HAE YOUNG JI

born in South Korea
lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

Artist StatemenT

Focused on video production, I create speculative narratives that reflect the world and project potential futures. My works explore migration, ambiguous and diminished identities, and the overlapping worlds of virtual and real. Inspired by Asian folklore, migration ecology, games, and SF, my work evokes the saturated world of today and the crisis of identity and explores the multi-identity that migrates across the potential worlds.

Education

2017–2020

MA in Fine Arts, ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts), Zurich

2010

MA in Design, Domus Academy, Milan

2007–2009

Product Design, SADI, Seoul

2001–2006

BA in Computer Engineering, Hongik university, Seoul

AWARD and SeLECtion

2024

DA Z award, Digital Art Zurich, honourable mention

2024

Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival

2022

Prix Photoforum 22, nominated

2022

Swiss Interactive Session, Geneva International Film Festival

EXHIBITION

"DA Z screening", Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (2024)
"Volume of air trapped between the earth and the sky", HAAM Gallery, Punjab (2024)
"Porvir", quarta a sabado, Sao Paulo (2024)
"Collective Imaginary Studies", one gee in fog, Geneva (2023)
"PRIX PHOTOFORUM 2022", Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel (2022)
"We are so many here - Regionale 23", Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2022)
"Internal Clocks", Culterim Gallery, Berlin (2022)
“Wired Magic”, HEK, Basel (2021)
“MATERIAL WORLDS – STORIED MATTER”, E-WERK, Freiburg (2021)
“BE THERE” design festival, Hongkong (2019)
“Molecular and Love”, Galerie 1 in Toni-Areal, Zurich (2018)

Grant

2023

Work grant, Fachausschuss Film und Medienkunst BS/BL, Basel

Publications

2024

Piscina #1 – Porvir, Piscina art magazine, Sao Paulo

2024

IN A NUTSHELL, Z-KUBATOR WHAT’S UP, Zurich

2023

The Whole Technoshamanic Catalog, Umbigo magazine, Portugal

ARTist PROGRAM

2022

WAVES program by Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich

2021–2022

What’s Next_Studio, Zurich

Talk

2022

Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 2), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel

2022

Atmosphäre, Design und Wohlbefinden (part 1), CoCreate course, HGK, Basel

career

2018–

Co-founder & Creative director of media™, Basel, Switzerland

2012–2015

UX design consultant, FRUM

2011–2012

Product designer, HANSKIN

CONTACT

For video + portfolio requests or any other inquiries, please contact me.
jhy.basic@gmail.com