KAMS Backs 13 Korean Artists for Promotion Abroad
Hong Seung-Hye, When Flowering (2023). Birch plywood, acrylic latex paint. 60 x 80 x 81.5 cm, 160 x 5 x 1.5 cm (1 bar). Courtesy the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photo: Chunho An.
Selected artists will receive exposure through articles, videos, a book, and studio visits from international art professionals.
Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) has announced a raft of new support for Korean visual artists.
Korean Artists Abroad is a long-term project that will see a cohort of artists chosen each year for their potential to make it on the global stage.
KAMS will promote them through coverage on Ocula, a book co-published with Art Asia Pacific, films about their work and practice, and invitations to international art professionals to visit their studios.
‘With Korean Artists Abroad, KAMS will continue strengthening its role as a platform for disseminating Korean arts around the world,’ said President of Korea Arts Management Service, Young ho Moon.
This year, 13 artists have been chosen by a selection committee comprised of international art professionals.
The selected artists are: Hong Seung-Hye (b. 1959), SungHong Min (b. 1972), Jaye Rhee (b. 1973), Hyewon Kwon (b. 1975), Inbai Kim (b. 1978). Jinju Lee (b. 1980), Raejung Sim (b. 1983), Hyangro Yoon (b. 1986), Grim Park and Keem Jiyoung (b. 1987), Heejoon Lee (b. 1988), Heecheon Kim (b. 1989), and Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993).
Hong Seung-Hye, uses software to create her brightly coloured pictograms and geometric sculptures. Hong is represented by Kukje Gallery, which also represents Heejoon Lee.
P21 presented Keem Jiyoung’s ‘Glowing Hour’ series of paintings, extreme closeups of candle flames as a metaphor for life, at Art Basel Miami Beach last year.
Raejung Sim draws compulsively to combat loneliness and anxiety, creating animations from acrylic and ink on paper. Sim is represented by Arario Gallery, which also represents Inbai Kim and Jinju Lee.
Other artists represented by leading Korean galleries include SungHong Min, who shows with Gallery Chosun, and Jaye Rhee, who shows with Gallery Baton.
Established in 2006, the Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) is a non-profit public arts and cultural foundation affiliated with Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.
Its mission is to build a bridge between the Korean and international art markets and stimulate sales of Korean contemporary art abroad. —[O]
Main image: Hong Seung-Hye, When Flowering (2023). Birch plywood, acrylic latex paint. 60 x 80 x 81.5 cm, 160 x 5 x 1.5 cm (1 bar). Courtesy the artist and Kukje Gallery. Photo: Chunho An.
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