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U·S·B:
Emerging Korean Artists in the World 2009

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.

 

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SU:MBISORI
Inaugural Exhibition for JeJu Museum of Art

 

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).

 

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'Being and nothing-ness' will explore notions of being, and the gaps and voids created when being fractures, from the aesthetic perspective of three emerging Korean diaspora artists.

 

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 )