Ansan, March 22 – June 23, 2024, https://gmoma.ggcf.kr YALOO was a self-titled solo show by an U.S. based Korean 3D animator YALOO 얄루. The work was formally perfect, beautiful 3D animations inspired by ocean plants and the undersea world. The installation was also top notch, with one large floor projection, simulating the view into the…
Ansan, April 12 – July 14, 2024, https://gmoma.ggcf.kr GMoMA is located in the middle of a nice park with a lake at the outskirts of Ansan City. It also happens to be in the neighborhood to the Danwon High School, whose students were the unfortunate passengers of the Sewol Ferry, which sunk near the south-west…
Seoul, April 19 – April 27, 2024, http://ujeongguk.com & https://www.forkingroom.kr It has been 9 years since my last visit. Ujeongguk is still there and looks about the same. The current exhibition seems to be organized by an entity called “Forking Room” and is in fact a mini-festival consisting of an art show, artist talks, lectures…
Seoul, April 12 – June 23, 2024, https://ilmin.org A show dealing with nostalgia and the never-ending „retro“ longing for something in time/space away from one’s current place. A craving that is also fuelled by media technology that allows us to share our attention between multiple places/times simultaneously. I am here, but I could be there,…
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…