Youngjoo Cho
Artist in Residence, Stockholm, November 2026–February 2027
South Korean, Seoul-based Youngjoo Cho braids several strands of social life into her artistic practice. Working across installation, photography, video, performance, and dance, she develops community-oriented projects in Korea, collaborative video works with invited partners, and live performances that each operate through distinct yet interconnected registers. Her practice is grounded in an embodied engagement with women’s bodies and lived experiences, often addressing forms of knowledge produced through physical contact, touch, and proximity, particularly in relation to subjects that remain culturally or socially taboo. Since 2020, this focus has expanded toward questions of care, aging, queerness, and gender, and toward the conditions through which women’s bodies and their representations are produced and circulated. Cho approaches feminist issues in Korean and East Asian contexts not as autobiography, but as a methodological entry point for investigating socially structured conditions of visibility, silence, and exclusion. Her work examines the tension between historical representations of the female body in art and its contemporary circulation within mass media and digital visual culture, where images are rapidly consumed and reconfigured.
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Youngjoo Cho
During the IASPIS residency in Stockholm, Cho will extend her ongoing artistic research into the Nordic context by working with East Asian diaspora communities, adoptee networks, and queer communities. Through community-based research, conversations, and audiovisual documentation, she will investigate how images of East Asian women are produced, circulated, and negotiated in relation to migration, transnational adoption, and alternative forms of kinship. Building on previous research in Berlin, London, and Paris, the residency will serve as a site for developing new film material while expanding comparative perspectives on embodiment, care, and representation across different European contexts. The residency forms part of a longer-term artistic research project that explores collaborative, body-based methodologies through film and performance, examining how artistic practice can reconfigure socially constructed images and embodied experiences.
Cho presented a solo exhibition at SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul (2024). Recent group exhibitions include Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2026); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2025); Arko Art Center, Seoul (2024); Gangwon International Triennale, Pyeongchang (2024); the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2024); and National Asian Culture Center (ACC), Gwangju (2023). She received the 20th SongEun Art Award (2020) and was selected to participate in Unfold X (Seoul Arts & Tech Festival) (2022). Her artist monograph cho0joo was published in Korea (2024) and the Netherlands (2026).