SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition will take place where visitors enter a camera chamber 6 meters wide and 3 meters tall to look at upside-down images of South Korea’s cultural heritage. The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage began an exhibition tour that goes around Sungnyemun Gate, Ulleung and Dokdo islands, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition will reproduce the banquets the Korean Empire treated to dignitaries from home and abroad during the empire’s short-lived reign at the turn of the century. The exhibition, “Imperial Banquet of the Daehan Empire,” is set to open Saturday at the Daehan Empire History Museum at Deoksu [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — One of the famous late Korean-American video artist Paik Nam-june’s major works will be on display in Seoul later this week, the Seoul city government said Thursday. “The three-month exhibition of Paik Nam-june’s ‘Suite 212′ will start Saturday via a 29×7.7-meter big screen, called the Seoullo Media Canvas, at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A dozen Korean traditional artworks from the Joseon-era traveled from around the world back home for restoration and exhibition, a heritage agency said Monday. An exhibition under way at the National Palace Museum in the front yard of Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul brings together 12 rare ink paintings [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An architectural exhibition taking place in Seoul will offer glimpses into life in the North Korean capital through media art and an imaginary supermarket selling goods from both sides of Korea. The exhibition, “Daily Pyongyang,” under way at the Seoul Hall of Urbanism and Architecture near City Hall, is [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A special exhibition by the National Hangeul Museum kicked off its five-month run Monday to explore the Korean alphabet’s potential as a design motif. The exhibition, “Transformations: Experiments in Hangeul Design,” brought together some 300 creative visual works by 22 Korean designers and design teams. They include graphic design, [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Gwangju Design Biennale kicked off its two-month journey in the southern city of Gwangju on Friday to explore and experiment with innovative design ideas under this year’s theme, “humanity.” Running till Oct. 31, the design festival will bring together 650 designers from 50 countries and 120 corporate entities. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An outdoor exhibition at the royal palace of Deoksu in central Seoul will go back in time to a century ago to explore city development visions by architects from that time period, a national museum said Tuesday. The exhibition, “Unearthing Future,” will kick off on Thursday on the premises [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Images of heathen religious rituals overlapping with pictures of high-tech robotic machines and computer graphics in a wallpaper work at acclaimed artist Yang Hae-gue’s latest exhibition in Seoul artistically strip viewers of their sense of time and place. The wallpaper, “Incubation and Exhaustion,” first unveiled in her solo exhibition [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Iconic American sculptor Fred Sandback (1943-2003) creates a towering column or imposing walls using a few streaks of acrylic yarn that could be found anywhere. The philosophy-majored artist adroitly exploited the power of imagination to build massive structures out of almost nothing, knowing that he could provoke a viewer [...]