Grace Euna Kim explores the transformative potential of encounter through site-specific immersive performances in public spaces, visual art venues, performance stages and experimental formats focused on research and education.
Her practice investigates ideology, political embodiment and affect, with a focus on the micropolitics of empathy and community within cycles of oppression and resistance.

Since 2019, her long-term research on symbolic violence, Acid Bodies, has informed her artistic output. Drawing from psychoanalytic and critical theory, she develops 360° body-emergent approaches that mobilize aesthetics as political mediation between viewer and social reality.

She holds an MA in Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School (Switzerland). She has taught at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (MA Raumstrategien), PYR FYR School of Performance Moscow, and has been a lecturer/mentor at House of Europe and Goethe-Institut Ukraine.

Her work has been presented at Seoul Museum, Incheon Art Platform, Schauspiel Leipzig, Frankfurt Lab, Haus der Statistik Berlin, ZK/U Berlin, SOMA Art Space, Cité de l’image Clervaux, Galerie Madé Paris, Museum of Nonconformist Art St. Petersburg, WhiteBox New York, and Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam. 

Berlin-based artist, choreographer and critical researcher Grace Euna Kim presents a lecture-performance based on her long-term artistic research project Acid Bodies – an ongoing investigation into ideology, political embodiment, affect, and invisible forms of violence within communities.

The event explores the body as a site of memory, resistance, and collective possibility, questioning how gestures, silences and social norms encode power, desire and ideology. The audience is invited to reflect on key questions: How is ideology embodied? Who or what colonizes the body? How are community, conflict, empathy, desire and resistance shaped? Acid Bodies positions the body as a space of poetic and political transformation, where community may be reimagined through vulnerability, friction and radical imagination.

Acid Bodies
6 November 2025, 19:00