▲ This file photo shows the Inuit artwork 'Untitled.' (Yonhap) 

 

▲ This photo, provided by the Gwangju Biennale, shows "Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes: The Law on Trial." (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, Apr. 5 (Yonhap) -- With the grand opening of the 14th Gwangju Biennale, the Gwangju Biennale Pavilion (special hall) will be welcoming visitors.

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation unveiled its pavilion project by which nine countries, including Canada, China, France, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, and Ukraine, would join hands with domestic art galleries to open a national gallery. Pavilion exhibitions and performances are scheduled to be carried out in every nook and cranny of the city of Gwangju from Friday to July 9, during the Gwangju Biennale.

Canada’s West Baffin Cooperative Limited, along with 32 artists from the Kingate region, is gearing up to showcase Korea’s very first Inuit art exhibition under the title “Myth Becoming a Reality” at the Lee Kang-ha Museum of Art.

The Chinese Museum of Art will then follow with the Eunam Museum of Art to display works that capture the harmony between tradition and modernity using bamboo sticks. In the meantime, the French Embassy in Korea and the institute Francais will bring back the already famous exhibition of Zineb Sedira, who formerly won the Special Reference Award at the 59th Venice Biennale, this time to the Yanglim Museum of Art.

Israel’s CDA Holon is set to unravel the nature of objects and their relationship with human beings by installing artworks under the theme of irregular objects on the Gwangju Media Art Platform (GMAP). Meanwhile, the Italian Cultural Center in Korea will hold a collaborative exhibition with the Donggok Museum of Art to suggest a multilateral exploration of a sustainable and co-existing future, titled “What Does the Sleeping Water Dream of?”

The Netherlands’ Framer Framed, on the other hand, will deliver a special performance at the Gwangju Museum of Art for three days from April 7 as if it is putting countries and conglomerates on trial for aggravating the already threatening climate change.

Meanwhile, Poland’s Adam Mickiewicz Institute will host several public programs under the theme of Post-Artistic Assembly at the city’s 10-Year Ground and Yanglim Salon.

In a way to express solidarity and support for Ukraine, artworks created by the Ukrainian Freefilmers will also be showcased at Gallery Vine during the Biennale. Alongside, the National Asian Cultural Center’s Theater 3 will be screening three contemporary Ukrainian films that send messages related to the territory of freedom.

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Switzerland, the Swiss Embassy in Seoul will display about 50 works by eight budding photographers from both countries at the Yi Nam Studio.

Park Yang-woo, the chief executive of the Gwangju Biennale, said, “The Gwangju Biennale Pavilion will provide unparalleled opportunities for the public to get a look at diverse artworks from all around the world,” adding, “We will be inviting more countries to participate in the Pavilion so that artworks from more than 20 countries would be showcased at the next Gwangju Biennale.”

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Ha eun Lee)

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