Donghoon Gang is an artist, composer, and researcher based in Germany and Korea.
Through diverse media works that cross boundaries between exhibition and performance, visual and auditory, he dissolves borders between sculptural language and music, exploring integrative and alternative forms of expression.
Based in ethnomusicology and music psychology, he examines how sound and music are consumed and instrumentalized or misused for specific purposes in history and society. Utilizing acousmatic techniques that minimize visual information and maximize auditory imagery, he explores the experimental expansion possibilities of invisible media.
Recently, he has been tracing the influx of Western music into East Asia, driven by imperialist desires and the pursuit of modernity. He examines the resulting musical hierarchies and their colonial transformation, re-evaluating the remaining vestiges through a post-colonial lens.
Education
2024 Fine Arts, Städelschule, Meisterschüler, Class. Willem de Rooij, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2018 BA Philosophy, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, KR
2013 Diploma, Music Composition, SJA Music Institute, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Triglossia, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2025 Rat-a-tat, Pom-pom, Bang!, Jeju Culture & Arts Center, Jeju, KR
2024 attacca, BOAN 1942, Seoul, KR
2022 4.6m/s, This is not a church, Seoul, KR
2021 Blackout, Jo-anne, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Envelopes, N/A, Seoul, KR
OPEN STUDIO 2025-2026, TOKAS Residency, Tokyo, JP
2025 Open Studio 21, MMCA Residency Goyang, KR
quovadis, St. katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Lauschsalon [ˈapɡəˌfakt], Artspring Kunstfestival 2025, Berin, DE
2024 The Call, Schaumainkai 69, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Whispering Noise, N/A, Seoul, KR
2023 Chorusing, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Another night in Daimler, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
disUtopia, Nãi Cinema, Berlin, DE
2022 Floor Space Index, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2021 Premiere, Kresßman Halle, Offenbach am Main, DE
Performances and Listening Sessions
2024 Lull Frequencies, Busan Biennale 2024, Busan, KR
AXIOM : COUNTERPOINTS, Radio X, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Listening Session, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2022 Water, Fragile, Berlin, DE
Soundarc, Gasthof, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Awards and Residency
2026 Art Creation Activity Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
International Creator Residency Program, Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo, JP
2025 Jeju Young Artist Award, Jeju Culture & Arts Center, Jeju, KR
2025 MMCA Residency Goyang, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, KR
2024 Absolvent*innenpreise, Sammlung Pohl, DE
Art Creation Activity Support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2023 Creative process Interdisciplinary Arts, ARKO, KR
DigiPraxSND Funding Program, HMWK Hessen, DE
2022 Award for excellent creative arts, Jeju Culture and Arts Foundation, KR
Sound Art Lab, Struer, DK