Seoul, March 20 – May 20, 2018, http://www.arko.or.kr Last year’s Venice Biennale Korea pavilion came back “home” and is on display at Arko. The package on show is a well-balanced combination of old and new, Korean and international, conceptual and pop, etc. There is almost everything, and the variety that the two artists managed to…
Seoul, February 23 – April 29, 2018, http://ilmin.org The three floors of Ilmin museum contained three mini-solo-shows by three successful mid-career Korean artists. On 1F Ayoung Kim김아영 presents Porosity Valley. The centerpiece of the show was a large projection with a short film utilizing post-internet aesthetics, reminding me of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturism or Christopher Kulendran…
Cologne, October 21 – November 25, 2017, http://brauchbarkeit.space Jörg Obergfell spent some time in Japan in a residency in Aomori and he was fascinated by the non-architecture of sheds used to store agricultural equipment. He documented the sheds in photography. Each shed was photographed in the spring and in the winter. There was a medium…
Seoul, October 21 – 30, http://slowslowquickquick.net/ Slow Slow Quick Quick (SSQQ) is an independent space in the Jongro/Euljiro area. The area consists of old small alleys of metalwork, woodwork and electric appliance workshops. SSQQ is located in one separate building, 3 floors tall with a small courtyard and separate room within it. It is not…
Seoul, autumn 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr The autumn constellation of exhibitions at MMCA Seoul is rather pleasurable. There is the Korea Artist Prize, a yearly recurring show. The big central space has a new mega-installation. There is an exhibit addressing the architectural space of the MMCA Seoul building itself, and there is a quite unusual art and…
Seoul, October 31, 2016, http://kyounghokim.com/ My first encounter with Kim Kyoungho’s work took place at his solo exhibition Magic Bullet Broadcasting Network at Art Space Pool in 2013. That exhibition investigated the production process of news reporting and broadcasting across international borders. I saw his work again at the Real DMZ Project 2015. Here he…
Seoul, October 20 – November 19, 2016, http://galleryem.co.kr/ I came across Rahm Parc’s work first at the Space Life exhibition at Ilmin Museum and was fascinated by the black 3D-printed rocks on a large orange horizontal plane. The rocks later reappeared at the alternative art fair Goods, this time in multiple color variations. At Crossing…
Seoul, September 30 – December 10, 2016, https://hitecollection.com/ 김하나 Hana Kim, 문성식 Sungsic Moon, 박광수 Gwangsoo Park, 박미례 Mirae Park, 박세진 Sejin Park, 박정혜 Junghae Park, 박진아 Jina Park, 백경호 Kyungho Baek, 손현선 Hyunseon Son, 이세준 Sejun Lee, 이우성 Woosung Lee, 이제 Leeje, 이현우 Hyunwoo Lee, 이호인 Hoin Lee, 임자혁 Jahyuk Yim, 전병구 Byungkoo Jeon,…
Seoul, October 13 – December 10, 2016, http://www.songeunartspace.org Artists: Wisnu Auri, Wimo Ambala Bayang, Duto Hardono, Jompet Kuswidananto, Aditya Novali, Eko Nugroho, Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Melati Suryodarmo, Tromarama, curator: Alia Swastika
Ansan City, September 29 – December 4, 2016, http://gmoma.ggcf.kr Artists: Kim Kwang Woo 김광우, Kim Yong-Chol 김용철, Kim In Soon 김인순, Min Joung Ki민정기, Park Kwan Wook박관욱, Bang Doo Yung방두영, Son Jang Sup손장섭, Oh Yong-Kil 오용길, Chung Mun Kyu정문규, Han Young-Sup한영섭