Participating in this year’s Singapore Biennale, which kicked off Oct. 16, Yang has won the 13th Benesse Prize with a set of two moving sculptures, named “The Hybrid Intermediates -- Flourishing Electrophorus Duo.” The biennale runs until March 19, 2023. Her other works are currently on display at the “Museum in Motion” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, in Belgium, and the “M...

Titled “Tale of a City,” the art festival is a chance to explore the city as if on an expedition. The Noam Tunnel, built during the Japanese colonial era, saw a genocide of civilians during the 1950-53 Korean War. Hong Seung-hye, famously known for geometric abstract art using computer pixels, will show her new work “Searchlight” at the century-old venue. The digital work will show circular and ...

While the global attention on the Korean art scene in the last few years has focused on the commercial side of things, 2022 Korean Art Week is to be held from Thursday to Sunday in the US with hopes to elicit interest in Korean art among academia and arts institutions. The four-day Korean Art Week, jointly held by the Korea Foundation, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea and Da...

The highlight of the exhibition is “05-IV-71 #200 (Universe),” which is on display in a separate room at the exhibition space. The masterpiece is an all-over canvas dot painting and is the only diptych from Kim’s works. The countless blue dots draw audiences into the painting, which seems like the abyss of the universe. The painting was shown at Gallery Hyundai’s 50th anniversary exhibition in 20...

Lee and Ha are well known as actors who have expanded their career as painters. Ha started painting when he felt stalled as an actor, according to the gallery. His self- portraits and portraits of his acquaintances are done in bold colors, yet capture subtle facial nuances. Lee's abstract paintings, meanwhile, feature numerous brush strokes as if they embody the countless relationships we build t...

At the hallway outside the exhibition space, there are two circular sculptures emitting light in various patterns. They are made of headlights and taillights from scrapped cars. The artist gave life to the components of the cars that were no longer usable, which now look like stars from a distance. The exhibition “MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2022: Choe U-Ram -- Little Ark” runs through Feb. 26, 20...

Herald Art Day and Krabhouse Ventures, Nigeria's largest gallery, on Oct. 12 signed an MOU to cooperate in cultural and arts exchange between Korea and Nigeria and to work together in developing art projects. The two companies previously held a combined exhibition from Oct. 6 to Oct. 9. Under the slogan "Planting Seeds of Culture on Friendship," a total of 110 works, including paintings and scu...

The last section shows Lim’s paintings created when the artist was involved in Minjung art in the 1980s and started to explore soil landscapes in the last few years since 2010. “Sungkyunkwan Myeongnyungdang Drawing a Ginkgo Tree” is the highlight of the section, a painting of an old yellow ginkgo tree with a seemingly strong tree trunk expressed with soil and black ink. Born in 1950 in Buyeo, So...

The museum was heavily criticized by the media when the painting “Father and Two Sons” by Lee Jung-seop was found displayed upside down. The museum claimed there had been controversy over how the painting should be displayed and that it had conducted a thorough discussion before displaying the work. The painting hung upside down for about a month before it was corrected on Sept. 19. Ruling Peop...

At the Gladstone Gallery exhibition, the artist showed two robotic arms writing different texts in Tiravanija's own handwriting that include the famous text by American conceptual artist John Baldessari: “I will not make any more boring art.” The writing takes eight hours from start to finish. “The idea of this machinery is to make things very efficient, very fast and very precise. I am using th...

Titled “Stone, Life and Universe,” the collection was shown on Wednesday and was created with eco-friendly printing techniques in collaboration with Epson Korea. Epson's digital textile printing machine allows direct printing on fabrics using far less energy and water compared to traditional methods of printing. At the same Insa-dong venue, the fashion designer’s archival exhibition “Re-flect 37...

Iryuk blurs line with genderless looks, Kimzisu embodies defiant desires

Greedilous and Holy Number 7 also showcased their collections on the first day of Seoul Fashion Week. Greedilous’s Park Youn-hee collaborated with Kakao Webtoon’s virtual character Jung Hi for the show. Five to eight fashion houses will stage shows daily through Saturday. Lie Sang Bong is the sole brand showing out of DDP, turning the main street of Insa-dong into a runway at 7:30 p.m. on Wednes...

Geometric abstraction pioneer Lee led Korea's avant-garde scene

Featuring 90 ceramic pieces by Picasso and seven paintings by Pissarro, Monet, Miro, Chagall, Gauguin and Renoir, the exhibition consists of donated artworks by late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee last year. The first section explores how Pissarro and Gauguin were inspired by one another during the time. Pissarro (1830–1903) was an Impressionist master who often captured scenes of markets wh...