07.2025

Our BATMAN X SPYSCAPE project for Warner Bros. won another award in Interior Design / Installation category!

06.2025

Mona Kim appointed as jury member for Futurs Désirables competition for Art Directors Club of France (Le Club des D.A.).

10.2024

Mona Kim invited by her alma mater as a guest lecturer to share her expertise in brand experience and experiential spaces with students in the Environments track of its highly esteemed design program.

07.2024

News just in: Our proposal is a finalist. The Barbican invited our studio to propose a concept for an immersive exhibition on Music.

06.2024

Mona Kim Projects, together with its content production partner, awarded the project for Spain’s oldest and most iconic beer brand.

04.2024

Mona Kim was invited by the Gerety Awards and Club de D.A. to join a panel discussion aimed at exploring—and breaking the clichés around—“French creativity,” alongside the inspiring Céline Mornet Landa (Creative Director, Sid Lee) and Charlotte Marmion (Managing Director, Iconoclast). (SEE THE TALK)

09.2023

The Macallan Litha’s architectural and experiential exhibition, designed by us, has launched in Shenzhen. (SEE PROJECT)

09.2023

Our BATMAN X SPYSCAPE project for Warner Bros. made it to the Dezeen Awards 2023 longlist. From over 4,800 entries from 94 countries, our project is one of 150 projects that are in the running to win an award later this year in the interiors categories.

06.2023

We won the Gold Trophy in Spatial Design – Exhibitions category for Le Club des D.A. (French Art Director’s Club) annual awards. A huge thank you to our uber-talented collaborators. We all won!

(SEE THE AWARD-WINNING PROJECT)

04.2023

Luxury brand Cartier invited us to propose vitrine concepts for the centennial of its oldest jewelry icon—an opportunity to rethink what a vitrine can be and to spatially manifest poetic themes like “light and shadow” and “love.”

10.2022

Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering invited Mona Kim to provoke thought on how we can mobilize the public through carefully considered strategy and designed spaces. ( SEE CONFERENCE )

09.2022

Mona Kim is the new Head of Design. Thanks to president Sylvain Thirache for his global, inclusive vision transforming the French creative community!

06.2022

Mona Kim Projects opens BATMAN x SPYSCAPE immersive exhibition.

05.2022

Together with Professor Geoffrey Alan Rhodes of Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI), Mona Kim curated and co-moderated an international symposium that brought together three globally recognized thought leaders in museum, curation, and design to spark inspiring and thought-provoking global dialogue.

03.2022

Central to her studio’s mission to engage the public, Mona Kim taught "Audience" in the BFA Art, Media, and Technology program at Parsons Paris, guiding students to examine their messages, their viewers, and how impactful strategies emerge from knowing one’s public.

01.2022

For her extensive work in museums, curation, and immersive exhibitions, Mona Kim appointed as Visiting Artist Spring 2022 at the USC and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry (ICCI) – a new research initiative.

03.2018

Architectural Digest Design Show in New York: We are excited to announce that the exhibition we designed for our client Hunter Douglas won the "Best in Architectural Digest Design” and “Most Innovative Booth Design” awards.

For our clients who sought innovation and impact for their presence in the show, we staged the brand in a new experiential way by treating the entire space as a site-specific art installation. Light, Reflections, Transformation, Movement. Everything was in slow mesmerizing movement.

06.2017


We feel deeply honored that our Moowon Book of Stories

was amongst the winners of the “50 Books” categeory.

03.2017



Mona Kim invited by Google Zoo to share her work & process behind projects intersecting Physical Spaces + Technology + Experience. An inspiring exchange!

02.2017

Finally a book compiling our emblematic projects that embody our core values.

11.2016



Honored to be featured in Women’s Wear Daily for Uniqlo Heattech brand environment activation.


(Read article)

10.2016


Mona Kim has been commissioned by Uniqlo to create high-impact, artistic, and site-specific spatial transformation of its 3 NYC flagships, as part of the brand’s Heattech campaign in-store experience.

(See project)

07.2016



Guest speaker at Conference Les Entrepreneurs Évolutionnaires.

A 45-min presentation all in French !

(Watch Video)

07.2014

By popular demand, our celebrated site-specific sculpture is rebuilt and re-installed into its original site, Water Tower, an emblematic architecture of Expo Zaragoza 2008 designed by Enrique de Teresa.

(See Water for Life Exhibition)

02.2014

This summer, our 23-meter-high spectacular sculpture will return to its original location, Water Tower of Zaragoza. **And this time, it will be permanent.** My partners & I (Program Collective), designed the 134-piece site-specific installation for the “Water for Life” exhibition of International Exhibition of 2008 (Expo Zaragoza). The transport and assembly work was finally approved by the Expo Zargoza Empresarial chaired by the Minister Rafael Fernández de Alarcón.

(Read article)

11.2013

Honored to be featured in Women’s Wear Daily for Uniqlo installations.

(Read article)

09.2013

Mona Kim had been commissioned by Uniqlo 
to create a 360 global holiday campaign 2013.

This **uniquely Uniqlo** campaign is coming to life on digital OOH,
cinema spots, in-store, online, print, store digital facades, and
immersive branded art installations in Uniqlo flagships,
in Europe, Japan, USA.

07.2013

"White White (Color) White" content featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

02.2013

Uniqlo installation projects published in “Brand Spaces Architecture: Branded Architecture and the Future of Retail Design” by Gestalten. A collection of cutting-edge concepts for communicating brands via architecture, trade show presentations, shops, and interior design.

09.2012

“Seoul Bytes” story featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

07.2012

Mona Kim & her partners (Program Collective) are honored to be nominated by the architect Enric Ruiz-Geli for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize “Challenge of the Time” 2012.

The biennial prize was created to stimulate creativity in the field of architecture aimed at solving current social and cultural problems; to confirm humanistic principles in the art of architecture and also to support experimental, educational and research works in the field of innovative architecture and town planning. Jury consists of authoritative international architects and experts.

11.2011

Mona Kim’s inspiration content featured in trend visionaire Lidewij Edelkoort’s Trendtablet.

09.2011

Uniqlo installation projects published in "Out of the Box!: Brand Experience between Pop-Up and Flagship" by Gestalten. A collection of cutting-edge brand presentations and retail spaces.

07.2011

Invited by ORB to co-develop immersive media experiences for the future Museum of Tomorrow to be based in Rio, Brazil. A Santiago Calatrava architecture, it will be a museum of possibilities and reflections on the potential future of our planet, life, and culture.

06.2011

Our "Water for Life" exhibition project published in "Building with Water" by Birkhauser, authored by Chicago Art Institute's curator Zoe Ryan. Featured projects include prestigious international studios Herzog & de Meuron, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Zaha Hadid Architects, and OMA.

04.2011

Invited by shortlisted teams Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Jacques Ferrier Architectures to develop scenography & museology proposal for the city of Bordeaux's future wine culture & tourism center. International competition.

11.2010

UNIQLO-commissioned branded art installations launches in NYC Soho flagship store.

10.2010

Mona Kim’s branded art installation goes up in NYC Soho flagship store as part of Uniqlo’s Heattech campaign efforts.

09.2010

Scenography for the prestigious international fashion fabric show Première Vision. Dynamic, volumetric large-scale installation in "chromatic" movement for Trend Forum "Pulsation". Paris, France.

07.2010

"Water for Life" exhibition designed by Mona Kim & her partners (Program Collective), was selected for publication in Art of Display: Culture Shows published by Links International. Featured projects include prestigious international studios such as UN Studio, Atelier Brückner, Bruce Mau Design, etc.

"MIRAGE 1/MIRAGE 2" selected as a finalist for Public Installation category for the international art & design competition, "Design as Reform" Vol.2. Dubai.

10.2009

3-global-city installations commissioned by UNIQLO launches in New York, Paris, London flagships.

11.2008

Mona Kim & Olga Subirós, guest lecturers of ADG-FAD-sponsored event featuring international talents from multimedia discipline. Theme: “Audiovisuals in exhibition”. Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain.

Cutting-edge interiors and multimedia concepts developed for a new concept spa.

10.2008

Mona Kim and her partners of Program Collective are guest lecturers of an international digital arts conference, Art Futura. Mercat de Flors, Barcelona, Spain.

+5,000 sq.m. experiential exhibition we designed for Expo Zaragoza 2008, opens to the international. public. Water and sustainability theme. Zaragoza, Spain.

04.2005

Honored to be awarded 2005 D&AD’ for Installations & Experiential Media category, for [“Voices” Exhibition.]
(http://www.monakimprojects.com/projects/voices#slide-08)

06.2005

Honor Award 2005 for SEGD’s Global Design Award in Exhibitions category, for “Voices” Exhibition.

07.2005

Honored to be awarded and featured for Honorable Mention in Environments category for I.D. Annual Design Review 2005 –– “Voices” Exhibition

06.2005

Honored to be awarded the coveted LAUS Trophy for “Voices” Exhibition

06.2005

Creative direction & design of “Voices” book. A new approach to how exhibition catalogs are conceived.

04.2005

Honored to be awarded in the Good Design Award 2004 for Graphics category for “Voices” Exhibition.