Prague, September 11, 2015 – January 25, 2016, http://www.dox.cz Artists: Barbora Balkova (CZ), Zarko Baseski (MKD), Denis Beaubois (AUS), William Betts (USA), Hans Jürgen-Burkard (GER), Bureau d’Etudes (FR), Michal Cimala (CZ), Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico (USA/IT), Sylvie Fleury (CHE), Farma v jeskyni / Farm in the Cave (CZ), Jason Florio (UK), Douglas Gordon (UK),…
Seoul, November 27 – January 31, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art Suki Seokyeong Kang 강서경 (, Eve Kwak 곽이브, MeeNa Park 박미나, Rahm Parc 박아람, Junghae Park 박정혜, Kyungho Baek 백경호, Nakhee Sung 성낙희, Hyangro Yoon 윤향로, Seungean Cha 차승언, Seung-Hye Hong 홍승혜 Without directly stating it, it seems that the exhibition focuses on identifying…
Seoul, December 3 – 22, 2015, http://kmufineart.com As the title says, this was the graduation exhibition of the Kookmin University Fine Arts Department. Each student received a roughly equal space, a small art fair booth-like compartment in which s/he presented his/her works. There has been a lot of paintings, many of them trying to develop…
Seoul, November 28 – December 9, 2015, http://www.ssdgongjang.com/ https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 As a sequel to Part 1 at Space Ba421 where Shin Kiwoun presented the blueprints for the forthcoming show, this show presented the finished artworks created according to the blueprints.
Seoul, November 12 – December 13, 2015, http://www.altpool.org/ As it is usual in Art Space Pool, the exhibition was research-based and minutely installed up to the smallest detail. The contents revolved around the ‘silent victims’ on the fringes of history, like soldiers, massacre victims, etc. This macabre topic, represented mainly in images, has been mixed…
Seoul, December 3, 2015 – February 14, 2015, http://plateau.or.kr I have been a fan of Lim Minouk since I saw the “S.O.S. Adoptive Dissensus” video in a group exhibition in Ilmin Museum a couple of years ago. It was a work which stood out among many others. I read through some of her catalogues, and…
Seoul, December 1, 2015 – March 27, 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr I believe William Kentridge does not need much introduction. He is a very well known South Aftrican contemporary artist, which has by now produced few decades worth of artworks, ranging from drawing to his brand-style hand drawn stop motion animation, to theater productions and large scale…
Seoul, December 4 – 17, 2015, http://igong.org/ i-Gong is a small media art space in Seoul Hongdae district. The exhibition focused on the topic of the domestic and how the domestic space is experienced by its inhabitants. There have been video interviews with family members talking about different places in the house, as well as…
Incheon, December 2 – December 19, 2015, http://www.inartplatform.kr Incheon Art Platform is a center for contemporary art located near the Incheon China Town Area, in a reconstructed grouping of buildings which used to be warehouses for the nearby Incheon port. Three separate solo exhibitions were taking place during my visit in three separate spaces. Yeom…
Seoul, November 25 – December 1, 2015, http://gallerydos.com Fresco-like artworks, creating by scratching off the black paint on the surface of a plaster surface. The subject matter seemed to be domestic, from villa exteriors to interiors and a fish tank that featured on the invitation. The nice thing about the technique used was the matte…