South Korea

Seoul-based artist Ayoung Kim is the recipient of the Guggenheim LG Award which carries a purse of $100,000. The Guggemheim LG Award was established as a joint collaboration between the Guggemheim Museum in New York and the Korean…

Continuing its wave of Asian consolidation, Pace Gallery announced a new gallery to open next year in Tokyo, Japan. The new gallery will be located in the Azubudai Hills area, an up-and-coming region in Tokyo. The building, which will be…

The infamous duct tape-banana sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan is again in the news, this time as a South Korean student ate it. The incident occurred on Thursday, though the news was first reported only on Sunday. It happened at the Leeum…

The controversial survey “After ‘Freedom of Expression?’”, featuring a sculpture of comfort women in imperialistic Japan goes to view again next week. The survey explores the ‘comfort woman’ - women abducted from Korea and other…

Sejong Center For Performance Arts in Seoul has refused to return 63 loaned works to Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, amid the Russia-Ukraine war. The artworks were part of a travelling exhibition titled “Kandinsky, Malevich &…

Lehmann Maupin is the latest gallery to expand its operations in Seoul as the city increasingly becomes a global art center. Lehmann Maupin opened its first gallery in Sogyeokdong district, Seoul in 2017. Over the years, the gallery…

In the latest international investment in South Korea’s art world, Thaddeus Ropac will inaugurate a new centre in Seoul. Thaddeus Ropac is an Australian gallerist who first opened his gallery in 1981. Today, the galleries operate from…