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…
Busan, May 9-12, 2024, https://artbusan.com Art Busan art fair… what to say about it? Well, it is an art fair… The majority of galleries seemed to have travelled from the distant city of Seoul in the north of the country. This was complemented by galleries from closer distance, e.g. Daegu. At least that was my…
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…
Seoul, April 19 – April 27, 2024, http://ujeongguk.com & https://www.forkingroom.kr It has been 9 years since my last visit. Ujeongguk is still there and looks about the same. The current exhibition seems to be organized by an entity called “Forking Room” and is in fact a mini-festival consisting of an art show, artist talks, lectures…
Seoul, April 12 – June 23, 2024, https://ilmin.org A show dealing with nostalgia and the never-ending „retro“ longing for something in time/space away from one’s current place. A craving that is also fuelled by media technology that allows us to share our attention between multiple places/times simultaneously. I am here, but I could be there,…
Seoul, Nov 16, 2023 – May 19, 2024, https://www.mmca.go.kr There were three shows on during my visit. All were telling different parts of a grand contemporary Korean art narrative. Korean new media master Nam June Paik’s masterpiece. Korean photography. Korean geometric abstraction. Defining a coherent historical narrative and canon of works that support it is…
Berlin, January 31 – February 3, 2024, https://transmediale.de, https://www.hkw.de/ Dubravka Sekulic, Silvio Lorusso “Users, politics, linkinbio” talk “Thanks” to some demonstration that lead to a cancellation of the only bus line to HkW, I could enjoy this first lecture of the day via livestream while walking through Tiergarten. Also not bad. Based on the description…