it’s our pleasure to welcome Yeosulme Kang and Jaehwa Baek (a.k.a. Sulme & Jae-Nder Fluid to our subnetAIR program 2025!
As every year, a mixture of local and international artistic positions has been sought out. The selected project proposals and persons are characterised by ambitious objectives and thematic relevance.

The jury’s decision was to give one subnetAIR slot to Yeosulme Kang and Jaehwa Baek (a.k.a. Sulme & Jae-Nder Fluid) because „the young Korean artist duo put forth a performance work that illuminates the multifaceted nature of queer immigrants. The artists concentrate on the impact of space on identity and movement over time. This is exemplified by their exploration of transgender issues and the use of i.a. transgender urban toilets as a site of performance. Their work, which encompasses images, video, short films and installations, advocates for the freedom of gender performance that transcends national and ethnic boundaries.“

Yeosulme Kang and Jaehwa Baek (a.k.a. Sulme & Jae-Nder Fluid) on their project:
A key aspect of our artistic practice is examining the intersection of two identities—immigrant and queer. We especially aim to connect this exploration with the concept of “spatiality.” The notion of immigrant-queer spatiality lacks a clear definition and instead seems fragmented. To classify and explore our unique concept of immigrant-queer spatiality, we have established three criteria:

  • Spatial orientation and direction based on phenomenological experience
  • Freedom of gender performance beyond nationality and ethnicity
  • Exploration of queer-immigrant futurity

Using these three criteria, we examine how queer-immigrant individuals interact with space, how space influences their bodies, and how certain elements of space resonate with them. We manifest these ideas through visual media, time-based media such as moving images, video, and short films, as well as installation works, thereby constructing a visual world.
Recently, we have begun to incorporate a physics-based perspective into our exploration of space. Initially, we focused on how queer-immigrant identities operate within physical spaces, but over time, we realized that space is not merely physical but is intricately connected with temporality. We came to understand that time and space are inseparable, particularly in the queer-immigrant experience, where these two concepts merge and are perceived as a single spacetime.
Thus, we seek to explore how the fluidity of identity over time combines with spatial experience and what this spacetime interaction means to queer immigrants.

Yeosulme Kang and Jaehwa Baek (a.k.a. Sulme & Jae-Nder Fluid) are a Korean artist duo based in Bremen and Hamburg, Germany. They have explored the fluid and multi-layered nature of social constructs through their complex identities as queer immigrants.

Picturecredit: Yeosulme Kang and Jaehwa Baek (a.k.a. Sulme & Jae-Nder Fluid)

subnetAIR26 will be calling this summer and deadlining on October 31st 2025.

subnetAIR Exhibitions:
2022 Medien.Kunst.Realitäten – Katalog
2018 possible bodies  – Katalog
2015 Klanghypothesen – Katalog

subnetAIR 2016 -2022:
# Jana De Troyer – documentation
# Martina Fröschl – documentation
# Scarlett Yang
# Corrie Francis Parks (MediaART Stadt Salzburg) – documentation
# Chun Shao – documentation
# Katsuki Nogami – documentation
# Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – documentation
# Nora Jacobs (MediaART Stadt Salzburg) – documentation
# Lukas Gwechenberger – documentation
# Stefan Tiefengraber – documentation
# Stefano Mori – documentation
# Simon Whetham – documentation
# Silvia Rosani and Tom Jacques – documentation
# Vera Sebert – documentation
# Michaela Schwentner – documentation
# Mac Krebernik – documentation

subnetAIR Ausstellung: possible bodies (2018)  – Katalog
# Lale Rodgarkia-Dara –  documentation
# Simon Faulhaber
# Georg Scherlin –  documentation
# Iulia Radu
# Nicolò Cervello
# Robert B. Lisek –  documentation
# Kanari Shirao –  documentation
# Laura Splan   documentation
#Antoni Raijekov – documentation
# Young Suk Lee – documentation
# Danny Bracken
# Lucie Strecker
2015subnetAIR Ausstellung: Klanghypothesen (2015) – Katalog
# Myriam Bleau
# Robert Praxmarer – documentation
# Nikolas Psaroudakis – documentation