Binna Choi

Binna Choi brings two decades of experience working internationally while sustaining deep connections to her roots in the Korean cultural and socio-political landscape. She has been at the forefront of shaping new institutional models through her directorship of Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2008-2023). Facilitating the participation and collaboration of diverse agents, she has pursued decolonial and post-capitalist transformations within art organizations and institutional structures through the planning of multidisciplinary projects, artistic research, commissions, exhibitions, and publications.

Her recent curatorial projects in the biennale context include the 2025 Hawai’i Triennial, titled ALOHA NÔ, and the 2022 Singapore Biennale, named Natasha. In the educational context, Choi has also worked with the Doosan Curator Workshop (2024-ongoing), Gwangju Biennale International Curator Course (2025), and Dutch Art Institute (2008-2022).

Read Binna Choi’s curatorial note on Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest here.

Hyeree Ro

Hyeree Ro is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York and Seoul, primarily working with hand-crafted sculptural objects and structures, and multi-lingual fractured narrative-based performance. As a constant migrant passing through various immigrant statuses and encountering disparities in class and wealth, she interweaves her family history, places, language, body, movement, and stories into her practice.

For Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest, Ro’s installation Bearing uses thousands of waxed organza circles to create a delicate yet safe space that provides “stations” for the basic yet essential actions of personhood and liberatory praxis: outlooking, mourning, living, planning, waiting, mending, remembering, and sharing—activities and movements that require our care in order to bear new lives, new nations, and new worlds alike. />

Other recent projects by Ro include solo exhibitions August is the Cruelest at Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2025), Niro at Canal Projects, New York (2024), and Jinhee at Project Space SARUBIA. Seoul (2022). Ro also serves as an Assistant Arts Professor of Collaborative Arts at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Read Hyeree Ro’s conversation with Fellow Christian Nyampeta about Bearing here.

Goen Choi

Goen Choi works primarily with hard metals often used in domestic infrastructures, creating site-specific sculptural interventions that extend from interiors to rooftops, balconies, and other exterior architectural spaces. Her practice integrates entire sites into a single organic context, traversing boundaries of various kinds. />

For Liberation Space: Fortress/Nest, Choi’s installation Meridian identifies and opens up various blockages throughout the monument: the Pavilion’s second floor, where a spiral staircase once led visitors out onto the rooftop; a sealed pillar in the cylinder space through which key infrastructural tubes run; and the vegetative border between the Korean Pavilion and the Japan Pavilion. Through the piercing, rupturing action of the cut, split, and curved copper pipes, Meridian suggests new lines of energy and movement to serve as paths of connection and engagement.

Other recent projects by Choi include new commissioned works for the 2nd Frieze Seoul Artist Award (2024) and the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2024), Cornering, a solo exhibition at Amado Art Space (2022), and Vivid Cut at P21, Seoul (2021).

Read Goen Choi’s conversation with Fellow Lang Lee about Meridian here.