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, September 23 – November 15, 2015, http://art.arko.or.kr Daum Kim 김다움, Joon Kim 김준, Junebum Park 박준범, Heaven Baek 백현주, jang minseung + jung jaeil 장민승+정재일 and Hyejin Jo 조혜진 “The exhibition Sound of Community focuses on the idea of sound, from words and text exchanged in everyday life in the community, to the vibrations of sound waves resonating…
Seoul, August 7 – September 6, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A group exhibition around the theme of interpretation and re-interpretation of artworks, featuring Creative VaQi (76min), Hankil Ryu+Taeyong Kim (57min 13 sec), Nomadic Drift (20min 56sec), Sujin Lee (23min 58sec), Christelle Lheureux (18min + 33min), The Otolith Group (33min 32sec), Barbara Hammer (29min), Ben Russell (22min 30sec).…
Seoul, May 29 – August 9, 2015, http://www.arkoartcenter.or.kr A show which was able to produce a richness of meanings from a minimal yet very powerful sculptural interventions. Most of the materials have been probably sourced from a cable recycling center: Sculptures were made from the plastic coating, some of the wires inside, some of all…
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…