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Artist Koo Jeong-a selected one of 100 most inspiring individuals by OOOM Magazine

Dec 27, 2019

Koo Jeong-a, a South Korean artist, was selected as one of the world’s most inspiring people in 2019 by OOOM Magazine -- the sole Korean to figure in the list. The German magazine each year announce...
Art brings attention to history of oppression, disconnected cultural inheritance

Dec 23, 2019

Kukje Gallery’s Busan venue is holding a solo exhibition of Daniel Boyd, featuring 11 convex-dot paintings based on historical photos that Boyd has come across in different sources, from family photo...
Dongdaemun Design Plaza brightens Seoul

Dec 20, 2019

With the Seoul Light Festival underway at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza, the Seoul Design Foundation hosted a forum Friday, discussing how art should evolve in the era of artificial intelligence. The ...
[Herald Interview] Photographer dedicates sunset years to int’l competitions

Dec 18, 2019

In his sunset years, a civil engineer-turned-photographer has been making his name at international photography competitions. Over the past five years, professional photographer Ryu Shin-woo, 76, ha...
Exhibition looks at overarching presence of virtual reality

Dec 15, 2019

In a video introducing Niantic’s mobile game Pokemon Go, which uses augmented reality, Pikachu is running around in an open-air cafe, past real people. The uplifting yellow creature even plays hide-a...
MMCA exhibition highlights Korean video artists, Paik Nam-june and beyond

Dec 11, 2019

Paik Nam-june is inarguably the foremost video artist in South Korea. But who else can we talk about when it comes to video art, and what are the distinctive characteristics that other Korean video a...
Wael Shawky reconstructs Arab history through art

Dec 8, 2019

Imagine a Middle Eastern man walking bare feet on the streets of Mecca in the 1970s, who soon takes out his keys and drives away in a Cadillac. This interesting juxtaposition of a Bedouin city and th...
Exhibition brings Middle East closer to Korea

Dec 5, 2019

Wael Shawky introduces works that deal with the Crusades. “The Horror Show File” (2010) at SeMA is the first of Shawky’s marionette-film trilogy “Cabaret Crusades,” the artist’s historical examinatio...
Exhibit takes place around discarded power plant

Dec 4, 2019

An exhibit is underway at an outdoor space near retired thermal power plants in Mapo-gu, Seoul, which await to be transformed into a cultural complex. The event, titled “Kraftwerk 2019: Homo Symbiou...
US video art pioneer’s show opens in Korea

Dec 2, 2019

Suwon IPark Museum of Art is holding a solo exhibition dedicated to Gary Hill, a US-based artist considered one of the pioneers of video art, titled “Gary Hill: Momentombs.” The exhibition in Suwon,...
Rhii Jew-yo wins MMCA Korea Artist Prize 2019

Nov 29, 2019

Rhii Jew-yo was announced the winner of the Korea Artist Prize 2019 Thursday evening. Rhii was one of four finalists for the prize, organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, K...
[Eye Plus] Beauty of silver threads

Nov 29, 2019

Ipsa is the traditional Korean art of inlaying thin threads of silver or gold onto harder surfaces such as iron to create exquisite decorative patterns or images. The craft reached its pinnacle in t...
Colors and more colors: new social media-friendly exhibition opens in Seoul

Nov 28, 2019

As the art scene becomes more social media-friendly, a new exhibition -- literally full of colors -- opened Friday, openly welcoming Instagram users. Sfactory, a culture complex in the hip Seongsu-d...
PKM Gallery’s exhibition brings together 6 internationally renowned artists

Nov 26, 2019

PKM Gallery is holding an exhibition where visitors can glimpse works by artists who have drawn a great deal of attention in the contemporary art world. PKM Gallery’s exhibition “Eternal Now,” co-cu...
Arko show highlights midcareer artists

Nov 26, 2019

Arko Art Center is holding its 2019 Mid-Career Artist Exhibition, which comprises two separate solo exhibitions dedicated to Bae Jong-heon and Heo Ku-young. The annual art show started in 2000 as a ...