Works
About
Sangbum Ahn (Currently lives and works in Seoul)
sangbumahn00@gmail.com
Sangbum Ahn traces the entanglements of ecological, technological and infrastructural systems, following the ways in which they inscribe perception, memory and the sensory conditions of the present. His work moves across hybrid documentary, sound, and installation, drawing together the slow time of geological strata, the circulations of hydrological systems, and the opaque operations of data-driven infrastructures.
He composes these heterogeneous layers into temporal cartographies where nonhuman forces, regulatory technologies and environmental self-organisation collide and co-produce one another. Through this process, he constructs speculative yet grounded environments in which infrastructures appear as techno-ecological media and the world becomes perceptible through its hidden rhythms, frictions and thresholds.
Education
2019 MA Artists’ Film and Moving Image, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK
2017 BFA Contemporary Arts, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Shows
2025 Pond Brain, White Noise, Seoul, Korea
2024 Overfitting, The Reference, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Shows / Screenings
2025 NEW GEN: Emerging Voices, KCCUK, London, UK
2025 Pyro-Politics Realism, HH, Seoul, Korea
2024 The Liminal Future, YDP Art Square, Seoul, Korea
2024 Videoex, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
2021 Captcha, Wirth Galerie, New York, USA
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, UK
2020 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Online, London, UK
2018 Dear Invasion, Openbox, Seoul, Korea
2018 iGong Showcase, Seodaemun Inn, Seoul, Korea
2016 AR Towns, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
2016 Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
2016 Seoul International New Media Festival, Korean Film Archive, Seoul, Korea
2016 Seoul International New Media Festival, Rainbow Cube Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Travel Grant, Ilhyun Museum of Art, Yangyang, Korea
Awards / Grants
2025 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2024 Emerging Artist Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2024 Pitching, YDP Cultural Foundation, Korea
2021 DYCP Grant, Arts Council England, UK
2020 The Elephant Trust Grant, UK
2020 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK
2015 Seoul International New Media Festival Audience Award, Korea
Other Projects / Collective Activities
2022 – 2024 A member of Ecological Reparation Collective
2021 – 2023 Ecological Reparation, Nottingham University, Warwick University, AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, UK