Kork has received numerous grants and awards, including the NEUSTART KULTUR grant from the Kunstfonds Foundation, the studio support program of the bbk Berlin/Berlin Senate, the City of Vienna’s Recognition Award, and the JASSO grant for Japan. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Umspannwerk Reinickendorf, ExRotaprint, and the ACUD Theater (Berlin); at the Zou-no-hana Terrace as part of the Yokohama Triennale (Japan); at the CICA Museum (South Korea), at the Budapest Art Market, and in exhibition spaces in Vienna, Leipzig, Seoul, and Tokyo. 

Work Title: If Butterflies Don’t Fly

In the former horse stable, Luzie Kork presents two video installations that poetically explore the history of silkworm farming in the region—a past to which the remaining mulberry trees still bear witness today. In one of the two works, she focuses on the silkworm and undertakes the delicate yet futile attempt to teach it to fly. The gesture oscillates between care, absurdity, and quiet resistance against natural limits. Her second video work depicts a performative act by the artist herself: rolled up in a seemingly endless cloth, she pupates like a silkworm. In the process, the body becomes the vessel of a transformative process that simultaneously addresses protection, retreat, and metamorphosis. This gives rise to images of cycles and transitions in which the search for historical traces and personal, physical experience intertwine.