Christine Sun Kim

Born in 1980 in California, Christine Sun Kim lives and works in Berlin. A deaf artist, she has developed a strong relationship to sound and sign language in her practice. Her research explores musical notation, written language, infographics, and American Sign Language. Working across drawing, performance, video, and large-scale murals, she examines her relationship to spoken and signed languages. She has held numerous solo exhibitions, including Busy Days, De Appel, Amsterdam (2017); Disarming Language: disability, communication, rupture, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia (2019); Off the Charts, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020); Stacking Traumas, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA (2021); and Time Owes Me Rest Again, Queens Museum, New York (2022). In 2023, she presented Cues on Point at Secession, followed in 2025 by All Day All Night at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her work has also been shown at the Mori Art Museum as part of the MAM Project 033. She exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2015 and developed a public space exhibition for the city of Manchester, UK, in 2021.

Cet automne

Espace public
septembersept 14

Christine Sun Kim
Visual arts
Free

Invited for the first time to the Festival d’Automne, Christine Sun Kim is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the crossroads between the visual arts, sign language and music. Taking her inspiration from musical notation and other graphic information systems, she unfurls in the public space an exhibition which combines humour and critical thought. In doing so, she overturns all expectations in relation to the non-auditory and political dimensions of sound.
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
octoberoct 19

Christine Sun Kim
Community Sigh

Visual artsPerformanceMusic

Christine Sun Kim’s multifaceted practice explores the manner in which sound and language function in society. At the crossroads between written text, systems of visual notation, American sign language (ASL) and video, she deconstructs the social hierarchies of sound and the spoken word.