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…
This post provides a flashback of this year’s summer time in Seoul. I spent most of July and August in Seoul. It has been more than a month since my departure, but memories still linger in my head. On the contrary to my experience in Europe where summer is the holiday season or Shanghai where…
March 12, 2013 – June 23, 2013 This show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul is a yearly event showcasing a small group of ‘best’ emerging artists in Korea. It was a nice occasion to get acquainted with some names that we may be hearing more often in the upcoming years. A…
Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, March 7 – May 23, 2013 The main thing that stuck in my mind from seeing this show were the seemingly simple ‘arte-povera’-like sculptures (assemblages of cardboard boxes, trash bags, mattresses, wooden sticks) , which, after a close examination, revealed themselves as meticulously crafted ‘copies’ executed in bronze, resin etc. In the…
Seogyo Art Space, Hongdae, Seoul, http://eng.seoulartspace.or.kr/space_seogyo/introduce.asp December 28, 2012, 18:30 Seogyo Art Space is located in Hongdae area of Seoul, close to Hongik university. On December 28th an art performance relay took place there, and as I was in Seoul and a friend invited me, I decided to give it a try and get a…
Seoul Museum of Art – Nam Seoul Branch, Seoul, http://seoulmoa.seoul.go.kr December 2012 The ‘south side’ branch of the Seoul Museum of Art had an exhibition on show that featured a well-balanced mix of media art. There was a multi-channel video projection showing a surreal spatial stop-motion situation (Sophie Clements), generative computer graphics (Lab[au]), a projection…