»Edge of Now« Exhibition

With their Three Rooms project the ZKM, the Nam June Paik Art Center near Seoul, and the Chronus Art Center in Shanghai, China, support young media artists. After the shows in Seoul and Shanghai, three artists from South Korea, China, and Germany will present their works in Karlsruhe at the ZKM starting 29 June 2019.

The exhibition Edge of Now foregrounds current debates about how we deal with contemporary technologies and how these are used in the works of the younger generation of media artists. Edge of Now encourages us to think about how a future beyond the edge of now might look.

The exhibition features works by South Korean artist Kim Heecheon, Chinese artist YANG Jian, and German artist Verena Friedrich. The three young artists were selected for the project by a screening process and recommended by an international panel of experts. Their artworks exhibit unusual perspectives on our world which technology and media are changing rapidly and in which the dividing lines between online and offline are increasingly blurred. The combination of artists from different countries is conducive to engaging with this issue in a comprehensive way and from a variety of perspectives.

The touring exhibition project featuring the three young media artists was first shown last summer at the Nam June Paik Art Center and subsequently at the Chronus Art Center from November 2018 to January 2019. At the ZKM Edge of Now will run from 29 June to 27 October 2019.

We cordially invite you to the opening on Friday, 28 June 2019 in the ZKM foyer! 

There will be no press conference. Please arrange individual press meetings with the curator Philipp Ziegler. Please direct your inquiries to szope@zkm.de.