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Lee Hye-rim

2009 Biennale footnotes

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by Philip Gowman on 10 November, 2009

in Exhibition reviews and comment, Lee Hye-rim, Venice Biennale 2009

Three Korean-born artists had solo shows at the 2009 Venice Biennale: Haegue Yang in the national pavillion, and Woojung Chun and Atta Kim as collateral events.
In LKL’s brief sojourn in Venice, it was not possible to get around all the Korean participants in various group shows, but for the record, they were:
1: Lim Won-ju in [...]

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Ten contemporary Korean artists you should know

9 May 2008 Event reports and reviews
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Contemporary Korean Art from the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Korean Cultural Centre, 1 Northumberland Avenue, through 16 May 2008. Free Admission
Review by Grace Kim
Korean Contemporary Art has become something of a recent phenomenon in the western art world, despite developing in Korea with influences from abroad for over 40-50 years. The Korean War, its [...]

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Feminism and women artists in Korean art

24 February 2007 Chung Kyung-ja
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Lecture 5 in Jiyoon Lee’s Art & Society in Modern Korea course.
Big caveat: a very simplistic and immature summary, prepared by someone with limited knowledge or understanding of these things, of a very brief lecture covering a huge topic. Treat with extreme caution. Posted here as a “stub” (in Wiki terms) which I might build [...]

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