Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has acquired two media artworks by Jun So-jung and An Jung-ju, jointly marking the first acquisitions from a Korean artist since video art founder Paik Nam-june’s work for the museum’s collection. “We were one of the first museums in Europe to start a video collection and time-based media collection. We started that in the 1970s and built up quite a big collection ab.
Artist Yoo Hwa-soo, whose installations adeptly explore the impact of technological advancements on human labor and the environment, has been named the winner of the 23rd SongEun Art Award, Sunday.
The Korea Artist Prize has returned after the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea pledged to improve the 11-year-old annual artist award, strengthening the judge system and curation in order to present finalist artists’ practices in a deeper and more holistic way. The four artists who were announced as finalists for the prize Kwon Byung-jun, Gala Porras-Kim, Lee Kang-seung and Jun So-jung &.
From a live theater populated by robots to a sixth-generation cactus connected to the first openly gay politician in California, a wide array of works have filled the “Korea Artist Prize 2023” exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in central Seoul.
Frieze Seoul has announced a string of specially curated programs of music, films and exhibitions, as well as talks and soirees that will be featured as part of its upcoming second edition in September.