As usual, you can expect some exquisite Korean crafts to be on show at Collect this year at Somerset House, 27 February – 1 March (with preview days). Sadly, though, as far as I can see, there won’t be the Icheon Ceramics / Han Collection collaboration that has given so much pleasure over the past … [Read More]
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K-Creative Sessions: Jogakbo
Join the KCCUK for a craft workshop exploring Jogakbo. We’ll delve into the history of this patchwork craft and offer a hands-on experience of these cultural treasures. Jogakbo (조각보) is a traditional Korean form of patchwork. It’s an art of creating a larger cloth by sewing together small, leftover scraps of fabric, typically in a … [Read More]
Artist Talk – New Gen: The Emerging Voices
An exciting opportunity to dive deeper into the artists’ world In conjunction with their current exhibition, New Gen: Emerging Voices, the KCCUK has prepared an Artist Talk, offering audiences a valuable opportunity to engage more deeply with the exhibition. Heeyoung Noh, Woojin Joo, Soohyun Choi and Yumin Lee will share their insights into their creative practices, … [Read More]
Christine Sun Kim in 1880 THAT, at the Wellcome Collection
‘1880 THAT’ is an exhibition which explores sign language and the right to communicate. It brings together new and recent work by the artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader. The exhibition explores the idea of language as a home – an essential place of belonging – and what it means to live with the … [Read More]
Dusk to Dawn: Minjung Kim & Rebecca Salter, at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art is excited to present Dusk to Dawn, an exhibition that brings together two artists whose paths criss-cross between East and West. Minjung Kim, born and trained in Korea, moved to Western Europe in her twenties, where she continued her studies and established her career as an artist. While her work engages with Western artistic concepts, its essence … [Read More]
Gyeob: a solo exhibition by fashion artist Kim Hye Lim
Join us at 67 York Street Gallery for the solo exhibition of fashion artist, Kim Hye Lim. Kim Hye Lim is a fashion artist who finds the roots of her creative practice in Korean tradition. In her 2020 solo exhibition “Ascending”, she focused on the sculptural aesthetics of po (袍 — traditional Korean outer robe) … [Read More]
Online talk: An Embroiderer’s Guide to Time and Thread
In An Embroiderer’s Guide to Time and Thread – A Dialogue with the Past, Korean embroidery artist and author Heehwa Jo invites audiences to journey through time, tradition, and creativity. In this online talk, she shares how her practice bridges centuries — reproducing, reinterpreting, and reimagining Korean embroidery heritage through her own contemporary lens. From studying the techniques of historical … [Read More]
JaeJun Lee in RUACH: Breath, Wind, Spirit — at Flow Gallery
Flow Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show by JaeJun Lee. JaeJun is a Korean ceramic artist now based in Cardiff. Working in porcelain, he finds beauty in the line of a simple form. The discipline of his making finds balance through the element of chance in his glazing – a quality that is explored … [Read More]
KCC Exhibition: NEW GEN – The Emerging Voices
The Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCCUK) is delighted to present the exhibition NEW GEN: The Emerging Voices, the latest edition of its annual open call programme supporting Korean artists based in the UK. This year’s exhibition introduces eight artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, moving image, and installation, exploring how identity, materiality, and technology shape contemporary … [Read More]
An introduction to North Korean art — and challenges in assembling a collection
North Korean art is tied to the genre of socialist realism, producing works of blatant propaganda as well as those with more subtle allegorical story lines. All artists work for the DPRK state, producing artworks which typically portray loyal citizens marching in the vanguard of the revolution, vanquishing enemies and fulfilling quotas. However, within this … [Read More]
Korean culture workshop series at SOAS
Join SOAS and the KCCUK for a series of special events introducing Korean traditional culture, organised by the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS University of London, in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre UK and the Korea Tourism Organization London Office. Samulnori: Korean traditional percussion workshop Key information Instructor: Dr Cholong Sung Date: Thursday, 6 … [Read More]
Rejina Pyo in fashion collaboration with John Lewis
It’s over ten years since Rejina Pyo came to our attention at a fashion exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre. By that time, having received her MA at Central Saint Martins in 2011, she had already launched her own fashion brand (2013) and had some of her designs collected by a Belgian museum. She opened … [Read More]
Bridging Media Art and East Asian Philosophy in the AI Era
Part of the Korea Foundation’s LAB Series in collaboration with SOAS University of London, this lecture by leading scholar and media artist Dr Jinjoon Lee explores ontology in the post-digital age, where myth and his tory, memory and data, identity and anonymity converge. As a “data gardenist,” he investigates the liminoid experience of utopian space … [Read More]
Seminar: A Digital Future for Korea’s Timeless Beauty
Join the KCCUK for a special K-Seminar exploring how the delicate sensibility of 18th-century Korean painter Hye-won (Shin Yun-bok) continues to inspire today’s digital world. This in-conversation event will feature Dr Seunghye Sun in dialogue with In-keon Chun, discussing how Joseon art’s timeless aesthetics — from the iconic Portrait of a Beauty to its immersive … [Read More]
Tactile Resonance: artist talk with Viviana Hayeong Jeon
Join 4482 | Sasapari for an artist talk with Viviana Hayeong Jeon, a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose installation-based practice explores the affective density and perceptual instability of contemporary life. Rooted in Eastern philosophy and feminist theory, Viviana investigates human vulnerability, fragmentation, and hybrid identity through tactile materials and recursive digital processes. Her work resists coherence … [Read More]
[Cambridge] From Classical Paintings to AI: Tradition and Future in Korean Art and Technology
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This event brings together two prominent figures of the Korean art and museum scene to offer insight into the past and future of Korean art and technology. Presentation 1: “The Recreation of Korean Style: Characteristics of Korean Aesthetics” by Inkeon Chun Traditional Korean aesthetics emerged as Koreans engaged in cultural exchanges with outside influences and … [Read More]