Seoul, August 8 – September 20, 2015, http://www.commoncenter.kr Two one-floor exhibitions were running concurrently at Common Center. I could sense a continuing thread from the last group show, likely pointing towards the Common Center owner’s love for on-line subcultures, manga, etc. Regarding “Fujoshi Manifesto” I first have to say I am not so familiar with…
Seoul, August 20 – September 20, 2015, http://www.altpool.org/ A new exhibition opened at Pool, and given my curiosity I headed over to check it out. As is the case usually, a very well designed and clean installation with the greatest attention to detail was on site. According to the press release, “this exhibition presents a…
Seoul, July 21 – September 29, 2015, http://sema.seoul.go.kr To celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation Day (of Korea – which was one country at that time – from Japanese occupation) SeMA prepared an exhibition looking northwards – the North Korea (NK) Project. Creating a North Korea related exhibition for the liberation anniversary showed the…
Seoul, June 6 – August 23, 2015, http://sema.seoul.go.kr PEACEMINUSONE was an exhibition branded by G Dragon, a South Korean K-Popstar. “Designed to enhance people’s interest in the contemporary art while inducing rich encounters of art and the pop culture through G Dragon’s collaboration with artists of home and abroad. It is another name for the…
Seoul, April 4/June 13 – August 15, 2015, http://www.photomuseum.or.kr/ A small but neat museum, located in two top floors of a building that is probably the headquarters of Hanmi Corporation’s (Steel Trading and Financial Services) . In addition to the exhibition, you get to see a beautiful panoramic view of the Olympic Park, which you…
Seoul, August 7 – September 6, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A group exhibition around the theme of interpretation and re-interpretation of artworks, featuring Creative VaQi (76min), Hankil Ryu+Taeyong Kim (57min 13 sec), Nomadic Drift (20min 56sec), Sujin Lee (23min 58sec), Christelle Lheureux (18min + 33min), The Otolith Group (33min 32sec), Barbara Hammer (29min), Ben Russell (22min 30sec).…
Seoul, July 2015 and August 2015, http://kigoja.net/ Kigoja is very, very small art space in Seoul. On my first visit, I was a bit shocked by its size. But that shock served its purpose and it made me start thinking, what the definition or requirements for an art space are. In the end, the special…
Seoul, May 29 – August 9, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A show which was able to produce a richness of meanings from a minimal yet very powerful sculptural interventions. Most of the materials have been probably sourced from a cable recycling center: Sculptures were made from the plastic coating, some of the wires inside, some of all…
August 13 – 23, 2015, Dongsong, Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do, http://realdmz.org, curators: Keum Hyun Han, Nam-See Kim, Sunjung Kim, Hyejin Lim The Real DMZ Project tour in Dongsong, a small village a few kilometers away from the DMZ, was most of all an experience of travel and exploration. Spending three hours in a minibus, first slowly crawling…
Seoul, August 7 – September 5, 2015, http://www.cornerartspace.org One huge oil painting, pinned to the wall without a frame or stretcher, in a greyscale covered the one main wall of the shop window/space of corner gallery. Formally, it was a still life, with objects of an uncertain material arranged in a row, like in a…