Exhibition 'Jungwoon Kim - LEAVES' in IKOB - Museum of Contemporary Art
IKOB presents new works by Jungwoon Kim, created during her three-month residency (September–November 2025) in Eupen. The IKOB artist residency took place for the second time in 2025 and is a collaboration with Borderland Residencies, a joint initiative of residencies in the Meuse-Rhine cross-border region. The 2025 residency took place under the theme “Material Witness,” placing materiality and forms of witnessing at its center.
Jungwoon Kim is interested in objects and materials in transitional states: between growth and decay, natural and synthetic, living and perishable. During her stay, the artist used a space in the Eupen Plaza as her studio — a largely vacant shopping mall in the city center. Her workspace expanded into the streets and parks of Eupen, where she collected plant remnants and found objects that became the subjects of sculptural experimentation in the studio.
The works presented here reflect the artist’s impressions of her immediate surroundings and speak to the vulnerability and transience of nature. Kim used resin and cement to create casts of oak and maple leaves and star-shaped waffles. Fragile objects are thus captured through material transformation in a single moment, preserving every fold and fracture. The forms repeat — and yet each cast is unique. Arranged in different constellations, the objects cast new light on one another and become markers — or witnesses — of time, landscape, and movement.
