Seoul, Nov 16, 2023 – May 19, 2024, https://www.mmca.go.kr There were three shows on during my visit. All were telling different parts of a grand contemporary Korean art narrative. Korean new media master Nam June Paik’s masterpiece. Korean photography. Korean geometric abstraction. Defining a coherent historical narrative and canon of works that support it is…
Daegu, January 31 – May 14, 2023, http://daeguartmuseum.or.kr It was quite a lucky occurence that I visited DAM right after two new exhibitions opened. One was the Lee Kun-hee collection and the other one was this one, a trio-show, which was in fact more like three separate solo shows next to each other. A bit…
Daegu, February 21 – May 28, 2023, http://daeguartmuseum.or.kr The immensely wealthy Samsung CEO Lee Kun-hee was kept alive on hospital machines for five years so that his heirs can prepare for the inheritance of the huge business empire that is said to contribute up to 20 % to South Koreas GDP. When the family business…
Seoul, February 17, 2023, https://www.dotolim.com Time passes but Dotolim stays. The miniature experimental music venue changes locations, yet keeps on going. 2013 it was located in a shared office building. 2015 it was in a regular apartment. Now in 2023, its new place is a single basement room, still in the same area around Hapjeong…
Incheon, July 15 – September 11, 2022, https://inartplatform.kr A solo exhibition of an artist who I encountered nor long ago within the „Kak“ group show at Hite Collection. Different materials, different sculpting methods… somehow it all related to the city environment and the materials used in constructing or designing the city space. However the shapes…
Seoul, May 28 – July 17, 2022, https://hitecollection.com “Kak” is a survey exhibition about sculpture today in Korea. Exhibited artworks span a period of about 25 years. In all cases, the positions are forward-looking positions of artists who were thinking about what the next step could be or how to reinterpret sculptural traditions with new…
Online, De Art Center & Global Center for Technology in Humanities, Kyung Hee University, March 16, 2021, Zoom An on-line talk between a bunch of curators from the APAC region: Takahashi Mizuki, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Renan Laru-an, Penwadee Nophaket Manont (Pooh), Memuro Washida and Xia Yanguo. Yuhang Zhang was the host of the event. Takahashi…
Even though the exhibition halls are still empty, the completion of the M+ Museum is such a special event that I wanted to write a few words about it. Originally scheduled to open sometime around 2015 or so, the project is half of a decade behind schedule, and it is a half of a decade…
Suwon, November 26, 2019 – March 8, 2020, https://suma.suwon.go.kr Another two years passed, and another visit to the Suwon Museum of Art appeared on my schedule. First of all a pleasant formal change, the “Ipark” name (Suwon Ipark Museum of Art) disappeared from the museum’s name. Ipark is the name of a prominent apartment brand…
Seoul, March 1 – April 28, 2019, http://artsonje.org Some time has passed since the last Lee Kit show I saw. And I was very much looking forward to this one. Will I get a similar feeling like when I saw his work for the first time? Will I feel connected because his work will be…