A series of online talks associated with Jewyo Rhii’s Love Your Depot project at the KCCUK: Love Your Depot 30 November 2020 – 18 January 2021 Accessible at LoveYourDepot.com Jewyo Rhii’s ‘Love Your Depot’ has collaborated with the Newcastle’s Locus+. With the ongoing instability caused by Covid-19 restrictions what was initially planned to be a … [Read More]
Artist: Kim Sung-hwan
Event news: Sung Hwan Kim in Arttalk at KCC
Sung Hwan Kim’s exhibition in Tate Modern’s tanks was one of LKL’s highlights of 2012. So we’ve cleared the diary for his talk at the KCC on Friday evening, 3 February, currently scheduled for 6:30pm, where he will be appearing with his collaborator the composer David Michael DiGregorio, aka dogr. I wonder if the KCC … [Read More]
The London Korean Links Awards 2012
The seventh eclectic and highly personal commemoration of the best of the past year. Personality of the Year Runner up There were plenty of personalities in the South Korean Olympic team, particularly the pistol shooters, archers and the gymnasts. But the athlete that everyone will remember is fencer Shin A-lam, cheated out of a place … [Read More]
Exhibition Visit: Sung Hwan Kim – Temper Clay in Tate Modern Tanks
So far I’ve probably spent seven hours over the course of five visits trying to figure out the massive installation in the Tate Modern by 37 year old Sung Hwan Kim (김성환). I haven’t succeeded yet, and indeed I’m not at all sure it’s possible fully to resolve the into a coherent whole the many … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Sung Hwan Kim in the Tate Modern Tanks
Tate Modern, one of London’s most popular visitor attractions, has expanded its exhibition space by opening up some giant underground tanks which used to store oil when the building was still Bankside Power Station. ‘These underground chambers are simply extraordinary spaces,’ says the Guardian newspaper. To celebrate their opening, the Tate commissioned a new work … [Read More]
Sung Hwan Kim: Pieces from “In the Room”, at Wilkinson Gallery
Sung Hwan Kim has his second solo show in London starting this month: Sung Hwan Kim: Pieces from “In the Room” Wilkinson Gallery, Main Galleries | 50-58 Vyner Street | London E2 9DQ 29 May – 12 July 2009 I thought of a room as a box, from which a story vibrates, and I began … [Read More]
Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights, at Wilkinson Gallery
An unusual exhibition coming up at Wilkinson Gallery in Vyner Street. Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights Wilkinson Gallery Project Space | 50-58 Vyner Street | London E2 9DQ 22 November 2007 to 13 January 2008 FROM THE COMMANDING HEIGHTS OF THE EARLIEST NATURAL FORTIFICATION TO THE ARCHITECTONIC INNOVATIONS OF THE WATCH TOWER THE … [Read More]