OAN KIM

From this alchemy of influences emerges Oan Kim & the Dirty Jazz, a sensual, urban jazz where harmonic finesse meets bodily pulsation. Sound research transforms into haunting melodies, crossed by the tension of rock and the visual poetry of cinema. Discovered by essential jazz scene producer Jean-Philippe Allard, the albums Oan Kim & The Dirty Jazz (2022) and Rebirth of Innocence (2024) were released on his brand-new jazz label Artwork Records/PIAS and have been unanimously praised by critics. A third album, expected for the spring of 2026, will mark a new milestone, featuring a more collective and in-depth creation alongside Benoît Perraudeau (guitar), Eli Frot (piano), Paul Herry-Pasmanian (bass) and Simon Lemonnier (drums), under the artistic direction of Matthis Pascaud. His collaborations with singer Gabi Hartmann, trumpeter Nicolas Folmer, drummer Edward Perraud, the band Feu! Chatterton and writer Laurent Gaudé bear witness to his openness to very different genres.

Alongside music, Oan Kim is developing a career as a photographer and filmmaker, co-founding the photo agency M.Y.O.P. His works, exhibited from Paris to Seoul via New York and Macau, and his documentaries, presented at international festivals (Doc NYC, Hot Docs, Krakow Film Festival…), question the boundaries between reality and subjectivity. His work has been recognized with numerous awards: the SCAM Documentary Prize, the Silver Prize at the Krakow Film Festival (2021) and the Emergent Filmmaker award at the DMZ festival for The Man Who Paints Waterdrops co-directed with Brigitte Bouillot, the Swiss Life 4-Hands Prize (2019) with Ruppert Pupkin, as well as the Nuits Photographiques Prize and the Sungkok Museum's Tomorrow’s Artist Prize. Projects such as Je suis le chien Pitié (2009), a four-handed photo book with writer Laurent Gaudé, or Digital After Love (2019), a photo-music collaboration with musician Ruppert Pupkin, illustrate his cross-disciplinary approach, both poetic and anchored in reality.

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