CHE Onejoon

CHE Onejoon is a visual artist, filmmaker, and a member of Collective Afro-Asia. Che explores how changes in social structures, such as politics and ideology, affect the places where people live and their identities. In his early work, he revealed the hidden context of Cold War ideology across the Korean Peninsula through photography, film, and archives. Since 2013, he has been exploring the relationship between Africa and East Asia. His works include International Friendship, which examines the historical events surrounding statues and monuments built by North Korea in Africa. My Utopia is a documentary theater piece about the daughter of the first president of Equatorial Guinea who grew up in North Korea. Capital Black exposes the diaspora culture of African communities around US military bases in South Korea. Che has exhibited internationally at Taipei Biennial, Busan Biennale, Jakarta Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Seoul Media City Biennale, New Museum Triennial, Palais de Tokyo, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, and more. He was a fellow of Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.