2025
Sculptures and video installation

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Installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Courtesy of Canal Projects. Photo by Izzy Leung.

Installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Courtesy of Canal Projects. Photo by Izzy Leung.

Installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Courtesy of Canal Projects. Photo by Izzy Leung.

Installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Courtesy of Canal Projects. Photo by Izzy Leung.

Installation view, Canal Projects, 2025. Courtesy of Canal Projects. Photo by Izzy Leung.

2025
Installation
Mixed Media

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Geumhyung Jeong, Removed Parts: Restored, installation view, as part of The Gatherers, on view at MoMA PS1 from April 24 through October 6, 2025. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves

Geumhyung Jeong, Removed Parts: Restored, installation view, as part of The Gatherers, on view at MoMA PS1 from April 24 through October 6, 2025. Courtesy MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves

2024
Installation and performance
Commissioned by ICA London

2023

Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction [work in process], 2023. Photo by Kanghyuk Lee.

2021

Geumhyung Jeong, Under Construction, as part of One Escape at a Time, The 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2021. Photo: Cheolki Hong, glimworkers.

2021
Sculptures and video installation.
DIY robotic sculptures built of various materials including aluminium profiles and DC motors, remote controllers made of medical simulators and joysticks, and 9 video screens.

Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2021.
Presented at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The Milk of Dreams, 2022.

2021
Performance

Geumhyung Jeong has been developing a series of robotic allegories that began with the first robotic sculpture, Homemade RC Toy, commissioned by Kunsthalle Basel in 2019. Jeong’s process of constructing the robot is an endless loop of trial and error, of mistakes and corrections. In Making Show, Jeong selects a model from her previously created robots, introduces the detailed process of its making, and attempts to reconstruct a complete version in front of the audience. Will the process of remaking a model that has already been built once prove successful? To avoid appearing clumsy in front of the audience and to complete the process within the allotted time, Jeong must rehears and plan the presentation, deciding what to reveal and what to skip — much like a cooking show, where certain steps are pre-prepared for timing and effect. Could we call this practice of robot-making a “choreographic practice”?

Commissioned by Obscene Festival 2021 (Seoul), supported by Arts Council Korea, MMCA Korea.

2021
Installation
Mixed Media

2021
Installation
Mixed Media

2021
Installation with DIY robotic sculptures made of various materials including aluminum profiles and DC motors, tools and parts arranged on the platform, and the five channel video screens.
Under Maintenance captures the maintenance process of Geumhyung Jeong's machines – assembling, repairing, connecting, charging, testing the machine’s performance – the moments of taking care of her creatures to nurture their aliveness.

Commissioned by Klemm's Berlin.

2021
Performance / video
Commissioned by Künstlerhaus Mousonturm for Frankfurt Positions 2021 and DMT – Digital Mousonturm.

2021
Performance

Geumhyung Jeong creates works at the intersection of choreography, performance and visual art. In many of her works, the lines between process and outcome, success and failure, become ambiguous. Her recent work titled "Artist Talk" can be seen as a performance with a form of an artist talk, or an artist talk with a form of a performance. Sharing specific elements of live performance and her on-stage experience with audiences, Jeong's Artist Talk expands the conventional boundaries of performance.

2021
Performance

Geumhyung Jeong’s Rehearsal explores compositional possibilities through selected movement vocabularies. Through ongoing experimentation and reconfiguration, it tests with multiple iterations of possible performances. By shifting order, structure, sequencing, and dynamics, the work generates alternative engagements with the same source material, revealing subtle variations with each iteration.

Premiered at Incheon Art Platform in 2021.

2020
Performance

2020
Sculptures and video installation.
Commissioned by Fondazione Modena Art Visive, FMAV, Modena (IT), 2020.

2019
Four-Channel Video Installation
DIY Robotic Sculpture

Geumhyung Jeong's video installation Small Upgrade focuses on the construction process of Jeong's robot. The video provides detailed images of the robot's body structure, evoking an anatomical observation of the machine body. The movement of Jeong's hands, carefully assembling each small part of the machine, generates a delicate choreography in the process.

Concept and direction by Geumhyung Jeong
Camera by Gleb Logvinenko, Geumhyung Jeong
Editing by Geumhyung Jeong
Commissioned by The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (RU) 2019
Supported by Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (CN)

© 2019. Geumhyung Jeong.

2019
Installation and performance
Commissioned by Kunsthalle Basel

2019
Video Installation.
Geumhyung Jeong's The Air of That Time is inspired by Jeong's memory: the special air created within the audience when a performance is happening. The video showcases a collection of moments just before a performance begins. It aims to capture the anxiety when something is about to happen and the atmosphere between the audience and the stage during the unique time of each performance.
The Air of That Time is a development of the previous version titled Today's Air, which was initially conceived for December, a group exhibition presented by Audio Visual Pavilion in Seoul in 2016. The work was further developed for the solo exhibition, also titled The Air of That Time, at The Ryder in London in 2019.

2017
Installation and performance.

Conceived and commissioned for The South Tank, Tate Modern, London in 2017, as part of Tate Live: Geumhyung Jeong.
The work was expanded into a solo exhibition in 2018 for SongEun Art Space, Seoul, and subsequently for other venues worldwide.

2018
Performance

Geumhyung Jeong’s Video Tour is a “video tour event of an already expired exhibition.” In Video Tour, Jeong presents footage from her second solo exhibition, Private Collection: Unperformed Objects, held from September 28 to November 11, 2017, at Delfina Foundation in London. During the performance, she gives a talk about the objects she installed for the show. However, it is likely that the trivial stories surrounding her collection hold meaning only for herself. We might ask whether these stories are of any help in understanding her work. Jeong’s Video Tour, showcasing an already expired exhibition under the pretext of “showing it to those who have not yet seen it,” becomes a futile attempt to revive the past as well as a secondary event about her previous solo exhibition.

Produced by Kwon Soonwoo and Don Sunpil
In cooperation with TasteHouse
Sponsored by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

2018
Installation
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT9)

2017
Installation
Delfina Foundation London, 2017.

2016
The 16th Hermès Foundation Missulsang Award Exhibition
Atelier Hermès, Seoul, 2016

2017
Performance

Objects have power, objects are waste. Objects create territories. Venuri and Geumhyung – what is going on between them. There is a weight – air of control. There is an allusion – but not sure what to. Should we try to play this game, too? Venuri Perera (Colombo, Sri Lanka) and Geumhyung Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) play the game that they built together. They are addicted to their game, playing it again and again. Following the simple rules of the game, Venuri and Geumhyung constantly communicate with each other, sometimes trusting and sometimes doubting their feelings. The rules of the game are strict but also fragile. As they repeat the rule, the roles keep switching and the power keeps shifting. The game never stops.

Concept / Performance: Venuri Perera, Geumhyung Jeong
Co-production: Zürcher Theater Spektakel
Thanks to Goethe-Institut Colombo, Monsoon Project Australia.

2016
Performance

Expect the unexpected in this wry, somewhat ridiculous but useful performance that challenges the safety zones of art and life.

In Fire Drill Scenario, Geumhyung Jeong investigates the excitement, and real-life risks that artists and audiences take when partaking in live performance experiences.
Theatres or any kind of exhibition spaces are loaded with different kinds of risks, as many people gather in a confined space.
Geumhyung Jeong choreographs safety instructions to familiarize the audience with the emergency manual and evacuation routes.

Commissioned by Asia Culture Center Arts Theater, Gwangju, South Korea, and premiered in 2016.
Supported by Arts Council Korea in 2023, and by the City of Melbourne through Arts House and Arts Centre Melbourne through Asia TOPA in 2025.

2015
Performance

Artist and choreographer Geumhyung Jeong explores the relationship between the body and the objects that surround it. In her performance Rehab Training, Geumhyung Jeong develops a customized rehabilitation program for a life-sized dummy. Using a range of assistive and therapeutic devices, she seeks to enhance the dummy’s bodily functions and mobility. Throughout the session, Jeong and the dummy engage in a delicate choreography of cooperation, blurring the boundaries between the animate and the inanimate, between control and care.

Co-produced by PACT Zollverein, Essen; Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul.

2015
Performance

2014
Installation
CPR mannequin, medical equipments, video screen

Presented as part of HOME/WORK, an exhibition by Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul, 2014.

2013
Performance

2012
Performance

2011
Performance

2011
Animated film
8'04"/HD/2011

Geumhyung Jeong’s RECORD STOP PLAY folds back on itself as animator and animated exchange roles in a game of video capture. The boundaries blur between who records, who replays, and who holds the power to manipulate the other. The video centres on an animated camera and the images it produces. The shifting triangle between artist, object, and recording device plays out to the mechanical rhythm of camera sounds.

Director: Geumhyung Jeong
Camera: Geumhyung Jeong
Lighting: Stijn Grupping
Editing: Geumhyung Jeong
Equipment support: Patrick de Groote, Sijin Kim, Korean Academy of Film Arts
Location support: Patrick de Groote, Zomer van Antwerpen Festival, Korean Academy of Film Arts
Production: Korean Academy of Film Arts, 2011
Special thanks: BrickHouse Security, New York, NY

2011
Video / animated film
5'57" / HD / color

Geumhyung Jeong uses everyday objects in a deliberate, tender, often disconcerting way in her work across media. The line between human and machine, or object and animate being, slides between each pole. This can be seen in her short film Munbangu (Stationery) which engages a desire to become one of the objects in the video, a pencil, a brush, or a piece of paper. The practice of drawing and the drawing represented are personified with humour and eroticism in equal measure.

Director: Geumhyung Jeong
Camera: Sangho Kim
Light: Sangbin Ji
Editing: Geumhyung Jeong
Supported by Korea Academy of Film Arts

Video still, Geumhyung Jeong, Munbangu, 2011

Video still, Geumhyung Jeong, Munbangu, 2011

2011
Performance

Premiered at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 2011
Nominated for the ZKB Acknowledgement Prize, Zurich, 2012
Supported by Arts Council Korea

2010
Performance
In colloboration with Jackson Hong, Chungwoo Lee
Commissioned by Festival Bo:m, Seoul, 2010
Supported by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

2009
Performance

2009
Performance
Premiered at Arko Arts Theatre, Seoul

2008
Performance
Supported and presented by Seoul Marginal Theatre Festival 2008 (KR)

2004-2008
Performance
Previous work later reconstructed and retitled as 7ways in 2009