Frieze Seoul returns to COEX, positioned within the centre of Gangnam, for its third version from September 4 by 7 2024. That includes over 110 galleries from across the globe, this yr’s honest coincides with Kiaf SEOUL, together with two biennials in Gwangju and Busan, additional cementing the honest because the premier worldwide artwork honest in Korea, and the nation’s place as a serious artwork vacation spot in Asia in addition to inside the international artwork market. This yr’s packed programme proves to be even larger.
Korea’s wealthy artwork legacy might be on show all through the honest, from the famed Dansaekhwa (“monochromatic portray” in Korean) motion to at present, highlighting the work of artists just like the late Park Search engine optimization-Bo, a number one determine inside the Dansaekhwa motion, to the late video artwork pioneer Nam June Paik, together with up to date artists Jeon Joonho, Lee Bul, Kang Seung Lee, Mire Lee, Lee Ufan, Park Youngsook, Do Ho Suh, and Haegue Yang.
Frieze Seoul 2024 highlights: from the honest to across the South Korean capital
Li Wei, As soon as upon a Time, 2019, at Tang Modern Artwork
(Picture credit score: Li Wei at Tang Modern Artwork)
LG OLED, Frieze Seoul’s headline accomplice, pays homage to the late Se Okay Suh, a serious summary ink artist, by exhibiting a serious presentation of his work catapulted into the tech age by new, digital renditions executed by his sons, architect Eul Ho Suh and artist Do Ho Suh.
To rejoice its one-year anniversary in Seoul, White Dice will present its artists who’ve a reference to South Korea, similar to striped gray monochromatic Park Search engine optimization-Bo canvas and Marguerite Humeau, who will unveil a brand new sculpture the twist, a twister of copper wire, within the sales space after her solo exhibition simply wrapped up at ts Seoul gallery, and Marina Rheingantz, who together with Humeau, is within the Gwangju Biennial. A glass medication cupboard crammed with jewel-toned glass vessels by Mona Hatoum, a curved bronze Noguchi sculpture, and a bronze aid diptych by Tracey Emin are among the many different works on the sales space.
At Tempo, a serious portray by Lee Ufan from the 1988, would be the fundamental spotlight of the stand, on show alongside works by Piñeiro Bello, Berlin duo Elmgreen & Dragset (They’ve an exhibition on the Amorepacific Museum), New York-based Kylie Manning (She additionally has an exhibition at SpaceK Seoul till November 10), Robert Indiana, and Lee Kun-Yong, who has a bit within the floor exhibition Connecting Our bodies: Asian Girls Artists on the Nationwide Museum of Modern Artwork, Korea.
Shannon Cartier Lucy debuts a brand new group of highly-anticipated figurative work capturing small moments in life, like this quirky close-up of a lady holding a teacup, in life in a solo part at MASSIMODECARLO, which can be exhibiting Tomoo Gokita, Diane Del-Pra, Lenz Geerk, John Armleder, whose work can be on the gallery’s Seoul Studio.
San Francisco-based gallery Jessica Silverman brings the colourful, swirling brushstrokes of New York painter Hayal Pozanti for a solo presentation crammed together with her dreamy landscapes and joyful florals that land someplace between abstraction and figuration.
Jessie Homer French, Generations 2024, at Massimo de Carlo
(Picture credit score: Jessie Homer French at Massimo de Carlo)
The Chicago-, Mexico Metropolis-, and Paris-based Mariane Ibrahim presents a gaggle exhibiting of artists from its roster, together with Amoako Boafo, Salah Elmur, Patrick Eugène, Yukimasa Ida, Clotilde Jiménez, Alexandre Lenoir, Ian Micheal, Ian Mwesiga and Peter Uka.
Hauser & Wirth presents a gaggle stand with up to date and historic works by Rita Ackermann, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Clark, Nicolas Occasion and Pat Steir, amongst others. Filipino artist Mark Justiniani reveals sculptures emulating nested wormholes that use a sequence of reflective lenses to solid mild at The Drawing Room.
Kukje, one of many nation’s oldest galleries, celebrates Park Search engine optimization-Bo with a 2008 monochromatic canvas made with oxblood Korean hanji paper. Each Korean and worldwide artists are set to be exhibited on the stand, with Ha Chong-Hyun and Kim Yong-Ik presenting summary works, and Kyungah Ham and Haegue Yang exhibiting blended media works. Artwork honest staples Anish Kapoor and Ugo Rondinone are among the many worldwide artists at Kukje. Timothy Taylor will current eight new work by Honor Titus that have a look at the function of race and sophistication in privilege and leisure.
Within the Focus Asia part, supported by Stone Island, curators Hyejung Jang, the chief curator of DOOSAN Gallery, and Joselina Cruz, the director and curator of the Museum of Modern Artwork and Design on the De La Salle-Faculty of Saint Benilde chosen ten galleries underneath 12 years previous within the area to current solo artist exhibitions. Seoul’s A-L will highlight Korean painter Cho Hyori, who centered her stand across the theme of driving, displaying totally different views the place the viewer takes on the function of driver or passenger. Lu Yang fuses collectively Japanese popular culture with Buddhism, transhumanist theories, and neuroscience at Parcel, whereas over at Kayokoyuki, Evelyn Taocheng Wang references the late Agnes Martin, influencing the work together with her expertise as a Chinese language immigrant within the Netherlands.
Gabriel Orozco, Guapo Fish, 2024, at White Dice
(Picture credit score: Gabriel Orozco)
In the meantime, at Frieze Masters Tokyo Gallery + BTAP seems to be on the legacy of the Dansaekhwa motion and its impression at present by works by Park Search engine optimization-Bo, Choi Myoung Younger, and Lee Jin Woo. Wooson Gallery will present a solo sales space of labor by Myungmi Lee, a first-generation Korean feminine artist, exhibiting monochromatic works from her groundbreaking 1977 present GAME. Niki de Saint Phalle’s vibrant 1060s sculptures might be on show at Galerie Mitterrand.
Outdoors of the honest, K11 Artwork Basis could have a full program highlighting generative artwork, beginning with a Moon Occasion inside its first generative artwork exhibition Lunar Water, with works by a’strict, Tyler Hobbs, and Cheng Ran. Gabriel Orozco will present new works at White Dice Seoul.
On the Leeum Museum of Artwork, Korean-American artist Anicka Yi makes her Asian establishment debut with over 40 works whereas Rirkrit Tiravanija serves as inventive director of Dream Display, trying on the work of millennial artists and collectives together with Choi Yun, Kim Heecheon and Lee Eunsae (Korea), Wang Bo and Zhang Vivien (China), Kamonlak Sukchai (Thailand) and Yi-Fan Li (Taiwan). Works from the Pinault Assortment by David Hammons, Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans and Rudolf Stingel are on show at SONGEUN.
Over on the Nationwide Museum of Fashionable and Modern Artwork, Shigeko Kubota (Japan), Lee Bul (Korea), Pacita Abad (Philippines), Melati Suryodarmo (Indonesia), Mrinalini Mukherjee (India) and Yin Xiuzhen (China) are among the many artists featured in Connecting Our bodies: Asian Girls Artists.
Frieze Seoul runs from 4 – 7 September 2024
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Kylie Manning, Haenyeo, 2024, at Tempo
(Picture credit score: Kylie Manning at Tempo Gallery)
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