Kim Yong-Ik, a conceptual artist who has maintained a distinct stance amid the dominant artistic movements in Korea throughout his 40-year career, will unveil This is not the answer at Galerie Barbara Wien to coincide with the Gallery Weekend Berlin program. As his first-ever solo presentation in Germany, Kim will show a selection of major works stemming from the 1970s to today, including sculpture, painting, and drawing. Notable works in the show include Kim’s early wall installations entitled Plane Object (1974–81) and Closer... Come Closer..., also known as the "polka dot paintings", which he began in the early 1990s. The show will also encompass his most recent works, wherein he draws lightly with coloured pencils and pencil on large white canvases, repeating and overlaying the geometrical forms of squares and circles. 

Running parallel with the Berlin show, a new rendition of Kim Yong-Ik’s canvas installation is on view at Tina Kim Gallery, New York, through June 15, 2019. For his solo exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery, Kim has created a site-specific wall installation that engages directly with the space. A series of dots line the room, moving off the canvas and directly onto the walls. By expanding his work beyond the painting surface and into the physical gallery space, the architecture becomes part of the work itself, demonstrating the artist’s refusal to be bound by the constraints of traditional artworks.

In addition, a new monograph on the artist will be published by French publishing house Cahiers d'Art in collaboration with Tina Kim Gallery and Kukje Gallery. Chronologically tracing his 40-year long career, the publication will include texts by Beck Jee-Sook, Director of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA); Philippe Vergne, Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto; and an artist interview by curator, art critic, and Cahiers d’Art editor Hans Ulrich Obrist.