Suah Im

Born in 1988 in Bucheon/South Korea.

Suah Im lives and works in Berlin/Germany. She studied installation art at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart), Germany, where she received her diploma in 2019. In 2023, she completed the postgraduate program (Meisterschüler:in) in experimental film and media art at the Universität der Künste Berlin (Berlin University of the Arts, UdK).

In her multimedia installations, Im explores the origins of the self as well as the transformative potential and multifaceted nature of identity. Her practice brings together different media to examine processes of becoming, transformation, and self-perception.

Her solo exhibitions include Frischzelle_31: Suah Im at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (2024–2025) and Entropy at EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin/Germany (2023). Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at nGbK, Berlin/Germany, as part of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt (2026), the 30th ROHKUNSTBAU (2025), and the SOMA Museum of Art, Seoul/South Korea (2025), among others.

Im has received the kunsthub Art Prize, the Werner Pokorny Foundation Prize, and the DAAD Prize. She has been supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation and was a fellow at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris/France.

Suah Im is a fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude in cooperation with Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart).