Cross cultural engagement through art
Seoul: +82 (0)10 2728 5665
London: +44 (0)7805 999875
21a D'Arblay Street
Soho, London W1F 8EF
Cross cultural engagement through art
Seoul: +82 (0)10 2728 5665
London: +44 (0)7805 999875
21a D'Arblay Street
Soho, London W1F 8EF
24th September-1st October 2011
La Scatola Gallery
1 Snowden Street, London, EC2A 2DQ, UK
"MY SHOPPING BAG: allegories of Seoul 2011" is an exhibition which profiles the current vibrant cultural allegories of Seoul in summer 2011, under the context of contemporary art practice and it aims to examine what it means to understand contemporary cultures in the era of post-globalization in the 21st century.
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1-4 September 2011
KDJ Convention Center, Gwangju, South Korea
This year Gwangju celebrates the freedom of creativity with the second edition of art:gwangju:11. The Fair is the first public cultural project of the newly established Gwangju Cultural Foundation and is supported by Gwangju Metropolitan City Council. With a new Art Director Jiyoon Lee, art:gwangju thrives to be the most dynamic and networked commercial hub in the region.
Over 70 international exhibitors including 11 local galleries from Gwangjuand 13 international non-profit art institutions are participating this year's fair.
13 - 16th July 2011
Middle Eastern Art, the local and global challenges
- Dr Geoffrey King - Reader in Islamic Art and Archaeology at
The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- Mona Khazindar - Director of the Institut du Monde Arabe - Paris
- Sirine Fattouh - Head of research Centre Pompidou - Paris
- Reem Al-Faisal – Photographer - co-founder of Cube Arts
- Karin Adrian von Roques - Art historian - Independent curator
- JW Stella - Independent curator, Director JW STELLA Arts Collective.
- Moderated by Lulwah Al-Homoud
Contemporary Art Exhibition from Saudi Arabia
11 September – 31 October 2010
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art
No. 27 Duolun Road, Shanghai
5 November – 6 December 2009
Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center
The exhibition will comprise of 24 contemporary artists, whom
have been short listed from 180 nominees, assessed by a
network of curators, critics and researchers. The selected artists
will examine current practices and tendencies which articulate
issues beyond identity politics or national identity.
Essentially U·S·B is about the artists who are born either in
the 70s and 80s, and live outside of Korea in a new modern-day
global world (urban nomadism), that is reshaping individuals
connectivity and mobility. Each artist explores their own artistic
expression and subjectivity in adopting into different cultures and
negotiating the social environments they live.
Participant Artists:
Sunah CHOI, Hongseon JANG, Hyojin JEONG, Donghoon JUN,
Taebum HA, Eunok HWANG, Eemyun KANG, Chosil KIL,
Jeuno JE KIM, Songhe KIM, Daehun KWON, Changwon LEE,
Kakyoung LEE, Sekyung LEE, Sunhwa LEE, Wonho LEE,
Youngmi LEE, Hyojun NAM, Asa OH, Jaye RHEE, Eva SHIN,
Haeri YOO, Jieun YOON, Sun YOU.
Participant Artists:
Al-Homoud, Lulwah (Saudi Arabia), Ahn Byeongseok (Korea),
Baik Gwangik( Korea), Bu Jihyeon (Korea), Cha Kiyoul (Korea),
Choe U ram (Korea), Chun Sungmyung (Korea), Oleg Dou
(Russia), Hakima El Djoudi (France) Bernd Halbherr (Germany),
Han Kichang (Korea), Hung Tung-lu (Taiwan), Theo Jansen
(Netherlands), Jun Gayoung (Korea), Kang Yobae (Korea),
Kim Byougho (Korea), Kim Juyon (Korea), Kim Kichul (Korea),
Kim Soonim (Korea), Ko Young hoon; (Korea), Koh Sankeum
(Korea), Wolfgang Laib (Germany), Lee Beikyoung (Korea),
Lee Jae-hyo (Korea), Lee Minho (Korea), Lee Sungeun (Korea),
lillil (Korea), Moon Chang bae (Korea), Onishi Yasuaki (Japan),
Seo Sungbong (Korea), Yinka Shonibare MBE (UK),
Song Dong (China), Matthew Stone (UK), James Turrell (USA),
Bill Viola (USA), Tom Wilkinson (UK).
Our world often breaks into dualisms, inside and outside, mind and body,
black and white, good and evil. These appear to offer a map pointing to
understanding but perception and reality can turn out to be yet another
dualism, in a hall of mirrors where nothing finds a finite definition.
Youngmi Kim, Kiwoun Shin and Seunghun Woo gamble with these uncertainties and mysteries
in their artworks.
Youngmi Kim's work tests the limits of the dynamics and structures that a canvas can hold. Having studied and exhibited in Korea and the USA, this will be Youngmi Kim's debut on the London art scene. With an impressive body of work drawing on her primary source of inspiration - architecture - Youngmi Kim aims to stimulate the eye and the brain with her three-dimensional voids of emptiness.
Kiwoun
Shin's contribution to 'Being and nothing-ness' is an exciting
multi-sensory video piece. Using echoes of Genesis -'dust to dusk (for
dust thou art)' - and of Buddhism
- 自古以來 (man comes with nothing
and also finishes his life with nothing, going back to the earth) as
principal motives for his work 'Grind'. Kiwoun Shin's video piece
explores the questions with which objects and their negative
counterpart, nothingness, confront the viewer.
Seunghyun Woo plays with beauty and desire in the mixed-media sculptures she presents at this collective show. Investigating the nature of right and wrong through Buddhist theories, Seunghyun Woo has created an unconscious and automatic way of working which she terms "marbling is-ness". Seunghyun Woo has recently completed her MFA at Slade School of Art, and has studied and exhibited in both Korea and London.
JW Stella is an independent curator and art consultant, and has managed high-profile international contemporary art exhibitions since 2005, such as Fantasy Studio, 2008 Liverpool Biennale (A Foundation, Liverpool), Good Morning Mr. Nam June Paik (Korean Cultural Centre, London 2008), Through the Looking Glass (Asia House, London 2006), Seoul Until Now (Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark 2005). She is currently involved in an advisory capacity with a cross-cultural engagement between the UK and Saudi Arabia; the project rests on the premise that contemporary art is a major influence in creating cultural, corporate and brand values.
This exhibition is kindly sponsored by Art Council Korea, Corona and media
sponsored by OpenVizor (www.openvizor.com ),
KUBE Media (www.kubemedia.net )
2011 © JW Stella