London Korean Links

Covering things Korean in London and beyond since 2006

Exhibition news: Heeseung Chung and Onejoon Che — Dialogues of Space

The KCC’s final exhibition of the year is a photography duo exhibition curated by MA students from the Whitechapel Gallery and London Metropolitan University. Dialogues of Space: Heeseung Chung and Onejoon Che 15 December 2015 – 6 February 2016 Korean Cultural Centre UK, Grand Building 1-3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW Opening times: Monday – Friday, … [Read More]

A belated tour of March’s First Thursday openings

In this article we visit Chung Heeseung: Inadequate Metaphor, at HADA Contemporary, Sun Ae Kim: Quotidian, at Mokspace; Bae Joonsung: Costume of a Painter / Hwang Seon-tae: Sunlight at Albemarle Gallery / Shine Artists; and last but by no means least Hwang Jihae: miNiATURE, at the Strand Gallery It was always going to be difficult to get … [Read More]

A brief tour of the Korean galleries at Art 14

Korean artists and galleries put on a good show at Art14, and got plenty of attention from the press. Time Out spotted (they were hard to miss) Choi Jeong-hwa’s huge collection of colourful pieces which looked like giant hubble-bubbles, installed at Hong Kong’s Pearl Lam Galleries. Also recommended in the same article was 43 Inverness … [Read More]

Korean artists and galleries at Art14

As an addendum and recap to my post of last December, here are the galleries I know of who will be presenting Korean artists at Art14 (28 Feb – 2 Mar at Olympia Grand): Section Gallery Artists (if announced) London First 43 Inverness Street (London) Kim Ha-young, Oak Jungho Choi & Lager (Cologne) Lee Seahyun, … [Read More]