Jiyoon Chung: Dead End

In the exhibition, Jiyoon Chung presents a site-specific installation that explores themes of perception and the handling of fear, external affect regulation, and infrastructures of control.

– Jiyoon Chung, Hyperreal, 1.0, 2026, 79 x 101 x 10 cm. Epoxy resin, graffiti extracted with solvent. Courtesy of the artist and Anton Janizewski

While Chung’s project in Copenhagen establishes a connection to the foiling of a terrorist attack in late 2010 and addresses the resulting strengthening and reorganization of the Kunsthalle’s security structure, the solo exhibition at Galerie Anton Janizewski takes place against the backdrop of a current intensification of security policies that are increasingly supplanting the search for social solutions.

“Dead End” translates the “crisis-ordinariness”—the ordinariness of crises—into visual triggers. Through this confrontation with triggers, Chung creates a state within the gallery spaces intended to disrupt the familiar rhythm of everyday life. In doing so, she questions the extent to which the expectation of insecurity and unease is compatible with the supposed stability of the daily rhythm.

Fingerprints placed close to the gallery windows expose, in a forensic manner, our almost inconspicuous yet most frequently left traces. They are situated at the boundary between two types of public space: the outside world and the exhibition space.

The exhibition is part of Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Runtime: Fri, 01/05/2026 to Sat, 06/06/2026

Takes place here:

• Anton Janizewski