Draft:Mooni Perry

Mooni Perry (born 1990, Seoul) is a South Korean visual artist and filmmaker whose practice explores diasporic divinity, gendered cosmologies, and the migrating forms of ritual across East Asia and beyond. Based between Berlin and Seoul, Perry works with moving-image installations, collaborative research and speculative documentary to investigate how myth, memory and spiritual practices circulate across regions and shape contemporary identities.[1][2][3]

Her works are characterised by layered narratives in which documentary research, collective fieldwork, and speculative fiction intertwine. Critics have noted that Perry draws from ritual ecologies, migration histories, and feminist discourse to examine how spiritual and cosmological knowledge moves across borders and is reimagined in contemporary life.[1][3]

Perry’s first major institutional solo exhibition in Germany, Missings (2024) at the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, brought together a multi-channel video installation, drawings and archival material to explore grief, ritual cultures and transregional memory across East Asia and Europe.[4][5][6] Her work has also been presented at institutions such as the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan.[7]

Career

Perry studied painting in Seoul and London before developing a moving-image practice grounded in research, fieldwork and collaborative methodologies.[2] Her early works addressed non-human agency, Asian feminist thought and hybrid identities that hover between myth and contemporary social conditions.[3] She frequently employs lecture-performance, collective discussions and fragmented narrative structures to interrogate how stories are transmitted, reinterpreted and embodied.

In 2021 Perry co-founded, together with artist and researcher Hanwen Zhang, the online and transnational platform AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research). AFSAR hosts study groups, publications and research-based programmes involving artists and scholars across various regions. Reviews and interviews identify AFSAR as a significant conceptual framework that informs Perry’s approach to moving image, particularly in relation to feminist and decolonial cosmologies.[1][3]

Perry and Zhang also collaborate as the duo collective Moonwen (active since 2020), developing artistic-research projects on transregional cosmologies, ritual practices and migration. Their work has been presented on international platforms including the e-flux project “Look Who’s Talking”.[8][9] Their collaborative project Permeable Bodies – Betel Nut (Art Laboratory Berlin, 2023) examined Austronesian ritual and cultural connectors through research, workshops and multimedia installation.[10]

Perry’s project Missings (2024–25), presented at the Westfälischer Kunstverein, was described by reviewers as a multi-layered reflection on loss, migration and ritual knowledge, combining documentary footage from East Asia and Europe with fictional sequences and collective research sessions.[4][5][6]

During her residency at the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) in Hong Kong, Perry conducted research on women-led ritual communities and the legend of the Seven Fairies. The South China Morning Post reported on workshops and field investigations she led in Hong Kong and southern China.[11][12]

Publications

  • Missing (2024) — artist book accompanying the Missings project, co-published by Common Imprint, mediabus and the Westfälischer Kunstverein.[4][6]
  1. ^ a b c Schmudke, Agnessa (2025). "WATCH OUT #8: Agnessa Schmudke on Mooni Perry". KUBA PARIS. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b "An Artist Interview #19: Mooni Perry". KUNZTEN. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d Hwang, Jiwon (2022). "불온한 존재들에 대하여 Part 2: 무니페리 Mooni Perry". AliceOn (in Korean). Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Schade, Kristina (4 October 2024). "Mooni Perry – Missings". Kunst raum Münster. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  5. ^ a b Büsing, Nicole (20 December 2024). "Auf der Suche nach dem Zwischenmenschlichen". DARE. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  6. ^ a b c "Mooni Perry – Missings: From Baikal to Heaven Lake, from Manchuria to Kailong Temple". Artline. 8 January 2025. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Exhibition Detail – Young Korean Artists 2025". MMCA. Retrieved 27 November 2025.
  8. ^ "Moonwen". AFSAR. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  9. ^ "Look Who's Talking". e-flux. 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  10. ^ "PERMEABLE BODIES – Betel Nut. A Cultural Connector among Austronesian-speaking Societies". Art Laboratory Berlin. 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Rituals of Chinese legend the Seven Fairies examined in Hong Kong arts workshop". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
  12. ^ "Artist Residency – Mooni Perry". CHAT. Retrieved 27 November 2025.

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