Kay Yoon (1994 Seoul, Korea) is a multidisciplinary artist based between Munich and Seoul. Her practice navigates spectral zones between cultural memory, technological mediation and embodied ritual. Drawing from Korean folk traditions and inherited structures of Western modernity, Yoon investigates how cultural rituals, family histories, and ideological systems persist, transform, and mutate across temporal and geographical boundaries. Working across sound installations, performance, poetry, and spatial interventions, Yoon creates immersive environments that channel fragments of past and future through a critically nostalgic lens. Her practice interrogates how technology mediates spiritual and ceremonial experiences, uncovering new forms of ritual emerging from contemporary landscapes and questioning linear concepts of time and memory.
Kay Yoon completed her study in 2023 at the Sculptural Department of Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Prof. Alexandra Bircken. Previously, she attended courses at Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg under Prof. Michael Sailstorfer and Prof. Ottmar Hörl. Her works have been exhibited internationally at AO Kunsthalle Leipzig (2020), Kunstpavillon München (2021), Trauma Bar und Kino Berlin (2022), Jeonnam Museum of Art (2025), and solo exhibitions at 4D Projektraum BBK Leipzig (2021), Sic! Elephanthouse Lucerne (2021), SOMA 300 Berlin (2022), Sauers Berlin(2023) and Metalhouse Gallery Yangpyeong (2024).
Kay's residency with NARS is made possible by Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst.
