Eunjin Yoo returns to Munich to discuss her recent residency at Pivô, São Paulo, in a conversation with Lydia Antoniou, curator at Haus der Kunst.
Eunjin Yoo’s multidisciplinary practice spans installation, sound, sculpture, video, and performance. Her work explores how cultural memory and identity are shaped through shared histories. Often developed through fieldwork and collaboration, her projects weave together sonic fragments, material traces, and lived experience.
During her time in São Paulo, Yoo collaborated with local musicians, exploring rhythm as a way to shape space, gesture, and storytelling. By blending field recordings from Bom Retiro’s garment workshops with Afro-Brazilian rhythms such as roda de samba and candomblé, she created evolving compositions that merge music, movement, and spatial experience. Her research reveals the “unwritten score” of samba, exploring how rhythm circulates through bodies, communities, and generations.
As part of her residency, Yoo undertook a research trip to Rio de Janeiro, the birthplace of samba, to study the material and performative dimensions of sound and percussion. Working with musicians, instrument makers, and archives, she investigated how samba’s rhythms are transmitted and embodied through gesture, voice, and collective memory rather than written notation.
The conversation will focus on Yoo’s artistic process during her residency in Brazil – how rhythm and collaboration became a means to engage with questions of migration, labor, and cultural memory within contemporary artistic practice.
In collaboration with PS61 Studios.
Eunjin Yoo (Daegu, 1992) is a South Korean artist based in Munich whose practice moves across installation, sound, sculpture, video, and performance. Her work explores how cultural memory and identity are shaped through migration, labor, and shared histories, often emerging from fieldwork, collaboration, and close engagement with local contexts. Yoo weaves together sonic fragments, material traces, and lived experience to examine how traditions are reinterpreted today. She studied visual arts in Daegu, Berlin, and Munich, graduating in 2025 under the mentorship of Prof. Alexandra Bircken and Prof. Raphaela Vogel, and was the awarded artist of the Salta art Residency at Pivô São Paulo (Aug–Nov 2025). Her work has been presented in various spaces, including MEWO Kunsthalle (Memmingen), Neuworkshop, Lovaas Projects (Munich), Kunstarkaden (Munich), AkademieGalerie (Munich), The Pool (Düsseldorf), Goldberg Galerie, Kunstpavillon, and Nuovo Gallery (Daegu).
Lydia Antoniou is a curator and architect whose work engages moving image, the technological conditions of contemporary image-making, and live programming as open forums for exchange. At Haus der Kunst München, she navigates the interstices of liveness and spatial production, exploring alternative modes of exhibition-making that invite the public into resonant encounters shaped by evolving relations of space and time.