There’s an awful amount of twaddle on display in the country pavilions at the Venice Biennale. Probably the greatest amount of tosh was to be found in the Australian pavilion, which included a free-standing notice-board cast in resin, and where an empty plinth entitled Venus rising from the Waves was heard to elicit the understandable … [Read More]
Visual arts, crafts, design, fashion (page 81)
Korean footnotes from Venice Biennale 2011
In previous biennales, Korean artists have had prominent solo exhibitions as collateral events to the main exhibition in the Giardini. We’ve had Atta Kim, Lee Ufan, and Chun Woo-jung in previous years, as well as participations in group shows. In 2011 I failed to find any Korean solo events. There were, however, three high profile … [Read More]
Grotesque Genome at Mokspace
A notice of Mokspace’s latest group show, opening 11 November. It’ll be nice to see the work of Jin Kim again. Grotesque Genome Opening Reception: 11 Nov 2011 18:00 -20:30 11-17 NOV 2011 @ MOKSPACE Mokspace is pleased to present their latest group exhibition Grotesque Genome with artists Bongsu Park, Jin Kim, Ilsu Hwang, Min … [Read More]
Exhibition Visit: An Eternal Cycle at Mokspace
In a hectic London Korean exhibition calendar which often seems biased towards installations and video art, we should welcome an exhibition which features well executed paintings which you would happily hang on your wall. Mokspace’s current exhibition, An Eternal Cycle – Paradise and Purgatory, is doubly unusual in featuring Buddhist-inspired paintings. Such work is rarely … [Read More]
FOUR Everday Life; at Hanmi Gallery
Hanmi Gallery is now on its 7th interim exhibition, waiting for Camden Council to give them planning permission to revamp their space: FOUR_everyday life; Dari Bae | Funa Ye | Jukhee Kwon | Yeon Lee HANMI GALLERY 7th INTERIM EXHIBITION Private View: 6pm – 9pm Thursday 3rd November 2011 Exhibition from 3rd to 17th November … [Read More]
The Korean Miracle: A Cultural Evolution – at Asia House
Hada Contemporary has just finished its summer show at the Albemarle Gallery. It is now moving to Asia House for a two-week exhibition curated by Dr Iain Robertson, Head of Art Business Studies at Sothebys Institute of Art: THE KOREAN MIRACLE: A CULTURAL EVOLUTION Asia House Thursday 03 Nov, 2011 – Wednesday 16 Nov, 2011 … [Read More]
Believing is Seeing, at Ffotogallery
News of an upcoming exhibition in Cardiff: Believing is Seeing Byung-Hun Min, Duck Hyun Cho, Hein-Kuhn Oh, Hyun Mi Yoo, Je Baak, Kyungwoo Chun, Seihon Cho 10 November – 17 December 2011 Ffotogallery, Chapter, Market Road, Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1QE Believing is Seeing introduces seven Korean artists who adopt different approaches to contemporary photography or … [Read More]
Suh Do-ho’s first Table for sale at Christie’s
The first piece from Suh Do-ho’s Table series is up for sale next week at Christie’s http://t.co/ats0LgIo. I think I’d want more aesthetically pleasing legs for my $100,000. [Read More]
Woojung Chun’s “Library” installed at England & Co
Woojung Chun exhibited her Library as a collateral event to the 2009 Venice Biennale. For those who didn’t manage to get there, the work is installed at England & Co for most of this month. England & Co is at 216 Westbourne Grove, London W11 2RH. WOOJUNG CHUN: LIBRARY 28 October-23 November 2011 ‘The universe … [Read More]
Tate acquires Suh Do-ho Staircase
Tate Modern has acquired a work by Suh Do-ho, a version of which was shown at the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition Psycho Buildings in 2008. This version was tailor-made to fit in a specific room in the Tate. Details below are from the Tate’s 2010-2011 Annual Report available as a pdf download from the Tate’s website … [Read More]
NyLon: London-New York Exchange Exhibition
An interesting transatlantic collaboration forms the basis of the current exhibition at the KCC: Exhibition Dates: 25 October 2011 – 26 November 2011 Private View: Tuesday 25 October 2011, 6.30pm The Korean Cultural Centre UK and the Korean Cultural Service New York present NyLon: London – New York Exchange Exhibition This collaboration features four contemporary … [Read More]
Haeinsa celebrates 1,000 years of the Tripitaka Koreana
Haeinsa Temple is hosting its first contemporary art exhibition, involving 34 artists from 10 countries, to commemorate the millennial anniversary of the Tripitaka Koreana, which UNESCO has designated one of the “most important and most complete corpus of Buddhist doctrinal texts in the world.” The exhibition’s title — 通 | 통 | Tong — uses … [Read More]
Bittersweet Thunderspace at Hanmi Gallery
Hanmi Gallery near Fitzroy Square announces its sixth “interim” exhibition: Bittersweet Thunderspace Tuesday 18th – Thursday 27th October 2011 Hector Castellis Matutano | Ikuyo Omura | Jinkyun Ahn | John Appleton | Marianne Spurr | Nicky Deeley | Nicholas Pankhurst | Seokyeong Kang | Stephanie Theobold | Suk An | Wonwoo Lee Bittersweet Thunderspace is … [Read More]
Edinburgh Woollen Mill clothes made by North Koreans, in Mongolia
Edinburgh Woollen Mill: clothes made by North Koreans in Mongolia – a follow-up to Newsnight’s story on DPRK loggers in Russia for another British company: http://t.co/pXz6zuSD [Read More]
Brick Lane to Earls Court – a city of Korean Design
The Korea Design pavilion now seems to be an established feature of the 100% Design London exhibition at Earls Court. Each year we see a mixture of familiar design names and also some new faces. Beyond the official KIDP-sponsored pavilion (shown above) you can usually find some independent Korean designers who have either made their … [Read More]
Francesca Cho’s Deli eXhibits
A couple of years ago the BBC was speculating that Deptford, a neglected corner of South-East London next to Greenwich, was becoming the new Paris: ancient churches, markets, pavement cafes and the Laban Dance Centre combine to create a cultural zone that’s well worth a visit, while the Deptford Dame and Deptford is… blogs provide … [Read More]