Kurina Sohn is a South Korean artist and researcher based in Amsterdam. Her work examines how emerging technologies shape daily life and influence our perceptions, memories, and relationships. Using installations, material experimentation, fieldwork, and interdisciplinary collaboration, she creates environments that explore interactions among humans, technologies, materials, and more-than-human systems. Instead of focusing on technology as a subject, she investigates how it subtly transforms the ways we experience and understand contemporary life. Each project invites audiences to reflect on the evolving relationship between humans and technology.
How do emerging technologies reshape the ways we understand ourselves and the worlds we inhabit?
Research themes: Technological Cultures, Perception, Memory, Material Experimentation, Translation
Contact via email → sohnkurina@gmail.com
Instagram → @sohnkuri
RESIDENCIES
2025. 3 - 2026. 3
Art-Science Residency, NeuroNarrative. Amsterdam, NL2025. 4
AI Ecologies - Flash Residency, Kunsthal Artphy collaboration with the Creative Coding Utrecht, NL2024. 11 - 2025. 2
Art & Science Residencies, Embassy of Foreign Artists(EoFA) and National Centre of Competence in Research(NCCR) Evolving Language. Geneva, CH2023. 2
Wintersession - Production Residency, V2_Unstable Media. Rotterdam, NL2022. 5
EAST to WEST - 10-days Residency, Schloss Hollenegg for Design. Hollenegg, AT2021. 8
GENIUS LOCI - 10-days Residency, 101PS space. Bremm, DE
ARTISTIC PROGRAMS, FELLOWSHIP & APPRENTICESHIP
2025. 2
Nexus Program, TETEM. Enschede, NL2024. 6 - 9
CODE 2024: Reclaiming Digital Agency. IMPAKT. Utrecht, NL2022. 6 - 2023. 4
FORMAT 23 Program, Z33 - Huis voor Actuele Kunst, Design & Architectuur. Hasselt, BE2021. 3 - 5
Artist in Cooperation Fellowship(AICF), Multidisciplinary Artistic Research Collective(MARC). Amsterdam, NL2020. 4 - 9
Expoplu Exchange Program, Expoplu(now POST). Nijmegen, NL2014. 6 - 8
Full-time Apprentice, The Fabric Workshop and Museum. Philadelphia, USA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2026. 3 - 10
Synthetic Halo, TETEM. Enschede, NL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 - upcoming
NeuroNarrative. Waag Futurelab, Amsteredam. NL2026 - upcoming
Zomertank. Werktank, Leuven. BE2026
As Bloom Begins Enseoul Gallery. Amsteredam. NL2025
Alternatives from the Unexpected; GLUE, Waag Futurelab. Amsterdam, NL2025
Embellished Edge, Weena 70 & Rotterdam Design Biennale, Rotterdam, NL2024
Tangent Media, Gravity Field Art Gallery, CUHK. Shenzhen, CN2024
HOPE – who will turn the tide, Ars Electronica & IMPAKT. Linz, AT-
2024
Deep Nudes and Digital Oblivion. IMPAKT, Utrecht, NL
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2024
Re-Framing Material Culture, Frappant Galerie. Hamburg, DE
2024
COLLECTIBLE, Espace Vanderborght. Brussels, BE2023
Tryday: Wintersession, V2_Unstable Media. Rotterdam, NL2023
Water Expeditions, Z33. Hasselt, BE2023
Interior Ecologies symposium - digital archive, MAIA, Master of Arts in Interior Architecture & Institute for Postnatural Studies, Online - Geneva, CH.2023
COLLECTIBLE, tour & taxis. Brussels, Belgium2022
Dreamers of the Playscape, Gallery 3, Het Nieuwe Instituut. Rotterdam, NL2022
CRUISING, Huidenclub. Rotterdam, NL2022
FOKUS: Ornament, Vienna Design Week. Vienna, AT2022
Transcrossing Identities. Kazerne, Eindhoven, NL2022
Mutation II, FIBER Festival. Amsterdam, NL2022
Invisible, Museum of Applied Art and Design. Vilnius, LT2022
MULTILOGUE analog & digital, Gold+Beton & Mouches Volantes Galerie. Cologne, DE2021
SUNNYSIDE UP, Plan B & Dutch Design Week. Eindhoven, NL2021
ALIENATED, 38CC. Delft, NL2021
Curated Realities: Survival of the filters. MARC, Amsterdam, NL2020
Who’s to blame?, Expoplu at Paraplufabriek. Nijmegen, NL2020
CODE WAR, Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Quarto. Genoa, IT2020
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!, Temporary Art Center(TAC) & Virtual. Eindhoven, NL2019
G19: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show, Campina Fabriek. Eindhoven, NL2018
Overturning Othering, De Elektriciteitsfabriek. The Hague, NL
EDUCATION
2019
MA Contextual Design, Design Academy Eindhoven. Eindhoven, NL2017
The Fab Academy, Fablab Seoul. Seoul, KR2015
BFA Fiber Art, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, MD, USA, Awarded Cum Laude
WORKSHOP, PANEL DISCUSSION, & PRESENTATION
2025. 6
Deep listening session with Colette Aliman. TETEM. Enschede, NL2025. 6
Conductive Stillness meditation performance, 'Rooted Connections' A Zoöp Meetup Instituto Cervantes, with Creative Coding Utrecht. Utrecht, NL2025. 3
Interview session at the Alternatives from the Unexpected, Pakhuis de Zwijger. Amsterdam, NL2025. 2
crAsh-test/crAsh-son Usine Parker. Carouge, CH2024. 1
META:MORPHOSIS: A guided digital cleanse workshop, Ars Electronica, Linz, AT2023. 5
International Clinic - East Asia, Het Nieuwe Instituut. Rotterdam, NL
GRANTS
2026
Embodied Perception, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst2025
Glazing into Artificial Flame, Amarte Fonds Foundation2023 - 2024
Synthetic Halo: Illuminating the Mind-Machine-AI Nexus, Amarte Fonds Foundation and Stimuleringsfonds2022
Deepest Unknown, Stimuleringsfonds