June 4 – July 19, 2015, 823−2 Gyeongin-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, http://commoncenter.kr curator (and CC director): Youngjune Hahm 함영준 Common Center is an independent art space run by a group of curator(s), designers and artists, between Yeongdeungpo train station and the nearby crumbling buildings of the red light district remains. When I first set out, I…
June 10 – August 8, 2015, 313 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, http://www.313artproject.com/ Daniel Buren is a well-known minimalist artist (with his “some color + white stripes” brand). I just noticed his name when walking on Gangnam’s Dosan Daero and popped into the gallery space.The shop window worked the best and it was the place where I…
July 3 – August 9, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, http://ilmin.org, curator: Youngjune Hahm According to the leaflet the exhibition was trying to convey something of the young generation’s experience through their own (artistic) eyes – the ubiquity of information, the mixing of the real and virtual, etc. On the first floor one was…
Seoul, April 11 – July 26, 2015, http://artsonje.org/ Piles of trash and ripped out walls, all neatly arranged – that’s what’s on display. It looked strange at first, but as I took my time and wondered around, pieces started to fit together. Cruzvillegas’ main topics seem to be urban space, the process of de/construction of…
July 9 – August 9, 2015, 91-5, Segeomjeong-ro 9-gil, Jogno-gu, Seoul, http://altpool.org The walls of Pool Space are of rough concrete and you can see the wooden beams holding the roofs and walls. It’s minimal, yet very neat at the same time. A quite space away from most traffic. Yuri An’s exhibition is first and…
July 2 – July 17, 2015, Facebook So I just happened to arrive in Seoul for the opening of this show. A group of artists called MOUNT decided to use the project money they got to pay for enhancing their skills and then “exhibit” the skills they went through: They joined academies and clubs for…
June 12 – July 12, 2015, Facebook A research-based exhibition by a German curator (Clemens Krümmel). It consisted of quite a lot of small works, most of them prints or just facsimiles of artworks, plus some video works. It made me think of Anselm Franke shows or the research based shows which Para Site in…
June 20 – July 3, 2015, Facebook, Naver A small group show (curator Boram Lim) consisting of four works by four artists in a gallery that seems to be connected to the Korea National University of the Arts (K-Arts). There was a nice small booklet produced for the show, which I unfortunately could not make…
Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, 10/11 – 12/22 (Asia Code), 10/11 – 10/27/13 (Changhoon Lee) www.somamuseum.org www.somadrawing.org The handout of the show announced the theme of “Zero” (空 – Chinese character for emptiness) identified as the specific feature of ‘Asian’ art. Works in the show were related to this concept, taking up the theme from different…
Plateau, Seoul, 7/4 – 12/8/2013 The Murakami show at Plateau Seoul has been on since the summer, however it was just in the autumn that I managed to stop by. Murakami’s work is so iconic that I did not consider it necessary to see, but after the visit I still found it worthy to see. The…