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2026
Sammel-Sucht, solo exhibition, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, curated by Uta Rahman Steinert
23 June 2025 – 4 Jan 2026
Seven Sisters on view, San Diego Museum of Art
Mar – Oct 2025
solo exhibition, Residenzschloss Dresden (Dresden Castle), Transnational Academy of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Germany, curated by Claudia Brink
TBD 2024
Online Image Publication of The Multiverse Portraits, Feature, Visual Interview with Claire Chun, Social Science Matrix, UC Berkeley
TBD 2024
RHEE, Mirae, kh. “Transkoreaning: decolonizing adopted identity through artistic practices and a return to home.” Home and Homeland in Asian Diaspora: Transnational Reflections in Art, Literature, and Film, edited by Jean Amato and Kyunghee Pyun, Palgrave Macmillan.
3 Nov 2024
Run Towards My Family, endurance performance, JTBC Marathon, Seoul, South Korea
26 Sep 2024 (TBD)
Run Towards My Family, Panel Presentation, Public Engagement Program, French and US Embassy, Berlin, organized by Seb Cadet, Nathan Cooper, and Kerstin Reichert
16 – 30 Aug 2024
Meike 9, Group Show, Atelierhof Kreuzberg/Schaufenster, Berlin, curated by Noemi Molitor
21 Jun 2024
Run Towards My Family, Run Towards Our Country, Artist Lecture, South Korean Embassy Berlin
31 May – 16 Jun 2024
curated solo exhibition of Sandy de Lissovoy, Polytemporal Textures, m3 Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Berlin
24 Apr – 4 May 2024
PAR(I)TY WITH US, SALOON Berlin, aquabitArt Gallery, Berlin, curated by Sarah Maske, Nina Marlene Kraus, and Irina Ilieva
April 2024
And then there were none., photography set acquisition, Derek Fordjour Studio
4 – 5 April 2024
Panel Presentation, Queer Translation: Transnational Korean Literature, Art, and Criticism to Graduate Center, Sarah Lawrence College
9 -30 Mar 2024
Group Show, Artists of Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, Neurotitan, Berlin
21 & 26 Mar 2024
Wish You Weren’t Here (And I feel fine), short film screening, Central Kino, Berlin-Mitte, Artists of Atelierhaus Mengerzeile
14 Feb 2024
Workshop Presentation, Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia, University of Chicago
16 Feb 2024
Panel Presentation, Diasporic Asian Arts Network, College Arts Association
Jan 2024
Seven Sisters, installation acquisition, San Diego Museum of Art (on view: 23 June 2025 – 4 Jan 2026)
2 Dec 2023
Finissage, GYOPO artist/curator walkthrough event, curated 친구들하고 experimental video screening, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, TBD
9 Nov – 2 Dec 2023
Missing Merope, solo exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, curated by Rachel Jans
23 Sep 2023
Atelierhaus Mengerzeile OPEN STUDIOS and 30 Year Jubiläum, Berlin
26 Aug 2023
Artist Talk, Long Night of Museums, Berlin, (Un)Binding Bodies, Tieranatomische Theatre, Berlin
16 Jul 2023
Presentation, Empowering FLINTA: creating strategies together to overcome the insidiousness of sexism and heteronormativity by the patriarchy in South Korea, International Korean Adoptee Association Conference, COEX, Seoul, South Korea
6 Jul 2023
Artist Lecture, Adapting and Decolonizing Identity through Social Art Practice: an Adopted Korean Artist’s Journey, “Transcultural Adaptation und Appropriation: East-West-West-East?” Braunschweig University, Germany, invited by Eckart Voigts
Spring 2023
Chun, Claire. “Monstrous Beauty: Unruly Bodies and Diasporic Plasticity in kate-hers RHEE’s The Multiverse Portraits.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, vol. 8, no. 1-2
30 Apr 2023
Artist Talk with Mayowa Tomori, Gallery Weekend, Museum für Asiatische Kunst/Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin
31 Mar 2023
Self-Representation as Transnational Feminist Practice, artist talk and workshop, Film as Anti-racist and Feminist Art Practice Seminar, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, invited by Jo Schmeisser
10 Mar 2023
Madang: different perspectives from the Asian Diaspora about art, music, food, and community, Späti, Humboldt Forum, Berlin with Ranjamrittika Bhowmik, Kakao Katzê, Hany Tea, Fräulein Kimchi, Späti-Format, Humboldt Forum, curated by the artist
18 Dec 2022 – 31 Aug 2023
Sammel-Sucht/Collecting Crave, solo project, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, curated by Uta Rahman Steinert
Nov 2022 – 2023
Artist-in-Residence, Museum für Asiatische Kunst/Ethnologisches Museum
23 Mar – 31 Aug 2023
UnBinding Bodies: Lotus Shoes and Corset, group exhibition, Tieranatomische Theatre, Berlin, curated by Jasmin Mersmann, Evke Rulffes, Felix Sattler
22 Nov 2022
Artist Talk, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK)
26 Oct 2022
Body-Art-Sexism, BBK Hamburg and Kunsthaus Hamburg, podium talk with Anna Maria Linder, Vanessa Opoku, Sybille Peters, moderated by Madeleine Lauw
9 Sep 2022 – 26 Feb 2023
UnBinding Bodies: Lotus Shoes and Corset, group exhibition, Museum am Rothenbaum. Kulturen und Künste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, curated by Jasmin Mersmann, Evke Rulffes, Felix Sattler
30 Sept – 27 Nov 2022
Korean Diaspora: Ricepaper Airplanes, group exhibition, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, South Korea, curated by Tae-ho Lee, assisted by Young-ri Lee
6 Sept – 22 Dec 2022
Books and Things, solo exhibition, Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, curated by Alexandra Chang
2022
Lin, Jenny. “Poetics of Cross-Cultural Relation: Critical Performances by Artists kate-hers RHEE and Patty Chang.” Konturen, vol. 12, 2022, pp. 96-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/konturen.12.0.4917.
21 Oct 2022
Reimaging and Restoring Ancestral Collections through Decolonial Art Practices, artist talk with Emily Parr, Basin Art Institute, Pomona College, CA, invited by Prof. Jane Mi Chang, Prof. Alex Chang and Prof. Alice Jim
15 Oct 2022
Vernehmungsraum, reading by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, Missing Persons Project, screening and discussion, Korean Verband in collaboration with PalmArt Press, Berlin
2022
Innovative Kunstprojekt, BBK-Bundesverband, Berlin
11 Aug 2022
Cultural Exchange Travel Grant for Project Abroad, Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
21 May 2022
Korea Arts Foundation of America Awardee
5 May 2022
What’s in your cabinet, Ephra unterwegs!, studio visit and workshop with at-risk-youth, Berlin, invited by Katharina Küster
3 May 2022
Neustart Stipendium, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany
16 Apr 2022
Artist presentation, Representation of Home and Ancestral Homeland in Asian American Literature and Art, Asian American Studies Conference, Denver, CO, organized by Prof. Kyunghee Pyun, with Jean Amato, Young Ji Lee, and Kyunghee Pyun, Discussant: Peter Wang, Butler University
3 Mar 2022
Guest lecture, Munbang-do (The Scholar’s Study): Reinventing the Studiolo, Global Asia Art and Visual Cultures, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, invited by Prof. Alexandra Chang
4 Mar 2022
Artist talk, Munbang-do (The Scholar’s Study): Reinventing the Studiolo, Asian American and Asian Diasporic Art and Visual Cultures, Bard College, New York, invited by Prof. Alexandra Chang
22 Nov 2021
Korean Nomad, Symposium University of the Arts, Berlin, invited by Umut Azad Akkel, Pegah Keshmirshekan, and the Korean Nomad Planning Team
13 Nov 2021
Gallery talk, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena (with subsequent workshop: What’s on your table?)
Nov 2021 – Feb 2022
Interventions: Fresh Perspectives after 50 years, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, curated by Rebecca Hall
28 Oct 2021
Artist lecture, Books and Things, The Studiolo of kate-hers RHEE, Decolonizing Curatorial and Museum Studies and Public Humanities Colloquium, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, invited by Alexandra Chang
2021 26 Oct
Artist lecture, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, invited by Prof. Katherine Behar
11 Sep 2021
Fragility I, group exhibition, Galerie Katharina Maria Raab
11 Sep – 16 Oct 2021
Unfinished Business, solo exhibition, Memories of the Future, SOMA Artspace, Berlin, curated by Nabi Nara
4 Oct – 3 Dec 2021
Inventing Genealogies, solo exhibition, New Media Artspace, Baruch College, CUNY, NY, curated by Katherine Behar
26 Feb – 23 May 2021
Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, group exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI, curated by Tyanna Buie
21 Aug 2021
Komornitzyk, Hanna. “Focus South Korea: Blick von innen Blick von außen.“ Art-in-berlin, art-in-berlin.de.
30 Jul – 22 Aug 2021
Facing South Korea, group exhibition, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, curated by Bernhard Draz
2021
Research Stipend, Berlin Senate for Cultural Administration
2021
Cultural Exchange Travel Grant for Project Abroad, Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe (returned because of exhibition postponement because of COVID)
19 May 2021
Artist Talk, Kyoto City University of the Arts, invited by Prof. Yukako Ando
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