulturcentret 2017

“Continuous Helix”

Calling it Home, Stateless Mind 5, Jambatan, curated by Amir Zainorin, Valby 2023

“Dreaming a space/An Oneironaut is dreaming a space” (installation + performance)

Galleri Benmel, Skulpturnexø.dk, curated by Mogens Vibe, Bornholm 6th. – 27th. of September 2014
Artfestival, Artspace  PB47, Copenhagen 11th. – 15th. of June 2014

“Experiencing minority fetichism”

Part of collaborative performance, The Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes, Verdenskulturcentret, Copenhagen 2nd. of October 2018

“Hopscotch” (Artfilm)

Hotel Ibsen Art Salon, Hotel Ibsen, Copenhagen 21st. of November 2013
Slagtryk’s Literature festival, Copenhagen 12th. of October 2013

“Hwarang – Imprints of a Poet Warrior” (collective exhibition)

Piece exhibited at “Gotta Serve Somebody” co-created exhibition with Lise Haurum, Laila Svensgaard, Åse Eg, Tanja Nelleman Poulsen, Anne Dyhr, Rikke Hansen at www.kh7artspace.dk, Århus June 22nd – July 3rd 2017

“Jeg opstiller en far/line up of a father” (performance)

collaborative performances with Fedaa Sultan – part of “Opbrud” curated by Shadi Angeline Bazehgi, X-kirken 11-12th of September 2021

“Liquid border of confinement” (performance)

Performance at The Space between, Jambatan, Laterna Magica Museum for Visual Art, Copenhagen Denmark 15th – 16th of October 2021

“Memories from a boarder” (performance)

collaborative performances with Rahman Hak-Hagir, Molly Nyland and Amir Zainorin – part of  “International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes” curated by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Kulturnatten, Verdenskulturcentret 13nd of October 2017

“Mistress of un-representation” (performative reading)

The Motherland, Ed. Laura Wachs, Korea 2018
Marronage #2, Juni 2017
Part of “Country of Loss”, curated by Marronage, Hovedbiblioteket, Copenhagen 3rd of March, 2017

“Myieok Guk” (installation)

installation at “Foodways”, Sjón 2018 Film Festival, Verdenskulturcentret 9th – 10th of March  2018

“Once” (Artfilm)

Strange to Say, (un)told pages, april 2020
Koroot, Seoul, Korea, 17th. of April 2014
Slagtryks Litteraturfestival, Copenhagen 12th. of October 2013
Gallopperiet, Copenhagen 31st. of August 2013
Desart – Screening at “Levende billeder på væggen”, Nørrebro, Copenhagen 21st. of June 2013

”Re-enacting the Transnational Adoptee” (performance)

“The Union”, Bolsjefabrikken, Copenhagen 15th of June 2019
“Living Archives”, curated by Temi Odumoso, Malmø Kunstmuesum, Malmø Sweden 11th-13th of April 2018
Part of “Decolonial Daughters: How coloniality destroys family – On art, migration, decolonization and empowerment” curated by Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, Artspace “La Casa de Barro”, Amsterdam 17th-19th of February, 2017
Social Exclusion, Postcolonial Perspectives and Discrimination, center for Social Exclusion and Learning SEAL bi-annual seminar, University of Ålborg, Copenhagen 6th of October 2016
“Still (the) Barbarians”, EVA International, 37th Biennial, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Limerick City, Irland 14th. – 16th. of April and 12th of July, 2016
Flabfestival, Verdenskulturcentret, Copenhagen 20th. of September 2015
Novam Artem Vision of Dome, Copenhagen 30th. of July, 2015
Miami Performance International Festival, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami, USA 21st. of June 2015
Hysteria Festival, SOMA Gallery, Berlin 11th. of April 2015
Westgermany Artspace, Berlin 10th of April 2015

“Searching with a homeless Body” (performance)

Jambatan, Stateless Minds Bodies of knowledge, satellite event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022

”Som om” (Artfilm)

Miami Performance International Festival, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami, USA 21st of June 2014

“The Star Child” (installation)

“Treshold(s), curated by Temi Odumoso, Camp 2019, Copenhagen 4th of October to 14th of December 2019

“The Star Child” (performance)

3D/360 Installation based in live performance, “Treshold(s), curated by Temi Odumoso, Camp 2019, Copenhagen 4th of October 2019
Performance Art Festival Transistors meetings, Warehouse 9, Copenhagen 6th of October 2018
curated by Hvid[mə] Archive at Gallery |Meter|, Copenhagen 10th of June 2017

“White face” (performance)

The Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes, Verdenskulturcentret, Copenhagen 2nd. of October 2018

Collaborations

“This is not your space- this is your space” (performance)

collaborative performances with Rahman Hak-Hagir, Molly Nyland and Amir Zainorin, Kulturnatten, Verdenskulturcentret – part of  “International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes” curated by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, 13nd of October 2017. 

“Skabning” (Art Book)

collaborative production by “Gotta Serve” (Åse Eg Jørgensen, Anne Dyhr, Laila Svensgaard, Tanja Nellemann Kruse, Yong Sun Gullach)

Århus Kunsthal, 2019
Bladr, 2019

“Væsen” (Being)

Collaborative exhibition with Mikkel Langer as Afdeling M
Pop Up Art, Copenhagen, August 2023
Rum46, Århus, November 2024

Art talks and readings

2024: Art Talk, Rum46, 2nd of November
2022 Panel Talk, HAUT & UrbanAPA: Perspectives on Complex Complicities – – towards antiracist feminist stages Copenhagen, Denmark 15th November
2021 Art talk, Crossing Boarders: Migration and the Visual Arts in Denmark, 1800-2021, Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark 24th of September
2019 Art talk, IPAF19, Warehouse9, Copenhagen Denmark 13th of April
2018 Panel talk, “Work, work, work”, curated by Gallery |meter|, Nørrebro, 8th of December 
2018 Panel talk ,”International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes”, 2nd of October, Nørrebro, Denmark 
2018 Panel talk, Shaking the habitual: final seminar, curated by Gallery |meter|, Warehouse 9, Vesterbro, 16th of June 
2018 Panel talk, “Reproduktion, slægtsskabelse og Nekropatriarkat” at “Shaking the Habitual”, Galleri |Meter|, Nørrebro, 9th of June 
2018 “Stjæler”, Mothertongue|Fathertongue, Den sorte Firkant, Nørrebro 6th of June 
2018 Presentation at Living Archive, curated by Temi Odumoso, Malmø Kunstmuseum 11th – 13th of April 
2018 Presentation at “Archives that matters”, Statens Kunstskole 6th of February 
2017 Art talk at Gallery |Meter|, Copenhagen 10th of June 
2017 Art talk together with Miriam Firesewra Berhane Haile moderated by Temitope Odumosu at SMK Fridays, Copenhagen 5th of May
2018-2017 Voice material – part of the sound mosaic at “Ufortalte Historier”, Statens Museum for Kunst 18th of May 2017 – January 2018 curated by Living Archives
2016 Art talk curated by Temitope Odumosu Social Exclusion, Postcolonial Perspectives and Discrimination, center for Social Exclusion and Learning SEAL bi-annual seminar, University of Ålborg, Copenhagen 6th of October 
2016 Art talk moderated by Koyo Kouoh at EVA International closing symposium for Ireland Biennial “Still (the) Barbarians, Belltable Arts Center, Limerick City, Ireland 13th of July
2015 Poetry Performance, Vis a Vis Art Collective – VAVAC “Mund til Mund no. 1”, Verdenskulturcentret, Copenhagen 14th. of December 
2015 Art talk and reading, Dansk Haikuforening, Dansk Forfatterforening, Copenhagen 1st. of November 
2015 Reading, Sakura Festival – curated by Mona Larsen, Langelinie, Copenhagen 26th. of April 
2015 Improvisation with Palle Mikkelborg, Helen Davies and Kenneth Krabat, Metronomen, Frederiksberg 12th. of March 
2014 Reading, Poesiens Hus, Copenhagen 28th. of November

Biennals and festivals

2023 Jambatan, Valby 2023
2022 Jambatan, satellite event at the 59th La Biennale di Venezia 2022
2022 documenta fifteen, Kassel/Wolfburg, Germany
2021 Jambatan, Lanterna Magica, Denmark
2021 Opbrud, X-kirken, Denmark
2019 IPAF19, Warehouse9, Denmark 
2018 Performance Art Festival Transistors meetings, Warehouse 9, Denmark 
2018 International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes”, curated by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Denmark 
2018 Litbrá Festival,  Fareo Island 
2018 Living Archive, Malmø Kunstmuseum, Sweden 
2017 International Performance Art Festival Body Landscapes, curated by David Sebastian Lopez Restrepo, Denmark – read IScene’s review (in Danish)
2016 ‘“Still (the) Barbarians”, EVA International, 37th Biennial, curated by Koyo Kouoh, Limerick City, Irland 
2015 Literature Festival “TAL”, Copenhagen Denmark
2015 Flabfestival, Copenhagen Denmark
2015 Novam Artem Festival, Vision of Dome, Copenhagen Denmark
2015 Hysteria Festival, SOMA Gallery, Berlin Germany 
2014 Artfestival, Artspace  PB47, Copenhagen Denmark
2014 “Miami Performance International Festival”, curated by Charo Oquet, Miami USA 
2013 Slagtryk’s Literature festival, Copenhagen

Curator

2015 Literature Festival “TAL”, Copenhagen 13th. – 15th. of November 
2015 ”Estaciones Nómadas” contemporary painter Rafael Peréz Conception, Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo, Dominican  Republic 23th. of Januar- 30th. of March

Publications

  • Sorgen fortæller ikke alt, essay, I Do Art
  • Hvidt Flet, Paper braid collage, series of 5 units, 2022
  • To Adopt a Chronotype, Bastard Blog, 2022
  • Beyond (Criticism and Praise), Art Video for Torben Westergaard’s The Gori Project 2020
  • Skabning, Statens Værksteder for Kunst, Gotta Serve 2019
  • White Facing, Krop i system, Aktivistkollektivet BØVL 2019
  • Jeg stjæler – LAND, Slagtryk, 2019
  • F L A K 2, Hypersensitive Productions and Skrat Records, 2019
  • “Den performative modstand– at undslippe “andetheden””, Peripeti 2018
  • “Mistress of un-representation”, Marronage #2, Juni 2017 and “The Motherland” ed. Laura Wachs, 2018
  • “Besættelse”, Friktion – magasinet for køn, krop & kultur,  “Opsamling 2015-16”, 2016, part of Hvid[]Archive, 2017
  • ”Yonsai”, Hysteria no. 5: ”Nonsense”, January 2015
  • ”Poesi i Tranquebar, Antology 2014”, Copenhagen Storytellers, August 2014
  • F L A K 1  ”, Poetiske Soundscapes/støj, CD + booklet publikation, Skrat Records 2013
  • Slagtryk, October 2014
  • ”Coming home”, Art video for Moda Dudle, Hypersenstive Productions 2014
  • ”Bag Øjet”, Artfilm, Hypersensitive Productions 2014
  • “Som om”, Artfilm, Hypersensitive Productions 2014
  • “Hopscotch”, Artfilm, Hypersensitive Productions 2013
  • “Afterlife of a Mermaid”, Artfilm, Hypersensitive Productions 2013
  • “What’s in a Dream”, music video for “Tangofied” by Torben Westergaard, Hypersensitive Productions 2013
  • “Once”, Artfilm, Hypersensitive Productions 2013

Grants / Funding / Residency

2024 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, working grant
2022 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, production grant
2022 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, working grant
2021 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, working grant
2020 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, working grant
2019 Danish Arts Foundation / visual arts, residency grant at Aldea Lanzallama, Buenos Airos, Argentina.
2019 The Danish Art Workshops residency in the printmaking workshop April, The Danish Art Workshops (DAW) an institution under the Danish Ministry of Culture.
2015 Literature grant, Danish Arts Foundation

Education

“Gotta Serve Sombody”, collaborative art workshop, KH7 Århus, 2017
Art Writing Masterclass ”Læs Verden/Lad verden læse dig” Århus Literature Center, 2014
Diplomacy degree in Management(UH), DTU 2011
Masters Degree in Mediastudies, New School University, NYC 1999
Cand.mag in Literature, University of Copenhagen, 1997