Yunchul Kim (South Korea, 1970) is an electroacoustic music composer and artist based in Berlin and Seoul. Kim has been exploring the artistic potential of fluid mechanics and meta-materials and properties of certain substances including photonics crystals, nanoparticles, magnetic fields, fluids and invisible sub-micron particles. Kim, is also the founder of Studio Locus Solus and a chief researcher of Mattereality, a trans-disciplinary research program at the Korean Institute for Advanced Study.
His work has been shown at leading galleries and museums such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, Asian Culture Centre, Seoul Museum of Art, National Art Museum of China, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts and MoMA (Online), including solo exhibitions at SongEun Art Space, Alternative Space Loop, Berlin Künstlerhaus Bethanien and Jiri Svestka.