Daegu, February 21 – May 28, 2023, http://daeguartmuseum.or.kr The immensely wealthy Samsung CEO Lee Kun-hee was kept alive on hospital machines for five years so that his heirs can prepare for the inheritance of the huge business empire that is said to contribute up to 20 % to South Koreas GDP. When the family business…
Seoul, February 17, 2023, https://www.dotolim.com Time passes but Dotolim stays. The miniature experimental music venue changes locations, yet keeps on going. 2013 it was located in a shared office building. 2015 it was in a regular apartment. Now in 2023, its new place is a single basement room, still in the same area around Hapjeong…
Berlin, Feb 02, 2023, https://2023.transmediale.de Transmediale is back in its “normal” on-site format after a two year hiatus. Yay! I decided for a combined on-line and on-site attendance while trying to make a couple of very inconsistent notes in a paper notepad as the event goes a long. 10:30 Opening remarks Mora O Murchu welcomes…
Prague, September 23, 2022 – January 9, 2023, https://www.ngprague.cz The Jindrich Chalupecky Award is the most established Czech art prize for emerging artists (up to 35 y.o.). It exists since 1990. In recent years, the mode of operation has changed. In the past, a winner was chosen among five finalists. In the last three years…
Prague, Sep 29, 2022 – Feb 13, 2023, https://www.kunsthallepraha.org Kunsthalle Praha is a new institution in the city. It is private and was founded by Petr Pudil and his wife Pavlina. Pudil is one of the Czech businesspeople, who succeeded amassing a fortune during the rather murky and lawless times of the 1990s political and…
Incheon, July 15 – September 11, 2022, https://inartplatform.kr A solo exhibition of an artist who I encountered nor long ago within the „Kak“ group show at Hite Collection. Different materials, different sculpting methods… somehow it all related to the city environment and the materials used in constructing or designing the city space. However the shapes…
Seoul, May 28 – July 17, 2022, https://hitecollection.com “Kak” is a survey exhibition about sculpture today in Korea. Exhibited artworks span a period of about 25 years. In all cases, the positions are forward-looking positions of artists who were thinking about what the next step could be or how to reinterpret sculptural traditions with new…
Prague, Jan 20th – Apr 19th, 2022 With Pragovka, Prague has a small but nice industrial factory art zone similar to the likes of M50 in Shanghai or 798 in Beijing. The scale is large for Prague but of course little compared to the Chinese megacities. The concept is similar: A large high-end property development…
Prague, 10 Nov 2021 – 24 Apr 2022 (Great Expectations), 27 Jan – 1 May 2022 (Hablovi), 17 Feb – 12 Jun 2022 (Rona), https://www.dox.cz On my prior visit to DOX, I enjoyed the “Russia, Timeless” exhibition. What a paradox, that my follow up visit took place right on the day when the horrible Russian…
Prague, Krizkovskeho 1288/10, June 22 – July 3, 2021, https://www.avu.cz/category/avu-menu/galerie-avu Galerie AVU is the gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. The exhibition space was located in the main building of the schoool, but recently it moved out into a “pop-up” space in Prague Zizkov. The exhibition was a cynical commentary on the…