special exhibition Archives

Gallery Hyundai Brings Together Korea’s Most Symbolic Modern Artworks

SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – “I tinker with dots that assemble to represent a form. Let me keep doing things like this,” Kim Whan-ki, the best known master of Korean monochrome painting, told himself in his journal in 1968. Three years later in 1971, Kim came up with “Universe,” a pair of massive blue [...]

Landmark National Art Exhibition to Chronicle Turbulent Modern Korean History

SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — What started as a humble national art museum with a four-person staff in the backyard of the Gyeongbok royal palace in central Seoul in 1969 has grown into arguably the biggest art space in Asia half a century later. Now in possession of more than 8,000 art pieces, the [...]