Yunjoo Kwak

Yunjoo Kwak is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based between Rotterdam and Seoul. Her practice combines archival, architectural, and historical research with fieldwork, social engagement, and community-based collaboration. Focusing on Dutch military architecture and its transnational trajectories, she examines how built environments carry colonial legacies, imperial violence, and Cold War-era trauma, while revealing overlooked connections across different geographies. Working across video essays, photography and archival installations, Kwak explores memory, migration, social exclusion, and spirituality. Her works create spaces where suppressed voices and marginalized histories can emerge through layered visual narratives. Kwak has exhibited internationally and has been affiliated with Willem de Kooning Academy as a lecturer. Read more about Yunjoo Kwak.

Yunjoo Kwak’s written MA thesis (2011): Me and My Voice, Refugee

Learn more about Yunjoo Kwak’s DAI-publication (2011): Downey’s Ordinary Talking 

Text written in 2017 by Marianna Maruyama for Yunjoo: “Would it be possible to re-invent a ‘better’ future of collective-individualistic architecture? How might that ‘better’ future be worked?”

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