Best Cultural Draw: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
The K1 multi-use arts complex, by Teo Yang and Ourstudio, for Kukje Gallery, Seoul wins ‘Best cultural draw’ in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
Inside the yoga hall of Kukje Gallery’s K1 arts complex, transformed last summer by Teo Yang and Ourstudio
Kukje Gallery has a proud history of introducing Korean audiences to new art experiences. With last summer’s reopening of its K1 building, which now encompasses exhibition spaces, a café, restaurant, and wellness centre, it is rethinking how and where art should be experienced.
The 1987 building is one of three spaces that Kukje operates in the upscale, leafy enclave of Samcheong-dong. The original structure comprises a glass midsection (with Gehry-esque glass façades) sandwiched between two rectilinear volumes, all of which have undergone a two-year makeover modelled on the concept of a multi-use arts complex.