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Soobeen Woo is a media artist based in Bremen, Germany, whose work explores the thresholds between disappearance, material transformation, and the unstable mechanics of perception. Her practice begins with the belief that absence is not the opposite of presence, but a condition just as vivid—one that dissolves, fragments, and lingers, shaping how we experience existence itself.
Through installations, speculative environments, and responsive systems, she investigates how physical and digital structures disintegrate in time and space. Her works illuminate what often escapes human perception—vanishing ecosystems, dissipating breath, residual data—and in doing so, challenge anthropocentric ways of sensing the world.
By integrating technologies such as AI, sound systems, and data-driven interfaces with tactile and atmospheric elements, Woo constructs environments where disappearance is not loss, but transformation. Her recent projects examine how perception itself—especially the act of observation—can become a disruptive force, where the attempt to witness becomes entangled with the erasure of what is being witnessed.
Working with themes of memory, erosion, and sensory failure, she invites audiences into a space of speculative fragility, where presence is no longer stable, and absence is not silence but signal. Her practice urges a reconsideration of what it means to perceive, to sense, and ultimately, to let go.
Soobeen Woo
Media Artist, Editor, Curator
youxarthur@gmail.com
Education
2023-present, BFA, Digital Media, HfK Bremen(University of Arts Bremen), Germany
Group Exhibitions
2025, Lichtrouten 2025, Lüdenscheid, Germany
2025, Hochschultage 2025, HfK Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2024, MAP 2024, POSTER SERIES, an art project on mobility in the streets of Hanoi (Collaborate with GHTK), Hanoi Downtown, Vietnam
2024, Goldstücke 2024 - Licht Kunst Projekte Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2024, Lichter der City, Projection Mapping, Bremen, Germany
2022, Korea-Thai-Japan NFT Festival, Team Invisible, Uncommon Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018, YCK F 2018(Young Creativ Korea F), Ara Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Awards, Grants, Projects, Performances
2024, Dreaming Streams, Goldstücke - Licht kunst Projekte Gelsenkirchen Diplopia Open Call, Team KIS, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
2024, Open Space - Domshof, Vjing Performance, Bremen, Germany
Experiences
2024, MAP 2024 - Movement, HfK Bremen & Heritage Art Space - Hanoi, Vietnam, Bremen, Germany
2024, VJ-ing Workshop, We Dig it + Xenorama Studio, Bremen, Germany
2023, Projection Mapping Workshop, We Dig it + Xenorama Studio, Bremen, Germany
2022, Seminar & Hackathon, In the Age of Web 3.0 Creating in Digital online environment, Art Collider - Korea National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea
Artistic Contributions
2024, Ouroboros, CGI & AI generated image, Hara Shin, Seoul, South Korea
Work
2025, Lichtrouten 2025, Curator, Lüdenscheid, Germany
2024-present, 2room Magazine (Webzine), Guest Editor
2021 - 2023, Wesang Company: Magazine maat, Editor, Seoul, South Korea