For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, Anton Janizewski is pleased to present Dead End, Jiyoon Chung’s first exhibition in Berlin. The artist connects to a previous exhibition, which, as part of her receiving of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Solo Prize, will be presented at Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, at the end of January. Chung will create a site-specific installation dealing with topics surrounding the perception and processing of fear, external affect regulation, and infrastructures of control. While Chung’s exhibition in Copenhagen establishes a link to the enhancement and restructuring of the museum’s security structure, her solo exhibition at Anton Janizewski is presented in the context of the current intensification of security politics, which continues to suppress the search for social solutions. Dead End undertakes the translation of crisis-ordinariness in visual triggers. Through the confrontation with these triggers, Chung produces a condition, which disrupts the familiar rhythm of the everyday. Chung aims to question how the anticipation of unease and precariousness can be negotiated with the presumed stability of everyday life.

02.05.–06.06.26
Opening: 01.05., 6–9 pm

On Dead End

For Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026, Anton Janizewski is pleased to present Dead End, Jiyoon Chung’s first exhibition in Berlin. The artist connects to a previous exhibition, which, as part of her receiving of the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition Solo Prize, will be presented at Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen, at the end of January. Chung will create a site-specific installation dealing with topics surrounding the perception and processing of fear, external affect regulation, and infrastructures of control. While Chung’s exhibition in Copenhagen establishes a link to the enhancement and restructuring of the museum’s security structure, her solo exhibition at Anton Janizewski is presented in the context of the current intensification of security politics, which continues to suppress the search for social solutions. Dead End undertakes the translation of crisis-ordinariness in visual triggers. Through the confrontation with these triggers, Chung produces a condition, which disrupts the familiar rhythm of the everyday. Chung aims to question how the anticipation of unease and precariousness can be negotiated with the presumed stability of everyday life.

Jiyoon Chung (*1990, Seoul, South Korea) lives and works in Frankfurt am Main and Seoul. Chung earned her BFA from Chung-Ang University and received her degree from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in 2024. Selected solo exhibitions include: Dead End, Forhallen, Copenhagen; White Lies, N/A Gallery, Seoul; and Condition Reserved, Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg. She was awarded the Künstlerhilfe Frankfurt e.V. prize and the graduate prize from Sammlung Pohl in 2024.