Large-scale show in September to coincide with Frieze Seoul

The exhibition “The More, The Better Archive” will kick off in June, featuring the history of the restoration of “The More The Better,” as well as numerous archival materials about the artist’s work. An exhibition in November, “Paik Nam June Effect,” will showcase artists whose works were influenced by Paik in the mid to late 1990s. “The restoration is in the final stage, and will have a lighti...

European surrealism collections come to Seoul, inviting us to the era where artists sought after the unconscious world.

Galleries Association of Korea calls on Seoul Auction, K Auction to respect market ecosystem

The building also accompanies a public loop formed with sequence of cascading terraces as spaces dedicated for exhibitions and performances. A total of 24 projects have been declared as winners of Prix Versailles 2021, in eight fields – airports, campuses, passenger stations, sports, stores, hotels, restaurants and shopping malls. Each category has three winners – “Prix Versailles 2021,” “Specia...

The 59th Venice Biennale 2022 will be held from April 23 to Nov. 27 with the theme “The Milk of Dreams.” The Korean Pavilion will showcase works directed by Lee Young-chul, an art professor at Kaywon University, and those by installation artist Kim Yun-chul who is also an electroacoustic music composer and has explored magnetohydrodynamics, the study of the dynamics of electrically conducting flu...

“Painting of Intrepidity” unveiled by emeritus professor from Dankook University

CAMP, the Nam June Paik Art Center Prize winner in 2020, shows their newly commissioned work at the exhibition that runs through Feb. 27

National Museum of Korea exhibition highlights artistic, practical elements of lacquer

Leeum Museum of Art will stream its two permanent exhibitions on Naver TV introducing its key collection as well as offer a chance for viewers to visit the exhibitions in person for a special opening of the museum on Dec. 27. One of the country’s top private museums, Leeum Museum of Art has seen an upswing in popularity since reopening on Oct. 8, with reservation time slots allowing 600 people t...

Photographer Cho Eui-hwan has made it his mission to shed light on a lesser-known side of Jeju Island -- their fields. Some 70 photographs of fields across the island that he has captured since 2014 are on display at the Kim Bo Sung Art Center in Pyeongchang-dong, Seoul. Cho’s attraction to the variety of fields on Jeju Island began in 2014 and turned into a three-year stay. Very few know that t...

By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)

Collier sources the images from vintage American romance comic books that targeted adolescent female readers at the time. The cropped images allow viewers to reflect on the cliched narratives that tend to reinforce a submissive image of women. Collier’s “Woman Crying (Comic)” and “Tear (Comic)” show close-up images of women with a tear rolling down a cheek, a nod to the early works of Roy Lichten...

Among the new works are portraits such as “Straw Hat2” and “Straw Hat3” which were created this year. The format of the double portrait shows the connection between the two facets of the artist’s practice, with a wink or slight smile creating a subtle impression of movement. Born in Brooklyn in 1927, Katz lives and works in New York. He studied at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York and t...

IDUS, an online shopping platform that features handmade goods, is gaining popularity among younger people seeking unique items. The platform is used by nearly 20,000 artists who have put their goods up for sale. By Park Yuna ( yunapark@heraldcorp.com )