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- 10 May 2023
Polish Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale— POSTARTISTIC ASSEMBLY
Polish Pavilion at the 14th Gwangju Biennale? POSTARTISTIC ASSEMBLY Convened by Sebastian Cichocki and Marianna Dobkowska 5 ? 7th of May, ..
People
- 10 Nov 2022
A MESSAGE TO THE SPECTATOR (OF SUJI HAN'S FILMS)
Suji Han began to exchange texts ? like in a word chain game ? with the Brazilian artist Daniela Avelar, whom she had met at a residency in ..
Features
- 31 Oct 2022
Artist Yein Lee contemplates today’s golden age of information and technology
Vienna-based artist Yein Lee talks about her cultural influences and inspirations while growing up in South Korea. The year is 2050, and th..
Features
- 26 Oct 2022
Painting Against the Tyranny of Flatness
Korea’s Dansaekhwa artists eschewed the idea of art-about-art and commodity culture in favor of an abstract art imbued with traces of the st..
People
- 19 Oct 2022
[Herald Interview] Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, see Seoul as another art hub in Asia
The inaugural Frieze Seoul swept through the local art world just as Seoul was beginning to get attention in the global art world. Now, whet..
People
- 17 Oct 2022
Sensible Images, Objects that Have Lost Their Function, and the Strategy of a Showroom
There are some objects here?icons of smiley faces or slightly frowny faces, appetizing fruits and bright plants, wall ornaments and patterns..
People
- 14 Oct 2022
The Code of Nam June Paik, technical imagination constructed as a human-communication device
The dark room of the camera obscura, once used to draw objects with light, is used today as a space where media works are installed. In earl..
Features
- 11 Oct 2022
David against Goliath in the Art Market: Alternative Art Fairs Lead the Trend
I wonder whether the world outside of the art community is as busy today as the one inside of it. The one thing I know for sure is that insi..
Features
- 30 Sep 2022
[Korean artists of Note] ‘A painting is a painting’: Hejum Ba refuses to define images
Following is the third in a six-part series highlighting the next generation of Korean artists active in the international art scene. ? Ed ..
People
- 06 Sep 2022
Home Language Assemblage
The work of Min Ye-eun begins from the concept of “mixed-blood thought.” This concept may be interpreted as appropriating the postcolonial n..
People
- 30 Aug 2022
Daesung Park, Writing Paintings: The Invention of Strokes in the Machine Age
The artistic trajectory of Park Daesung the painter can be crossed and dotted by his artistic pursuit and the place of his practice. His ear..
Features
- 28 July 2022
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA, ALCHEMIST OF LANGUAGE INTO REVERBERATIONS
Viewers attempting to unravel such paradoxes will be frustrated, for these ambiguities are part of Cha’s long flirtation with instability wi..
Features
- 15 July 2022
An Artist Trapped Goldfish in IV Bags for a Museum Show in Korea. They Were Released After Visitors Complained About Them Dying
The artist also uses dead flies and insects in his work. Since the end of last month, 15 goldfish had been slowly dying at the Jeonnam Mu..
Features
- 22 Mar 2022
South Korean Artists Contemplate the Meaning of Middle Age
In Cheonan, South Korea, an exhibition confronts what it means to reach the culturally symbolic age of 40, when people are supposed to have ..
Features
- 14 Dec 2021
[Herald Interview] ‘Guerilla artist’ leaves encouraging messages all over city
Walking through the bustling streets of Seoul and encountering a rose sprouting from a piece of charcoal, one might wonder, “Is this install..
People
- 03 Dec 2021
['AG' ARTISTS] Suh Seung-won and the evolution of modern Korean art
A solo show of 80-year-old artist Suh Seung-won at PKM Gallery in central Seoul, which wrapped up last month, attracted an unexpectedly high..
Features
- 03 Dec 2021
Ho-Am Art Museum returns with traditional metal works, fall foliage
The Ho-Am Art Museum in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, has returned with the new exhibition “Metallurgy: Great Wisdom” and its formal garden, He..
Features
- 03 Dec 2021
Lee Bul's rare paintings, silk collage works unveiled in Seoul
While Lee Bul is globally known for her installations best represented by the Cyborg and Anagram series, the mixed media paintings that she ..
Features
- 02 Dec 2021
Shattered Porcelain Fragments Are Elegantly Bonded in Kintsugi Sculptures by Yeesookyung
Seoul-based artist Yeesookyung (previously) fuses Korean and Japanese craft traditions in her elegant, gilded sculptures. Blending ornately ..
People
- 30 Nov 2021
Yoon Doohyun - Image, Utopia for Everything
“I imagine that there is a ball. I keep paving the paths that would allow the ball to bounce in any direction.” Quoted from the artist’s int..
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People
- 30 Nov 2021
Bahc Heeza - Stray Thoughts on Everyday Conditions and Extraordinary Images
I’m trying to remember the first time I saw her work. I don’t remember exactly where and how I came to see her work, but I do remember being..
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#Bahcheeza
Features
- 20 Oct 2021
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, welcomes public once again after long hiatus with new ambition
March 2017 marked the moment when the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, one of the top private art museums in Korea, began to falter, signaled b..
Features
- 30 Sep 2021
Modern craft is reimagined at Cheongju biennale
CHEONGJU, North Chungcheong ? In the pandemic era, rather than retreat into obscurity, modern craft has been reimagined, formulating a new s..
Features
- 02 Sep 2021
Nam June Paik predicted the Internet, YouTube and Instagram. But he was more interesting as an artist than as a prophet.
Artists are not prophets, except occasionally by dumb luck. Just because they explore new ways of doing things doesn't mean they can see int..
People
- 02 Sep 2021
[Herald Interview] DMZ reimagined as ‘ecotopia’ in new media art
A beautiful green landscape unfolds for three minutes at 8:21 p.m. every day on the country’s largest LED billboard, at Coex K-Pop Square in..
People
- 15 July 2021
While Imagining the Park of the Future, Moon Kyungwon’s 〈Promise Park〉
Established in 1995, the Gwangju Biennale has risen to become one of the premier events in international contemporary art, continuously pres..
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#MindsRisingSpiritsTuning
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People
- 25 May 2021
Juri Lee: Point of View, Value, Cold Storage
. Juri Lee “produces” paintings. The artist nails her “point of view” vertically on the historical verb “to paint” and its discourse. Here, ..
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#MMCAresidencygoyang
Features
- 07 May 2021
Hashtag Culture, the ‘Virtual Hierarchy’ of Real and Fake : Newcomers 77, The Young Powers of Korean Art Selected by Nine Art Experts
Contemporary culture spreads with hashtags. Putting to shame the tight struggle between pop culture and subculture in the fight to gain a fo..
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Features
- 31 Mar 2021
How Do You Stage a Global Art Show Now? In South Korea, Curators Press On.
GWANGJU, South Korea - One warm February morning, the curator Defne Ayas bounded up a steep, sylvan path toward a cemetery in this city of 1..
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Features
- 01 Jan 2021
Imagine the art of an age that would coexist with artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is beginning to affect multiple realms of our lives, and its influence on the field of art cannot be underestimated...
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Features
- 23 Dec 2020
The Expanding Alternative Art Market: A Self-Organizing Movement Against Crisis
When examining the peripheries of the Korean art market over the last ten years, the emergence and development of an alternative art market ..
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Features
- 14 Oct 2020
Magok's Space K Seoul transforms area into arts and culture hot spot
Magok, located in a far western area of Seoul, 10 minutes from Gimpo International Airport by car, is emerging as a new hot place for arts a..
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#newinstitution
#opening
People
- 04 Aug 2020
Nam June Paik’s Pioneering Vision: How the Artist Predicted an Age of Digital Technology
“I think the best technology, information, has to do with education?our thinking,” artist Nam June Paik wrote in his famed 1976 essay “Why i..
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People
- 27 July 2020
Jaekyung Jung :〈A Village〉, 2019
〈A Village〉 by Jaekyung Jung is a special film and book project that revolves around a longer re-search period in the past year. One aspect ..
#Jaekyung_Jung
#MMCAgoyangresidency
Features
- 29 June 2020
A Full View, at Last, of Modern Art in South Korea
Many rich nations use art, music and movies to project an image to the world, but few take it as seriously as South Korea - today’s uncontes..
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Features
- 23 June 2020
How to Win Global Art Market – An Interview with Jagdip Jagpal
Global marketing strategies have been successful where organisations have recognised the need to create bespoke local strategies in differen..
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#artfair
Features
- 15 June 2020
IM Heung-soon, The Page Gallery
IM Heung-soon has been using film and video to give voice to the voiceless since the late 1990s; he won the Venice Biennale Silver Lion in 2..
#KoreanPainter
#KoreanContemporaryArt
#PageGallery
People
- 05 June 2020
Nature in Korea's Capital: The Magic Stops at the Car Bridge
Founded in 1982, Kukje Gallery is one of Korea’s most prolific exhibitors of international contemporary artists. Indeed, the institution is ..
#min_joungki
#realityandutterncegroup
People
- 28 May 2020
Meena Park : Zigzag Penetrating Multiple Aspects
AVP’s curators visited MeeNa Park’s Yeonhui-dong studio on March 27, 2020, when everything had halted or changed due to COVID-19. With a mon..
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Features
- 21 May 2020
Inside Na Kim's vibrant playground for all ages
South Korean graphic designer Na Kim’s ‘Bottomless Bag’, installed at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, is a vivid, geometrical exploration of memory..
#SeMA
#ExhibitionReview
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Features
- 19 Feb 2020
An Uncommon Bond: The Influential L.A. Gallery Commonwealth and Council Favors Camaraderie Over Business as Usual
The first time that Young Chung, director and founder of L.A.’s Commonwealth and Council gallery, saw his artist Beatriz Cortez’s Piercing G..
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#commonwealthe_and_council
People
- 23 Jan 2020
Heecheon Kim - Living amid Moving Image
Today, they are no longer just a form of entertainment or an artistic medium, but have become a default mode of social environment where peo..
#heecheon_kim
#artsonjecenter
People
- 07 Jan 2020
Adventures of an Undercover Agent
There was a time when I thought Kyungah Ham’s works were funny, the reason being the fact that her works are all action films featuring the ..
#kyungah_ham
People
- 05 Dec 2019
The montage and collage of Yang Ah Ham
Yang Ah Ham creates video art pieces inspired by aspects of life that she has observed and reconstructed into a new form. Ham has recently p..
#yang_ah_ham
#video_art
People
- 03 Dec 2019
Interview with the Tate Modern Senior Curator on Staging ‘Retrospective on Nam June Paik’
On October 17, Tate Modern is opening a retrospective exhibition on international artist Nam June Paik (1932?2006), whose work is widely bes..
#tate
#tate_modern
#sook_kyung_lee
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Features
- 01 Nov 2019
Setting the Stage: Korean Women Artists on Performance and Beauty
In its magical capacity to reconstrue the processes of life and the material bodies inhabiting it, performance politicises the everyday, tur..
#feminism
#aaa
People
- 07 Aug 2019
Kwon Hayoun - The True Nature of Boundaries: Memory, Image, and Space
Here she is: Kwon Hayoun, an artist who splits her time between France and Korea. She reconstructs histories or others’ experiences and memo..
#kwon_hayoun
#hayoun_kwon
#VR
Features
- 24 July 2019
Colorful art pioneer takes center stage in Daegu: Park Saeng Kwang inspired many of Korea’s minjung artists
Park Saeng Kwang (1904-85), whose large-scale retrospective recently kicked off at the Daegu Art Museum in the southeastern city, is known a..
#minjung_art
#park_saeng_kwang
People
- 30 May 2019
Searching for Meaning in Things Seen: Noh Suntag
“What is it that made me unable to turn my eyes away from such a situation or scene? Why could I not stop staring? Did it lead me to some un..
#noh_suntag
People
- 23 May 2019
South Korean artist Lee Bul at Venice Biennale: a statement of separation and tragedy
Every artist picked by curator Ralph Rugoff for this year’s main exhibition at the Venice Biennale has two works in the show: one in the Ars..
#lee_bul
#venice_biennale
People
- 16 May 2019
Kang Seung Lee's Gardens of Hope, Ex-votos of Symptoms: Paganism and Queer
There are two people: Derek Jarman (1942-1994) and Oh Joon-soo (1964-1998). The two both died in the mid-1990s due to AIDS-related complicat..
#KangSeung_Lee
#Lee_Nara
#paganism
#queer
People
- 02 May 2019
Narrative and Image by Song Sanghee: The Living and the Dead
Image culture researcher Lee Nara’s column “Anthropology of Images and Contemporary Art: Image and Death” introduces Walter Benjamin, George..
#Song_sanghee
#narrative
#image
People
- 31 Oct 2018
A sheaf of emotions bound by fragments of memory, LIM MINOUK
Lim Minouk studied Western painting at Ewha Womans University before moving to France where she received the Diplome National Superieur d’Ar..
People
- 11 June 2018
Artist Chun Kwang-young tells Korean narrative through unique landscape
Chun Kwang-young's growth as an artist came through continual challenges, self-doubt and soul-searching. He started to gain recognition, if ..
#Chun_Kwang-young
#aggregation
#mulberry_paper
#hanji
#PKM_Gallery
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Features
- 11 May 2018
Even the summit’s artwork had hidden messages : Blue House chose carefully and had one piece specially created
It was not only the leaders of the two Koreas that caught the attention of journalists from all over the world during the historic inter-Kor..
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#unification
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Features
- 21 Nov 2017
Age of Architecture Biennales without the Architecture
The urban paradigm is shifting globally. Each city is modifying its agenda?from growth to revitalization, and from development to sustainabi..
#Architecture
#Urbanism
#Biennale
#Seoul
#Imminent_Commons
#Local_economy
#Urban_issue
Features
- 27 Oct 2017
KIAF 2017 : Dreaming of the “golden age” once enjoyed by the art market
KIAF 2017 ART SEOUL (KIAF), the largest art fair in Korea, was held for five days from September 20 to 24 at COEX. This year's event attract..
#KIAF
#Art_fair
#Dansaekhwa
#K-Art_Conversation
#Asia
#Art_market
#Art_Fairs_Biennales
People
- 16 Aug 2017
"Lee Seung-Jio": The Aesthetics of Pipes
Nucleus, a solo exhibition for Lee Seung-Jio, known as “the pipe artist” in Korean art world, is held in Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong from ..
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#Pipe
#Nucleus
#Dansaekhwa
#Korean_abstract_art
#AG
#Origin
#Perrotin
#Hong_Kong
Features
- 26 July 2017
"Ha Chong-Hyun" Between Object and Image
All kinds of historical rediscoveries accompany the insatiable global creep of contemporary art as capital flows and narratives are written ..
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#Dansaekhwa
#Painting
#Rediscovery
#Conjunction
#London
#Almine_Rech
Features
- 08 April 2016
RESILIENCE AND IMAGINATION Women and art in Korea today
Korean feminist art came to the fore in the mid-1980s. Over a short period spanning roughly three decades, works touching on a variety of fe..
#Feminist_Art
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#Exhibition
#Artlink
Features
- 08 Jan 2016
WE ARE KOREAN Cultural Agency is Power
From the outside view, how would it be seen the Korean culture and art scene? Australia is one of the most active countries that have contem..
#Kroean_wave
#Hanryu
#Korean_culture
#Identity
#Artlink
Features
- 08 Jan 2016
ARE WE ENGAGED OR JUST HANGING OUT? Korea-Australia arts exchange
The art scene of Korea and Australia have been interacting with each other for 25 years, and Asialink has played the core role by hosting mo..
#Australia
#Korea
#Asialink_arts
#International
#New_Romance
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