Haein Kim is a visual artist born in South Korea. She documents her experience with cities and surroundings, presented from a cartographic perspective. She is currently incorporating printmaking to capture such moments.

Following her last term in GlogauAIR, where she had worked with a fresh impression of Berlin, she now focuses on the routines she has adapted to within the surroundings. Through daily walks and tasks, she observes the city through a more intimate lens for visual inspiration. These impressions are then carved into linoleum plates in small sizes, so that they can be used casually or even playfully. As small-scale of the carving leaves the details rather crude, it compresses her sensory experience and simplifies it into visual symbols. They are printed on scraps of paper, from everyday items like tickets and bakery packages to others such as surcharge bills and notes taken for job applications that allude to practical struggles.

Her work also highlights how prints reproduce their own mirror images, and how the use of pressure is always required in the process. This is represented by the sentences printed with linocut, which imply the powerplay in misogynistic and racist encounters she has experienced. Her goal is to experiment further with such characteristics of prints in order to reflect on the relationships she builds with people and cities.