Younji Ku

Art Director

Visual Artist

Younji Ku is a video and sound artist. Ku was SHOWstudio's Art Director from 2014-2019. Ku was born in Seoul, South Korea and currently resides in London. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from UAL.

Ku has a strong interest in every aspect of visual and audio culture and is passionate about experimenting with unconventional ways of presenting these media to reflect fast-changing modern society and people's minds living within it.

Younji Ku is a video and sound artist. Ku was SHOWstudio's Art Director from 2014-2019. Ku was born in Seoul, South Korea and currently resides in London. She holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts from UAL.

Ku has a strong interest in every aspect of visual and audio culture and is passionate about experimenting with unconventional ways of presenting these media to reflect fast-changing modern society and people's minds living within it.

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Music Video: Ovule

Björk performs her single 'Ovule' wearing a custom dress by Gucci, as Nick Knight uses 3D technology to transform the musical icon into new life forms.

Fashion Film: Utopia/Dystopia

Younji Ku presents a dystopian film showcasing the work of 12 graduating designers in a domestic mise-en-scène.

University of Westminster

Graduate Collections

Q&A: University of Westminster BA 2021 - Fashion Film Directors

Showcasing their most important collections to date, the University of Westminster BA fashion design students turned to fashion film and a documentary in place of the annual runway show. We spoke to two of the film directors, and course leader Rosie Walli

Fashion Film: Waltz of Fragments

Younji Ku dives into the repressed desires of the mind, envisioning the reality of our unconscious.

Audio Track: Mad About The Boy

Playing throughout the exhibition was Michel Gaubert's music for Raf Simons' 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' S/S 16 show, mixed with audio testimony.

Fashion Film: Bonnet

This film accompanies and brings to life images shot for a V Magazine editorial in 2014 where Nick Knight and Amanda Harlech revived the bonnet.

Campaign Film: Gabrielle Chanel Essence

Nick Knight's fragrance commercial sees Margot Robbie radiate freedom and elegance.

Fashion Film: @uglyworldwide

Jazzelle enhances, distorts and experiments with her physical appearance in Nick Knight's fashion film.

Conversation: Discussing AI with visual artist Memo Akten

What does artificial intelligence mean for the human experience, and where do the technology’s limitations lie?

Film: Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera made its debut with a starring role in a film by Nick Knight.

Aston Martin DBS Superleggera

The Aston Martin DBS Superleggera made its debut with a starring role in a film by Nick Knight.

Bacchae

Aris Biniaris’s Bacchae explores the bestial power inherent in Dionysus, the God of theatre, lust and ritual madness. SHOWstudio and the Onassis Cultural Centre present a series of images exploring the raw animal nature in Biniaris’s production.

3D Film: Bacchae

SHOWstudio Art Director Younji Ku manipulates the face of the king in 3D, exploring the transformative element of the Bacchae.

Film: Bacchae

Watch Aris Biniaris's cast in process during the rehearsal period of their production, March 2018.

Ion

SHOWstudio and the Onassis Cultural Centre open dialogue and expand the narrative around Christos Papadopoulos’s minimal, poetic dance piece, Ion.

Film: Ion

Nick Knight's film, art directed by Younji Ku, explores the synchronisation of movement and time in Christos Papadopoulos's choreography.

Onassis Cultural Centre

Interview: Christos Papadopoulos

SHOWstudio Art Director Younji Ku asks choreographer Christos Papadopoulos about the visual nuances in his work

Fashion Film: Gareth Pugh S/S 18

Gareth Pugh’s S/S 18 collection presented here through the medium of fashion film - created by Nick Knight.

Gareth Pugh S/S 18

‘This is not a show.’ Nick Knight and Gareth Pugh offer an exclusive visual insight into Pugh’s S/S 18 collection presented here as fashion film.

Gareth Pugh A/W 17

Gareth Pugh’s powerful, political A/W 17 show inspired a dark and provocative body of work by Nick Knight for 10 Magazine.

Fashion Film: Gareth Pugh A/W 17

Our collective anxieties are explored in a fashion film for Gareth Pugh A/W 17.

Editorial Gallery: Gareth Pugh A/W 17

Nick Knight shot the Gareth Pugh A/W 17 collection for 10 Magazine on models including Erin O'Connor, Grace Bol and Blitz kid Scarlett Cannon.

Nick Knight Photographs

Inside MACHINE-A

Young designers discuss their work amidst their collections hanging in the cult concept store MACHINE-A.

Interview: Hyein Seo on A/W 17

Stavros Karelis and Anna Trevelyan talk to the duo behind the brand Hyein Seo, Hyein Seo and Jino Lee, about their A/W 17 collection, studying in Antwerp and the collection's Nike sponsorship.

Fashion Designers

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