Seoul, February 17, 2023, https://www.dotolim.com Time passes but Dotolim stays. The miniature experimental music venue changes locations, yet keeps on going. 2013 it was located in a shared office building. 2015 it was in a regular apartment. Now in 2023, its new place is a single basement room, still in the same area around Hapjeong…
Seoul, May 28 – July 17, 2022, https://hitecollection.com “Kak” is a survey exhibition about sculpture today in Korea. Exhibited artworks span a period of about 25 years. In all cases, the positions are forward-looking positions of artists who were thinking about what the next step could be or how to reinterpret sculptural traditions with new…
Seoul, March 1 – April 28, 2019, http://artsonje.org Some time has passed since the last Lee Kit show I saw. And I was very much looking forward to this one. Will I get a similar feeling like when I saw his work for the first time? Will I feel connected because his work will be…
Seoul, December 22, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Duchamp), March 23 – July 28, 2019 (Data), October 27, 2018 – April 7, 2019 (Farocki), http://www.mmca.go.kr Three shows were taking place at MMCA during my visit. The Essential Duchamp was what the title suggested: An overview of Marcel Duchamps oeuvre. At first I almost wanted to…
Seoul, March 23 – April 29, 2018, http://www.altpool.org A group show, with a Korean-only introduction – I have heard it was “about” the communication between artist and audience. Artworks by Hyewon Kwon권혜원, Seulki Ki/Yuna Park기슬기ㆍ박은하, Enae Lee이이내, Lim Sodam임소담and Juwon Jeong정주원were on display. Curated by MijungKim김미정.
Seoul, March 20 – May 20, 2018, http://www.arko.or.kr Last year’s Venice Biennale Korea pavilion came back “home” and is on display at Arko. The package on show is a well-balanced combination of old and new, Korean and international, conceptual and pop, etc. There is almost everything, and the variety that the two artists managed to…
Seoul, February 23 – April 29, 2018, http://ilmin.org The three floors of Ilmin museum contained three mini-solo-shows by three successful mid-career Korean artists. On 1F Ayoung Kim김아영 presents Porosity Valley. The centerpiece of the show was a large projection with a short film utilizing post-internet aesthetics, reminding me of Lawrence Lek’s Sinofuturism or Christopher Kulendran…
Seoul, October 21 – 30, http://slowslowquickquick.net/ Slow Slow Quick Quick (SSQQ) is an independent space in the Jongro/Euljiro area. The area consists of old small alleys of metalwork, woodwork and electric appliance workshops. SSQQ is located in one separate building, 3 floors tall with a small courtyard and separate room within it. It is not…
Seoul, autumn 2016, http://www.mmca.go.kr The autumn constellation of exhibitions at MMCA Seoul is rather pleasurable. There is the Korea Artist Prize, a yearly recurring show. The big central space has a new mega-installation. There is an exhibit addressing the architectural space of the MMCA Seoul building itself, and there is a quite unusual art and…
Seoul, October 31, 2016, http://kyounghokim.com/ My first encounter with Kim Kyoungho’s work took place at his solo exhibition Magic Bullet Broadcasting Network at Art Space Pool in 2013. That exhibition investigated the production process of news reporting and broadcasting across international borders. I saw his work again at the Real DMZ Project 2015. Here he…