This is a statement that the Korean abstract artist, Lee Seung Jio (1941-1990), made in 1971, a few years after he gained attention in Korea for his cooly geometric abstract paintings of cylindrical forms: Some call me 'Pipe Painter.' I neither welcome nor dislike the distinction.

Kim Tschang-Yeul (b. 1929), a towering figure of Korean modern art, is best known for his trompe l'oeil depictions of pristine water drops beaded on either a monochromatic surface or raw linen. As Kim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris, at Tina Kim, underscores, it was while living he was living in New York that his work began to change, leading...

Suki Seokyung Kang’s multipart installations are neatly organised so as not to interfere with one another. The space invites people to walk, sit and stand among minimalist installations in soft colours. The Korean contemporary artist is introducing two works at the 58 th Venice Biennale’s main exhibition May You Live in Interesting Times...

This year, all Koreans at the Venice Biennale are women. The Korean Pavilion is curated by Kim Hyun-jin and three participating artists Jung Eun-young, also known as siren eun young jung, Jane Jin Kaisen and Nam Hwa-yeon. At the main exhibition, the works of three Korean women artists Lee Bul, Suki Seokyeong Kang and Anicka Yi are on view.

As someone who has personally spent too much time in too many art fairs over the past decade or so, I have become acclimated to a certain kind of art-fair art-viewing experience. Neon signs vie for attention with massive dayglo paintings, holograms in pristine plexiglass vitrines strive to out-wow the virtual reality experiences offered in Oculus...

In her work, Suki Seokyeong Kang treats the human body as a kind of interface between built environments, objects, and movement. The Korean artist produces seducing objects and immersive installation environments in seemingly undecipherable systems of order, activating them through choreography both in situ and on camera. Abundant in grids and...

The Golden Ratio might summon memories from an early art history or biology course: the geometric rubric for natural symmetry printed over photographs of a fern leaf or the face of a marble kouros figure.

It is not uncommon among contemporary Korean artists to find the same title used repeatedly for different paintings, often over a period of several years. Although one might find a number sequence to differentiate one painting from the next, for the most part the repetition of the title is perennial.

Minouk Lim's first solo exhibition in New York introduces the South Korean artist's equally haunting and inquisitive practice with three bodies of work intertwined into a eulogy on loss and the consequential search for the missing. The Hole-In-Chest Nation (2014), Running on Empty (2014), and The Possibility of the Half (2012) occupy...

Kim Yong-Ik is known as the artist who sought to define his own trajectory beyond the two movements that dominated South Korean artistic thought throughout the 1980s— Dansaekhwa ('monochrome' painting) and the opposing, populist Minjung misul ('people's art'). Kim was also an activist who protested Park Chung-Hee's dictatorship in the...

Though at present the concept of 'media' is almost wholly equated with communication technologies, throughout the modern period this notion extended beyond the technological field, to include aesthetic and spiritual registers. In the late nineteenth century, a medium was someone with the alleged ability to act as a psychic conduit or transmitter...

2 or 3 Tigers explores modernity as a colonial pattern inscribed in the history of nation states, militarisation and financialisation as well as an ontological revolution that fundamentally orders the social realm, national narratives and cosmologies, and whose effects have led to a profound crisis of consciousness as well as myriad and multiple...

Park Chan-kyong is a younger brother of globally renowned film director Park Chan-wook of Old Boy and more recently The Handmaiden. But he is no more introduced as such. Having set off an authentic path as an interdisciplinary artist, he has been consistently exploring Korea's folk tradition, such as the shamanistic ritual of 'gut,' and delved...

From 2 March to 15 April 2017, New York's Tina Kim Gallery will present their first solo exhibition of South Korean artist Chung Seoyoung. Entitled Ability vs. Invisibility, the show features sculpture, installation and video work from the 2000s to the present. Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964), who has lived in Germany for many years, is a...

JEJU - Water remembers everything and leads people to meditate, but at the same time it helps people wash off pain, fury and fear: this could be what the artworks now on view at a new exhibition at the Kim Tschang-yeul Museum on Jeju island tell together.

From 1 to 4 December 2016 galleries from around the world will converge on Art Basel Miami Beach. In Art Basel’s 15th edition in Miami Beach, there are an impressive 269 galleries expected from 29 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The art fair is proven to be a highlight of the art calendar, with almost all...

The unprecedented convergence of the 11th Shanghai Biennale opening and two major art fairs as well as numerous exhibitions makes the Chinese city the focal point of the Asian art world this week. The West Bund Art & Design Fair, opens tomorrow (November 9), followed by Art 021 on Thursday and the biennial on Friday (until 12 March)...

It would take someone better versed than I in Foucauldian notions of genealogy to parse for you curator Corinne Diserens’s title for the tenth Taipei Biennial. Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future: A New Lexicon for the Biennial  takes place across two floors of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (with one work...

On view from 22 September to 29 October 2016 at Tina Kim Gallery in New York, Two Hours is an exhibition featuring South Korean artists Yiso Bahc, Seoyoung Chung and Beom Kim. Curated by Hyunjin Kim, the 42 works span a period of dramatic political change between the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

In recent years, the narrative of contemporary Korean art – as told in the West, at least – has been preoccupied with the (predominantly male) practitioners of dansaekhwa. Reacting, in part, to the physical and psychological scars inflicted by the Korean War, as well as to the social realism prevalent across Southeast Asia at the time...

The title of the tenth Taipei Biennial, Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future,  includes everything but the term hammered throughout the exhibition: history. Curated by Corinne Diserens, this biennial departs from the 2014 edition helmed by Nicolas Bourriaud on the theme of accelerationism. Where Bourriaud’s...

A strong lineup of art shows are being offered this fall, more so than other seasons. With two big biennale events – the Gwangju Biennale and Busan Biennale – kicking off last week, major Korean museums and galleries have opened a plethora of exhibitions to attract the influx of international art professionals and local art lovers.

Hanging right inside the main entrance in Gallery 1, facing incoming visitors, Agnieszka Polska’s Glass of Petrol (2015) is the one work that cannot be missed at the 11th Gwangju Biennale. Depicting a champagne flute filled with shiny gasoline, the colorfulness of which resembles that of Planet Earth, Polska’s digital print hints at...

'It is not about what art is, but what art does,' said Gwangju Biennale 11 (GB11) artistic director Maria Lind on September 1, during the event’s press conference. Entitled The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?),  in reference to the 12th-century Iranian mystic Sohrevardi’s idea of a zone full of imagination beyond earthly...