Seoul, August 6 – September 7, 2016, COS Store Cheongdam, Apgujeong-ro 418, Gangnam-gu, Seoul Continuing the past exhibition lineage hovering between art and design, COS invited The Book Society, a well-known artist’s book store in Seoul, to host a temporary curated extension of the store in the COS store. Designer Na Kim (who designed the…
Seoul, June 25 – August 14, 2016, http://ilmin.org For this exhibition the museum has been covered in pitch-black darkness. The Rui Chafes and Petro Costa are two artists that work independently. Chafes creates perfectly shaped steel sculptures with a surreal touch. Costa creates meditative videos with a Bill Viola-like meditative atmosphere, but even greater stillness,…
Seoul, April 28 – August 14, 2016, http://www.plateau.or.kr Each room of the gallery contained one large sculptural installation made using a different material. Retro-futurist metal and translucent color plastic in a dialogue with Rodin’s Gates of Hell. Huge monolith-like blocks carved out of pressed and glued together books. Towering gothic cathedral-like assemblages of recycled construction…
Seoul, July 27, 2016 – February 5, 2017 (Kim Sooja), July 6 – October 3, 2016 (YAP2016), http://www.mmca.go.kr Kim Sooja’s (김수자) solo show was the only larger art show taking place in MMCA Seoul during my visit. In addition to that, Julius Popp’s bit.fall pulse was still around, and it seemed to be nearing its…
Seoul, July 22 – September 3, 2016, http://www.insaartspace.or.kr A group of young artists (Bahc Heeza 박희자, Suh Yoona 서윤아, Son Hyunseon 손현선, Choi Byeong Seok최병석 and curator/captain Jintaeg Jang 장진택) decided to go on a mission into outer space, a metaphor for the journey an artist takes into the ‘unknown’ beyond existing social norms and…
Seoul, November 27 – January 31, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art Suki Seokyeong Kang 강서경 (, Eve Kwak 곽이브, MeeNa Park 박미나, Rahm Parc 박아람, Junghae Park 박정혜, Kyungho Baek 백경호, Nakhee Sung 성낙희, Hyangro Yoon 윤향로, Seungean Cha 차승언, Seung-Hye Hong 홍승혜 Without directly stating it, it seems that the exhibition focuses on identifying…
Seoul, December 3 – 22, 2015, http://kmufineart.com As the title says, this was the graduation exhibition of the Kookmin University Fine Arts Department. Each student received a roughly equal space, a small art fair booth-like compartment in which s/he presented his/her works. There has been a lot of paintings, many of them trying to develop…
Seoul, November 28 – December 9, 2015, http://www.ssdgongjang.com/ https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 As a sequel to Part 1 at Space Ba421 where Shin Kiwoun presented the blueprints for the forthcoming show, this show presented the finished artworks created according to the blueprints.
Seoul, November 12 – December 13, 2015, http://www.altpool.org/ As it is usual in Art Space Pool, the exhibition was research-based and minutely installed up to the smallest detail. The contents revolved around the ‘silent victims’ on the fringes of history, like soldiers, massacre victims, etc. This macabre topic, represented mainly in images, has been mixed…
Seoul, December 3, 2015 – February 14, 2015, http://plateau.or.kr I have been a fan of Lim Minouk since I saw the “S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus” video in a group exhibition in Ilmin Museum a couple of years ago. It was a work which stood out among many others. I read through some of her catalogues, and…