Krista Kim

Minted by Krista Kim

Acquired from above

Contemporary Istanbul with GLOBART, 2021

Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center

Meditation will save us from the machine; art will save us from ourselves. I believe in the healing and transformational power of visual art + sound + meditation on an individual and a social level. Our future is unknown and unstable. There are difficult times ahead due to social and economic unrest due to pandemic risk, digital disruption, automation, and climate change. Collective fear is undeniable, but we cannot allow ourselves to be dominated by fear — we must face the unknown with open hearts and mindfulness. In the chaos, there is a creative opportunity. We must create a better future with compassion and love. My collaboration with video artist Efren Mur (Berlin) and electronic music band Ligovskoï (Paris) was created during the COVID-19 crisis. Our purpose is to present a vision of meditativeness and digital beauty to the collective consciousness. The world is forever changed, and we must adapt with mindfulness, self-care, and connection to the creative energy that will help us navigate the unknown.

Krista Kim

Krista Kim is a digital artist and founder of Techism (2014), whose work explores the concept of digital consciousness. Her interest in digital technology and its revolutionary effects on human perception, media, social structures, and communication led her to work in both digital and physical realms.

In 2020, Kim continued to explore the creative potential to utilize screens as digital instruments of well-being by creating 'Mars House': a completely virtual environment using her digital zen philosophy as the first “Metaverse home” for sale as an NFT in history.

In 2014, as a response to society's over-reliance on technology, she started the Techism Movement, a philosophy that recognizes technological innovation as an artistic discipline, encouraging artists to promote digital humanism for our digital culture. 

Krista Kim’s Continuum installation was featured in Times Square every midnight in Feb 2022.  She is a Cultural Leader for World Economic Forum and she wrote a Metaverse essay for New York Times, and is the first Metaverse artist of the permanent LACMA collection. Krista is a Cultural Leader of the World Economic Forum, and was chosen by Louis Vuitton as a #Louis200 visionary in celebration of Louis’ 200th birthday and created the first Lamborghini NFT in history in collaboration with Steve Aoki; Krista is contributing Metaverse Editor for Vogue Singapore; Top 30 Most Influential People of the Metaverse by Read and Write Magazine; Architectural Digest AD100, NFTy50 by Fortune Magazine. Kim made an iconic collaboration with Lanvin in 2018. In 2021, Kim collaborated with Mercedes Benz EQS. Kim was creative director for the Utah Jazz NBA Team, “JazzXR” campaign.