After last year’s online-only edition of Collect it was good to get back to a physical show this year. It was also refreshing to see how many artists had taken advantage of the changed circumstances of lockdown to move their work in different directions; and galleries with an established roster of artists also tried to … [Read More]
Month: February 2022
Park Jiha: Two-day residency at Cafe OTO
We’re really excited about Park Jiha’s upcoming visit to London, and looking forward to hearing some live performances from her new album – The Gleam – released on tak:til / Glitterbeat last Friday. We’ve got a review and exclusive mini-interview with the artist coming soon on LKL. In the meanwhile you can stream the album … [Read More]
Sheffield Korea Day 2022
An annual celebration since 2018 (though I think there was an inevitable hiatus last year), this year’s Korea Day in Sheffield is on 12 March: We hear that the Shilla ensemble will be among the performers. Sheffield Korea Day 2022 Saturday 12 March 2022, 12 noon – 5pm The Octagon Centre | Clarkson Street | … [Read More]
A Sensory Awakening – the beauty of Korean teabowls
Visiting Collect at Somerset House over the weekend, I got talking to Mr Park Jinsoo of Han Collection who, as in previous years, had a wonderful selection of ceramics from Icheon to show to the public. As I was about to leave, he passed me a handbill for their upcoming exhibition of tea bowls. Details … [Read More]
‘Drifting’: A Performance by Yong Min Cho
As the group show Expanding Horizons enters its final week at October Gallery, Korean dancer and body language artist Yong Min Cho marks the occasion with a special performance: ‘Drifting’: A Performance by Yong Min Cho Saturday 5 March 2022, 18:00 – 18:40 GMT October Gallery | 24 Old Gloucester St | London WC1N 3AL … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: LUX — New Wave of Contemporary Art
The current video art exhibition in what I assume is a large disused car park underneath 180 Strand comes to an end in a week’s time. It’s well work a visit. In a vast space and in the absence of natural light, the curators have been able to display a range of large-scale video pieces … [Read More]
Non-fiction titles expected in 2022: LKL’s picks
In previous years this post has been, to a greater or lesser extent, a list of every non-fiction title I could find that was going to be hitting the bookshops in the coming year. As the LKL Korea Book Database has grown in size, including its stock of future publications, there are now far too … [Read More]
Upcoming literature and fiction titles for 2022
Last year was an amazing one for Korean literature in translation, with plenty of lively titles published. 2022 looks for the moment like it’s going to be a little quieter, but new publications sometimes pop out of nowhere, so this list of anticipated books for this year is almost bound to be proved incomplete. There … [Read More]
Novus String Quartet play the Wigmore
A nice way to spend the latter half of a Sunday morning: Novus String Quartet Sunday 20 February 2022 11:30am Wigmore Hall | 36 Wigmore Street | London W1U 2BP | Buy tickets Programme Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884): String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ‘From my life’ Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): String Quartet in C minor … [Read More]
Hyeyoon Park + Benjamin Grosvenor at the Wigmore Hall
A varied programme of violin music at London’s premier chamber music venue: Hyeyoon Park violin | Benjamin Grosvenor piano Tuesday 15 February 2022 7:30pm Wigmore Hall | 36 Wigmore Street | London W1U 2BP | Buy tickets Programme Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Violin Sonata in F K376 Anton Webern (1883-1945): 4 Pieces for violin and piano … [Read More]
Korean crafts at Collect 2022
Collect returns to Somerset House later this month. Han Collection will be there with their tempting array of ceramics from Icheon, while Lloyd Choi Gallery represents a broader range of crafts from across the country. In addition, expect to find the occasional Korean artist represented by non Korean specialist galleries: for example: Cube Gallery will … [Read More]
Screening: Kim Ki-young’s Angel, Become an Evil Woman
The KCC’s Korean Film Nights for 2022 kick off at the Genesis Cinema on 28 February with the first of a mini season of posthumous works. An Experience To Die For: Angel, Become an Evil Woman (죽어도 좋은 경험: 천사여 악녀가 되라) Dir: Kim Ki-Young (1990, 100 mins) Cast: Youn Yuh-Jung, Hyun Gil-soo, Lee Tammi, … [Read More]
KCC February House Concert: the Aesop Quartet
This first KCC House Concert of the year, at St James’s Piccadilly, features two popular string quartets. Aesop Quartet Katherine Yoon, violin | Amber Emson, violin | Ji-Eun Park, viola | Özgür Kaya, cello Thursday 24 February 2022, 7pm St James’s Piccadilly | Register via Eventbrite Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. … [Read More]
Touched by Light and Dreams – a talk at Gallery Rosenfeld
A discussion to mark the end of Bongsu Park’s and Shuster + Moseley’s current exhibitions at Gallery Rosenfeld. Touched by Light and Dreams Renee Pfister in conversation with Bongsu Park and Shuster + Moseley Saturday 12 February 2022, 3pm – 4pm gallery rosenfeld | 37 Rathbone Street | London W1T 1NZ | galleryrosenfeld.com Register via Eventbrite gallery … [Read More]
Japanese Nativism and Its Colonial Legacy
Thanks to 앤서방 for drawing this interesting-looking talk to our attention: Japanese Nativism and Its Colonial Legacy: Imagining Divine Origins of the Korean Writing System Cambridge University East Asia Seminar Speaker: Dr Nuri Kim Monday 7 February 2022 – 5:30pm via Zoom | Register to attend In this talk, Dr. Kim traces how Japanese nativist … [Read More]
February events 2022
Best wishes for the Year of the Tiger. Things are taking a while to get started this year, but there’s beginning to be more signs of life on the Korean cultural front. Exhibitions Last chance: Union Gallery’s London Art Fair group show, including two Korean artists, is open until 5 February Last chance: Anicka Yi’s … [Read More]