Aranya Art Center announces its 2024 program featuring Jiang Zhi: Life, organized by guest curator Sun Wenjie, Studio Visits, celebrating Aranya Art Center s five-year anniversary, as well as Paint from Life, organized by director Damien Zhang and artist Chen Xiaoyi.
Aranya Art Center is pleased to present the first museum exhibition in China by Gabriel Kuri, and the accompanying catalogue, which is the second catalogue independently published by the Aranya Art Center.
IN THE 1930S, a savvy developer embarked on a real-estate venture in Samcheong, a neighborhood in the heart of Seoul that was once home to a six-hundred-year-old village. Using modern materials for an urban update to the traditional Korean building style, the company created the Bukchon Hanok Village, a tony residential area whose narrow winding streets are now firmly on the tourist map.On Monday of Seoul Art Week, Various Small Fires hosted a reception in one of Bukchon’s hanoks, whose basement had been retooled as a viewing room for a suite of painted prints by Kyungmi Shin. Those who snuck