Seoul, July 26 – October 16, 2016 (Title Match), July 22 – October 26, 2016 (Neighbors), May 3 – August 15, 2016 (Lee Ju Yong), http://sema.seoul.go.kr The Ju Jae Hwan 주재환 and Kim Dong Kyu 김동규 “Title Match” exhibition has been a continuation of the title match series that puts together an artist of an…
Seoul, November 25 – December 25, 2015, http://www.seoulphotofestival.com Artists: Kang Yong-suk 강용석, Geum Hye Won 금혜원, Kim Se-jin 김세진, Gim Seunggu 김승구, Kim Ah-yeong 김아영, Kim Yeong-Su 김영수, Kim, In-Sook 김인숙, Noh Suntaek 노순택, Park Chorok 박초록, Byeon Suncheol 변순철, Yim Yeongsuk 이명숙, Yi Seonmin 이선민, Yi Jeongrok이정록, Jo Seub 조습, Chae Seungwoo채승우, Choe Wonjun…
Seoul, November 20 – 22, 2015, http://semananji.seoul.go.kr Kim Eun Hyung 김은형, Noh Sangbo 노상호, Rohwa Jeong 로와정, Park Yeojoo 박여주, Park Chungki 박정기, Park Cheonwook 박천욱, Seo Jung Hee Biann 서정희, Son Hyemin 손혜민, Song Soo-young 송수영, Sim Raejung 심래정, Jungju An 안정주, U Juju 유쥬쥬, Lee Boram 이보람, Lee Woosung 이우성, Yi Yunyi 이윤이,…
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, 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, 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…
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…
This post provides a flashback of this year’s summer time in Seoul. I spent most of July and August in Seoul. It has been more than a month since my departure, but memories still linger in my head. On the contrary to my experience in Europe where summer is the holiday season or Shanghai where…
Seoul Museum of Art – Nam Seoul Branch, Seoul, http://seoulmoa.seoul.go.kr December 2012 The ‘south side’ branch of the Seoul Museum of Art had an exhibition on show that featured a well-balanced mix of media art. There was a multi-channel video projection showing a surreal spatial stop-motion situation (Sophie Clements), generative computer graphics (Lab[au]), a projection…