Hojin Kang

A Glimpse of You

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Exhibition from May 22nd – June 14th, 2026.​​​​​​

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Friday May 22nd

19:00 – Opening

Sunday June 14th

15:00 – Reading by Ralph Tharayil

16:00 – Artist Talk, moderated by Carolin Kralapp

17:00 – Closing

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What does a machine see when it looks at us? And what remains invisible, even in an age saturated with images? 

 

The exhibition A Glimpse of You transforms the project space into a two-level laboratory of perception. Across two floors, a dialogue unfolds between machine vision and human warmth, between archives of migration and the intimacy of everyday life. 

 

The spatial dramaturgy of the exhibition is deliberately composed: a path from algorithmic vision to felt experience, from public to private, from brightness into darkness. And it is precisely there that something becomes visible which resists digital capture. At a time when AI systems and surveillance technology increasingly intervene in our lives through facial recognition, border regimes, and algorithmic decision-making, the exhibition asks what remains fundamentally human

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Hojin Kang (*1986 in Cologne, as the son of Korean migrants) lives and works in Berlin. Kang’s artistic practice encompasses installation, video, and sculpture. In his works, he combines new media with traditional Confucian-Buddhist rituals and explores how technologies can be transformed from instruments of control and dehumanization into tools of care and human connection.

 

Selected exhibitions: Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena (2026); Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn (2025); Dokfest Lounge, Kassel (2023); Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken (2022); Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm (2018).

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Credits

Künstlerische Leitung: Hojin Kang

Sound Design: Nils Plambeck

Programmierung: Fabby @ghettofuzius

Interaction Design: Fabian Langheim

Ausstellungstext: Carolin Kralapp @caromilon

Lesung: Ralph Tharayil @tritratralph

Artist Talk Moderation: Carolin Kralapp @caromilon

 

Special Thanks:

Claudia Menz, Gyesoon Kang, Hwangyong Kang,

Julian Hespenheide, Katharina Ritter, Emma Adler, Timm Therre

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Sponsors

Ben Lehnert, Host des Poets & Thinkers Podcasts

@poetsandthinkerspodcast

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Ova Makgeolli

@ova.makgeolli

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Koreanischer Verein Berlin e.V.

@koreanischervereinberlin

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Koreanisches Kulturzentrum in BRD e.V.