The annual 100% Design London exhibition will be held at Earls Court, 18-21 September, and as usual there will be a Korean pavilion showing designers supported by the Korea Institute of Design Promotion. And you’ll probably find, as you stroll around the arena, that there are some independent Korean designers there as well. But here … [Read More]
Visual arts, crafts, design, fashion (page 65)
Hur Shan and Won Jiho awarded bursaries by Royal British Society of Sculptors
Congratulations to Hur Shan and Won Jiho for winning bursaries from the Royal British Society of Scultpors. Along with other winners they will be featured in a group show at the society’s headquarters in South Kensington: Bursary Awards 2013 12 September 2013 – 18 October 2013 Wednesday–Friday, 12:30–5:30pm 108 Old Brompton Road, London SW7 3RA … [Read More]
2013 Travel Diary #17: Suncheon Garden Expo — The Bridge of Dreams
Suncheon-si, Tuesday 10 September, 11am. The expo precincts are shaped like an inverted triangle, its long northern baseline lying on a straight road which leads eastwards to Gwangwang and westwards towards the tea fields of Boseong. This baseline is about two kilometres long, but in the heat it feels three times that. At the Sancheong … [Read More]
2013 Travel Diary #7: Min Young-ki’s new directions
Danseong-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Saturday 7 September, 2pm. We’d had dinner with him the day before last, but this afternoon it was time to pay a more formal visit to Min Young-ki and to see his latest work. When I had visited the previous year, he had been preparing for an exhibition of his famous tea bowls … [Read More]
Lim Hyun-jeong in Silence and I, at Hanmi Gallery
Hanmi Gallery’s 23rd interim show: Silence and I 23rd Interim Exhibition Artists: Bruno Freitas de Oliveira | Christine Kettaneh | Emanuel de Sousa | Francesca Marcaccio | Guilherme Gustavo Condeixa | Hyunjeong Lim | Inês Tavares | Jennifer Kidd | Matthew Benington | Robert Hitzeman | Vasilis Asimakopoulos Hanmi Gallery 30 Maple Street London W1T … [Read More]
2013 Korean Collective at Albemarle Gallery
The Albemarle Gallery continues its tradition of annual group shows by Korean artists. Nice to see some new and interesting names amongst the more established artists this year. Korean Collective 2013 5 September – 5 October 2013 Albemarle Gallery | 49 Albemarle Street | London W1S 4JR | Tel : 0207 499 1616 www.albemarlegallery.com | … [Read More]
Shan Hur’s installation at Berkeley Square House
Next time you’re in Berkeley Square, look out for Shan Hur’s work on the glass front facade of Berkeley Square House, on the east side of the square. Shan Hur: Tree #05 – Berkeley’s Tree Berkeley Square House August 2013 – January 2014 An ambitious new installation by Gazelli Art House artist Shan Hur has … [Read More]
Serendipity: Jieun Kim solo show at Mokspace
News of the early September show at Mokspace: Serendipity: Jieun Kim Solo Exhibition Opening Party: 6.30 – 8.30pm Wednesday 4th September 2013 Exhibition: 4 – 15 September 2013 MOKSPACE | 33 Museum Street | London WC1A 1LH | +44 (0) 20 7637 8880 | www.mokspace.com | [email protected] An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. … [Read More]
Hong Sungchul and Park Seungmo at HADA Contemporary
HADA’s September exhibition presents a pair of familiar artists, but showing a different side to their work. Hong Sungchul and Park Seungmo GROUP EXHIBITION 5 SEPTEMBER – 4 OCTOBER 2013 21 VYNER STREET | LONDON | E2 9DG | +44 (0)20 8983 7700 | www.hadacontemporary.com Wednesday – Friday: 11am – 6pm | Saturday – Sunday: … [Read More]
Sungfeel Yun’s Energy P-04 at Broomhill Sculpture Park
Ever on the lookout for work by Korean artists, LKL visited Broomhill Art Hotel, between Barnstaple and Ilfracombe in North Devon, last week. It was kind of on the way home from a family holiday in North Cornwall – a one-hour detour off the main route, plus a pleasant hour or so browsing around an … [Read More]
Festival Exhibition Visit: Nam June Paik Resounds at the Talbot Rice Gallery
The Talbot Rice Gallery in the University of Edinburgh is the venue for a retrospective of Nam June Paik’s work during the course of the 2013 International festival. While the major show in Tate Liverpool (Dec 2010 – Mar 2011) interestingly devoted a lot of space to his early collaborations, here his video work and … [Read More]
Media Skins: some photos from the Edinburgh installations
A few photographs, taken yesterday, of the Media Skins installation in Edinburgh as part of the 2013 International Festival. The installation was hung on the main frontage of the Festival Theatre, and also on hoardings in the square outside the Usher Hall. A poster in the Festival Theatre gave the following information: For this installation, … [Read More]
Reality Check at 43 Inverness Street
Notice of the next event at 43 Inverness Street: a one-day event with installations and a performance. Reality Check 28 August 2013 43 Inverness Street 6-9 pm 43 Inverness Street is pleased to announce Reality Check, a one-day event presenting artworks that involve sound, performance and installation on 28 August with artists Yoonsuk Choi, Ingeun … [Read More]
Sung Rim Park solo show at A&D Gallery
Chelsea MA candidate Sung Rim Park has a solo show at A&D Gallery, 51 Chiltern Street, London W1U 6LY, 12-17 August. There is an evening opening on 15 August. Links: www.aanddgallery.com [Read More]
Moon Jar exhibition celebrates the beauty of imperfection
This summer’s exhibition at the KCC marks 130 of relations between the UK and the Korean peninsula. And it is because of those relations, and also because of the good relations built up between the KCC and the British Museum over the years, that the exhibition happened at all. The centrepiece of the exhibition is … [Read More]
Korean artists (and award-winners) at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is now in its last week. And as ever, if you look closely at the catalogue, or have an eye for particular artists’ work, you will find a number of works by London-based Korean artists. Two years, Kwon Daehoon won the Jack Goldhill Award for sculpture at the exhibition, and … [Read More]