Sunggu Hong

In a large hall, a person wearing a black overall and trainers stands on a decorative stone floor. The person has shaving foam around their mouth and holds a long metal rod with a razor attached to the end, raised in front of their face. In the background, several people sit on steps watching, while a spray can, a crumpled tissue and a vacuum cleaner tube are on the floor, and a microphone stand stands in front of a marble column.

Sunggu Hong (he/him), born in Seoul, is a Vienna-based artist who works in the fields of visual and performance art. He studied visual art in South Korea and performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. ‘Relationship’ is a key concept of his practice which allows him to ask how we should/could live together within mutually dependent, entangled, complex relationships: Why do alienation and hate tend to arise within such entanglements? His current interest is directed at the relationship between humans and non-humans. By focusing on their mutual dependencies and entanglements, Hong tries to deconstruct an anthropocentric perspective and take a fresh look at our complex relationships, the events that shape them and ways of living together. The main question guiding his entire work process is: How are we raised by one another?

Works at brut

Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 3&4 – Raised by the Chronic; Beyond, the Moth (imagetanz 2026)