Seoul, June 23 – October 18, 2015, Plateau (Samsung), Seoul, http://www.plateau.or.kr This show was a perfect match for Plateau’s space: Elmgreen & Dragset transformed Plateau into an airport-themed exhibition space, and in fact they only needed to add some small touches to complete the “transformation” of this space which in itself feels very similar to…
Seoul, September 8 – November 8, 2015 (December 13, 2015 for The Secret Kingdom_Wonderland) http://sema.seoul.go.kr Two artists of two different generations were confronted in “Title Match”. Gum Nuri is an artist in his 50’s or 60’s, a sculptor working in a kind of post-minimalist tradition. He makes use of found objects, or simple materials that…
Seoul, September 3 – 25, 2015, http://cakegallery.kr/ Cake Gallery is located in Dongmyo, Seoul, an area of flea markets and small metal work, wood work and second hand appliances shops. As such it seems to be a forerunner of a future gentrification project if it succeeds. Tucked away in the 6th floor of a building,…
Seoul, September 1 – 16, 2015, https://www.facebook.com/space.ba421 A small independent art space, located in an old market building in the Jogno (3ga) area of Seoul. During my visit there has been a show on display where I managed to translate the title using google, but I was not able to identify the artist’s name from…
Seoul, September 3 – 30, 2015, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, http://www.davincicreative.org/ Curator: Choi Doo Eun, Performance: Herman Kolgen, 1024 architecture, Beenzino, Artists: Lab[au], Code Blue, Younghwan Choi, Maurice Benayoun, Eunsol Kim+Sungseok Ahn+Jongseok Yang, Ah Young Kim, Ujoo+Lim Heeyoung, Team VOID, Herman Kolgen + workshop participants, Louis-Philippe Demers, Digital Hippy Lab, Seungsoon Park, Jae Wan Park+Jae…
Seoul, August 8 – September 20, 2015, http://www.commoncenter.kr Two one-floor exhibitions were running concurrently at Common Center. I could sense a continuing thread from the last group show, likely pointing towards the Common Center owner’s love for on-line subcultures, manga, etc. Regarding “Fujoshi Manifesto” I first have to say I am not so familiar with…
Seoul, August 20 – September 20, 2015, http://www.altpool.org/ A new exhibition opened at Pool, and given my curiosity I headed over to check it out. As is the case usually, a very well designed and clean installation with the greatest attention to detail was on site. According to the press release, “this exhibition presents a…
Seoul, July 21 – September 29, 2015, http://sema.seoul.go.kr To celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation Day (of Korea – which was one country at that time – from Japanese occupation) SeMA prepared an exhibition looking northwards – the North Korea (NK) Project. Creating a North Korea related exhibition for the liberation anniversary showed the…
Seoul, June 6 – August 23, 2015, http://sema.seoul.go.kr PEACEMINUSONE was an exhibition branded by G Dragon, a South Korean K-Popstar. “Designed to enhance people’s interest in the contemporary art while inducing rich encounters of art and the pop culture through G Dragon’s collaboration with artists of home and abroad. It is another name for the…
Seoul, April 4/June 13 – August 15, 2015, http://www.photomuseum.or.kr/ A small but neat museum, located in two top floors of a building that is probably the headquarters of Hanmi Corporation’s (Steel Trading and Financial Services) . In addition to the exhibition, you get to see a beautiful panoramic view of the Olympic Park, which you…