Pia Jaeyoon Kim is a South Korean artist based in Europe. Her practice focuses on soft sculpture and textile installation, primarily using wool and needle felting. Through slow, manual processes, she explores themes of nomadic life, emotional memory, and discreet gestures of care and connection.
Trained in textile design in Korea and Japan, she blends artisanal traditions with a contemporary conceptual language. The softness of felt in her work is not only tactile but also symbolic: a political and emotional gesture that resists, holds, and speaks without words.
In her sculptural forms, she approaches femininity not as a fixed identity, but as a fluid sensibility: an openness to subtle emotions, an ability to listen without noise. The wool forms she creates offer a space for reflection, empathy, and silent dialogue. She views softness not as fragility, but as strength: a means by which she seeks to build connections in a fragmented world.