Seoul, April 4/June 13 – August 15, 2015, http://www.photomuseum.or.kr/ A small but neat museum, located in two top floors of a building that is probably the headquarters of Hanmi Corporation’s (Steel Trading and Financial Services) . In addition to the exhibition, you get to see a beautiful panoramic view of the Olympic Park, which you…
Seoul, August 7 – September 6, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A group exhibition around the theme of interpretation and re-interpretation of artworks, featuring Creative VaQi (76min), Hankil Ryu+Taeyong Kim (57min 13 sec), Nomadic Drift (20min 56sec), Sujin Lee (23min 58sec), Christelle Lheureux (18min + 33min), The Otolith Group (33min 32sec), Barbara Hammer (29min), Ben Russell (22min 30sec).…
Seoul, July 2015 and August 2015, http://kigoja.net/ Kigoja is very, very small art space in Seoul. On my first visit, I was a bit shocked by its size. But that shock served its purpose and it made me start thinking, what the definition or requirements for an art space are. In the end, the special…
Seoul, May 29 – August 9, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A show which was able to produce a richness of meanings from a minimal yet very powerful sculptural interventions. Most of the materials have been probably sourced from a cable recycling center: Sculptures were made from the plastic coating, some of the wires inside, some of all…
Seoul, August 7 – September 5, 2015, http://www.cornerartspace.org One huge oil painting, pinned to the wall without a frame or stretcher, in a greyscale covered the one main wall of the shop window/space of corner gallery. Formally, it was a still life, with objects of an uncertain material arranged in a row, like in a…
Seoul, June 25 – August 23, 2015, Maison Hermes Dosan Park, Seoul, http://maisondosanpark.hermes.com/en/ The show was very beautifully installed with all attention to detail, as neat as the Hermes bags, shoes and accessories one floor above or the stylish cafe right next to it. Inside were three video installations and two related sculptures. The first…
Seoul, July 10 – August 8, 2015 http://www.songeunartspace.org A group show, featuring numerous works and artists. As the press release announced, the exhibition is a celebration of the gallery’s 5 year anniversary in its current location, presenting an overview of artists they have worked with during the years. Thus, everyone walking through the show can…
Seoul, July 29 – October 23, 2015, http://www.savinamuseum.com Bernard Faucon, HYBE, Hyungmin Moon, Jin Dallae & Park Woohyuk, Juhae Yang, MeeNa Park, Neil Harbisson, Sandy Skoglund, Seung Jung, Sohee Cho “The exhibition aims at presenting a broad spectrum of the artists’ works of art in order to discover their own methods of represented ‘color’. Furthermore,…
Seoul, July 31, 2015, Seoul, http://www.dotolim.com My second visit to a Dotolim event – last time was about two years ago in their space close to Hapjeong. Now they moved a few subway stops further, near Sangsu station, and the space has changed from an officetel space to a big apartment. Maybe even bigger than…
Seoul, Jul.28,2015 – Oct.11,2015 (70th Anniversary), May.27,2015 ~ Aug.02,2015 (World of Xijing), Apr.14,2015 ~ Aug.23,2015 (Interplay), Nov.04,2014 ~ Sep.13,2015 (Port of Reflections) http://www.mmca.go.kr The main and newest branch (Seoul Branch) of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is a huge space next to Gyeongbokgung Palace opened in 2013. The large monolithic spaces…