The Gwangju International Art Fair 2021 opened Thursday featuring artists based in the city, including a metaverse exhibition, to help them promote artworks virtually and in person amid growing public interest in art. With 70 galleries from home and abroad taking part, the city’s major art fair will run until Sunday at the Kimdaejung Convention Center, showcasing works from 535 artists. With gr...

Three masterpieces by video art pioneer Paik Nam-june -- “Turtle,” “Sistine Chapel” and “Forest of Cafe-Revolution of the Forest” -- were acquired in August from different owners and form the backbone of the museum’s permanent collection. The owners “almost donated the works” to the museum, offering them at less than half the market price, Suh said. While “Turtle” and “Forest” will be shown at t...

Patrick Lee, executive director of Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, will step down from his post and direct the art fair Frieze Seoul starting in November, according to the gallery. Frieze Seoul will be held in early September 2022 at Coex in southern Seoul, alongside KIAF Seoul, South Korea’s largest international art fair. As director of Frieze Seoul, Lee will take charge of organizing the event. Seo...

Eight Italian companies -- Fincantieri, Terna, ENI, Webuild, CDP Immobiliare, SNAM, TIM and Ansaldo -- funded the exhibition and the artworks. After Seoul, the exhibition will go on a world tour to China, the US, Mexico, Egypt and Germany. The artists’ commissioned works will be owned by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, an Italian investment bank founded in 1850, after the tour. Bosetto’s “Fuocil*Dens...

By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)

By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)

South Korea has emerged as an important art market player with international galleries opening venues in Seoul, including Thaddaeus Ropac and Konig, which opened this year. Young art collectors in South Korea are becoming a catalyst of the fast-changing art market, according to art insiders. “The fair was crowded with people not only on the VVIP day but during general openings. We felt people’s ...

Best known for her installation series, Lee’s first gallery exhibition in Seoul in six years showcases new painting series completed this year

A rare exhibition is taking place in the country’s eastern coastal city of Gangneung, Gangwon Province. More than 120 exquisite celadon ceramics from the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), known locally as cheongja, are on display at “Celadon, the Microscopic World of Goryeo.” Renowned for its subtle and elegant beauty, various shapes and sizes of celadon ceramics, which get their name from their mysti...

Artistic director to also celebrate Paik Nam-june’s 90th anniversary at biennale

By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)

British architect Amanda Jane Levete gives online lecture at the Herald Design Forum on Thursday. (Lee Sang-sub/The Korea Herald)

Held online and offline, forum discusses how design should adapt to changes brought on by pandemic and look beyond

“I definitely see the growth of KIAF over the past few years and collectors have become diverse. Among noticeable changes is galleries presenting their own unique artists,” said Kathleen Kim, a lawyer specializing in art at Liwu Law Group. The art fair, with some 170 galleries from home and abroad participating, runs through Sunday. By Park Yuna (yunapark@heraldcorp.com)