Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany

IM KINOSAAL / ÜBERGÄNGE

June 24 – June 29, 2025

Live Performance: 8 pm, June 25, 2025

Central theme of the project ÜBERGÄNGE, featuring videos by Taejoong Kim, music by Kunsu Shim & Gerhard Stäbler and a performance concert, is an aphorism by Walter Benjamin from Passagen, Durchgänge, Übergänge (1927–1940), in which he criticizes the “false romanticism” of seeking the extraordinary in the individual rather than in the collective process and the history of becoming human. This perspective on supposed progress through individualization and the glorification of isolated domains forms the point of departure for the performance concert, which constitutes the core of the project.

Kunsu Shim, and Gerhard Stäbler for string instruments and video interweave with Taejoong Kim’s audiovisual works, created over the past decade and partly conceived specifically for this performance concert.