Sanghoon Kim

As an artist and director with the collective ummeeeonn, Sanghoon Kim has shown a prolific passion for creation, presenting several works each year. His bold experiments have pushed the boundaries of the theater medium to their very limits. He has been warmly received by fellow artists as one of the most active young creators and as someone whose subversive work boasts some of the most unexpected humor. Kim’s work today is a vivid record of provocation and subversiveness by an artist who has refused to confine himself to the traditional spaces and practices of the theater. In his series Non-theatre, he posed fundamental questions about the theater’s raison d’être. Today, he has been broadening the scope of that question into the technological realms of digital spaces, AR technology, and video platforms. In works such as YouTube for Hirata Oriza(2024), Swipe!(2025), and Waiting for Totality(2026), he has exhibited a deep wellspring of creativity through his ironical explorations of theatricality in a contemporary landscape where the boundary between the real and virtual has faded. His bold technical experiments and conceptual rigor transfer spectators from passive viewers into the agents of a new aesthetic sensory experience.