Jae Pil Eun has questioned the meaning of belonging and home through memories of migration, focusing on personal emotions and the histories of the periphery that resist simple translation. His works respond to entrenched notions of colonialism and gender identities in the West, generating sensory experiences that cannot be fully reduced to language. Since 2020, the artist has been conducting research on Peking opera and Mei Lanfang while working in China, Korea, and the Netherlands.
His work has been included in exhibitions and performance programs at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, and Seoul Museum of Art, among others.
Education
2021 Sandberg Institute, Art and Design MA, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Kunstakademie, Fineart, Karlsruhe, DE
2017 Chung-Ang University, BFA in Photography, Seoul, KR
Teaching
2025 Hongshan District Elementary School, Wuhan, CN
2025 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Image and Language, Guest tutor, Amsterdam, NL
Solo Shows
2025 Red Celebration, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, NL
2024 Sound in the Dark, Space Seoro, Seoul, KR
2023 Catching Water, Moon on the Water, Windmill, Seoul, KR
Selected Performance and Exhibitions
2025 Blue Night, Blue Shadow, Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Pre-Opening Program, Seoul, KR
2025 Blunderen Performance Festival, Bonnefanten Museum and The Butterfly House Stichting, Mastricht, NL
2025 Stage Left, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, NL
2024 TEST CASE XXXI, Oisterwijk, NL
2023 Prospects, Art Rotterdam with Mondrian fund, Rotterdam, NL
2023 Moving Shadows, Punt WG, Amsterdam, NL
2023 When Things Are Beings, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Blu Moon, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Butterfly dream, If I Can’t Dance Studio, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Landscapes: Eye on Research Labs, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
