Exhibition
Christine Sun Kim
Permanent Installation
Free admission
Booking will open in September 2025
Christine Sun Kim is creating a permanent site-specific mural for YDP. The work responds to themes central to YDP’s founding ethos, including ideas of home, movement and dialogue.
Installed across the glass façade of a two-storey link building that overlooks an internal courtyard, the mural will sit at the meeting point between YDP’s original Georgian architecture, 20th-century additions and recent reconstruction. It will bridge the spaces dedicated to exhibitions, residencies and events. Drawing upon recurring motifs in Kim’s practice, the playfulness of the commission echoes YDP’s character as an experimental and lively hub for art.
Header image: Installation view, Christine Sun Kim, Oh Me Oh My, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 2022. Photo: Rachel Topham. Image courtesy of the Artist and François Ghebaly Gallery.
About the Artist
Christine Sun Kim (b. 1980, Orange County) is an American artist based in Berlin. Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and strategically deployed humor are all recurring elements in her practice. Working across drawing, performance, video and large scale murals, Kim explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large.