I haven’t knowingly seen Choi Mi-young’s work since 2011, when she appeared in the big Sasapari group show. She’s back in a two-person exhibition in Battersea: a dialogue between painting and sculpture, exploring the theme of Sky. Excavating the Sky Mi Young Choi, Dorothea Magonet The Square Gallery | 9B Battersea Square | London SW11 … [Read More]
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Exhibition news: Koo Jeong A — Riptide: KCC’s Artist of the Year exhibition
The KCC’s third Artist of the Year exhibition opens on 7 October and focuses on Koo Jeong A, who earlier on this year had an installation in the old Charing Cross underground station. Koo Jeong A: Riptide 7 October – 19 November 2016 Korean Cultural Centre UK | Grand Buildings, 1 – 3 Strand | … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Korean Artist Crew — Garnish, at NuDawn
The Korean Artist Crew are holding their first exhibition in Hackney, 29 September – 3 October. Note the private view this evening, to which all are welcome. Garnish KAC 1st Exhibition NuDawn | 206 Well Street | Hackney | LONDON E9 6QT 29 September – 3 October 2016 | 12pm – 6pm Private view 1 … [Read More]
Kang Ik-joong’s Floating Dreams: the stories
As Kang Ik-joong said of his installation on the Thames: his motive in collecting drawings from the North Koreans displaced by the Korean War was actually to collect their stories. Here are some of those stories, as shared on the Totally Thames website. Park Yun Ok (age 95) http://totallythames.org/blog/floating-dreams-one-dream-many-stories “My name is Park Yun Ok. … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Kim Jin-kwan solo show at 5th Base Gallery
Notice of an upcoming exhibition to the East of the City: Kim Jin Kwan 5th Base Gallery | 23 Heneage Street | London E1 5LJ | www.5thbase.co.uk 7th – 12th October 1pm – 6pm Private view 6th October 6pm – 9pm in the presence of the artist (everyone welcome) Fallen leaves stems, and seeds are … [Read More]
Jungki Beak in Delfina Foundation residency
Jungki Beak is the second Korean artist to have a residency at the Delfina Foundation in a programme supported by SongEun Art & Cultural Foundation. Jungki Beak residency 26 September — 18 December 2016 Delfina Foundation | 29-31 Catherine Place | London SW1E 6DY | delfinafoundation.com Driven by an interest in religion, Eastern philosophy, and … [Read More]
A look at some of the Korean artists featured at Start Art Fair 2016
No matter how much preparation you put into visiting an art fair – planning which stalls to visit, estimating how much time you are likely to spend at each – you will almost always end up spending your time differently from the way you originally intended: some stalls will engage you in conversation, telling you … [Read More]
Biennale visit: Korea’s contemporary vision of Utopia
At the heart of Korea’s contribution to London’s first design biennale is a digital rendering of Ahn Gyeong’s famous realisation of a visionary dream described by his patron, Prince Anpyeong, a son of King Sejong the Great. On the left of the image, in place of the calligraphic colophon provided by Prince Anpyeong himself is … [Read More]
Korean designers at 100% Design and Tent London
The early autumn season seems to be getting busier and busier. More and more things to do, and no more hours to do them in. So this year, I’m not visiting the design shows at Olympia and Brick Lane. For the record though, here are the Korean designers showing at the Truman Brewery. I’d like … [Read More]
Exhibition visit: Kang Ik-joong’s Moon Jars at Robilant + Voena
With Kang Ik-joong’s specially commissioned work floating prominently on the river outside Tate Modern, Robilant and Voena have chosen an opportune time to exhibit a collection of his moon jar paintings. Also on show is Things I Know (2010) an installation of 500 small moon jars arranged in a circle. He may have been pulling … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Yun Hyong-keun at Simon Lee Gallery
Yun Hyong-keun (b 1928) passed away in 2007. By arrangement with the artist’s son, a number of his works from the early 1990s are being exhibited at Simon Lee Gallery in Berkeley Street in what is his first posthumous solo show in London. The majority of the works are oil on linen, though one (not … [Read More]
British artist at sea with Hanjin Shipping
Winning a residency programme is often a milestone in a young artist’s career. When Royal College of Art MA sculpture student Rebecca Moss won a residency programme from Vancouver’s Access Gallery, that sounded like a huge opportunity. The residency, entitled 23 Days at Sea, involves sailing in a container ship from Vancouver to Shanghai – … [Read More]
Kang Ik-joong’s Floating Dreams for Korean reunification
Kang Ik-joong’s installation entitled Floating Dreams is a symbol of hope for the unification of Korea. Moored on the Thames outside Tate Modern, the installation is an assembly of 500 drawings in the shape of a cube – four square sides and a flat upper surface each featuring a grid of 10 x 10 pictures … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Korean artists at Start Art Fair
START Art Fair runs for four days from 15 September at the Saatchi Gallery. Korean artists will be strongly represented, firstly by London-based Skipwiths, by five Korean galleries and finally one Parisian gallery. START provides international galleries with a global platform on which to show their artists in London, one of the most important cities … [Read More]
Event news: South Korea at London Design Biennale 2016
The first London Design Biennale opened yesterday at Somerset House with over 30 countries and territories participating. Nations from six continents present newly commissioned works that explore the theme Utopia by Design. South Korea is present with a project which explores the famous 1447 AD painting by An Gyeong, Dream Journey to the Peach Blossom … [Read More]
Exhibition news: Baek Kyung-sook’s donated Haenyeo photographs, at Jeju Stone Park
What has an exhibition in Jeju Stone Park got to do with the normal remit of London Korean Links? Above everything else, friendship. On my first trip to Korea back in 2001 I met the future director of Jeju Stone Park, Baek Un-cheol, who at the time was in charge of his private museum of … [Read More]