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…
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.
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…
Hong Kong, July 30 – September 2, 2016, http://holymotorsproject.com/ It was thanks to a set of coincidences that I passed by this exhibition. It showed up on my facebook thanks to a few of my friends “going”, it happened to be along my planned route, and there was a short rain in the afternoon which…
Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, 3/F Gallery, Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Sara Lai Cheuk Wah’s ( 黎卓華 ) installation stood out from the other exhibits at the CUHK MFA Graduation Show. At first it just impressed through its ability to express and transmit a certain feeling to the…
Hong Kong, July 10 – August 5, 2016, http://www.artofcuhk.hk/ Yet another hike up into the mountains of CUHK, this time for the MFA exhibition. Same as the prior BA exhibition, also this show spanned two locations – the CUHK Museum and the studio spaces on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the Cheng Ming…