uni form
Broken Twill
Berlin Edition
A further development of the “uni form” exhibition from Seoul, which combines art, fashion, and technology. This Berlin edition is a digital transformation that brings together painting, data, and AI-based experiments.
November 11 – December 12, 2025
Potsdamer Str. 61 / 10785 Berlin-Schöneberg / close to Potsdamer Platz / on the Gallerie-Straße
Introduction to the exhibition
From Seoul to Berlin: A Digital Transformation
This exhibition is the Berlin edition of the project “uni form: Broken Twill,” which began in August 2025 at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul. The project reinterprets the social structure of the “uniform” and examines the relationship between collectivity and individuality, discipline and freedom.
The Berlin edition goes one step further and pursues a complete digital transformation. Every element of the exhibition in Seoul—from planning to images to texts—has been converted into a data set. This data now serves as the basis for AI-based creative experiments and generative recompositions. The exhibition is thus not a finished result, but an evolving process in which art, technology, humans, and AI weave new visual languages.
The artist: Chul Yong Choi
Chul Yong Choi is a fashion designer and contemporary artist who studied at Hongik University and Domus Academy in Italy. After working as an art director for major European fashion brands, he founded his own label, Cy Choi, in 2009.
The “Broken Twill” motif
The exhibition focuses on his series of paintings dealing with the theme of “uniforms.” Choi uses the textile technique of “broken twill” as a visual leitmotif. For him, this weave, in which the diagonal line is deliberately shifted, symbolizes the subtle irregularities that arise within systems of order.
His canvases explore the tension between regulation and freedom, institution and individuality. This deliberate deviation within the structure (“broken twill”) provides the conceptual starting point for the expansion of his practice into the fields of AI and data, which is presented in the Berlin exhibition.
Invited works & AI collaboration
The Berlin edition expands on the theme with invited works, including pieces by artists from the OpenAI Creative Lab Seoul program. These artists use AI not only as a tool, but as an active collaborator and creative agent.
In a world-first curatorial experiment, they draw inspiration from Chul Yong Choi's paintings and reinterpret his visual language through AI-based processes. The exhibition explores how the materiality of painting and the artist's sensibility can be transformed by the perceptual structure of AI.
The following invited works are part of the exhibition:
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“Broken Twill Study I–IV” (2024–2025) – Hyojung Seo. As a leading Korean generative artist, Seo translates the structure of textile fabrics into the language of data. Her series experiments with how physical fabric can be reinterpreted as an algorithmic pattern.
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“Office Ladies” (2025) – Emi Kusano. In her series (full title: Office Ladies: Rituals of Overflow), the globally recognized AI artist visualizes the subtle tensions between human labor, gender, and social roles. Her work humorously and critically explores the clash between technology and culture through a post-human aesthetic.
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“We Were Here” (2018–2020) – Anton Shebetko. This photographic work deepens the social and ethical dimension of the exhibition. It portrays LGBTQ soldiers in Ukraine and raises the question of how individuals preserve their dignity and identity within the collective discipline of the uniform. The work lends the exhibition human and political weight and expands the meaning of the uniform as a symbol of dignity, diversity, and resistance.
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“The Beauty of Dégagement” (2025) – Kim Jinyoung. This work is listed as an invited work in the exhibition. (The text provided does not contain a detailed description of this work).
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“Open-flow Drift” – Kim Jiyoung. This work is listed as an invited work in the exhibition. (The text provided does not contain a detailed description of this work).
CORE GROUP
HOONCHEOL KO
BOSEUL SHIN
MANO AN
DOYEON RYU
HYUNMIN YUN
YOONKYUNG LEE
CHUL YONG CHOI
SUNKYU HA
The Hackathon:
A Creative Data Archive
The “uni form” project is the world's first attempt to systematize the entire process of art production as a data set. All elements of the Seoul exhibition became a creative data archive.
This data set served as the basis for a hackathon in which AI artists, designers, and developers created new, secondary works. They reinterpreted the “uniform” through the language of AI, code, and algorithms.
The results of this hackathon are on display in the Berlin exhibition. They demonstrate how the exhibition is becoming an open, constantly evolving process and a data-driven creative ecosystem.
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