Kukje Gallery will participate in the second edition of Frieze Viewing Room, running from October 9 through October 16, 2020. Following the platform’s successful launch earlier this May, registering visitors from 156 countries, Frieze London and Frieze Masters have announced a hybrid exhibition incorporating both virtual and offline programs taking place online and throughout London, including Frieze Sculpture in Regent’s Park. Frieze’s new approach combines global online reach with a commitment to the creative spirit that defines London, bringing together more than 250 galleries from all over the world in a dynamic and accessible space. The second edition of this digital initiative will feature a range of new technical capabilities, including live chat, social media sharing, a virtual guestbook, and augmented reality (AR). In line with the fair’s traditions, the digital venture will also showcase special gallery sections including Focus, highlighting emerging galleries that are 15 years or younger; Possessions, a new section curated by Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London, that centers on renewed interest in spirituality in contemporary art; and Spotlight, the critically acclaimed section of Frieze Masters dedicated to solo presentations by pioneering artists of the 20th century, curated by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center in New York. The mobile app and website platform will go live from October 9 through 16, with invitation-only preview days on October 7 and 8, 2020.
Kukje Gallery’s virtual booth for Frieze Viewing Room will feature works by a roster of both Korean and international modern and contemporary artists. This selection will include important pieces by historically significant Korean artists such as Wook-kyung Choi’s The Raven of Death and Resurrection (1975), which exemplifies her signature interpretation of abstract expressionism that departed from the symbolic idioms and politics that this American movement is known to have embraced; Kim Yong-Ik’s Untitled (1990), an exemplary piece from the artist’s iconic series of “dot paintings”; and Min Joung-Ki’s View of Oksoonbong Peak from Dungjibong Peak (2007), a landscape painting that depicts iconic mountainscapes and the traces of people who settled in them, framing the artist’s interest in place and anchoring the paintings in Korean sociopolitical history. Also on view will be a selection of works by acclaimed international artists including the Danish artist trio SUPERFLEX’s Dive-In (2019), a large installation that takes the form of a drive-in movie theater. Originally a commissioned project for Desert X 2019, Dive-In is part of the collective’s larger project titled Deep Sea Minding, an ongoing three-year research project that merges artistic and scientific research in an attempt to reach an alternative understanding of marine species and how they can help transform the way we imagine and design a future transformed by climate change. Also on view will be a powerful work by Australian artist Daniel Boyd whose Untitled (YWSITPIACLDTL) (2019) reinterprets established perspectives of Australian colonial history using clear white dots of glue to cover the surface of his painting, where they act as “lenses” through which the artist shifts our worldview.
Installed in Kukje Gallery’s Busan location is a solo exhibition of the celebrated German photographer Candida Höfer, widely acknowledged for pushing the boundaries of contemporary photography. The exhibition will remain on view through November 8, 2020.
