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Artist Chung builds world of color

Artist Chung Chan-kyung is an artist who developed his own creative world. Chung is born in Sinan County, South Jeolla Province, which is a cluster of inhabited and uninhabited islands along the western coast of Korea. The region’s unique sentiments influenced Chung's artistic world. Chung majored in Western painting at Hongik University, one of Korea’s top art schools. He ha...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-22 16:53

Avant-garde film pioneer Mekas' oeuvre on view in Seoul

Jonas Mekas, known as the pioneer of poetic, avant-garde cinema, is being introduced to Korea through a major retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) Seoul branch. The 95-year-old Lithuanian-American is a filmmaker, poet and artist, who captured poetic moments of daily life as well as the brutal and violent side of life. The Seoul exh...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-21 16:03

Singapore film screening event held in Seoul

The Singapore Embassy in Seoul hosted a film screening event at the Total Museum of Contemporary Art in Jongno-gu, Seoul, Wednesday. The event, held jointly with the Seoul/Singapore Open Media Art Festival, was organized to showcase movies and introduce the Singapore art scene to Korean audiences. A collection of short Singaporean films, “7 Letters,” was presented, consisting...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-16 18:12

Argentinean artist Tomas Saraceno’s solo exhibition “Our Interplanetary Bodies” will be presented at the Asia Culture Center until March 25, 2018. Shown is one of his works “Aerocene 10.4 & 15.3” (2015). / Courtesy of Asia Culture Center Traditional ‘Saturday Performance of Korean Music & Dance'National Gugak Cente...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-16 16:10

Tongyeong painter Jeon rediscovered

Artist Jeon Hyuck-lim (1915-2010) dedicated his life to portraying Koreanness on his canvas. Jeon’s large painting “Port of Tongyeong” (2005), currently on view at the K Museum of Contemporary Art (KMCA) in southern Seoul, has a twin in the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae. Kim Yeon-jin, director of the KMCA, said the exhibition sheds light on the Tongyeong-based artist seve...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-13 20:17

Posters show passion of PyeongChang Olympics

With fewer than 100 days before the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in February, Korea is gearing up for the world's biggest winter sporting event. Olympic posters play an important role in promoting the world event. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Games (POCOG) held a compet...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-12 20:00

The experience musical created by British writer and illustrator Anthony Browne will be staged at Shinhan Card FAN Square Dream Hall until Dec. 3. /Courtesy of a.cube production Traditional ‘Saturday Performance of Korean Music & Dance'National Gugak CenterThroughout 2017 The National Gugak Center continues to feature Korean music and dance performances ev...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-09 18:50

4 Korean figures on contemporary art power list

The annual ArtReview's Power 100 announced this year's list, naming four Korean figures in weighing up who is the most influential in the contemporary art world. The British independent art magazine named Doryun Chong, deputy director and chief curator of Hong Kong's M+ museum, at 59th, along with the museum's director Suhanya Raffel. Chong studied art history and earned his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and was the associate curator of painting and sculpture at the Muse...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-06 16:57

Artists team up for hanging gardens in DMZ

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) in Cheorwon, Gangwon Province, sitting on the border between South and North Korea, is one of the most dangerous areas in the world with numerous landmines and tangible tension, but is also an accidental heaven for flora and fauna since the area has been closed to the public since 1953. The symbolism of the DMZ has inspired many artists and Korean...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-05 16:19

Works of contemporary African artists will be presented at Insa 1-gil Culture Space until Jan. 28, 2018. Shown is one of the exhibited paintings by Ethiopian artist G. Assefa. / Courtesy of Tinga Tinga: Let’s Be Happy Exhibition Traditional ‘Gugak Ensemble Festival’Sejong Chamber HallNov. 2 and 3 Seoul Metropolitan Traditional Music Orc...

Exhibitions | 2017-11-02 18:56

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