Press Release
Homepage: http://www.mmca.go.kr/eng
On
January 10, 2018, Director Bartomeu Marí held a press conference to announce the
Exhibition Program of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
(MMCA). Highlights of the announcement were as follows:
The focus of MMCA’s 2018 exhibition program
will answer the need for long term planning, enhancing expertise, and reinforcing
the historiographical disciplines,. To promote the value and the recognition of
the museum’s collections, MMCA will give a higher visibility to exhibitions
based on the museum’s collection and historical research. To this end, exhibitions
have been aligned with each venue’s focus: investigating Korean Modern art
(late 19th century to mid-20th Century) for MMCA
Deoksugung; expanding and deepening the narratives in Korean art (mid to late
20th Century) for MMCA Gwacheon; and Korean art in the global contexts
(21st Century Korean and International art) for MMCA Seoul.
Every generation needs to re-write history
from its specific time and perspective. In addition to exhibitions developing
new discourses on masters and established figures in contemporary Korean art,
the work of outstanding international artists is being presented to invite
Korean citizens and visitors alike to enjoy a diverse program of high quality. The
work of more female as well as non-Western artists will be featured in our
program to develop our interest in linking tradition with modernity and the
contemporary. Large-scale international themed exhibitions, organized
and produced by MMCA, with international touring plans also are included in
the 2018 program.
The Asia Focus Project is a medium-to
long-term strategy that aims at positioning MMCA as a leading voice in our
region.
In addition to exhibitions, MMCA invests
logically in mid to long term planning for the essential scientific areas that
define the institution: research, collecting policies, interdisciplinary arts,
residencies, Independent Study Program and publishing. The international
stature of Korean contemporary art is linked to the success of this long term
vision.
2018 Exhibitions
1) Monographic Exhibitions with
Masters of Korean Art
RHEE Seundja: The Road to the Antipodes
○ Dates and Venue:
March–July 2018 / MMCA Gwacheon, Gallery 2 and Central Hall
○ Number of Works: approx.
150 works
○ Curator: Park
Mi-hwa
▲ Exhibition Content
This retrospective exhibition on
the work of Rhee Seundja (1918–2009) will be organized to honor the 100th
anniversary of the artist’s birth. A pioneer and master of abstract art, Rhee
moved to France in 1951 and worked chiefly between France and Korea. Her
prolific career saw her participating in over 80 solo exhibitions and numerous
group exhibitions. The exhibition is organized around characteristics of Rhee’s
work over the years, from her early conceptual and abstract period while
studying in the 1950s to themes of women and land in the 1960s; overlapping symbols,
references to ancient civilizations, cities, and yin and yang in 1970s; nature
and the path to the other side of the world in the 1980s; and a sort of cosmic
vision in the 1990s and 2000s.
In particular, the exhibition looks
at the print work which serves as a starting point for her artistic vision,
presenting its transformation over time to help understand the mutual
influences at play.
Jungjin Lee: Echo
○ Dates and Venue:
March–July 2018 / MMCA Gwacheon, Gallery 1
○ Number of Works:
approx. 70 works
○ Organizers: MMCA,
Fotomuseum Winterthur
○ Curators: Lee Hyeon-ju and Thomas Seelig (Curator, Fotomuseum
Winterthur)
▲ Exhibition Content
This exhibition
spotlights the work of Jungjin Lee (b. 1961), a world-renowned photographer
based in New York, with a focus on representative examples of the analog print techniques
that she has been producing since 1989. The exhibition is planned and organized
in conjunction with Fotomuseum Winterthur, one of Europe’s leading photography
museums.
The artist developed
a highly unique pictorial language in series such as “Ocean”, “On Road”, “Pagodas”,
“Things”, and “Wind”, in which her fundamental interest in nature and culture
is expressed in a space of poetic resonance. In her work, Jungjin Lee taps her
profound understanding for materiality, texture, and craftsmanship. Working
with Liquid Light, she applies photosensitive emulsion onto rice paper with a
coarse brush.
This will be a
rare opportunity to view numerous original print works by an artist who is
better known internationally than at home, with works in the collections of
such prominent institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in the U.S,A,.
Bahc Yiso: Memos and
Memories
○ Dates and Venue:
July–December 2018 / MMCA Gwacheon, Gallery 1
○ Number of Works:
approx. 200 archival materials and drawings
○ Curator: Lim
Dae-geun
▲ Exhibition
Content
This exhibition sheds new light on the art and life of Bahc
Yiso, with a focus on drawings and documents from the MMCA collection. After
studying in New York, Park drew attention from the New York art scene by
running an alternative art space in Brooklyn called "Minor Injury,"
beside his practice as an artist. After his return to Korea in the 1990s,
his unique artistic vision and various theoretical and education activities
helped usher in a new wave in the Korean art community. By 2003, his artistic
achievement reached his peak, being selected as the representative artist for
the Korean Pavilion at Venice Biennale. However, the art world was shocked and
saddened when he suddenly passed away from a heart attack the following year.
The idiosyncrasy of his vision—which some have called “inscrutable”—and his
early death only made him the focus of deeper interpretation and speculation.
The archival materials, which include numerous records, drawings, and idea
sketches of the artist, donated to the MMCA collection by his family, will
offer a lens for a deeper look into his short yet very intense oeuvre.
Interviews with people who remember the artist will help to further limn a genuine
portrait of Bahc
Yiso.
Yun Hyong-keun
○ Dates and Venue: August–December
2018 / MMCA Seoul, Galleries 3 and 4
○ Number of Works: approx. 60 works
of art, 50 archival materials
○ Curator: Kim In-hye (Head of
Exhibition Team 3)
▲ Exhibition Content
This exhibition will offer the
public its first-ever glimpse at numerous works of art and archival materials
from one of the leading Korean monochrome painters Yun Hyong-keun (1928–2007),
that have remained unseen since the artist’s death. Born in 1928 in Cheongju,
Chungcheongbuk-do, Yun was jailed after becoming involved in left-wing
activities while studying at Seoul National University. He was also threatened
with execution during the Bodo League massacre. Later, he was also accused of
involvement in improper admissions while teaching at Sookmyung Girls’ High
School and jailed for violation of anti-communism laws. A true figure of his
times, Yun endured seemingly endless persecution while unswervingly upholding
what he saw as “common sense.” This retrospective was designed to provide a
proper understanding of Yun Hyong-keun’s work as an artist who gained his first
recognition in Japan, the U.S., and France but has never received his due in Korea.
On view for the first time, the numerous archival materials and works provided
by his family will offer an opportunity to view Yun’s relationship with older
artist Kim Whanki and his profound understanding of Korean traditions.
Kim Chung Up
○ Dates and Venue:
August–December 2018 / MMCA Gwacheon, Central Hall and Gallery 2
○ Number of Works:
approx. 200
○ Curators: Kim Hyoungmi
and Chung Dah-young
This is the
first-ever large-scale retrospective on the work of Kim Chung Up (1922–1988),
part of the first generation of modern Korean architects. It explores hidden
aspects of Kim’s work as an avant-garde architect who collaborated with
numerous other artists, as well as a playing the role of a synthetic artist and
the only Korean architect to study under Le Corbusier. The exhibition is
designed to show different aspects in Kim’s work as a “Renaissance man” and
pioneering figure in multiple genres or categories. The exhibition is also an
opportunity to leave behind skewed perspectives on modern and contemporary
Korean architecture and open up new horizons in understanding the nature of
Modern art as the source of many aspects of contemporary culture. The
exhibition will chart the meaning of Kim Chung Up’s artistic orientation as it
transcended genres and categories to connect “then” and “now.”
2) Asia Focus Project
MMCA Performing Arts
2018
○ Dates and Venue: March–December 2018 / MMCA Seoul (Multi-Project
Hall, Seoul Box, and more)
○ Artists: Anne
Teresa De Keersmaeker, Mårten Spångberg, Ho Tzu Nyen, and more
○ Exhibitions:
Theater, dance, performance, video, animation, and more
○ Curators: Kim
Seong-hee (Project Director of Performing Arts) and Lee Dokyun (Curator)
▲ Program Content
‘MMCA Performing
Arts’ recognizes the ever expanding spectrum of visual art and aims to capture
its dynamics by creating a new arena of production and display of art in the
museum. The program encompasses any pertinent forms that can best embody the
perspective of the artist, stretching from performance, dance, theater, sound
art, video, or a form that transgresses all boundaries.
Started in 2017,
‘MMCA Performing Arts’ consolidates as part of the museum’s program in 2018 and
presents international performing arts projects throughout the year. Connecting
with the international performing arts scene, it includes new creations of
Asian artists commissioned and co-produced by MMCA, in the autumn of every
year. The program aims to propel the circulation of Asian productions identifying
MMCA as a leading voice in the medium as well as making Korea more prominent in
the performing arts scene.
How little you know
about me
○ Dates
and Venue: April–July 2018 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 1 to 4 and communal spaces
○ Artists:
MAP Office, Martha Atienza, Tao Hui, Po-Chih Huang, Hikaru Fujii among15
artists based in the Asian region
○
Curator: Park Joowon
▲
Exhibition Overview
As the first project of this series, ‘How little you know about me will reveal artistic perspectives that arise
from personal encounters (private experiences), attached to
context and sites in Asia. It will also create an opportunity to focus on the
local values and voices that have been faded away in dominant history and art
markets and here, we seek for urgent role of the artists as a storyteller. The
exhibition will materialize as a platform to raise multiple perspectives and
bringing artists’ imaginations on our surroundings. The project will consist
mainly of exhibition displays and a communal space ‘platform’. Through the
‘platform’, we would like to seek for a way to create consistent network within
our neighbors and it will include series of workshops and discussions. It will also
allow us to think of this new system within the context of this project as well
as expanding our discussions to audiences.
Awakenings: Art and
Society in Asia 1960s-1990s
○ Dates
and Venue: January–May 2019 / MMCA Gwacheon
-
October 12–December 24, 2018 (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
- June–September 2019 (National Gallery Singapore)
○ Exhibition
Venues: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2018); MMCA, Gwacheon
(2019); National Gallery Singapore (2019)
○ Artists/Number
of Works: approx. 120 works by about 70 artists
○ Curators:
Bae Myung-ji and Ryu Han-seung
▲ Exhibition
Content
Awakenings: Art and Society in Asia 1960s-1990s
is an international exhibition spotlighting social, cultural, and political
changes in different Asian countries between the 1960s and 1990s seen through
the different forms of contemporary Asian art. Co-organized by MMCA; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;
National Gallery Singapore, and with the support of the Japan Foundation Asia
Center, this large-scale exhibition will show around 120 major works
representing the results of over four years of joint research efforts by
curators at each institution. Under the three themes of “Radical Questionings,”
“Artists and City,” and “New Solidarities,” it explores different aspects of
Asian experimental art produced in response to Asia’s unique historical
situation and changes since the mid-20th century, including the Cold War,
independence, the Vietnam War, dictatorships, democratization, and
globalization. The exhibition is also expected to help promote the global
knowledge of contemporary Korean art by sharing major works within a major
international exhibition.
International
Researchers Residency Program
○ Participants: Curators and researchers focused on fields of
Asian modern and contemporary art
○ Residency Period/Total
Participants: Three months / four participants
○ Supervisor: Park
Hee-jung, manager, MMCA Residency Changdong
Since 2017, the
MMCA Residency has offered the International Researchers Program for curators
and researchers focused on Asian modern and contemporary art. Participants are provided
with a supportive environment for researching their topics and diverse
opportunities for their presentations by participating in academic seminars and
other scholarly activities for three month at MMCA Residency Changdong.
In 2017, the
program participants included Christine Starkman, former Curator of the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston. For 2018, four notable researchers from diverse cultural
backgrounds are set to participate in the program including Kris Ercums,
Associate Curator of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas and Nasri
Shah, Assistant Curator of the Malay Heritage Centre. They focus on exploring
critical discourses such as “LGBTQ artistic practices in Contemporary Asian
Art” and “socially engaged art in Asia.”
3) Exhibitions with MMCA Collections
Special MMCA
Collection Exhibition: Synchronic Moments
○ Dates and Venue:
February–September 2018 / MMCA Gwacheon, Circular Gallery 1
○ Artists: Kim
Heecheon, An Jungju, Jun Sojung, and three other Korean artists / around six
works
○ Curator: Choi
Heeseung
▲ Exhibition
Content
This exhibition
uses MMCA’s new media collection as a focus to explore the artistic languages
used by contemporary Korean media artists working in multichannel formats. In
addition to works created through the endless interlinkages of moving image,
video, and sound, viewers will experience “Synchronic moments” where,
beyond the work itself, the spaces, time, and environments in which the works are
situated become part of the viewing experience. The exhibition will feature
works recently acquired by MMCA yet not shown yet to the public, by such
contemporary Korean new media artists as Kim Heecheon, An Jungju, and Jun
Sojung.
CRACKS
in the Concrete II from the MMCA Collection
:
A Glimpse into the World / Gazing into Eternity
○ Dates and Venue: September 2018–September 2019 / MMCA
Gwacheon, Galleries 3 and 4
○ Artists/Number of Works: Yoo Young-kuk, Nam
June Paik, Kwak Duckjun, Noh Suntag, Gu Minja, and around 40 others / approx.
80 works
○ Curators: Park
Soo-jin and Lee Chu-young
▲ Exhibition
Content
This exhibition is a continuation of the
first Ctacks in the Concrete in 2017. It adopts two categories, “A
Glimpse into the World” and “Gazing into Eternity,” to explore the work of
artists who used different approaches to produce “cracks” in conventional
ideas.
“A Glimpse into the World” examines the
work of artists who have posed constant challenges to imposed authority and
order. This will be an opportunity to explore the relationship of the community
and individual within the artistic domain in an era where population migrations
have dramatically increased around the world and nomadism has become a crucial
code in interpreting modern society.
“Gazing into
Eternity” shows artists’ exploration
of using deep contemplation, meditation, and constant training to discover the
essential core of beauty hidden within the ever-changing surfaces of reality
and everyday life. In addition to pieces by such Korean contemporary art masters
as Kim Whan-ki, Yoo Young-kuk, and Nam June Paik, it is set to feature work by
artists currently active in Korea and overseas, including Song Sanghee.
The Birth of the
Modern Art Museum: Art and Architecture of MMCA Deoksugung
○ Dates and Venue: May–October 2018 /
throughout MMCA Deoksugung
○ Artists/Number
of Works: An Jung-sik, Lee Sang-beom, Ko Hee-dong, Kim
Jong-tae, Oh Ji-ho, Kim Whanki, Park Su-geun, Lee Jung-seob, and around 70
other leading modern Korean artists / approx. 100 works
○ Curators: Kim In-hye, Bae Won-jung
▲ Exhibition Content
This classic exhibition centering
on MMCA’s collections of modern art is organized to celebrate the 20th
anniversary of MMCA Deoksugung’s 1998 opening and the 80th anniversary of the
1938 opening of the Deoksugung Museum of Art (Yi Family Royal Museum).
Completed in 1938, the Deoksugung museum building is a combination of
classicist tradition, and its pursuit of order and balance, with the new style
represented by the 1930’s new monumental architecture. The exhibition’s
framework is defined by various modern devices drawing attention to the building’s
aesthetic value displayed alongside the masterworks of modern Korean art
within, which were produced around the time of its construction. It is also a
“textbook” exhibition of a kind, enlisting around 100 masterworks by over 70
modern Korean artists including An Chung-sik, Ko Hee-dong, Oh Ji-ho, Kim
Whanki, Park Su-geun, and Lee Jung-seob. It attempts to realize an unachieved
dream in the present day, focusing the highest pursuit of aesthetic perfection
with its exhibition of masterpieces by Joseon artists whose work could not be
shown at the time of the Yi Family Royal Museum’s opening during the Japanese
occupation. The exhibition also focuses on the collection’s history and the
story behind these works’ inclusion in the MMCA collection, providing a chance
to reexamine the role and direction of MMCA Deoksugung.
4) Promoting
Korean Art: Commissions and New Productions
MMCA Hyundai Motor
Series 2018: CHOI JEONGHWA
○ Dates and Venue:
September 208–February 2019 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 5
○ Sponsor: Hyundai
Motor
○ Curator: Park
Youngran
▲ Exhibition
Content
Organized by MMCA
and sponsored by Hyundai Motor, the MMCA Hyundai Motor Series is a ten-year
annual project launched in 2014, with one prominent Korean artist selected each
year to produce and exhibit a newly commissioned work. The artist to be
featured in the 2018 exhibition is set to be announced in February. This
project has helped contribute to the development of Korea’s contemporary art
environment, establishing itself as a premier example of corporate support
producing synergy effects through the joined efforts of private support to
public culture.
Korea Artist Prize
2018
○ Dates and Venue:
August–November 2018 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 1 and 2
○ Co-Organizer: SBS
Culture Foundation
○ Artists/Number of Works: Gu Minja, Okin Collective, siren eun young jung, Jung Jaeho / approx. 80
related materials
○ Curator: Yi Soojung
▲ Exhibition Content
The Korea Artist Prize is organized
by MMCA with the support of the SBS Culture Foundation to select and support emerging
artists in the Korean context, providing them with the opportunity to produce
and show new work. Four artists are selected every year. Nominees for the 2018
are Gu Minja, Okin Collective, siren eun
young jung, and Jung Jaeho. Gu Minja is an installation/performance artist who
expresses time, labour, and other everyday subject matters from a philosophical
perspective; Okin Collective (Kim Hwayong, Yi Joungmin, and Jin Shiu), a
video/performance group that has used radio broadcasts and performances to
approach issues related to modern urban development in Korea; Jung Jaeho, a
practitioner of Eastern painting who uses the genre to show landscapes of
modernization where development logic has become the paramount value; and siren
eun young jung,
a video/performance artist who uses the performances and
expressions of actors in the all-female traditional musical theater genre to
explore gender issues in different ways. The final winner is to be announced in
September 2018.
5) Thematic Exhibitions:
Artistic Movements and Eras
The
Dawn of the Modern era: Court paintings in the transitional period
○ Dates and Venue: November
2018–February 2019 / throughout MMCA Deoksugung
○ Artists/Number of Works: An Jung-sik, Cho Suk-jin, Chae Yong-sin, Lee Doyoung, Kim Gyujin,
Kim Eun-ho, and around 10 others / approx. 60 works
○ Curator: Bae Won-jung
▲
Exhibition Content
This
exhibition brings new attention to the Court painting from the transition to
the modern era. It is a genre once viewed as the product of a period of
decline, as seen with the abolition of the Dohwaseo (court painting institution), the administrative office that served as the foundation
for palace painting during the Joseon era. In sharing the historical
significance of the final Joseon Dynasty palace paintings produced during the
reigns of King Gojong and King Sunjong, it notes how these works served as a
prelude and an initiation to modern art. The exhibition examines how painters
working at the end of the palace painting genre made their techniques and
methods of representation evolve in accordance with the changes of the times.
Tracing such changes, as well as the increase in the social circulation of
artworks and inclusion of Western methods and values, the exhibition also shows
how images once destined only to the Palace and under strict regulations, were now
appropriated by folk painters, offering a glimpse at the end of the dynastic
era and caste system and the dawn of modern times.
E.A.T.(Experiments in
Art and Technology)’: Open-ended
○ Dates
and Venue: May–September 2018 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 7, Media Lab, Gallery
Madang
○ Artists/Number
of Works: Robert Rauschenberg, Robert
Whitman, Andy Warhol, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Robert Breer,
Hans Haacke, and more / approx. 20
○ Curator: Park Deoksun
▲ Exhibition Content
The E.A.T. is a
non-profit organization established in the 1960s by the Bell Labs engineers,
Billy Klüver, Fred Waldhauer and other artists including Robert Rauschenberg
and Robert Whitman. It started off as a pioneering group to promote
collaborations and communication in a variety of areas, all from the equal
stance, ranging from art and technology to cinema, dance, and even industry.
Introduced for the first time in Korea, the exhibition on the history of E.A.T.
adopts different perspectives as it explores the activities and works which
embarked on a new chapter for artistic and creative expressions with its interactions
between art and technology. It will include numerous archival materials related
to the E.A.T., along with the collaborative artworks works by the many who became
masters of contemporary art today.
6) International Artists at MMCA
AKRAM ZAATARI: Against Photography
○ Dates and Venue: May–August 2018 / MMCA Seoul,
Gallery 5
○ Co-Organizers: MMCA, MACBA(Barcelona Museum
of Contemporary Art)
○ Artist/Number of Works: Akram Zaatari /
approx. 30 works
○ Curator: Ma Dong-eun
▲
Exhibition Content
This monographic exhibition of Lebanese artist Akram
Zaatari (b. 1966) has been co-organized by MMCA and the Barcelona Museum of
Contemporary Art (MACBA), with the K21 Art Collection in Düsseldorf and the
Sharjah Art Foundation as partner organizations. In 1997,
Akram Zaatari co-founded the Arab Image Foundation, which he has used to
develop his interests over the past 20 years. This exhibition reflects on his
process of evolution and traces his various attempts to contribute to
increasing the understanding of photography. With works like the
photography-based series The Vehicle (2017) and the lightbox-produced The
Body of Film (2017), it focuses on collections and photographic objects
bearing marks of wear and abuse.
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1950 (replica of 1917
original), Porcelain urinal, 12 x 15 x 18 inches (30.5 x 38.1 x 45.7 cm), Philadelphia
Museum of Art: 125th Anniversary
Acquisition.
Gift (by exchange)
of Mrs. Herbert Cameron Morris, 1998 , © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP,
Paris - SACK, Seoul, 2018.
○ Dates and Venue: December
2018–April 2019 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 1 and 2
○ Co-Organizers: MMCA,
Philadelphia Museum of Art
○ Artists/Number of Works:
Marcel Duchamp and others / approx. 150 works
○ Curating Partner: Matthew
Affron
○ Curators: Lim Dae-geun and
Lee Jihoi
▲ Exhibition Content
The Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art will host the most comprehensive exhibition
dedicated to the art and life of Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) ever seen in Korea.
This exhibition comprises about one hundred and fifty works from the collection
of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, introducing Duchamp’s major works and archival
materials, as well as the photographic documentation by his contemporaries,
including Man Ray, Richard Hamilton, and many others. The ambition of this
exhibition is to deepen our understanding of Duchamp, one of the 20th century’s
most original artistic figures, which some name the father of what we call
contemporary art, and his continued ramification and influences today. The
exhibition presents the oldest edition of Fountain and other “readymades,” so
as a digital reproduction of Étant Donnés, known as Duchamp’s last work.
Harun Farocki
○ Dates
and Venue: November 2018–March 2019 / MMCA Seoul, Gallery 7, Media Lab, MMCA
Film and Video
○ Artist/Number of Works: Harun
Farocki / approx. 50 works
○ Co-Organizers: MMCA, Harun Farocki
Institut
○ Curating Partner: Antje Ehmann
○ Curator: Kim Eun-hee
Harun Farocki (1944–2014) was a
German artist, film director, theorist, critic, and curator who investigated
the forces behind phenomena spanning all areas of society and culture, analyzing
the substance and functioning of images subordinated to the ruling ideology of the dominating
powers. With works selected among 120 film and video installations that offer
new perspectives on the other sides of labor, war, and technology, this
exhibition will be an occasion to consider the heated and trenchant messages
raised by Farocki for an era of rampant and unpredictable conflict and
violence. Including video installation as well as research texts and archival
materials, the exhibition will be accompanied by screenings of some of
Farocki’s most notable films at the MMCA Film and Video theater.
7) MMCA-Organized Large Thematic Traveling Exhibitions
Civilization: The Way We Live
○ Dates and Venue: October
2018–January 2019 / MMCA Gwacheon, Circular Gallery 1
○ Co-Organizers: MMCA, Foundation for
the Exhibition of Photography (FEP)
○ Artists/Numbers of Works: approx.
200 works by about 100 artists
○ Curators:
William Ewing, Holly Roussell
▲ Exhibition Content
This large-scale international
photography exhibition comprises over 200 works, adopting different angles to
examine collective human life in the society of the 21st century. A collaboration
between MMCA and the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, with curator
William Ewing, the exhibition will first be presented at MMCA then to the world
as it travels through several different countries. It will serve as an
opportunity to elevate the standing of Korean photography in the international
stage. Through the overseas tour and international production of the catalogues
(to be published by Thames and Hudson), Korean artists such as Noh Suntag, Jung
Yeondoo, KDK, Kim Taedon, and Che Onejoon will also be properly introduced
outside Korea.
8) 2018 MMCA Film and Video Program
○ Programs: Special series,
exhibition tie-in screenings, and irregular screenings
○ Dates and Venue: January 2018–March
2019 / MMCA Seoul, MFV
○ Artists/Number of Works: Im
Heung-Soon, Minha Park, Moojin Brothers, Kwang-ju Son, Kim Eung-su, Jae Hoon
Jung, Cho Hyun-hoon, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, John Huston,
Michael Powel), John M. Stahl, Herold D. Schuster and more
○
Curator: Kim
Eun-hee
▲ Program Content
□ Special Series
- The
History of Visual Magic in Technology Pt. 2: Glorious Technicolor
○ Content: This
program series focuses on the invention and transformation of moving picture
technology, exploring the relationship between cinematic images and the senses.
It includes classic Hollywood films and British Films shot in Technicolor
within various genres, with a selection of 35-mm works mostly restored. This
retrospective was held at the Berlin Film Festival in partnership with Deutsche
Kinemathek, the Austrian Film Museum, the George Eastman Museum, and MoMA.
○ Dates: July 2018
(anticipated)
○ Partner: Deutsche Kinemathek
□ Exhibition-related Programs
- Hyundai Motor Series: Im Heung-Soon, Things That Do Us Part
○ Content: Short and feature films by
Im Heung-Soon, an artist whose work discusses contemporary Korean history with
a focus on issues of labor, migration, women and other marginalized groups, and
records of tragic incidents such as the 1948 Jeju Uprising.
○ Dates: March–April 2018
○ Artist: Im Heung-Soon
○ Works: Factory Complex and more
- Harun Farocki Retrospective
○ Content: Selection of major works
from the more than 100 in the filmography of Harun
Farocki,
a filmmaker, media artist, theorist, critic, and curator who explored
controversial issues spanning all areas of society and culture, analyzing
phenomena and the terrain of power and substance of images.
○ Dates: November 2018–February 2019
○ Accompanied by special talks and
the publication of research documents on Farocki’s work
○ Co-Organizer: Harun Farocki
Institut
□ Irregular Monthly Screening
Program
- Dear Cinema
○ Content: Selection of works
focusing on film-related to the cinematic questions and pieces by notable artists.
○ Dates: April–October
- The Big Sleep
○ Content: Project aimed at
rediscovering and sharing lesser-known but valuable works in artists’
filmographies that have many notable aspects or warrant reappraisal in
different respects.
○ Dates: April–October
For
more details, please visit the MMCA website at www.mmca.go.kr.
