Jae Pil Eun explores the nature of change and disappearance, focusing on things that are easily overlooked, transformed, or forgotten. By dismantling rigid binaries―tradition and modernity, East and West―his work offers a sensory experience beyond standard categorization. Since 2020, Eun has moved between China and the Netherlands, tracing the life of Mei Lanfang, the cross-gender Beijing Opera performer, and records of his European tour, bringing traces of the past into the present through research and performance.
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
