Featured Events in South Korea in November 2024 (July Updated)

Hwadam Forest is an ecological arboretum built with the focus on restoring the natural forest ecosystem. It has 16 theme gardens on an area of ​​about 165,000 square meters (50,000 pings). It is a representative arboretum in Korea and a famous maple viewing spot in the metropolitan area. This year's Hwadam Forest Maple Leaf Festival will be held from October 18 to November 17. The Hwadam Forest Maple Leaf Festival adopts an hourly garden system so that visitors can enjoy the view happily and safely, and reservations are required. More than 400 kinds of colorful leaves, such as the horn maple, dandan maple, fur maple, and Norway maple, form a colorful autumn beauty with patches of red and yellow.

On a warm autumn day, ceramic artist Inhwa Lee's solo exhibition opened at LKATE Gallery. Inhwa Lee's work is based on the theme of "translucency", one of the physical properties of white porcelain, and plans to exhibit about 20 new objects and 10 flat works in this exhibition. By capturing the ever-changing light in white porcelain, a material that never changes, and transferring the illusion of light to a flat surface, it is hoped that the fleeting moments in life can be remembered for a long time and find their meaning.

Exploring human nature, analyzing behavior and its products are important tasks for art and philosophy. However, recently, modern society is full of complex and contradictory phenomena that cannot be explained by simple past explanations. From a poststructuralist perspective, we begin to discover various cases through the media that allow us to understand more deeply the contradictions inherent in human life and social relations. This exhibition aims to reinterpret the complexity of modern society through the metaphor of "cruel fairy tales" and expand the symbols in fairy tales to the contemporary context. The metaphors of disability and prejudice revealed in the lines of the domestic TV series "It's Okay to Be Bad 2020" are an important starting point for the symbolic approach of this exhibition. Starting from the character's question "Is it terrible to be different?", the story of difference and fear, understanding and acceptance is linked to the fairy tale of Bluebeard, and the scene reflects the prejudices and fears of modern people. Since then, the story of Bluebeard has begun to be interpreted no longer as a simple cruel fairy tale, but as an important work symbolizing the story of women breaking taboos and gender conflicts. For example, works such as the music video of singer Le Seraphim's "Eve, Psyche and Bluebeard's Wife" and the Naver webtoon "I Became Bluebeard's Wife" are now reinterpreted in various cultural contents. This exhibition visually explores these themes through the collection of famous artists at home and abroad, such as In-ok Kim, Hwan-ki Kim, Seo-bo Park, U-hwan Lee, Seung-taek Jang, Nancy Lang, and David Gerstein.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents Celestial Snowdrops, its sixth solo exhibition of Scottish artist Martin Boyce in the dedicated showroom Galerie Eva Presenhuber x P21 in Seoul. This marks the second collaboration between the gallerists Eva Presenhuber and Soo Choi. It is Martin Boyce’s second solo exhibition in Korea.

The Buyeo Chrysanthemum Festival, which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year, will be held in Gongnanji for 10 days from October 25 to November 3. Many chrysanthemum works with the theme of "The love story of Seodong and Seonhua embracing chrysanthemums" and various works unique to Buyeo are exhibited. In addition to sightseeing, there are various activities here that will leave you with wonderful memories.

Perrotin Seoul is pleased to present a solo exhibition by German painter Thilo Heinzmann, born in 1969. The show marks the artist’s second solo exhibition in Korea, following his debut at Perrotin Seoul in 2017. The exhibition features over 10 of Heinzmann’s latest works, created between 2023 and 2024.

The exhibition shows the new worlds Vincent Barr discovers in the shadows of objects such as potato peelers and glasses. Shadowology works created by adding unlimited imagination to the small hints provided by various objects and lights. Take a moment to find the life that his paintings bring!

The exhibition "Lee Kang So: When the Wind Blows the Water" re-examines a unique series of works created over six decades by Lee Kang So (b. 1943), a seminal figure in the development of Korean contemporary art. As a leading artist in the Korean art scene, Lee Kang So has been conducting conceptual experiments on image perception and recognition. The exhibition title "When the Wind Blows the Water" is inspired by the work "Qing Ye Yin" by the Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianist Shao Yong (Shao Yong, 1011-1077). In his work, Shao Yong metaphorically describes a state of epiphany when encountering a new world. Shao Yong's title summarizes the oeuvre of Lee Kang So, who has long questioned the many different ways we see the world around us and continues to conduct conceptual experiments on perception in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and photography. Lee Kang So's artistic philosophy, as he himself described his work for the 1975 Paris Biennale, is described in this way. At the time he said: “I do not intend to depict images in a traditional way, away from the subject-object relationship, but rather to present an open structure that reveals the order and relationships in the universe that are usually invisible, making these invisible states naturally visible.” (“Participating in the 9th Paris Biennale”, Space, January 1976)

The exhibition "Lee Kang So: When the Wind Blows the Water" re-examines a unique series of works created over six decades by Lee Kang So (b. 1943), a seminal figure in the development of Korean contemporary art. As a leading artist in the Korean art scene, Lee Kang So has been conducting conceptual experiments on image perception and recognition. The exhibition title "When the Wind Blows the Water" is inspired by the work "Qing Ye Yin" by the Song Dynasty Neo-Confucianist Shao Yong (Shao Yong, 1011-1077). In his work, Shao Yong metaphorically describes a state of epiphany when encountering a new world. Shao Yong's title summarizes the oeuvre of Lee Kang So, who has long questioned the many different ways we see the world around us and continues to conduct conceptual experiments on perception in a variety of media such as painting, sculpture, installation, printmaking, video and photography. Lee Kang So's artistic philosophy, as he himself described his work for the 1975 Paris Biennale, is described in this way. At the time he said: “I do not intend to depict images in a traditional way, away from the subject-object relationship, but rather to present an open structure that reveals the order and relationships in the universe that are usually invisible, making these invisible states naturally visible.” (“Participating in the 9th Paris Biennale”, Space, January 1976)

Join us this Sunday for Dark De Gary's Comedy Open Mic at Lit Lounge Itaewon! Whether you're here to enjoy the show or eager to step up to the mic and try your hand at stand-up comedy, you're guaranteed a fantastic time. Don't miss out on an evening of laughter and fun. See you there! Doors open at 7:30pm Show starts at 8pm Information Source: Planet Hustle | eventbrite

Young artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo took turns performing in the middle of the circle on what they called the “bench”. Because they were twins, it was difficult to tell them apart, so the DJ affectionately called them “Osgemeos” (Portuguese for twins), and their name was born. The Osgemeos tag is the alphabet used by street graffiti artists to identify themselves and their work. In the following years, the alphabet took on many forms until today, the famous duo uses the iconic yellow square letter with a flat top and a round bottom.

Barakat Contemporary presents Iranian-born American artist Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Someone is coming with a flower. The exhibition comprises three works created before the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the first public unveiling of over sixty monotypes on paper produced shortly after the artist's exile to Miami, US, in 1981.

Mak2 Mai Yingtong 2The first solo exhibition in Seoul, "Cows With Built-in Wi-Fi ”, this exhibition mainly consists of paintings, but also displays 3D printed sculptures and video installations

This exhibition, "300 Morgan Avenue", is Suh Yongsun's fifth exhibition at JJ Gallery, and mainly displays the works created by the artist in New York so far. From his first visit to New York in 1992 to this summer, he has visited New York about 25 times in a row, ranging from two months to six months. Currently, New York occupies a large proportion in the artist's "city" paintings. With the experience accumulated in this exotic space and life in New York, the author's new perspective has become more detailed. The exhibition focuses on the modern city life he observes and feels, the various expressions of the picture space and its scalability, and how the life conditions in the global village are, and the impact of this city on Suh Yongsun's art world.

Busan Housing Interior Exhibition display products like Carpets, Curtains & Blinds, Decorative Accessories, Fabrics, Homewares, Lights & Lamps, and much more Busan Housing Interior Exhibition display products like Carpets, Curtains & Blinds, Decorative Accessories, Fabrics, Homewares, Lights & Lamps, and much more. Information Source: Messe Korea Inc. | expotobi

Chef Show is director Choi Cheol-ki’s new film. The entire performance consists of four food competitions: Japanese (sushi), Italian (pizza), Chinese (noodles), and Korean (bibimbap), centered on the cooking contest between Red Chef and Green Chef. . The story is very simple. At first it may feel like it's just nothing. But as the plot unfolds scene by scene, waves of surprise always keep you looking forward to the next moment. There is love, there is story, and there is beautiful light and shadow. The stage performance is a combination of hip-hop music, sometimes witty and lively, sometimes romantic and warm, and all the settings are unconventional, giving the audience a panoramic fashion and shock like an MTV photo.

SAAY's first fan meeting in Seoul, making special memories with her.