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Cold Cell in the Old Police Station

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by Philip Gowman on 14 December, 2009

in Arts, Events news, Union Gallery

Notice of an interesting exhibition put on by the Union Gallery.
19 December 2009 – 10 January 2010
UNION at the OLD POLICE STATION, 114 Amersham Street, London SE14 6LG

The exhibition will take place in the prison cells and ground floor gallery space of a now disused police station. Like the title already suggests, the meaning of [...]

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A Family in Disguise at Union Teesdale

2 October 2008 Events news
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Notice of an exhibition starting on Saturday at Union Teesdale Street:
YU JINYOUNG / A FAMILY IN DISGUISE
4th October – 1st November 2008
Opening hours: contact the gallery for details
UNION
94 Teesdale Street
London
E2 6PU
UNION Teesdale Street is pleased to announce the solo exhibition A FAMILY IN DISGUISE by Yu Jinyoung, co-curated by Sunhee Choi.
Yu Jinyoung’s work focuses on [...]

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Impossible landscapes

7 July 2008 Event reports and reviews
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Recently in London we’ve seen two seemingly very different responses to traditional Korean and Chinese landscape painting. In March we had Lim Taek (임택) at I-MYU; just finished at Union we had Lee Sea-hyun (이세현). Both artists portray the familiar mountains, the occasional ancient pavilion dotting the landscape. But Lim’s mountains are simple blocks of [...]

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Union Gallery launches Sea Hyun Lee catalogue

18 June 2008 Events news
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The Union Gallery behind Tate Modern has been showing Sea Hyun Lee’s vivid red landscapes since last month. Katie Kitamura has been beavering away on a catalogue for the exhibition. That’s now ready, giving an opportunity for a mid-show celebration: the catalogue will be launched at an evening event on 26 June, 6:00-9:00pm.
The Union’s press [...]

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Surrender your jeans — win a beer

16 July 2007 Choi So-young

Doesn’t sound a very good deal, huh? But let me explain further. Korean artist Choi So-young specialises in creating work out of denim. She’s going to be exhibiting at the Union Gallery in 2008… but she needs the raw materials to work with.
So the deal is this: YOU can be part of a collaborative, interactive [...]

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Kimchi juice: the art medium of the future

30 September 2006 Baik Hyunjhin

I went to the “Give me Shelter” exhibition at the Union Gallery one lunchtime this week, as it’s only 15 minutes walk from my office. I’ll be going back again. Possibly the easiest works to relate to are the biggest and the smallest. Hyungkoo Lee’s skeletal coyote and roadrunner occupied a whole room, atmospherically [...]

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“Give me Shelter” at the Union Gallery

26 September 2006 Baik Hyunjhin

Thanks to Peter Corbishley who told me about this exhibition over a soju or two at the Anglo-Korean Society V&A evening.
At the Union Gallery in Southwark there’s an exhibition of works – sculpture and paintings – by five emerging Korean artists, Hyunjhin Baik, Suejin Chung, Osang Gwon, Dongwook Lee and Hyungkoo Lee. Above is a [...]

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