About – Seunghoon Baek

Bio

Seunghoon Baek (b. 1990, South Korea) is a media-performance artist based in Berlin.

He creates performances and installations through artificial light and darkness. Light makes everything visible, yet remains itself unseen. He takes light, which has always been a medium for seeing something else, and turns it back into an object of observation.

The artist regards the world we see as a virtual construct woven by perception. Light that reaches the eye becomes information, and that information is woven into a single world. Light, then, is the very site where this virtuality takes shape.

In his work, light is passed on, covered, and leaves traces on matter. Where light falls, surfaces darken, while shadows grow bright. The moment light becomes something one can touch, the act of seeing itself comes into view. To materialize light is to materialize perception.

He understands light as a compression of information. Today the world reaches us as light, through screens and optical fibres, and we live gazing at that light almost without pause. In an age when everything arrives compressed into a single flash, how can perception reveal itself as matter? Where light and darkness presuppose each other, the one who sees and what is seen fold into one.

Education

2022–2024 Master Universität der Künste Berlin, Bildende Kunst (Prof. Monica Bonvicini)
2016-2022 Diplom Burg Giebichenstein Halle, Time based art (Prof. Michaela Schweiger)
2019–2020 Guest studies, Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Prof. Olaf Nicolai)
2009–2014 Bachelor Painting and Photography, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea

Teaching

2024 Place and Perception – A Site-Specific Seminar, Seminar Supervisor, Universität der Künste Berlin

Solo Exhibition

2022 "Boundless between Sky and Earth", St. Bartholomew's Church, Halle (Saale), Germany

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2026 "Gülden", Kulturhaus Baumschulenweg, Berlin, Germany
2025 "On tur", On tur kindergarten, Seoul, South Korea
2025 "Vanishing Akts", Muyoungdang, Daegu, South Korea
2025 "Kunstpunkte 121", BBKkunstforum, Düsseldorf, Germany
2025 "An optimistic at Heart", Crowded Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2024 "Diagonale#5", Berlin, Germany
2024 "Gost-host", Seoul, South Korea
2023 "Re-fuse", Hjalteyri, Iceland
2022 "EMAF no 35", European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
2021 "Artwalk", Almresidency, Mountain_Alm, Waakirchen, Germany
2021 "Sicher nicht", Volkspark, Halle (Saale), Germany
2020 "Nor did I, at all, the time bemoan", Suseongartpia, Daegu, South Korea
2019 "Täglich geöffnet", Boesner Projectroom, Leipzig, Germany
2019 "Take me to that place", Opera House, Halle (Saale), Germany