The Soft Geometry of Being: An Evening with LG Guggenheim Award Recipient Ayoung Kim

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Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, 6:30 to7:30 PM.
Step into a world where the virtual meets the real in this
special after hours program withIyeun Kim, recipient of the 2025
LG Guggenheim Award. Join Kim as she unveils her
approach to image and character creation, forging unexpected

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connections across presence, narrative and mediated form.
Kim activates the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright designed theatre
with the cast of virtual and live entities in this
experimental artist talk unfolding in real time across
both physical and digital realms.
This hybrid presentation brings to life the digitally embodied

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figures from her recent works, most notably Earnest MO and Anne
Storm, each marked by a distinctive personality and a
replicated visual form. Conceived specifically for the
Guggenheim S Theatre, this technology driven experience
using LGOLED technology blurs the lines between subject and
object, simulation and reference, and spectacle and

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process. Iyeon Kim B 1979 is an artist
based in Seoul, South Korea and the recipient of the 2025 LG
Guggenheim Award. Trained in motion graphics and
lens based media, Kim creates fantastical, meticulously
crafted virtual environments using emerging technologies.

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Her work builds on classical cinematic tropes, combining live
action, motion capture and animation software, game engines
and image generation technologies.
She explores virtual reality andlive simulation alongside more
traditional mediums like performance, sculpture and
printmaking. Tickets 25 General 20 members 15

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students purchase tickets here. About the LG Guggenheim Art and
Technology Initiative The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology
Initiative is a five year multifaceted collaboration
between the Guggenheim and LG designed to research, honor and
promote artists working at the intersection of art and

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technology. Unique in its areas of
concentration and approach, the initiative is an unprecedented
investment in technology as an artistic medium.
It enables the Guggenheim to broaden its investigations into
this innovative field, providingessential support to the
visionary artists who inspire new understandings of how

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technology shapes and is shaped by society.
As part of the initiative, Noam Siegel joined Guggenheim New
York in 2023 as LG Electronics Associate Curator, focusing on
research. Siegel plays an active role in
developing the museum S engagement with technology based

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art, producing scholarship and public facing content that will
strengthen the goals of the multi faceted initiative across
the museum S departments. The multi year initiative
establishes the LG Guggenheim Award, which recognizes one
artist annually for their groundbreaking achievements in
technology based art. Administered by the Solomon R

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Guggenheim Foundation, the awardis juried by an international
panel of distinguished museum directors, curators, scholars
and other arts professionals, with the selected artist
receiving an unrestricted honorarium of 100,000.
In February 2025, Guggenheim NewYork and LG proudly announced

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Iyun Kim as the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award recipient.
For more information, visit guggenheim.org.
Initiatives LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative LG and
the YCC Party, Two additional artists will be recognized with
the LG Guggenheim Award through 2027.

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About LG Founded in 1947, LG is a technology innovator and
global leader in consumer electronics, automotive
components S and organic light emitting displays.
OLEDS. LG Corporation LG Corp is the
holding company for industry leading LG subsidiaries such as

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LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution and LG Chem
among others. The LG Group of Companies
employs over 270,000 people across more than 60 countries,
generating 140 billion in annualrevenue.

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For more information about the LG Group of Companies, please
visit lgcorp.com. About The Solomon R Guggenheim
Foundation The Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation was
established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting the
understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art

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through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives,
and publications. The international constellation
of museums includes the Guggenheim New York, the Peggy
Guggenheim Collection, the Guggenheim Bilbago, and the
future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, a temple of spirit where radical

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art and architecture meet. Guggenheim, New York is among a
group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United
States designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
To learn more about Guggenheim, New York and the Guggenheim S
activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org.
LGX Guggenheim at Guggenheim at LG.