With delicate sensitivity and poetic restraint, KOO JEONG A opens up spaces for experiencing silence at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Her works invite visitors to sharpen their perceptions and sensually grasp the invisible through sound, scent, and movement.
KOO JEONG A's artistic practice is nourished by patient observation and a keen attention to incidental phenomena. In her installations, sounds, smells, and barely tangible energies become vehicles for an experience in which the invented and the found are inextricably intertwined. With few, precisely placed means, a quiet, haunting effect unfolds that aims not at explanation, but at presence.
The Kunsthaus Bregenz provides the ideal setting for this approach. Despite its size and spaciousness, Peter Zumthor's architecture allows the seemingly marginal to come into its own. Memory, elegance, and an almost spiritual atmosphere characterize both the space and the artist's work. Here, space is experienced not only as a physical dimension, but also as a way of thinking: open, cyclical, and permeable.
KOO JEONG A understands space as a zone of perception and movement. This was impressively demonstrated in earlier projects, such as a skate park that combined physical experience, architecture, and poetic imagination, or in works that dealt with the shape of the Möbius strip as a symbol of infinity. There, too, she expanded space beyond the visible by using scent, rhythm, and movement as integral components of perception.
Her installations are not stages in the classical sense, but rather sensitive fields of hidden energies. Whether electromagnetic fields, olfactory impulses, or barely perceptible sounds—KOO JEONG's works derive their power from atmosphere and restraint. At a time when art often appears loud and explanatory, they set an example for the intensity of silence and the beauty of the unobtrusive.
January 31 to May 25, 2026
