Yongin, March 21, 2024 – August 18, 2024 (Blockchain) / February 23, 2025 (Wake Up), https://njp.ggcf.kr This was my third visit to the Nam June Paik Art Center (after 2012 and 2013). One decade later, the exhibition titles are new, but I was greeted by the same TV garden, the same Paik robot, the same…
Suwon, February 27 – June 9, 2024, https://suma.suwon.go.kr Lee Gil Beom 이길범 “Down Memory Lane” was a solo exhibition of a local Suwon artist. Traditional ink painting. Mostly traditional motives. Some Suwon related. I would not have thought this would be my favorite show of the day. But it was. It was touching to see…
Suwon, April 16, 2024 – March 3, 2025, https://suma.suwon.go.kr “Second Impact” was looking at different aspects of the relationship between an original and a copy and what these terms mean. The starting point were a few chapters of curatorial text, which would be great as a curriculum for a visual culture class at university. The…
Suwon, March 12 – June 9, 2024, https://suma.suwon.go.kr “Can’t help to love her” was a rather big show around the theme of women working or women’s work. Many of the artworks were showing just that: women working. Some went a bit further and showed the stereotypes associated with women’s work, like weaving, fabric processing and…
Ansan, March 22 – June 23, 2024, https://gmoma.ggcf.kr YALOO was a self-titled solo show by an U.S. based Korean 3D animator YALOO 얄루. The work was formally perfect, beautiful 3D animations inspired by ocean plants and the undersea world. The installation was also top notch, with one large floor projection, simulating the view into the…
Ansan, April 12 – July 14, 2024, https://gmoma.ggcf.kr GMoMA is located in the middle of a nice park with a lake at the outskirts of Ansan City. It also happens to be in the neighborhood to the Danwon High School, whose students were the unfortunate passengers of the Sewol Ferry, which sunk near the south-west…
Suwon, November 26, 2019 – March 8, 2020, https://suma.suwon.go.kr Another two years passed, and another visit to the Suwon Museum of Art appeared on my schedule. First of all a pleasant formal change, the “Ipark” name (Suwon Ipark Museum of Art) disappeared from the museum’s name. Ipark is the name of a prominent apartment brand…
Suwon, February 13 – June 10, 2018 (Architecture), Februrary 27 – June 24, 2018 (Not Allowed), http://sima.suwon.go.kr After my last visit to SIMA two years ago, I was a bit worried if I will enjoy my return visit, or if I will have as mixed feelings as I had last time. Some things stayed the…
Ansan City, September 29 – December 4, 2016, http://gmoma.ggcf.kr Artists: Kim Kwang Woo 김광우, Kim Yong-Chol 김용철, Kim In Soon 김인순, Min Joung Ki민정기, Park Kwan Wook박관욱, Bang Doo Yung방두영, Son Jang Sup손장섭, Oh Yong-Kil 오용길, Chung Mun Kyu정문규, Han Young-Sup한영섭
Suwon, April 28 – August 21, 2016 (Rha + PLAYART), July 14 – October 16, 2016 (Alice), http://sima.suwon.go.kr SIMA is a new museum in Suwon that opened in October 2015. “iPark” is the is an apartment brand launched by Hyundai Development Company in 2001. Prominently featured in the entrance hall of the museum is the…