Busan, May 8 – June 30, 2024, https://www.kukjegallery.com/ Na Kim is a well known Korean graphic designer who “made it” in New York. Capitalising on her fame in Korea, she now branched out into painting. The exhibits where classical acrylic-on-canvas or acryllic-on-wood paintings, taking up motives and assemblages from her scrapbook. One could clearly see…
Category: South Korea
_Writing about, Asia, Busan, Exhibitions, South Korea
F1963 Seokcheon Hall: “Joseon Tongsinsa Festival Special Exhibition <通 (Tong), We Do>”
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Busan, May 1 – May 24, 2024, http://www.f1963.org An exhibit of many handcrafted paper dolls showing a scene of … I think it was a Japanese envoy visiting Korea? 300 hundred something years ago? It seems to be an important event in Busan, that is also regularly commemorated. Unfortunately all the text was in Korean…
_Writing about, Asia, Busan, Exhibitions, South Korea
Hyundai Motorstudio: „Where is my friends home?”
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Busan, December 8, 2023 – June 16, 2024, https://motorstudio.hyundai.com/busan Jimin Park curated show. A furtniture designer and curator. It was quite educational/illustrative. Artworks that show/explain something. Somehow more like a experiential sociological/marketing study about smart home target groups. Even though the intent behind individual artworks might have been different, maybe even opposite, the overall assembly…
_Writing about, Asia, Busan, Exhibitions, Report, South Korea
F1963 muticultural complex, Busan
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Busan, http://www.f1963.org A wire factory reconstructed as a multicultural complex. A nice place to hang out for everyone. Nice architecture. The biggest floor space was taken up by a large cafe. The surrounding area contained enough land for future development… we all know how it goes… Build a nicely designed culture space in a converted…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Nam June Paik Art Center: “Wake Up! It’s 2024” + “Big Brother Blockchain”
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Yongin, March 21, 2024 – August 18, 2024 (Blockchain) / February 23, 2025 (Wake Up), https://njp.ggcf.kr This was my third visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center (after 2012 and 2013). One decade later, the exhibition titles are new, but I was greeted by the same TV garden, the same Paik robot, the same…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Suwon Museum of Art: Lee Gil Beom “Down Memory Lane”
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Suwon, February 27 – June 9, 2024, https://suma.suwon.go.kr Lee Gil Beom 이길범 “Down Memory Lane” was a solo exhibition of a local Suwon artist. Traditional ink painting. Mostly traditional motives. Some Suwon related. I would not have thought this would be my favorite show of the day. But it was. It was touching to see…
_Writing about, Asia, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Suwon Museum of Art: “Second Impact”
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Suwon, April 16, 2024 – March 3, 2025, https://suma.suwon.go.kr “Second Impact” was looking at different aspects of the relationship between an original and a copy and what these terms mean. The starting point were a few chapters of curatorial text, which would be great as a curriculum for a visual culture class at university. The…
_Writing about, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Suwon Museum of Art: “Can’t Help But Love Her”
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Suwon, March 12 – June 9, 2024, https://suma.suwon.go.kr “Can’t help to love her” was a rather big show around the theme of women working or women’s work. Many of the artworks were showing just that: women working. Some went a bit further and showed the stereotypes associated with women’s work, like weaving, fabric processing and…
_Writing about, Asia, Busan, Exhibitions, South Korea
Art Busan 2024
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Busan, May 9-12, 2024, https://artbusan.com Art Busan art fair… what to say about it? Well, it is an art fair… The majority of galleries seemed to have travelled from the distant city of Seoul in the north of the country. This was complemented by galleries from closer distance, e.g. Daegu. At least that was my…
_Writing about, Exhibitions, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art: YALOO: „YALOO“
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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…