Touchy-Feely: Seoul at Alternative Space LOOP
June 13 – August 9, 2025; Opening June 13, 17h
With Melanie Bonajo, Minja Gu, Hyunju Kim+Gwanghee Jo, Jooyoung Lee, Mary Mellor, Suzana Milevska, Ana Nikitovic, Jean Rim, Yo-E Ryou, Melissa Steckbauer, Jing Tan, Natasha Tontey
Organized by: Sound Art Korea
Supported by: Seoul Metropolitan City, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Council Korea, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Korea
Care work requires creativity, imagination, and deep attentiveness to the needs and preferences of the cared-for. Convening artists for whom body work is central to their practice, 𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘺-𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺 relates interpersonal physical contact, touch, and tactility to feminist curatorial methodology.
This two-month exhibition will be continuously transformed through a program of workshops, discussions and other activities.
*𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘺-𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺 is a project initiated at West Den Haag, curated by Baruch Gottlieb & Ji Yoon Yang.
June 13 – August 9, 2025; Opening June 13, 17h
With Melanie Bonajo, Minja Gu, Hyunju Kim+Gwanghee Jo, Jooyoung Lee, Mary Mellor, Suzana Milevska, Ana Nikitovic, Jean Rim, Yo-E Ryou, Melissa Steckbauer, Jing Tan, Natasha Tontey
Organized by: Sound Art Korea
Supported by: Seoul Metropolitan City, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Arts Council Korea, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Korea
Care work requires creativity, imagination, and deep attentiveness to the needs and preferences of the cared-for. Convening artists for whom body work is central to their practice, 𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘺-𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺 relates interpersonal physical contact, touch, and tactility to feminist curatorial methodology.
This two-month exhibition will be continuously transformed through a program of workshops, discussions and other activities.
*𝘛𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘺-𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘺 is a project initiated at West Den Haag, curated by Baruch Gottlieb & Ji Yoon Yang.
Kaminski und seine Freunde
Opening: 19.09.25, 18h
20.09. - 10.10.25 Kulturkirche Liebfrauen, König-Heinrich-Platz 3, Duisburg
Image: Kaminski und seine Freunde, © 2025 Stefan Kaminski
With: Alex Tennigkeit, Andrew Gilbert, Ben Cottrell, Catherine Lorent, Dome Wood, Fee Kuerten, Franziska Hufnagel, Gabriel Vormstein, Joe Neave, John Davies, Jürgen Großmann, Mariola Groener, Matthias Dornfeld, Matthias Hesselbacher, Melissa Steckbauer, Michelle Alperin, Nadine Deja, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Stefan Kaminski, Tania Elstermeyer, Tom Biber, Vichy Boxer, Wilhelm Groener
The exhibition "Kaminski and his friends" transforms the former Liebfrauenkirche in Duisburg - a brutalist sacred building in the middle of the city - into an open resonance space.
23 artists show painting, sculpture, performance and sound.
But not side by side. Not additively.
The works interlock. Rub against each other. React.
Individual positions, yes - but not loners.
There is no statement at the center.
At the center is a tension. An impulse. Something that transcends.
"Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something."
- Judith Butler, Precarious Life
We are not closed systems.
We are made of encounters, conflict, dependency.
From relationships - wanted and unasked for.
Identity is not something fixed. It is what happens when you expose yourself.
Friendship, says Butler, is not just nice.
It is existential.
“In art, you can share the madness, you can reassure yourself and liberate yourself - like among good friends.”
- Stefan Kaminski
This exhibition is no idyll.
It shows fractures, cracks, scars - made visible, not concealed.
What comes together here is not whole, but open.
Opening: 19.09.25, 18h
20.09. - 10.10.25 Kulturkirche Liebfrauen, König-Heinrich-Platz 3, Duisburg
Image: Kaminski und seine Freunde, © 2025 Stefan Kaminski
With: Alex Tennigkeit, Andrew Gilbert, Ben Cottrell, Catherine Lorent, Dome Wood, Fee Kuerten, Franziska Hufnagel, Gabriel Vormstein, Joe Neave, John Davies, Jürgen Großmann, Mariola Groener, Matthias Dornfeld, Matthias Hesselbacher, Melissa Steckbauer, Michelle Alperin, Nadine Deja, Sebastian Hammwöhner, Stefan Kaminski, Tania Elstermeyer, Tom Biber, Vichy Boxer, Wilhelm Groener
The exhibition "Kaminski and his friends" transforms the former Liebfrauenkirche in Duisburg - a brutalist sacred building in the middle of the city - into an open resonance space.
23 artists show painting, sculpture, performance and sound.
But not side by side. Not additively.
The works interlock. Rub against each other. React.
Individual positions, yes - but not loners.
There is no statement at the center.
At the center is a tension. An impulse. Something that transcends.
"Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something."
- Judith Butler, Precarious Life
We are not closed systems.
We are made of encounters, conflict, dependency.
From relationships - wanted and unasked for.
Identity is not something fixed. It is what happens when you expose yourself.
Friendship, says Butler, is not just nice.
It is existential.
“In art, you can share the madness, you can reassure yourself and liberate yourself - like among good friends.”
- Stefan Kaminski
This exhibition is no idyll.
It shows fractures, cracks, scars - made visible, not concealed.
What comes together here is not whole, but open.
Skopia Art Contemporain, Galerie Kandlhofer, Migrant Bird Space have the werk
