The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea has started a test run for “The More, The Better,” the largest installation work by video art pioneer Paik Nam-june after it initiated a restoration project in 2019. The national museum has finished the overall restoration work and began the test run on Jan. 17, which will continue for six months. Comprising 1,003 picture tube monitors, t...

The themed exhibition will be participated by 35 artists from 11 countries who will present a variety of works that include paintings, installations, media art as well as digital works created with AI or in virtual reality. The themed exhibition will run through May 8, taking place at R&D annex of the former ShinaSB Shipyard. “Our era is characterized by the increase of global stress, anxiety, a...

"Russian avant-garde art was politically shunned at the time but was reborn as minimal art after 50 years. The art avant-garde movement also influenced Korean abstract art, such as the ‘dansaekhwa movement,’” said Kim Young-ho, a professor at Chungang University who directed the exhibition. The exhibition starts with “Wassily Kandinsky’s Improvisations,” showing Kandinsky’s works from the improv...

Kim shared a plan to finish research on feasibility for the new museum by the first half of the year and come up with details by the end of the year. The symposium was hosted by France Museums, an international museum consultancy in France where Sandra Lagumina, Deputy CEO of Meridiam and Michel Miraillet, director-general for global affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs attended. Ki...

As digital art expands at a furious pace with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and metaverse gaining huge popularity, Korean artists and artist groups have started to make efforts to secure visual artists’ rights. In November, some 20 artist associations and 100 artists formed a group to advocate for their rights, the Korea Visual Arts Copyright Association. It is Korea’s first association addressing ...

The competition ratio for K Auction’s public offering recorded 1408.33:1 during the two-day public offering session, raising more than 5 trillion won ($4.2 billion) in subscription deposit, according to IR Kudos on Thursday. South Korea’s second-largest auction house conducted a two-day public offering starting Wednesday, aiming to become the second auction house in the country to be traded on t...

The Paik’s Video Study website will officially open Jan. 29 to coincide with the anniversary of Paik’s death. The art center finished converting the video archive into digital format in 2016, exclusively managed by the art center. The 700 videos include “Good Morning Mr. Orwell Paris Live” from 1984, “Bye Bye Kipling Post” from 1986, “Zen for Walking: Dragging the Violin” and “KBS Year-end Specia...

As the country’s first media art museum, Suh aims to develop the museum‘s identity by holding exhibitions that explore how technology and nature can coexist, discovering and inviting artists who speak about nature and ecology. “Touching on the issue of nature and technology together has been prevalent globally with many seminars and exhibitions. We will strengthen the identity of the museum by r...

The city government aims to show nearly 4,200 sculptures at Hangang Parks through 2024. The project is an extension of the ongoing sculpture exhibitions organized by K-Sculpture that are showcasing some 300 sculptures at Yeouido Hangang Park, Banpo Hangang park and Ttukseom Hangang park. The sculptures will be on display until Jan. 15. The project is estimated to cost some 600 million won ($505,3...

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...

The exhibition includes Dali’s early paintings such as “Self-portrait in the Studio” created in 1919 before he explored surrealism. It also reveals little known aspects of the artist, such as how he was inspired by masters from the classical period and reinterpreted the masterpieces in his own way. Such paintings include “Geological Echo, After ‘Pieta’” and “The Warrior or ‘Los Embozados.’ Lorenz...

Kim Kun-hee, wife of the main opposition People Power Party’s presidential candidate Yoon Seok-youl, is accused of falsifying her work experience at Alternative Space Loop, a nonprofit cultural center in Seoul, amid continued criticism over Kim’s exaggeration of her past career in applying for jobs at colleges. Loop was founded in 1999 as a nonprofit organization to share contemporary art and cu...

As the art market grows exponentially in South Korea, the tension between primary and secondary players has heightened with galleries uniting to launch an auction event in late January, claiming the country‘s major auction houses have violated a “gentlemen’s agreement” struck in 2007. The Galleries Association of Korea announced Monday that it will hold an auction on Jan. 26 at the Westin Josun ...

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...