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Watching figure skating programs has been my meditation and my space and time travel, and it’s another dream come true to shoot my sixth film with the junior world champion and rising-star skater Min-kyu Seo @smk.__.08 and the US ice dancing representative-turned-Milano Cortina Olympics livestream cinematographer Jordan Cowan @jordanicecam @oniceperspectives at the Gangneung Hockey Centre, built for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea; The whole mesmerizing day passed like a daydream 🩵 Still more to go for this film, and for this wonderful beginning, I’m deeply grateful to the commissioner of this work, the PharmaResearch Culture Foundation @prcf.official, and to the supporters, Arts Council Korea and Goethe-Institut Korea 🙏🏼 Most of all, the loudest applause for my excellent Seoul crew: the 1st Assistant Director Chae Jung Yu @ceejaeyu, the 2nd Camera Operator Seok-hyun Gwon, and Sound Recordist Hye-jung Kim ❤️‍🔥 Lastly, the dream makers, always in my heart: the Foundation’s Artistic Director Sohee Park @soheepark_curator and Curator Moonseok Oh 💕 by @youngjun.tak
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송은미술대상 25주년 ✨ Presenting 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙜𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 (2026) at the 25th anniversary exhibition of SONGEUN Art Award, collaborated with @unboxing_project, at @songeun_official in Seoul, which opened on 19 August and runs through 23 October! This sculptural installation evokes a memory of beach roses—해당화 in Korean—along the northern coast of Denmark. After walking for hours beside the shoreline, I found myself alone with nature—until I noticed a naked man standing on a dune covered with beach roses and their red fruits. Looking closer, more figures emerged: what seemed a solitary encounter was in fact a gay cruising area, charged with lust and desire. Visitors enter this wall-hanging sculpture alone through a curtain of wooden beads. The rose bushes’ dark green foliage is reimagined in strands of wooden beads, and twelve hand-carved red rose hips—made by traditional woodcarvers in South Tyrol—are scattered throughout. Three have transformed into male heads, adapted from historical depictions of St. Christopher, patron saint of travelers. Their gazes hardly meet, yet a quiet longing passes between them. Photos by Elmar Vestner taken in 송은 by @youngjun.tak
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Get ready for the last SCREENING this summer! This time with films and videos by @youngjun.tak @_mic4 #danielchew @theofficialnitsch We look forward to seeing you Wednesday, 12 August, 7pm! ‘Wish You a Lovely Sunday‘ by @youngjun.tak connects a church (Kirche am Südstern) and the queer club SchwuZ through choreographic movement — two spaces that may appear fundamentally opposed, yet both function as ritualized sites of community. SCREENING – Artist Films on Sub- and Counterculture is a six-part short film series that brings together film and video works by internationally renowned artists with rarely screened underground films. Across six evenings in summer 2026, Kantine am Berghain presents short films that explore music, the body, and identity in the context of sub- and countercultures in various ways. Admission is free.

SCREENING Artist films on subculture and counterculture Kantine am Berghain
 23 June, 1 July, 8 July, 30 July, 5 August and 12 August Supported by berghain_panoramabar @eidotech_official @bierhof_ruedersdorf Get ready for the last SCREENING this summer! This time with films and videos by @_mic4 #danielchew @theofficialnitsch @youngjun.tak We look forward to seeing you Wednesday, 12 August, 7pm! In ‘Negative Two‘, a short film by @_mic4 and Daniel Chew, a twentysomething gay man develops a relationship over text messages with a stranger he meets on a dating app. Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate as the protagonist navigates life as an architect in New York City. SCREENING – Artist Films on Sub- and Counterculture is a six-part short film series that brings together film and video works by internationally renowned artists with rarely screened underground films. Across six evenings in summer 2026, Kantine am Berghain presents short films that explore music, the body, and identity in the context of sub- and countercultures in various ways. Admission is free.

SCREENING Artist films on subculture and counterculture Kantine am Berghain
 23 June, 1 July, 8 July, 30 July, 5 August and 12 August Supported by berghain_panoramabar @eidotech_official @bierhof_ruedersdorf Get ready for the last SCREENING this summer! This tim taken in Kantine am Berghain by @youngjun.tak
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Screening of 𝙒𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙖 𝙇𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙮 (2021) at Kantine am Berghain this Wednesday, 12 August at 8 PM 🪩 Thinking of the legendary queer club SchwuZ featured in the film and closed in 2025 🌈 The door opens at 7 PM for everyone for free 🔥 Part of @screening_berlin ✨ Programmed by @_sebastian_weise 🙌🏼 taken in Kantine am Berghain by @youngjun.tak
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The dried pollack sculpture with my head and the head of my ancestor, the God of Abundant Fishing, 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙁𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 (2026), has now been taken down from the entrance of @artsonje_center in Seoul. The Center was the very first venue to host the Seoul Queer Film Festival in 1998. Be aware of this: the first public coming-out of a gay TV figure in Korea happened in 2000, and he had to completely leave the media industry, although he later came back and is now thriving. The wide-open eyes and mouth of dried pollack have traditionally been considered an effective way to ward off evil in Korean folk belief. As a gay man, it wasn’t exactly natural for me to reflect on my ancestry, even less on my maternal lineage, in this deeply patriarchal society. When it comes to the family tree, I’m more like a pair of scissors than a thread in the yarn. But this exhibition gave me the chance and the foundation to look into my roots and extend my families through my practice. Let it begin. The exhibition was initiated by the unique stronghold of Asian queer art, @sunpridefoundation, and its founder, @patsun430, has shown me a great example. Beyond being my dearest patron, he has invited me to reimagine and reassure myself what extended families can be in real life. Not only have I met new friends through his broad network, but attending his wedding was also my very first time witnessing East Asian gay couples with their children. It was a truly heartwarming surprise—not to mention his and Sean’s own baby now. While I can’t even keep a cactus alive at home, I wouldn’t start considering raising my own child. But simply thinking about my friends holding rainbow flags in cities around the world makes me smile and feel excited about the flow of life. Deepest thanks to Patrick and Sunjung @sunjung.samuso, again and again, for making this milestone possible beyond the art world 🏳️‍🌈✨ And naturally extended to the whole team @cho.hhn Sooyoung Choi @sanghyunnha @tsuwan @liqipedia 🙌🏼💕 Photos by Seowon Nam. Courtesy of Art Sonje Center taken in Art Sonje Center by @youngjun.tak
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The 5th film is shaped around Baroque gestures (and the Korean counterpart), and my dearest collaborator, @soetkinelbers—early music specialist, Baroque gesture expert, and electronic musician—filled a 17th-century church in Brussels with the movements of her hands, the gaze of her eyes, and her presence 🫳🏼👁️🫦✨ 1st AD @anto_renard DoP A-Cam @jubalbattistiphotography B-Cam Operator Todd M. Rives Sound Recordist Nathan Foucray-Bretonnière taken in Église Notre-Dame de Bon Secours de Bruxelles by @youngjun.tak
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Filming and screening at Kantine am Berghain this summer 🪩✨ The 5th film’s first shoot kicked off at the home of Berliners’ eternal youth with phenomenal @alif_hilal_ (formerly Lyra Pramuk) and her unstoppable new music/ritual for the film ❤️‍🔥💛💙💜 DoP A-Cam @jubalbattistiphotography B-Cam Operator @naima_maleika 1st AD @anto_renard Production Assistant Emilia Munita taken in Kantine am Berghain by @youngjun.tak
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My payback for the patriarchal masculinity of my father and the factory workers at a Hyundai subsidiary who mocked my childhood “girly” masculinity, 𝘼 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙩 (2019), is a sculpture composed of more than a thousand fragments from a used Hyundai car. Reflecting numerous possibilities of being, the work is currently on view at @collectionservais in Brussels and is proudly part of the collection, in the exhibition 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳 / 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 curated by Lorraine de Thibault @ohmylolz 🌈✨ Open till 19 March 2027 through guided visits Photos by Hugard & Vanoverschelde taken in Brussels, Belgium by @youngjun.tak
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The acquisition screening of 𝙒𝙤𝙝𝙞𝙣? (2022) at @stedelijkmuseum in Amsterdam at 3 PM this Saturday, 30 May ✨ Organized with @songeun_official in Seoul and presented with five other great South Korean artists 💕 Hopefully see you at the museum 🙌🏼 https://www.stedelijk.nl/en/events/video-club-songeun-x-stedelijk-en Credits Director, Producer Young-jun Tak Organist Andreas Sieling Countertenor Tim Morgan Actors Yusuf Can, Zhihao Zhong Director of Photography Valentin Braun Sound Recordist Edgardo Gómez, Guy Henderson Editor, Colorist Théo Perrot Sound Mixer Edgardo Gómez, Guy Henderson taken in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam by @youngjun.tak
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Across sculpture, performance and moving image, @youngjun.tak examines the tension between sameness and difference. Inspired by early experiences working as an auditorium usher and magazine editor, the Seoul-born, Berlin-based artist renders what is ostensibly incompatible as harmonious. Within his mixed-media work, Tak draws upon the queer body as a central theme, imploring movement, choreography and gaze to frequently challenge established notions of identity and selfhood. His practice engages a broad spectrum of belief systems, be that political, spiritual, religious or cultural. For instance, in his film Love Your Clean Feet on Thursday (2023), hypermasculinity and hyperfemininity interweave, while in his sculpture Salvation (2016), the sacred and the sacrilegious collide. Throughout his extensive and diverse catalogue of work, Tak explores polarisation as an existential condition.⁠ ⁠ Amidst the sustained run of major international solo and group exhibitions, Tak speaks with @oscarbloomfield about how he illuminates fundamental human concerns through art. Read at the link in bio. ⁠ by @youngjun.tak
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신작 영상 〈고동치네〉(2026)는 가덕도에서 200년 된 숭어들이 전통의 제18대 마지막 어로장 김유성 어르신의 눈빛과 베를린 티에르가르텐 공원을 서성이는 한 남성의 욕망 어린 시선을, 베를린 대교회 오르간 연주자 안드레아스 질링의 서정적 음악과 함께 교차합니다. The new film 𝙋𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 (2026) juxtaposes two intense gazes with the melancholic music by Andreas Sieling, the organist of Berlin Cathedral: the searchlight-like eyes of the 18th-generation fish watcher, the last follower of the 200-year-old fishing tradition in Busan, and the lustful stare of a young man in Berlin-Tiergarten. 루프 플러스 부산 LOOP PLUS Busan @loopplus.official Grand Josun Busan 23–26.4.2026 Super thankful to @olafstueber @videoartatmidnighteditions the curator and commissioner and @_lisa_long_ for the wonderful text! Credits Director and Producer Young-jun Tak Actor Pierre Emö Fish Watcher 김유성 Organist Andreas Sieling Directors of Photography 박동석(스튜디오 정비소), Valentin Braun Organ Recordist Aude Langlois Editor Clémentine Decremps Colorist Valentin Braun Sound Mixer Felipe Vareschi Locations Gadeok Island, Busan Tiergarten, Berlin Berliner Dom, Berlin Music Andreas Sieling — Louis Vierne, Organ Symphony No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 28, IV. Adagio, 1911; recorded at Berliner Dom (Berlin Cathedral), Berlin, 2026 Commissioned by Olaf Stüber, VIDEOART AT MIDNIGHT, Berlin Special Thanks 김창일, 김태인, 김현준, 류지혜, 이동근, Lisa Long by @youngjun.tak
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Videoart at Midnight takes part at @loopplus.official 
 April 23-26, Grand Josun Busan

 premiering: Young-jun Tak – Pulsating | 고동치네 , 2026
4K video, CinemaScope (2.39:1), color stereo, 8:20 min
 Each spring on Gadeok Island in Busan, a “fish watcher” observes the sea for subtle shifts in color that signal the arrival of spawning gray mullet, continuing a 200-year-old tradition of collective, attentive labor. Approximately 5000 miles away, a young man moves through Berlin’s Tiergarten, scanning the landscape with a similarly focused, desirous gaze. In Pulsating (2026), part of Young-jun Tak’s ongoing Ways of Lives series, these two modes of watching are brought into relation, linking labor, masculinity, and queer desire across different cultural contexts. Through close, psychologically charged camerawork and an oscillating organ score, the film sustains a tension between observation, anticipation, and the search for connection. Let’s meet in Busan #LOOPPLUS #LOOPPLUS2026 #루프플러스 #루프플러스2026 taken in Busan 釜山, South Korea by @youngjun.tak
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