Ayoung Kim’s (*1979) first solo exhibition in a German museum spans the last five years of her artistic practice. Using artificial intelligence, virtual reality, video, game simulations, sculpture, and sonic fiction, Ayoung Kim creates vast fictional universes with their own spatial and temporal laws. Her works are often linked by speculative narratives connected to the real world we live in; viewers are transformed into spectators as well as players who control the narrative from their own point of view. Ayoung Kim’s subjects are humans, characters, mythological beings, and virtual entities who cross the boundaries between various possible realities, letting possible and impossible worlds collide across different times and spaces. Her exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart explores themes such as migration, xenophobia, queerness, and biopolitical and geopolitical questions and looks closely at the symbiosis between data, humans, and the planet.