Hyunjin Kim is a curator and writer based in Seoul. Since the 2010s, her research and projects have engaged with Asia’s contested histories, examining the intersections of modernity, coloniality, tradition, and politics. Her work addresses how historical entanglements and cultural memories continue to shape contemporary artistic practices, and has more recently extended to research on the cultural Cold War in Asia, including Temperature of Roses, a project she initiated and has co-curated with Koichiro Osaka since 2024.

 

Since 2023, Kim has been developing (neuro)plasticity as a curatorial methodology, approaching it as the capacity to receive, transmit, and transform form. Grounded in long-term research on perception, embodiment, and somatic knowledge, this framework explores how curatorial practice can become a site of sensory, historical, and political transformation.