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, 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…
Seoul, July 9 – August 2, 2015, http://www.galleryloop.com/ I wish I could have seem this exhibition, as the curatorial text sounded quite interesting. Unfortunately, when I arrived, even though the exhibition was supposed to be there and it was during opening hours, the space seemed to be closed and in a state of decay. Maybe…
Seoul, June 12 – August 16, 2015 (Accidental Encounter), May 16 – August 23, 2015 (Reflecting the Times), http://sema.seoul.go.kr The most northern branch – SeMA Bukseoul – of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) opened just a few years ago, in 2013. The northern part of Seoul has long been lacking cultural centers of this…
Midori Harima’s Democracy Demonstrates – What I have consumed in 90 days in Korea was one the works at the MMCA Goyang The Big Scene: Seven Sights exhibition. I instantly felt very connected to it and enchanted by it. First a brief description: Harima collected each day’s trash and assembled it into a modest ‘sculpture’ which…
Gyeonggi-do, July 23 – August 12, 2015, MMCA Goyang MMCA Goyang is one of the artist studio spaces maintained by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA). It is located in the North-West of Seoul, which is actually already outside of the city boundaries and in Gyeonggi province. It is a rural atmosphere…
시청각, Jahamun 57-6, Jongno-gu, Seoul http://audiovisualpavilion.org/ A small exhibition space located in a traditional Korean hanok house (courtyard with single rooms around it), a few blocks from Gyeongbokgung station. There were some paintings, some text-based work and a large table-like installation. The works seemed rather separate and I could not find much connecting elements that…