About
Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) NL
Born in 1977, Busan, South Korea
Lives and works in Berlin
Since the late 1990s, Korean-Dutch artist Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) has created a rich body of work that traverses an array of formats and mediums, including film, writing, immersive (film) installations, performances, and painting. Chang combines spiritual evocations, historical research and the unravelling of colonial narratives creating works that act as historical repair, healing and belonging. With repetition and insistence, Chang has been questioning Eurocentric systems of categorization, racialization and its penetration in all levels of life and contemporary Western society. Her work can be seen as poetic and intimate gestures that centralise a meta-cosmic and inclusive approach to modernity, transforming the meaning of value and time.
Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide) was born in 1977 in Busan, South Korea. Chang is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Program 2022-2023. She is a former resident of De Ateliers, Amsterdam (1999-2001), and has been an artist in residence at ISCP, New York (2007) and at WIELS, Brussels (2016).
Recent solo exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2022-2023); Centraal Museum Annex, Utrecht (2023); Rozenstraat | a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (2023); ARGOS, Brussels, (2021); CASCO | Hartwig Art Foundation, Utrecht (2021). Two-person exhibition with Youngjoon Kwak at ARKO, Seoul (2022). Her work has been shown at the Busan Biennial (2022) 11th Berlin Biennale, Berlin; Dhaka Art Summit, Bangladesh; Mu.ZEE, Ostend; Contour Biennale 9, Mechelen, Belgium; 6th Kuandu Biennale, Taipei; ARKO Art Center, Seoul; Argos, Brussels; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Sharjah Biennial 13, Beirut; the 1st Asia Biennial/the 5th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou; The School of Kyiv: Leipzig Class. Seminar: Politics of Form, Part of the Kyiv Biennial; the 19th Biennale of Sydney; the 11th Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, Incheon; KIOSK, Ghent; M HKA, Antwerp; If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, various locations; De Pont, Tilburg; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; De Appel, Amsterdam; Marres, Maastricht; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Temporary Gallery, Cologne; De Vleeshal, Middelburg; 44th and 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam; Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain; CAAC, Seville.
Collections: Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Van Abbemuseum; De Vleeshal/M HKA; Mu.ZEE; De Domijnen; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Moderna Museet Stockholm, Rijkscollectie Nederland/Hartwig Art Foundation