East Contemporary

Category: Seoul

SeMA Bukseoul: Ju Jae Hwan vs Kim Dong Kyu “Title Match” + “Neighbors and Strangers” + Lee Ju Yong “Photographic Studio”

Seoul, July 26 – October 16, 2016 (Title Match), July 22 – October 26, 2016 (Neighbors), May 3 – August 15, 2016 (Lee Ju Yong), http://sema.seoul.go.kr The Ju Jae Hwan 주재환 and Kim Dong Kyu 김동규 “Title Match” exhibition has been a continuation of the title match series that puts together an artist of an…

MMCA Seoul: The Otolith Group “Otolith III” + “Hydra Decapita”

Seoul, August 12, 2016 (screening), http://www.mmca.go.kr In addition to exhibitions, MMCA also organizes a screening program that introduces artists-filmmakers. The screenings take place in comfortable cinema space within the building and are freely accessible with the purchase of a standard museum ticket. Much better than watching these art movies on some more or less uncomfortable…

SongEun Art Space: Yunchul Kim “Evanescent”

Seoul, July 20 – September 3, 2016, http://www.songeunartspace.org Liquids and their physical properties have been the main object of research of Yunchul Kim 김윤철. Each floor of the exhibition space featured different kinds of experiments with their material properties, density, viscosity and crystal formation. The aesthetic effect was fascinating.

COS x The Book Society: Shin Shin “Bibliophile’s Booklets”

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…

Ilmin Museum: Rui Chafes & Pedro Costa “Distant Rooms”

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,…

Plateau: Liu Wei “Panorama”

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…

MMCA Seoul: Kim Sooja “Archive of Mind” + “Young Architects Program 2016” + Julius Popp “bit.fall pulse”

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…

Insa Art Space “Cosmos Party: We Are Going To Space”

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…

Ilmin Museum “Crossing Plane: Unit, Layer, Nostalgia”

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…

KMU Fineart Graduation Exhibition 국민대학교 회화전공 졸업전시

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…