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Korean Pavilion
The Korean pavilion houses South Korea's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. Background Organization and building The Korean Pavilion, designed by Seok Chul Kim and Franco Mancuso, was built between 1994 and 1995. South Korea has participated in the Venice Biennale since 1995. Representation by year Art * 1995 — Yoon Hyong Keun, Kwak Hoon, Kim In Kyum, Jheon Soocheon (Commissioner: Il Lee) * 1997 — Hyungwoo Lee, Ik-joong Kang (Curator: Oh Kwang Soo) * 1999 — Lee Bul, Noh Sang-Kyoon (Curator: Misook Song) * 2001 — Michael Joo, Do-Ho Suh (Commissioner: Kyung-mee Park) * 2003 — Whang In Kie, Bahc Yiso, Chung Seoyoung (Commissioner: Kim Hong-Hee) * 2007 — Hyungkoo Lee (Commissioner: Soyeon Ahn) * 2009 — Haegue Yang (Commissioner: Eungie Joo) * 2011 — Lee Yong-baek (Commissioner: Yun Chea-gab) * 2013 — Kimsooja (Curator: Kim Seung-duk) * 2015 — Moon Kyungwon, Jeon Joonho (Curator: Sook-Kyung Lee) * 2017 — Cody C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARTnews
''ARTnews'' is an American visual-arts magazine, based in New York City. It covers art from ancient to contemporary times. ARTnews is the oldest and most widely distributed art magazine in the world. It has a readership of 180,000 in 124 countries. It includes news dispatches from correspondents, investigative reports, reviews of exhibitions, and profiles of artists and collectors. History and operations The magazine was founded by James Clarence Hyde in 1902 as ''Hydes Weekly Art News'' and was originally published eleven times a year. From vol. 3, no. 52 (November 5, 1904) to vol. 21, no. 18 (February 10, 1923), the magazine was published as ''American Art News''. From February 1923 to the present, the magazine has been published as ''The Art News'' then ''ARTnews''. The magazine's art critics and correspondents include Arthur Danto, Linda Yablonsky, Barbara Pollock, Margarett Loke, Hilarie Sheets, Yale School of Art dean Robert Storr, Doug McClemont and Museum of Modern Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Jin Kaisen
Jane Jin Kaisen (born May 28, 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Kaisen was born in Jeju Island, South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. She is Professor of Media Arts at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. She received her Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen, her MA in Media Art and Art Theory from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art from The University of California Los Angeles. She also participated in The Whitney Independent Study Program. Working with video installation, experimental film, photographic installation, performance, and text, Kaisen's artistic practice is informed by extensive interdisciplinary research and engagement with diverse communities. She is known for her visually striking, multilayered, performative, poetic, and multi-voiced feminist works through which past and present are brought into relation. Engaging topics such as memory, migration, borders, and tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siren Eun Young Jung
siren eun young jung (, born in 1974 in Incheon, South Korea) is a South Korean contemporary artist working in video, performance, installation, and photography. The Seoul-based artist explores issues around gender and sexuality in relation to Korean history, politics, and culture through long-term research projects. Her work is often centered on figures or artistic practices effaced or excluded from conventional archives. jung's work has been shown in solo exhibitions across Seoul, and she has participated in group exhibitions both in Korea and abroad. jung represented Korea in the 58th Venice Biennale together with artists Hwayeon Nam and Jane Jin Kaisen in the exhibition “History Has Failed Us, but No Matter” curated by Hyunjin Kim. jung has received a number of awards, including the Korea Artist Prize in 2018. Education jung was trained as a painter for her BFA and MFA at Ewha Womans University, where she became involved in the feminist movement on campus, and bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeon Joonho
Jeon Joonho (born 1969) is a South Korean artist. Education Jeon received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dong-eui University in Busan, South Korea and Master of Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. Exhibitions Jeon participated in multiple exhibitions including Gwangju Biennale in 2004 and Escape Louis Vuitton, Paris ''Metamorphosis'' in 2008. In 2009, Jeon's early political video work ''The White House'' (2005-2006) was part of a group exhibition ''Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea'' in LACMA, Los Angeles. This exhibition was co-curated by Lynn Zelevansky, Christine Starkman and Kim Sunjung. ''The White House'' was written in Time Out New York and LA Times. Jeon Joonho started collaborating with another fellow Korean artist, Moon Kyungwon and exhibited their works across America, including a large-scale exhibition ''News From Nowhere: Chicago Laboratory'' in Sullivan Galleries at the School of the Art Institute of Chicag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Kyungwon
Moon Kyungwon (; born 1969) is a Seoul-based artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Ph.D in Visual Communication from Yonsei University, South Korea. Moon held her solo exhibition at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum in 2004. Her recent exhibitions include ''Poiesis of Collective Intelligence'' at Yamaguchi Center Arts and Media in 2013 and ''A Different Similarity'' at BOCUM Museum, Germany in 2010. In 2012, Moon and a fellow artist, Jeon Joonho, participated in Documenta (13) in Kassel, Germany and collectively received the 2012 Noon Award Grand Prize and 2012 Korea Artist Prize at Gwangju Biennale. In 2013, the two artists put on a large-scale exhibition called News from Nowhere at the Sullivan Galleries inside the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Curated by Sook-Kyung Lee from Tate Modern, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho were selected to showcase their collaborative video installation, ''The Ways of Folding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Seung-duk
Seungduk Kim (born in Seoul, Korea & lives and works in Paris, France) is a curator & exhibition organizer in the field of contemporary art. She is currently working foLe Consortiumin Dijon (Burgundy, based in Paris) as co-director and associate curator. Seungduk Kim was selected as Commissioner of the Korean Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. She was in charge with Franck Gautherot – for Le Consortium – of the artistic direction in Asia Culture Center (ACC in Gwangju, South Korea) in 2014 to 2016, for space design and public art programs. Kim Seung-duk was made ''Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres'' by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of France, in July 2022. ''« We expect art to be a tool for understanding our situation in history,'' ''our role in society, our mission for the future'' ''and our desire to stay in the memory of our children. »'' - Le Consortium Biography Seungduk Kim left Korea after graduate high school in 1973 and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kimsooja
Kimsooja (; born 1957) is a South Korean, multi-disciplinary conceptual artist based in New York, Paris, and Seoul. Her practice combines performance, film, photo, and site-specific installation using textile, light, and sound. Kimsooja's work investigates questions concerning the conditions of humanity, while engaging issues of aesthetics, culture, politics, and the environment. Her principle of ‘non-doing’ and ‘non-making,’ which follows a conceptual and structural investigation of performance through modes of mobility and immobility, inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor. Kimsooja's recent major projects include ''Sowing into Painting'', Wanas Konst, Sweden, ''Traversées\Kimsooja,'' Poitiers, France (2019-2020), ''To Breathe,'' Public Commission for the new metro station Mairie de Saint-Ouen in Paris (2020), 21st century new stained-glass commission for the Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Metz, France (2021), Asia Society Triennial, New York (2020). Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haegue Yang
Haegue Yang (, Hanja: 梁慧圭; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where she now teaches as a professor of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul. Yang's work often places disparate household objects into alternative configurations, exploring meanings they can take on outside of their typical functional uses.Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, "Chosen Loneliness," in ''Yang Haegue: Wild Against Gravity'', exh. cat. (Oxford, Aspen: Modern Art Oxford and Aspen Art Press, 2011), 7-16. Her installations sometimes engage multiple senses by incorporating lights, smells, sounds, and tactile materials that reorient and recalibrate viewers' perception. Common themes that appear in Yang's work are displacement, itinerancy, familiarity, and estrangement.HG Masters, "Haegue Yang: ETA: 1994-2018," ''ArtAsiaPacifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Pavilion
The national pavilions host each participant nation's official representation during the Venice Biennale, an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Some countries own pavilion buildings in the Giardini della Biennale while others rent buildings throughout the city, but each country controls its own selection process and production costs. Background The Venice Biennale is an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Often described as "the Olympics of the art world", participation in the Biennale is a prestigious event for contemporary artists. The festival has become a constellation of shows: a central exhibition curated by that year's artistic director, national pavilions hosted by individual nations, and independent exhibitions throughout Venice. The Biennale parent organization also hosts regular festivals in other arts: architecture, dance, film, music, and theater. Outside of the central, international exhibition, individual nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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