About Adrian
ARTIST STATMENT
Adrian Dongmin Choi is an artist working across place, material, ecology, and public life.
I am interested in how art can reopen connections between human and nature, place and memory, sensation and relation. My work begins not from a single message, but from traces already present in the living world — the shifting surfaces of water and land, marks left in a fishing village, the place where a species is disappearing, the expressions on people's faces, and the rhythms of their lives. These are not subjects to represent, but clues that set a process in motion.
Climate and ecological questions enter this practice not as slogans, but as part of a larger inquiry into beauty, fragility, and how we might live together with greater care. I think of art not as an immediate answer, but as a subtle force that can shift perception, alter relation, and open more attentive ways of living together.
SHORT BIO
From theater to climate art practice
Adrian Dongmin Choi began his artistic practice in theater in 2007, following an earlier career in IT engineering. Based in Busan, South Korea, he has developed his practice through experimental arts work in Jeju, international dance and performing arts markets, and cross-border collaboration. He has built a cross-disciplinary practice spanning performance art, visual art, text, research, and community collaboration, shaped by sustained engagement with ecology and climate. His work has been presented at six consecutive UN Climate Change Conferences.
AN UNUSUAL PATH