10 Paiknamjune-ro, Sanggal-dong, Giheung-gu, yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, 446-905 Korea; http://www.njpartcenter.kr/en/ Nam June Paik Art Centre (NJP Centre) is located in proximity to Suwon. It is a museum dedicated to the video art pioneer Nam June Paik. There seem to be rotating exhibitions, which are centered on the work of Nam June Paik. It was my second…
Seogyo Art Space, Hongdae, Seoul, http://eng.seoulartspace.or.kr/space_seogyo/introduce.asp December 28, 2012, 18:30 Seogyo Art Space is located in Hongdae area of Seoul, close to Hongik university. On December 28th an art performance relay took place there, and as I was in Seoul and a friend invited me, I decided to give it a try and get a…
Seoul Museum of Art – Nam Seoul Branch, Seoul, http://seoulmoa.seoul.go.kr December 2012 The ‘south side’ branch of the Seoul Museum of Art had an exhibition on show that featured a well-balanced mix of media art. There was a multi-channel video projection showing a surreal spatial stop-motion situation (Sophie Clements), generative computer graphics (Lab[au]), a projection…
PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr November 2012 – February 2013 The show brought together a number of Korean artists by selecting artworks that have a relation to the central topic of “landscape”. In the entrance space of the gallery the visitor was greeted by a sound installation of bird and animal sounds accompanied…
Kukje Gallery, Seoul, http://www.kukjegallery.com November – December 2012 Yuko Shiraishi is primarily and abstract painter and paintings is what is primarily on display. Paintings are usually in one background color, combined with thin stripes or small dots. The dots or stripes make them look a bit like linen or cloth designs. The gallery’s materials say:…
Artsonje Center, Seoul, http://artsonje.org/eng/ November 2012 – January 2013 Shinro Ohtake is a Japanese artist working in collage, drawing and installation; he is also known for his involvement in the Japan noise music scene. The show at Artsonje spread over two floors.
In December, I visited South Korea and had a look at what is happening there in terms of Fine Arts. I checked out some smaller privately managed spaces around Seoul like Artsonje Center, Kukje Gallery and Plateau as well as some public institutions like the Nam Seoul Museum of Fine Art and the National Museum…
I would like to follow up on my previous writings on the Shanghai Biennale 2012 and raumlaborberlin’s presentation in Shanghai in July 2012. One of the new approaches employed by the Biennale was the establishment of ‘city pavilions’. Raumlaborberlin, a German concept-architecture studio, has been in charge of the Berlin city pavilion.
楊福東: 断章取义 Sep 30 -Jan 3 2013, OCT Suhe Creek ShanghaiOCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT),Shanghai OCAT Shanghai presented a retrospective of Yang Fudong’s works from the 1990’s and early 2000’s. The exhibition was not too large in scale (just one bigger hall separated by a wall in the middle), but it had a good selection…
Shanghai Biennale 2012 第九届上海双年展 / Reactivation 重新发电 Curator: Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 / October 2012 – March 2013 Well, the Shanghai Biennale 2012 has been quite a disaster this year, but I feel that all the complaining has been already done by other parties. I almost feel sorry for Qiu Zhijie, the chief curator… Can he…