Seoul, August 5, 2015, Arko Art Center, Seoul, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr Aimee Lin, a critic, writer and editor of ArtReview Asia, gave a lecture on Chinese art, surveying the last decades and providing insights towards possible developments. I will first summarize the lecture, and then add my own view on the most recent developments on post-internet art…
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…
July 9 – 19, 2015, 108-1 Haneulgongwon-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, http://semananji.seoul.go.kr, curator Raejung Sim 심래정 As the name suggests, SeMA Nanji is a subsidiary of the Seoul Museum of Art, more specifically, it is its artist residency branch. It’s located in the Western part of Mapo district in between two large green hills which turned out…
June 4 – July 19, 2015, 823−2 Gyeongin-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, http://commoncenter.kr curator (and CC director): Youngjune Hahm 함영준 Common Center is an independent art space run by a group of curator(s), designers and artists, between Yeongdeungpo train station and the nearby crumbling buildings of the red light district remains. When I first set out, I…
June 10 – August 8, 2015, 313 Dosan-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, http://www.313artproject.com/ Daniel Buren is a well-known minimalist artist (with his “some color + white stripes” brand). I just noticed his name when walking on Gangnam’s Dosan Daero and popped into the gallery space.The shop window worked the best and it was the place where I…
July 3 – August 9, 2015, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, http://ilmin.org, curator: Youngjune Hahm According to the leaflet the exhibition was trying to convey something of the young generation’s experience through their own (artistic) eyes – the ubiquity of information, the mixing of the real and virtual, etc. On the first floor one was…