Seoul, June 23 – November 1, 2015 (The Sound of Things) and September 1 – November 29, 2015 (Choi Jong Tae), http://mmca.go.kr “The Sound of Things” presented 30 or more years of Korean minimalist/nature-related art in the large circular exhibition space of MMCA Gwacheon and adjacent rooms. It was a comprehensive selection and very worthy…
Seoul, September 11 – December 12, 2015, http://hitecollection.com Artists: 강서경 (Suki Seokyeong Kang), 김영은 (Young Eun Kim), 로와정 (RohwaJeong), 박형지 (Hyungji Park), 이은우 (Eunu Lee), 정희승 (Heeseung Chung) Each of the works in this exhibition was special in its own way, but as a whole it felt a bit bland. I am guessing it is a result of trying too…
Seoul, June 23 – October 18, 2015, Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr This show was a perfect match for Plateau’s space: Elmgreen & Dragset transformed Plateau into an airport-themed exhibition space, and in fact they only needed to add some small touches to complete the “transformation” of this space which in itself feels very similar to…
Seoul, September 8 – November 8, 2015 (December 13, 2015 for The Secret Kingdom_Wonderland) http://sema.seoul.go.kr Two artists of two different generations were confronted in “Title Match”. Gum Nuri is an artist in his 50’s or 60’s, a sculptor working in a kind of post-minimalist tradition. He makes use of found objects, or simple materials that…
Seoul, September 3 – 25, 2015, http://cakegallery.kr/ Cake Gallery is located in Dongmyo, Seoul, an area of flea markets and small metal work, wood work and second hand appliances shops. As such it seems to be a forerunner of a future gentrification project if it succeeds. Tucked away in the 6th floor of a building,…
Seoul, September 1 – 16, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 A small independent art space, located in an old market building in the Jogno (3ga) area of Seoul. During my visit there has been a show on display where I managed to translate the title using google, but I was not able to identify the artist’s name from…
Seoul, September 3 – 30, 2015, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, http://www.davincicreative.org/ Curator: Choi Doo Eun, Performance: Herman Kolgen, 1024 architecture, Beenzino, Artists: Lab[au], Code Blue, Younghwan Choi, Maurice Benayoun, Eunsol Kim+Sungseok Ahn+Jongseok Yang, Ah Young Kim, Ujoo+Lim Heeyoung, Team VOID, Herman Kolgen + workshop participants, Louis-Philippe Demers, Digital Hippy Lab, Seungsoon Park, Jae Wan Park+Jae…
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…