Kaja Clara Joo | Bmkös
Kaja Clara Joo is mentee of Heike Eipeldauer
Kaja Clara Joo, * 1991, graduated with honors in 2024 from the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she studied Fine Arts. Her expansive, transdisciplinary works explore both physical and narrative boundaries. Cultural, social, and political behavioral patterns, as well as human interventions in the resources and the surrounding environment are central concerns in Joo´s artistic practice. Often site- and space-specific, she creates meticulously staged sculptures that span the artist's intended narrative across the space.
“With her process-oriented explorations of materials, the artist has written herself into the current debate on the ‘New Materiality’. Her artistic reflections focus on the life of things and the meaning that artefacts transfer and reveal about the history of societies.” (Fiona Liewehr in the art magazine PARNASS)
Her solo presentations have taken place at Sotheby's Art Quaterly, MQ Artbox, Bildraum 07, Periscope Salzburg, Gallery Monitor in the Czech Republic, and the SPARK Art Fair; dialogue exhibitions include the SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, among others. She has been awarded grants and residencies, among them the Lee Ungno Museum Residency in South Korea in 2024.