The painting “Festival” features an ocean blue background and woodcut prints on a canvas with a collage technique. Upon close examination, a number of people are visible, as if they are dancing on the canvas. Another painting titled “Sign of Mentality” features a number of black brushstrokes against a golden background. In the hopes of sharing Oh's work, Park plans to open another show in Seoul ...

A white porcelain moon jar from the 18th century fetched $4.5 million at Christie’s “Japanese and Korean Art” sale, the highest price fetch at auction by a moon jar. The sale was held Tuesday in New York. The British auction house explained that Joseon era porcelain was the highest quality moon jar put up for auction in at least 10 years. Owned by a Japanese private collector, the moon jar's es...

Some of the country’s emerging and fast-growing galleries -- Jason Haam, Whistle and Gallery 2 -- joined the Discoveries section at the art fair, introducing Korean artists Moka Lee, Ram Ham and Jeon Hyun-sun. “We are participating in Art Basel Hong Kong for the second time, but last year we were here as an online presentation. So it is our first time participating offline. People are incredibly...

On the eve of its official opening, galleries were in full swing with visitors from out of town. The city’s latest museum M+, which opened amid the pandemic in 2021, added to the celebratory atmosphere with a party that began with a dragon dance performance. “A lot of mainland collectors are back for the first time after four years, and I think there is strong and incredible energy surging in. I...

The three-story building, situated on a 12,137-square-meter site northwest of the JW Marriott Jeju Resort and Spa hotel, is expected to open to the public this summer. The five-star hotel is located near Seogwipo City’s columnar joints, craggy cliffs along Jeju's Daepo coastline formed by volcanic pillars. Born in 1931, Park was one of the founders of the Dansaekhwa or "monochrome painting" move...

The exhibition expands downstairs with the sections “Blue-and-white Porcelain,” “White Porcelain in Iron-brown Underglaze and Copper-red Underglaze” and “Monochrome White Porcelain.” The selection of white porcelains for the show was chosen from collections of prominent museums, including Leeum Museum of Art, Amorepacific Museum of Art and Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, as well as private c...

Lehmann Maupin has added Korean artist Sung Neung-kyung, a pioneer of avant-garde art in South Korea in the 1970s, to the list of artists it represents and will support Sung’s artistic career. Sung has become the fourth Korean artist to be represented by the American gallery. “His canonical works have not only sparked urgent conversations about politics, identity and the body, but also continue ...

Wooson Gallery will present works by Korean painter Ahn Chang-hong as part of the Insights sector. Kukje Gallery, one of the country’s leading galleries, will present “Solitude of Silences” by Korean sculptor Gimhongsok among 13 large-scale sculptural or installation-based works to be shown in the Encounters sector. “The people in the work, ‘Solitude of Silences,’ depict our everyday neighbors w...

The artist has been known as “unyielding artist” who has stuck with his art. He has more than five decades of experience, but the latest exhibition is only the second solo show to be held at a commercial gallery. Before unveiling his art to the public, he covered the works with aluminum foil at the exhibition, calling for an attitude to approach art carefully. It was aimed to criticize how easil...

The solo exhibition of installation artist Ahn Jong-yuen, who has explored -- and played with -- light throughout her artistic career opens Wednesday at Summit Gallery in southern Seoul. The exhibition titled, “Skywalk, Lightwalker: Time for Walking the Sky and Light,” is jointly organized by Herald Auction and ArtToken, and will run through March 15. Ahn has been dubbed an “artist of light” fo...

The September show will be Jung’s first major exhibition at the national museum in 15 years, having been part of a group exhibition as a winner of the Korea Artist Prize in 2007. Launched in 2014, the annual MMCA Hyundai Motor Series aims to promote Korea’s prominent artists by supporting a solo exhibition at the national museum. The project is organized in partnership with Hyundai Motor Company...

Conceptual artist Peter Weibel, who had pioneered media art as a theorist and curator since the 1960s, died on Wednesday. He was 78. The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, which is hosting an ongoing exhibition by Weibel, announced Friday it will set up a space dedicated to the artist, allowing visitors to pay tribute to him until May 14. Weibel’s exhibition, “respectively, ...

Seoul Museum of Art announced Friday that this September's Seoul Mediacity Biennale would aim to redefine the concepts of migration, diaspora and languages. Titled “This Too, is a Map,” this year's edition of the contemporary art event will be helmed by artistic director Rachael Rakes. The artistic director of the 12th biennale was selected through an open call process for the first time in an ...

K-Auction, a major art auctioneer in South Korea, will host an online charity auction starting Saturday to help children affected by the earthquakes that killed at least 50,000 people in Turkey and northwest Syria last month. The charity auction will run through March 14 jointly with the Seoul-based nonprofit AIF Children, offering 100 works by 76 artists who have agreed to help. Between 50 to 1...