New to Town

June 24, 2024

^{Sojourner Truth Parsons, Beginning of June, 2022, from Esther Schipper’s Frieze Seoul booth}

Esther Schipper

The Berlin gallery has arrived in Seoul, as its first location in Asia. is the most recent to open in Seoul; their upcoming inaugural exhibition is a group show of gallery artists. Representing a continuation of the longstanding commitment to the Korean art community, Esther Schipper Seoul open this week in central Seoul, headed by chief executive director Sunil Kim. The gallery sees this as their hub to grow alongside the Korean art scene, as well as expand operations in Asia. ESS opens with a group show of their roster artists.

^{Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul}

Thaddaeus Ropac Seoul

The Austrian dealer expanded to Seoul last fall, taking over the ground floor of the glassy, futuristic Fort Hill building, which overlooks the sunken gardens of the same name. Anselm Kiefer’s “Wer jetzt kein Haus hat” (Who now has no house) runs Sept. 1-Oct 22.

Bortolami/Kreps team up with Tina Kim

Tina Kim is teaming up with Stefania Bortolami and Andrew Kreps for a group exhibition at the Songwon Art Center, a multi-purpose hub for art, crafts, and architecture established in 2017 as part of the Dongkuk Steel Group’s scholarship program. Facilitated by Kim and billed primarily as a collaboration between the two European dealers, “The Cumulative Effect” group exhibition will take over the two basement exhibition floors starting Aug. 30, featuring Oliver Lee Jackson, Clare Rojas, Cheyney Thompson, He Xiangyu, Minouk Lim, Pacita Abad, Ghada Amer, Mary Obering, Rebecca Morris, and Daniel Buren. On the first floor is Ghada Amer’s solo exhibition “Paravent Girls.”

^{Songwon Art Center}

^{Peres Projects Seoul is located underneath The Shilla hotel}

Peres Projects

Peres Projects opened in Seoul in April, and on Aug. 30, will open English painter Rebecca Ackroyd’s first solo show in Asia, “Fertile Ground”. Made up of new works on paper and two sculptures, Ackroyd draws inspiration from a building site in London. Matrices of subterranean pipes form an investigation of the infrastructure of memory and the subconscious. Peres Projects reveals more in our Q&A.