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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Busan, September 15 – October 18, 2015, http://busanbiennale.org A sculpture festival on one of the beaches of Busan: I only managed to visit the site after dark, but I still got at least some impression. It had been quite a broad range of works, from monumental figurative works to abstract structures or smaller works sheltered…