Seoul, April 19 – April 27, 2024, http://ujeongguk.com & https://www.forkingroom.kr It has been 9 years since my last visit. Ujeongguk is still there and looks about the same. The current exhibition seems to be organized by an entity called “Forking Room” and is in fact a mini-festival consisting of an art show, artist talks, lectures…
Seoul, April 12 – June 23, 2024, https://ilmin.org A show dealing with nostalgia and the never-ending „retro“ longing for something in time/space away from one’s current place. A craving that is also fuelled by media technology that allows us to share our attention between multiple places/times simultaneously. I am here, but I could be there,…
Seoul, Nov 16, 2023 – May 19, 2024, https://www.mmca.go.kr There were three shows on during my visit. All were telling different parts of a grand contemporary Korean art narrative. Korean new media master Nam June Paik’s masterpiece. Korean photography. Korean geometric abstraction. Defining a coherent historical narrative and canon of works that support it is…
Seoul, February 17, 2023, https://www.dotolim.com Time passes but Dotolim stays. The miniature experimental music venue changes locations, yet keeps on going. 2013 it was located in a shared office building. 2015 it was in a regular apartment. Now in 2023, its new place is a single basement room, still in the same area around Hapjeong…
Seoul, May 28 – July 17, 2022, https://hitecollection.com “Kak” is a survey exhibition about sculpture today in Korea. Exhibited artworks span a period of about 25 years. In all cases, the positions are forward-looking positions of artists who were thinking about what the next step could be or how to reinterpret sculptural traditions with new…
Seoul, March 1 – April 28, 2019, http://artsonje.org Some time has passed since the last Lee Kit show I saw. And I was very much looking forward to this one. Will I get a similar feeling like when I saw his work for the first time? Will I feel connected because his work will be…
Seoul, December 22, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Duchamp), March 23 – July 28, 2019 (Data), October 27, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Farocki), http://www.mmca.go.kr Three shows were taking place at MMCA during my visit. The Essential Duchamp was what the title suggested: An overview of Marcel Duchamps oeuvre. At first I almost wanted to…
Seoul, March 23 – April 29, 2018, http://www.altpool.org A group show, with a Korean-only introduction – I have heard it was “about” the communication between artist and audience. Artworks by Hyewon Kwon권혜원, Seulki Ki/Yuna Park기슬기ㆍ박은하, Enae Lee이이내, Lim Sodam임소담and Juwon Jeong정주원were on display. Curated by MijungKim김미정.
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…