Hong Kong, Pedder Building, 22 March – 3 May 2018, www.hanart.com This was a very refreshing show amongst the poshness of the Pedder Building, where most galleries decided to hang individual large size products in respectable distance from each other on the freshly painted gallery walls. Hanart TZ was also freshly painted, no question about…
Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – 8 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The second, new, space of Pearl Lam in Hong Kong, in the newly opened H Queens building showing Arcangelo Sassolino’s works was both complementary and consistent with the other existing Pearl Lam location is in the Pedder Building, showing abstract painter Huang Yanqing. The…
Hong Kong, H Queens, March 27 – May 12, 2018, https://www.pacegallery.com Yoshitomo Nara is well known for his comics-like drawings and paintings of a lonely sad girl/boy, but popular demand seems to have pushed him into sculpture now. The exhibition features some paintings and sketches, in order to provide some context, but most of the…
Hong Kong, Pedder Building 6/F, 27 March – 11 May, 2018, https://www.pearllam.com The fixed layout of the gallery walls gave me a familiar feeing: The reception with the glass wall, the longer corridor behind the reception corner, and then the two less busy “contemplative” side rooms left and right, one of them ending at the…
Suwon, February 13 – June 10, 2018 (Architecture), Februrary 27 – June 24, 2018 (Not Allowed), http://sima.suwon.go.kr After my last visit to SIMA two years ago, I was a bit worried if I will enjoy my return visit, or if I will have as mixed feelings as I had last time. Some things stayed the…
Seoul, March 23 – April 29, 2018, http://www.altpool.org A group show, with a Korean-only introduction – I have heard it was “about” the communication between artist and audience. Artworks by Hyewon Kwon권혜원, Seulki Ki/Yuna Park기슬기ㆍ박은하, Enae Lee이이내, Lim Sodam임소담and Juwon Jeong정주원were on display. Curated by MijungKim김미정.
Seoul, March 20 – May 20, 2018, http://www.arko.or.kr Last year’s Venice Biennale Korea pavilion came back “home” and is on display at Arko. The package on show is a well-balanced combination of old and new, Korean and international, conceptual and pop, etc. There is almost everything, and the variety that the two artists managed to…
Seoul, February 23 – April 29, 2018, http://ilmin.org The three floors of Ilmin museum contained three mini-solo-shows by three successful mid-career Korean artists. On 1F Ayoung Kim김아영 presents Porosity Valley. The centerpiece of the show was a large projection with a short film utilizing post-internet aesthetics, reminding me of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturism or Christopher Kulendran…
Berlin, Feb 4, 2018, https://transmediale.de This was the concluding panel of transmediale. I was expecting some references to Norbert Wiener and Roy Ascott. Instead panelists stubbornly kept invoking Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler. Of course not only. I found Eva Majewska’s introduction of the concept of counterpublics at least interesting (a social group delimiting itself…
Berlin, 12:30, Feb 04, 2018, https://transmediale.de A freeform conversation between Heidenreich (art theory lecturer) and O’Dwyer (digital/blockchain researcher). Heidenreich’s main thesis was to abolish money and think about other forms of “matching” supply and demand. Nevertheless in his examples he kept falling back on some systems of ranking and recording that again used numeric form,…