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10th Gwangju Design Biennale to open this September.. and Others

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Gwangju

“Gwangju Design Biennale 2023” Poster ©Gwangju Design Biennale

10th Gwangju Design Biennale to Open this September

The 10th Gwangju Design Biennale, which offers a bird’s eye view of domestic and international design trends, will be held at the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Center and around Gwangju from September 7 to November 7 under the theme of ‘Meet Design’.

“We have organized the exhibition content so that visitors from home and abroad can visit and enjoy art and differentiated design to the fullest, we will do our best to promote internationalization based on the various project experiences and know-how we have accumulated over the years.” said Ken-Nah, the general director of the Gwangju Design Biennale.

This year, we have prepared four thematic pavilions, including Technology, Lifestyle, Culture, and Business. “The most important keyword in design is ‘relationship,’ and we wanted to showcase global design trends by focusing on the connectivity of the four pavilions,” said Nam Hwa-jeong, a professor of design at Chonnam National University, who was in charge of visual direction for the biennale.

Cheongju

“Cheoungju Craft Biennale 2023” Poster ©The Cheongju Craft Biennale Organizing Committee

12th Cheongju International Craft Competition to be held in Two Categories: Craft and Craft City Lab

The Cheongju Craft Biennale Organizing Committee has announced the 12th Cheongju International Craft Competition. The competition will be open from March 31 to May 7.

The competition will be held in two areas: a contest for works that can present the contemporaneity and future of crafts, and the Craft City Lab, a contest for plans such as craft research, urban planning, exhibitions, and projects to discover planners in the craft field. The total prize money is 143 million won, and the winners will receive trophies and certificates. In addition, all the winners will be exhibited during the 2023 Cheongju Craft Biennale and a book will be produced. The winners of the Craft City Lab will have their projects displayed in the form of a literature exhibition.

Launched in 1999, the Cheongju Craft Biennale is an international comprehensive art event that encompasses all fields of crafts and is held every two years. It is the world’s largest and most prestigious biennale, with more than 3,000 artists from more than 60 countries participating and 300,000 visitors each time.

The 13th Cheongju Craft Biennale will be held from September 1 to October 15, 2023, at Cheongju Craft Biennale Exhibition hall and Select Locations in Cheongju City with the theme “THE GEOGRAPHY OF OBJECTS- Living in the Net of Biophilia”.

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Alternative Space LOOP Presents “FLUID GROUND” a Solo Exhibition by Sascha Pohle.. and Others

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Alternative Space LOOP Presents "FLUID GROUND" a Solo Exhibition by Sascha Pohle.. and Others

Alternative Space LOOP

Passage, 2017~, Machine knitted fabrics, various yarns, dimensions variable ©Alternative Space LOOP

"FLUID GROUND" a Solo Exhibition by Sascha Pohle

Alternative Space LOOP presents “FLUID GROUND”, a solo exhibition by Sascha Pohle (b. 1972), on view through April 30. Sascha Pohle speculates on how contexts are modified and transformed by the migration of technology and culture. His work is often site-specific and includes performative compositions.

The exhibition includes Liquid Grounds, a silent black-and-white video based on 43 glass objects cast in silicone on the floor of the artist’s former home in Amsterdam’s North District. Regardless of Nationality, based on a fresco found in the ruins of the Paestum in Salerno, Italy. And I PACKED MY BAG, in which traces of mesh bags used in former East Germany are molded into clay and fired into ceramics.

From 3 to 5 p.m. each day, a performance of the artist’s Passage series, which he has been working on since 2017, will take place. The Passage series reinterprets uneven surfaces, such as the traces of asphalt roads where the artist lived and the floor of her studio, as soft textile objects that have been made solid but damaged by time.

Sascha Pohle is an artist currently based in Seoul, Germany, and Amsterdam who uses everyday objects such as photography, film, and textiles to blend visual culture. Instead of directive or psychological representation, she abstracts the image of the object and structures the way it is made.

FLUID GROUND

3.10-4.30, 2023

Alternative Space LOOP: 20, Wausan-ro 29na-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul

PS Sarubia

“Unfolded” Installation view ©PS Sarubia

"Unfolded" a Solo Exhibition by Nosik Lim

PS Sarubia is pleased to present “Unfolded” a solo exhibition by Nosik Lim, who was selected as an artist for the < Open Call for Artists>, until April 14.

“Unfolded” features 25 works of equal size, equally spaced on four walls. For six months, the artist laid out the 25 canvases in one place and completed them in stages by repeatedly drawing and erasing them. The artist intended for the works to be felt as a landscape that forms a single and set up a situation from the beginning where they could all become different stories depending on what the viewer imagines and feels.

The works were created simultaneously, in no particular order of completion, and were hung on the wall in the same order as they were moved to the exhibition space. There minimized the intervention of subjective senses such as the artist’s intentions, pictorial concepts, and the viewer’s gaze as much as possible, and allowed the randomly arranged works to form a natural flow.

PS Sarubia’s < Open Call for Artists > is a program that provides creative opportunities for artists to leap forward by sponsoring solo exhibitions, regardless of their age, career, or work tendencies, by selecting artists who are original, experimental, and show a solid world of their own.

Unfolded

3.15-4.14, 2023

PS Sarubia: 4, Jahamun-ro 16-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul

CR Collective

“The Metamorphosis of Moments” Installation view ©CR Collective Instagram

"The Metamorphosis of Moments" a Solo Exhibition by Buhm Hong

CR Collective is currently presenting a solo exhibition by artist Buhm Hong (b.1970). The exhibition was scheduled to end on March 25, but due to the support of visitors, it has been extended until April 8.

The exhibition, “The Metamorphosis of Moments” refers to a fleeting moment in time, a world created by a dramatic transformation of memory, such as the transformation of a chrysalis into a butterfly. The world created by the artist is based on the reality of time and space and is shaped by the sensation and emotion of remembering a moment. Rather than recreating a specific space or its sense of place, the artist captures the memory of a moment as if picturing it, evoking private or communal memories.

The exhibition includes 16 pencil drawing series, one tempera painting, one three-dimensional installation, and one four-channel video, and two single-channel videos. Buhm Hong is an artist based in New York and Seoul. After graduating from Hongik University’s Department of Industrial Design, he moved to the USA and received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in the Departments of Computer Art and Photography and Imaging.

The Metamorphosis of Moments

2.21-4.8, 2023

CR Collective: 120, Seongmisan-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul

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“BLISS POOL” a Solo Exhibition by Bolivian-American Artist Donna Huanca.. and Others

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"BLISS POOL" a Solo Exhibition by Bolivian-American Artist Donna Huanca.. and Others

Space K Seoul

"BLISS POOL" Installation view ©Aproject Company

"BLISS POOL" a Solo Exhibition by Bolivian-American Artist Donna Huanca

Space K Seoul, established by KOLON Group, will present “BLISS POOL” a solo exhibition by Donna Huanca (b. 1980) from March 9 to June 8. The exhibition features more than 20 works in various media, including new works.

The exhibition is not limited to genres such as painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, and welcomes viewers with an immersive composition. The new works, which combine natural and artificial materials, stem from the artist’s interest in humans and nature. From the body and skin, the holistic production responds to the audience’s memories, senses, and emotions, leading to insights into society and nature.

In addition, Space K Seoul is curved inside and out, and the artist was inspired by the formality of architecture to organize the exhibition space. BLISS POOL, a 6.4-meter-high, 14.4-meter-long painting mounted on a large curved wall in the exhibition hall, was specially created for the wall.

Donna Huanca is a Bolivian-American female artist whose work is informed by the cultural differences between the two countries she experienced as a child and the emotions she saw and felt while experiencing local festivals in Bolivia. She is an artist who completely refutes the frailty of women traditionally represented in art history and puts forward a strong image, giving women a strong subjectivity in organizing exhibitions.

BLISS POOL

3.9-6.8, 2023

Space K: 32, Magokjungang 8-ro, Gangseo-gu, Seoul

Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art

“Unfolding and Deepening” Installation view ©Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art

"Unfolding and Deepening" a Solo Exhibition by Minwook Jin, Selected as the 12th Artist of Young Eun Artist Project.

Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting a solo exhibition by Minwook Jin (b. 1980), who was selected as the 12th artist of Young Eun Artist Project. The exhibition is titled “Unfolding and Deepening” and will be held from March 18 to April 23 in Exhibition hall 2.

Unlike classical Western paintings, the artist creates works utilizing the multi-perspective technique, which is characteristic of traditional Eastern arithmetic paintings, depicting landscapes and objects from multiple angles. Therefore, if you look closely at the works, you can see that the objects are drawn from different points of view, but they are closely combined to form a single picture.

One of the characteristics of Jin’s work is that she has canvases of various shapes. This originates from the folding screens he saw at his grandmother’s house as a child, and her memories of looking at them and imagining the unknown world behind them became the source of her work. She also finds inspiration for her work while taking walks. She finds various narratives in the everyday things he discovers while walking in the mountains.

Minwook Jin graduated from Ewha Womans University, Department of Oriental Painting, and received her MFA in Chinese Painting from CAFA, Beijing. She then returned to Korea and earned his Ph.D. in Oriental Painting at Ewha Womans University.

Unfolding and Deepening

3.18-4.23, 2023

Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art: 300 Cheongseok-ro, Gwangju-si, Gyeonggi-do

Jeju

Park Seo-Bo Museum of Art (Tentatively title) Bird's-eye view ©GIZI Foundation

Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Park Seo-Bo Museum of Art (Tentatively title) in Seogwipo City, Jeju Island

Park Seo-Bo (b. 1931), a master of monochromatic painting who pioneered and led Korean abstract painting, held a groundbreaking ceremony for an art museum named after him (tentatively titled Park Seo-Bo Museum of Art) on the 14th.

The design is by Spanish architect Fernando Menis (b. 1951), who is known for incorporating ‘Island identity’ into his architecture. Menis was born on the Spanish island of Tenerife, which was created by a volcanic eruption and have a similar environment to Jeju Island. Inspired by this natural commonality, Menis designed the museum to coexist with nature through materials found in Jeju’s natural environment.

The scale is 12,137㎡, with a total construction area of 11,571㎡ (900㎡ for the exhibition hall), with one floor above ground and two floors below. It will be built as a sunken structure that utilizes the Picado technique to pursue a peaceful atmosphere rather than the coldness of concrete and allows natural light to reach the underground exhibition hall.

The museum will be located on the grounds of the JW Marriott Hotel in Seogwipo, Jeju Island, and will be operated by the GIZI Foundation, a nonprofit foundation founded by artist Park Seo-Bo. Upon its opening, the GIZI Foundation will present permanent and temporary exhibitions, education, and event programs.

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