Gallery Baton strives to promote diversity by creating a platform that highlights established artists and introduces emerging talents onto the world stage. Together, its refined aesthetics and curatorial program create outstanding exhibitions that reflect notable trends in the contemporary art world.
Read MoreOver the years, Gallery Baton has supported its artists' careers by actively collaborating with major museums for exhibitions and collections. Recent regional exhibitions and acquisitions include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA), Seoul Museum of Art, Leeum: Samsung Museum of Art, Space K Seoul Museum of Art(Seoul), and internationally, Mori Art Center(Tokyo), Rockbund Art Museum(Shanghai), etc.
Alongside its main exhibition program, Gallery Baton runs three distinct alternative spaces dedicated to supporting under-represented artists. While the Observation Deck serves as a venue for video and new media works, two not-for-profit programs, Chapter II and Yard, provide studio spaces, curatorial support, and exhibition opportunities.
Ocula Photolog ART021 Shanghai 2019 'As one of the most important contemporary art fairs in Asia, ART021 reinforces its ongoing commitment to leveraging local recourses with a global perspective, supporting contemporary Chinese art andcultivating new generations of domestic collectors. 111 world's leading galleries from 18 countries and 57 cities are selected to present contemporary...
Ocula Feature Aichi to Okayama: Art in Japan Looks to the Future By Stephanie Bailey, Okayama There has been a flurry of triennial and biennial activity in Japan, including Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit.
Ocula Photolog Frieze London 2019 'Frieze London brings together more than 160 galleries from 36 countries, representing the fair's most international edition since its launch. Introducing new curators and sections showcasing performance, emerging artists and the contemporary significance of complex art genealogies and colonial legacies, Frieze London creates an exceptional moment...
Ocula Photolog Art Basel in Hong Kong 2019 'Art Basel reinforces its ongoing commitment to showcasing exceptional art from Asia and the Asia Pacific, with over half of the participating galleries having exhibition spaces in the region. The main sector of the show features 196 of the world's leading galleries presenting the highest quality of painting, sculpture, drawings, installation...
Related Press The Shows to See in Seoul This Weekend 27 September 2019, Frieze A woman pulls an archer's bow at a dot painting. The arrow hits a white dot. She removes it before covering the dot with a square of white tissue paper. An action work by Soungui Kim, Ten thousand ugly ink dots (1982), is captured on video in the artist's first major retrospective in Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA).
Related Press Bedrieglijk echt 11 May 2019, Trouw Gemiddeld een jaar werkt Jasper de Beijer aan zijn driedimensionale maquettes, die in de loop der jaren steeds groter zijn geworden. Eerst bouwde hij ze op een schaal van 1:100, toen 1:10 en nu zijn ze meestal 1:1. Vervolgens maakt hij er een foto van, wat secondenwerk is in vergelijking met de monnikenarbeid die gemoeid is met het maken van de...
Related Press Korean galleries bring new stars to Art Basel: In Hong Kong, local artists hope to become next international hit 30 March 2018, Korea Joongang Daily Visitors to the sixth edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, which runs through Saturday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, will encounter a huge table with its circular, metal top slowly rotating. On the top are scores of what look like golden and silver miniature towers. Actually, they are dabba or tiffin carriers, in which Indian...
Related Press “High Strangeness” by Peter Stichbury at Gallery Baton, Seoul 15 November 2017, BLOUIN ARTINFO New Zealand born artist Peter Stichbury is currently presenting his bizarre and uncanny exhibition at the Gallery Baton in Seoul. High Strangeness explores stories surrounding reports of (often fake) disturbances in the aerial world above us. The exhibition runs until the end of November.
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