Longega Project (Fabian Feichter, Youlee Ku, Siyoung Kim, Nele Ka, and Oliver Haussmann) is named after the Ladin village of Longega („in between water“) in the South Tyrolean Alps at 1,000 metres above sea level. Since 2017, it has hosted an international artist residency.

Longega Project was established to enable alternative experiences of visiting artists and their intensive exchange. Influenced by the Dolomite landscape and its myths, individual artistic approaches merge into shared processes linked to different cultural practices.

Fabian Feichter (born 1986 in Brixen, Italy) lives and works between Munich, South Tyrol and South Korea. Feichter comes from an artistic family: his father and grandfather are wood sculptors, his mother is a painter and musician. In 2014, he completed his studies in sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich as a master student of Prof. Olaf Metzel. His final project was awarded the DAAD Prize. In 2019, he received the Ludwig Gies Prize from the LETTER Foundation.

It is a journey through small stories or experiences that may not always be the most relevant, but still spark a spark, that are of the utmost interest to him. Feichter’s works, realized in different media, such as sculptures or installations, are often characterized by a sarcastic humor. He is interested in the moments of feeling, through which he creates experiences with a wide range of emotions and gives great importance to small moments.

Since 2017, he has been experimenting with analog electronic music and is part of three music groups: Kunststoffwerkstatt, Verra and Frauenstrasse. In the same year, he founded the Longega Project with Youlee Ku.
www.fabianfeichter.com
@feichter_fabian

Youlee Ku (b. 1988 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works between South Korea, Italy, and Germany. From 2007 to 2012, she studied in the Department of Fine Arts at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, and from 2014 she studied under Prof. Olaf Metzel and Prof. Alexandra Bircken at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In her artistic practice, she incorporates elements from her surroundings and phenomena from the cultures around her. She engages with various materials, techniques, and approaches. Her work includes installations and performances, video pieces, as well as plastic art and sculptures. Themes such as the relationship between art and nature, the history of origin, states of presence and absence, and the transition between form, transformation, and deformation are at the core of her artistic interest. Youlee Ku has participated in several international exhibitions and has been making experimental music and performances as part of the band Verra since 2018. She has realized a number of art festivals and exhibitions and co-founded the Longega Project in 2017.
www.kuyoulee.com
@youleeku

Siyoung Kim (b. 1976 in Berlin) based in Munich, Germany, graduated with a BFA in painting from Chosun University in Gwangju, Korea, and then completed her diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof. Axel Kasseböhmer and Prof. Schirin Kretschamann. In addition to her artistic work, she is involved as a project partner for artists in residence, especially between Korea, Germany and South Tyrol. Since 2021 she is a member of the Longega Project. Since 2019, Siyoung Kim has curated various exhibitions and projects and participated in numerous exhibitions as an artist, including ‘hey alter’ at the Pinakothek der Moderne 2023. She has been awarded 2024 City of Munich Prize in the field of Fine Arts.

Siyoung Kim’s artistic work is a multi-layered expression of human society, captured from different perspectives. As an observer of the diversity of different cultures, she has had both inspiring and disconcerting experiences. The fusion of these influences is reflected in her wide range of media including drawing, collage, photography, video and embroidery. Her work is often about juxtapositions. She contrasts the innocence of cute dolls with themes of violence beneath seemingly idyllic scenes. Her detailed embroideries express the aesthetic of nature, using a slow, artisanal process that opposes modern speed and productivity.
www.siyoungkim.com
@_siyoung_kim_

NELE KA, materialised in SAO-21846 Cassiopeiae in 2598, is part of a species – the Transplanetarians [Pre-tempus, Immortalibus, Amantes, Curiosæ]. The Transplanetarians travel between solar systems in search of the cause of transient existence. They have been stationed on the blue planet for an indefinite period of time. Their research mission: [C0-M/M-01;00] to find connections and relationships that seem impossible in the context of social inequalities. To explore questions of mortality, time and consciousness. Using different materials and concepts, experimental arrangements are developed that question paradigms and involve more-than humans. They are always processual and fragmentary narratives, centered around non-linear time axes of interstellar post/apocalypses.

NELE KA is part of Longega Project since the Artist Residency 2021 and currently located in Munich at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Pamela Rosenkranz. Ongoing research has been presented at Kunstpavillon Munich, Castle Egglkofen, MaximiliansForum, Apartment der Kunst, Marburger Kunstverein, Galerie der Künstler, Galerie Noah, JETLEG Biennale, Space n.n., Rosa Stern, as well as in collaborations, such as HTSSNASS:S in Super Books at Haus der Kunst, MAGIK MIKE at Kunstarealfest Munich and Future Perfect Collective.
www.neleka.de
@n_e_l_e_k_a

Oliver Haussmann (b. Heidelberg, Germany) lives and works in Munich. He invents and creates his own worlds in his paintings, which in turn follow their own rules. He negotiates symbioses and compositions of digital and analogue aesthetics. He is interested in how spaces are constructed in the digital world and how different interfaces and games build visual and narrative logics. He is interested in how our visual experiences change in the course of digitalization and how new aesthetic realities are derived from this. By transferring visual concepts and logics from the digital world and mixing analog material from art history into painting, his investigation is directly linked to the digital transformation of our society.

He studied communication design and fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Pia Fries as a master student since 2022. He is part of the Longega Project with the Artist Residency 2021. 2022 he was nominated for Karl&Faber Art Prize. He recieved Kulturförderpreis of LfA Förderbank Bayern 2018 and the First Prize of Short Film Festival ‘kurz und schön’ 2014 in Cologne. He exhibited at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art, Munich, Erholungshaus Bayer-Kultur, Leverkusen, Braun-Falco Galerie, Radierverein Munich, MaximilianForum, Lothringer Halle, etc.
www.oliverhaussmann.de
@oliver.haussmann

Claudio Matthias Bertolini (Bonn, 1987) is a German-Italian artist, musician and teacher. He grew up in Rome and studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, in Milan, and at the ADBK in Munich, where he also lives and works.
His artistic work presents reflections on the cultural history of mankind with a particular interest in timeless and recurring elements and symbols.

Ho Bin Kim (b. 1996) is a novelist currently cosigned with Curtis Brown (UK/World) and Duran Kim Agency (Korea). Using his writing, he indulges in visual art through the medium of performance art, installation, painting, media art, and video. Through the ideology based on his literary style, he demonstrates existentialism, absurdism, nihilism, and metaphysics through the narrative of oppression he has faced or seen while growing up in Korea, Japan, USA, and studying in China.
Kim makes experimental attempts to express the negative effects of mass media through satirical narratives, using books, news, and videos belonging to mass media. His recent research has been focused on systems related to art, social enquiry based on databases, and the relationship between social consciousness and individual identity through media.

Kunststoffwerkstatt (or KSW) is an ever evolving music project founded by the three italian visual artists and musicians Claudio Matthias Bertolini, Federico Delfrati, Fabian Feichter and guests, that are invited to write the project specific lyrics and perform as singers.
Its foundations are based upon experimental electronic music with a strong focus on improvisation, storytelling and dynamic soundscapes in constant change. From 2018, a year after its foundation in 2017, KSW took part in various public events such as exhibition venueses, off-spaces, festivals and Clubs. Due to its strong performative and site-specific nature, this music project always acted with and reacted to its environment: delivering electro-ambient atmospheres at times, and filling the spectrum of sound frequencies with hammering hard techno rhythms at others.
Its musical and visual characters often deals with the absurd, the weird, the fantastic: a mythological fiction whose narrating voices are a cacophony of synthesisers, drum-machines, sampled daily sounds, guitar and choirs.
For the Pavilion, the actress Hwang Mi Young supports Kunststoffwerkstatt.

Jayi Kim (b. 1982 in South Korea) is currently based in Gwangju. She graduated from Chosun University with a bachelor’s degree in Printmaking and Media, and from Kingston University London with a Master’s degree in Art & Space. She has visually recorded the language of rest (static rest and dynamic rest) based on exploration, starting with her own resting methods and then examining others’ as well. She has been developing the Skill of Rest & Relaxation since 2017, focusing on the importance of rest within the rapid pace of life in modern society. Recently, she has proposed gardening as a method for incorporating rest into life. She has had solo exhibitions in Gwangju, Munich and London, and participated in more than seventy group exhibitions in South Korea and internationally.

Sul Park (b. 1984 in Gwangju, South Korea) lives and works in Gwangju. She holds a degree in painting from Chonnam National University. She has exhibited in Seoul, Gwangju, and Busan, South Korea, as well as in Beijing, China, and San Antonio, USA, among other locations.
Sul Park’s works offer an exciting insight into the combination of cultural heritage and modern expression. She uses traditional Korean ink and rice paper, combined with a collage technique borrowed from Western art, resulting in a style that is both traditional and contemporary. The process of dyeing the rice paper involves some degree of Sul Park’s intervention, but it is more about allowing the paper to interact with the ink on its own. As the ink seeps into the paper and slowly spreads, it naturally forms intricate, mysterious patterns. The artist then carefully cuts out certain sections of them.

Kyu Nyun Kim (b. 1985 in Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Seoul. He studied Fine Art at Sungkyunkwan University from 2005 to 2011 and continued his education at the Braunschweig Art University under Prof. Corinna Schnitt from 2013 to 2018. Since 2018, he has held four solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in South Korea, Germany, Japan, and the USA.
In his artistic practice, Kim utilizes various materials, including video, installation, painting, and performance. His work explores different expressions of “visibility” derived from the verb “see.” He aims to challenge and alter the roles and positions of viewers and the artworks they encounter, ensuring they are not fixed or static.

Jehyun Shin (b.1982) uses personal events and contradictions in Korean society to develop the results of long-term research into media such as video, publication, installation, and photography. He expresses the various interests he has acquired over the past decades in diverse methods, such as by holding a clothing workshop or making musical instruments collected from a particular region. Through these activities, he covers local issues and speaks about social and political problems from a feminist perspective.

Recently, he has focused on interdisciplinary art performances with physicists, choreographers, and experimental musicians. He has participated in many domestic and international group exhibitions, including Unforeseen (MMCA Seoul, Korea), Millefeuille de Camélia (Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea), and Artistic Survival Tactics (Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea)

Sool Park (b. 1984 in Korea) studied philosophy, mathematics and literature in Munich. He is currently junior professor for intercultural philosophy at the University of Hildesheim. His main areas of research are Korean philosophy and philosophy of translation, questioning how the process of globalization has led to intercultural interactions in philosophy. As an author, he writes poetry, prose and philosophical texts for artists. Sool Park has translated several philosophical and lyrical texts from German into Korean, including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Trakl, Novalis, Hölderlin and Kafka. He also translates modern and contemporary Korean poetry. His German translation of Kim Hyesoon’s “Autobiography of Death” (co-translation with Uljana Wolf) will be published in 2025

Seyoung Youn (b. in Gwangju, South Korea). Her work explores the concept of “becoming space,” where she creates screens and colors that challenge conventional perceptions, capturing her impressions of both familiar and unfamiliar places. These places range from the land we inhabit and the universe we’ve never visited to the inner worlds we carry within us. Through painting and installation, she delves into the relationships between people and the spaces that feel foreign or strange.

Youn holds both a BFA and an MFA in Fine Arts from Chonnam National University, graduating in 2001. She has been an international resident artist at the Villa Waldberta in Munich, Germany, in 2019, and at the Gwangju Museum of Art in 2018. Her work has been featured in 12 solo exhibitions, including at Gallery Art Space House in Gwangju (2024) and Super+ CenterCourt Gallery in Munich, Germany (2019). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, such as the Longega Project at “1000 Gallery” in Longega, Italy (2022), and the Imagined Borders main exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale (2018).

Sung Young Hong is an artist who works in various mediums, including installation, video, and painting, with a focus on recording disappearing things. He was selected as the winner of the 2023 Incheon-type Artist Support Project and held an exhibition titled “Finger Pointing to the Moon on the Island” at Buyeon in Incheon. The exhibition consisted of sculptures made from scrap wood collected from the island and video results from live drawing performances for local residents.

In 2024, he participated in “Beyond Blockchain Web 3.0 Era Art” held at Gu House. This exhibition aimed to reveal the critical implications of the NFT blockchain. In the 2023 exhibition “The Blinder Watchmaker” held at the SAPY, artists from various fields, including perfumers, musicians, scientists, and installation artists, presented their philosophies on time.

Hong’s artwork transforms and develops in various ways depending on the situation and the surrounding environment.

Within his oeuvre Kim Yusob aims at providing new impulses for abstract expressionism. His process of painting unites religious, philosophical and Anthroposophical aspects. Much is left to hazard, for Kim considers his art a seismogram of his inner world. The (in an alchemical analogy) “first matter” of his painting is an amorphous and indefinite liquid mass. Thus the basic material already contains the final work of art. The artist merely brings it to light during the process of painting.
After graduating from the Department of Fine Art at Chosun University, Gwangju, in 1983 Kim Yusob moved to Berlin. There he studied both at the Kunsthochschule Weissensee in East Berlin and at the Western Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). 1995 he became Meisterschüler (Master Disciple) of Wolfgang Petrick. Since 1996 Kim has been teaching at Chosun University, where he completed Graduate School in 2001. From 2007 on he has been teaching at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts). In 2014 he became Professor of Painting at Chosun University.

Klaus Erika Dietl is a media artist and performer with a background in filmmaking and literature. He studied painting and art theory at the Academy of Arts (AdBK) in Munich. His work combines painting and subversive handicrafts with video, sound and digital art.

Together with fellow artist Stephanie Müller he initiated MEDIENDIENST LEISTUNGSHÖLLE in 2009. Since then it has evolved from a vibrant underground studio to a nucleus for international media art research and exchange programs.

Stephanie Müller is a textile artist, performer, experimental musician, producer and sociological researcher. She has a master’s degree in communication science, sociology and psychology (LMU Munich) and postgraduated at the AdBK in Munich. In 2015 she initiated  the international collective ALLIGATOR GOZAIMASU together with Klaus Erika Dietl and Sapporo based artist Mikio Saito.

So far Dietl and Müller have been invited by festivals and institutions such as the SXSW Festival in Austin (TX, USA), the Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria) and the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen (Germany), a festival that qualifies for the Oscars. They were part of „Playing The City 3“, a series of art interventions in public space hosted by the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt a. Main (Germany) and they exhibited at the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) within the international festival „100 Years of Bauhaus“. Furthermore they received visual and media art stipends in Amman (Jordan), Antwerp (Belgium), Birmingham (UK), Jakarta (Indonesia), Lviv (Ukraine), Salzburg (Austria) and Tibilisi (Georgia). Further highlights include a performance at the documenta Halle in Kassel (Germany) and a sound art production for „Licht im Kasten“, a radio play written by nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek.

Kim Hyesoon (b. 1955 in Uljin, South Korea) is a renowned poet known for her innovative and provocative literature. She is one of the most important voices in the Korean and global literature today; her style often combines surrealist images, traditional symbolisms and feminist/decolonial themes, resulting in a vivid landscape of distorted, yet revealing voices. In international context, Kim Hyesoon was awarded Griffith Poetry Prize (2019) and National Book Critics Circle Award (2023). Her work has been translated into over 10 languages. In 2025, German edition of her book „Autobiography of Death“ will be published, translated by Sool Park and Uljana Wolf.