Exhibition · Interior & Design

Exhibition booth design, trade fair strategy, and interior spaces.

Connecting businesses across Asia · Europe · Middle East · America.

Languages
🇰🇷 KR Korean Native
🇮🇹 IT Italian Fluent
🇪🇸 ES Spanish Fluent
🇬🇧 GB English Working
→ Spain · Coming Soon 2026
About

Rooted in Milan.
Fluent in Europe.
Active across three continents.

Exhibition, Interior & Design
Korea · Italy · Spain · Germany · France · Monte Carlo · UAE
Partners: Areagrafica · Superstudio Group · KOTRA

My design path began in Korea — furniture and industrial design, fine arts — before I moved to Milan to study architectural engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, one of Europe's foremost universities of architecture and design. That intersection of artistic instinct and structural rigour has shaped everything I have built since.

I spent years at the heart of the European exhibition industry, designing and building trade fair booths across Korea, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Monte Carlo, the UK, Netherlands, and the UAE — in close partnership with Italian studio Areagrafica and the Superstudio Group in Milan.

A highlight of this period was a collaboration with Atelier Mendini (Alessandro Mendini) — one of Italy's most celebrated architects and designers — bridging conceptual vision with exhibition reality.

Now going independent, with Spain as my European base, I bring full-service expertise directly to clients who need a single trusted partner across language, culture, design, and logistics.

15+
Years Experience
3
Languages
EUROPE
Middle East · Americas
UAE
Middle East Active
Services

Everything you need to show up in Europe — and stand out.

01

Exhibition Booth Design & Build

Full-service trade fair booths from concept to on-site installation. Space planning, creative direction, material sourcing, and construction management at major European and Middle Eastern venues.

02

European Market Entry

Strategic guidance for Korean and Asian companies entering Europe or the UAE. Trade fair selection, booth strategy, brand localisation, and cultural communication — in Korean, Italian, and Spanish.

03

Interior & Commercial Spaces

Corporate office interiors, cosmetics retail spaces, and showroom environments. Concept development, spatial planning, and coordination with local architectural and construction partners.

Journey
Korea · Early

Furniture Design & Fine Arts

Studied furniture and industrial design alongside fine arts in Korea. Built a foundation in form, material, and visual thinking.

Korea · Return

Design Collaboration

Returned to Korea and collaborated with architectural studios on cosmetics retail interiors, exhibition spaces, and residential projects.

Milan · Politecnico

Architectural Engineering

Studied architectural engineering at the Politecnico di Milano — developing spatial and structural sensibility at the world's design capital. Collaborated with Atelier Mendini (Alessandro Mendini). During this period, won excellence awards and multiple prizes in national and international student design competitions.

2024

Interior Design & Space Planning

Led interior design and planning projects including cosmetics exhibition spaces and apartment renovations — merging European spatial sensibility with Korean material precision.

Milan · Active Years

Exhibition & Interior Design

Built and led an exhibition consultancy active across Korea, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Monte Carlo, the UK, Netherlands, and UAE. Partnered with Areagrafica and Superstudio Group.

2026 →

Independent · Spain

Launching independent practice with Spain as the European base. Focused on exhibition design, European market entry, and interior spaces — bringing rare trilingual expertise across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

References

From Milano to the Middle East and beyond — designed, built, delivered.

Italy
Salone del Mobile
Milano
Display booth design and construction
MIDO Eyewear
Milano
Display booth design and construction
Cosmopack
Bologna
Display booth design and construction
Fashion Show · Superstudio
Milano
Total space 5,000 sqm — design and management
Macefin
Milano
Display booth design and construction
ICT · Marriott
Milano
Exhibition space 3,000 sqm
Enersol
Verona
Display booth design and construction
KOTRA
Milano
Display booth design and construction
Germany
Energy Messe
Frankfurt
LG Innotek
Display booth design and construction
EASD
Berlin
LG Chemical
Display booth design and construction
MEDICA
Düsseldorf
Display booth design and construction
France
SILMO Optics
Paris
Display booth design and construction
SIAL
Paris
Display booth design and construction
KOTRA
Paris
Display booth design and construction
Louvre Museum · K-Culture Exhibition
Paris · Musée du Louvre
Korean cultural exhibition design at one of the world's most prestigious venues — showcasing the global rise of Korean culture to an international audience.
K-Pop K-Food K-Culture Korea · France
Spain
Energy Expo
Valencia
Display booth design and construction
ESMO
Madrid
Samsung Bioepis
Display booth design and construction
United Kingdom
EURAR
London
Samsung Bioepis
Display booth design and construction
LUXLIVE
London
POSCO
Display booth design and construction
BETT
London
KOTRA
Display booth design and construction
Netherlands
Amsterdam RAI
Amsterdam
Display booth design and construction
Interclean
Amsterdam
Display booth design and construction
Monte Carlo
Luxpack
Monte Carlo
Display booth design and construction
AMWC
Monte Carlo · Aesthetic & Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress
Display booth design and construction — Europe's leading congress for aesthetic and anti-aging medicine, attracting top clinicians and brands from over 100 countries.
LG Yvoire Meditoxin · Medytox
UAE
GITEX Global
Dubai World Trade Centre
Display booth design and construction — MENA's largest technology exhibition, annually hosting 170+ Korean companies.
Corporate Interiors · Milano
Hyosung Milano Branch — interior design & construction
Hyundai Milano Branch — interior design & construction
Korean Air Line Milano Office — furniture design & install
KOSHI KOBA Milano Branch — interior design & construction
Portfolio

Exhibition spaces & booth designs — from concept to completion.

Fiera Milano

Fiera Milano

Exhibition Hall · Milano
Salone del Mobile Garden Installation

Salone del Mobile

Garden Installation · Milano
Light Installation

Light Installation

Salone del Mobile · Milano
Arabic Concept Booth

Arabic Concept Booth

Exhibition Design · Milano
Art Carpets Mendini

Art Carpets · Mendini

Klero Exhibition · Milano
Myyour Italian Concept

Myyour Italian Concept

Salone del Mobile · Milano
On-site construction — 3 days, 6,000 sqm build

On-Site Construction

3 Days · 6,000 sqm
Behind the Build

Every booth begins on paper — before the first wall stands.

Exhibition floor plan

Drawings & Floor Plans

Architectural precision from the very first line.

Every project begins with technical drawings — load calculations, circulation flow, structural anchoring, services routing. CAD plans coordinated with venue authorities, fire-safety officers, and local contractors before a single panel is cut.

This is where European exhibition standards meet Korean attention to detail — the invisible layer that separates a booth that works from one that fails.

Concept

Cities as Time — layered in concrete, light, and memory.

An original design concept exploring how cities accumulate history through physical layers.

Each work is a memorial of urban time — laser-cut aluminium panels stacked at varying depths (10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60mm), where every layer becomes a stratum of accumulated experience: war, prosperity, migration, silence, reconstruction.

Gold and cold light effects distinguish the emotional register of each city — Paris glows warm with Beaux-Arts memory; Seoul reads cold and metallic, the light of compressed modernity.

Influences

Aldo Rossi — The Architecture of the City (1966): the city as a repository of collective memory, where buildings persist as "permanent facts" through time.

Arnaldo Pomodoro — the Sphere within Sphere series: a polished surface fractured to reveal the broken, mechanical interior beneath — time eroding form from within.

Sculpture

Milano

Cities as Time · 2025

Paris

Cities as Time · 2025
Two Paintings
Contact

Let's bring your brand into Europe.

Korean or Asian company planning a European trade fair? Need a designer who speaks the language — literally and culturally? Let's talk.

stefanokimcorea@gmail.com