Sangmin Cha

Sangmin Cha is a curator with eight years of experience producing public art programmes, curating cross-cultural exhibitions, and building frameworks for community participation. Working across South Korea and the UK, she has developed a portfolio career spanning international biennials, community-led festivals, European cultural networks, and grassroots arts organisations.

Her work sits at the intersection of public art, place-making, and socially engaged practice. She curated international public art programmes for the Changwon Sculpture Biennale (2020 & 2022), and led the delivery of two site-specific commissions for Folkestone Triennial 2025. She manages Open Art Folke, an artist-led open studio event, and the administrative system for the Institute for Public Art. As an Emerging Curator with Magic Carpets (Creative Europe), she co-curated a community-based public art project with the Korean diaspora in Wrocław, Poland.

As co-director of Folkestone Fringe, she has embedded herself in Folkestone's creative community, programming participatory public art, forging partnerships, and creating the conditions for artists to do their best work. She is a connector, a systems-builder, and an organiser, experienced in bringing together artists, institutions, funders, and communities to make ambitious projects happen.

photo credit: Igor Emmerich