12 Events for 12 Rooms
10 April–17 May 2012
61, Deoksugung-gil
(37, Seosomun-dong), Jung-gu
Seoul, Korea
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sema [at] seoul.go.kr
Participating Artists
Kira Kim, Sangdon Kim, Young-Sup Kim, Kim Yongkwan, Roh Jinah, hungmin moon, Ung-Pil Byen, Jinjoon Lee, Kiljong Zin, Part-time Suite, Ha Tae-Bum, Kyung Woo Han
Since it was initiated in 2004, the 5th SeMA Blue has been regarded as a local arena for introducing young and emerging artists, and a moment of reflection on the contemporary art scene which takes place every two years. Based on the continual frame of the exhibition, SeMA Blue 2012: 12 Events for 12 Rooms, this year, was particularly made to index the future of Korean contemporary art.
Inviting young artists working worldwide, the exhibition features the contemporary artistic actions and experiences that have been continued and created by participants. This is about offering them each a space to express their thoughts and current activities, which consequently put all on an artistic flow. At the same time, the museum expects to create an opportunity for making a communicative passage between audience and artist.
The structure of the exhibition, involving twelve artists in twelve separate rooms across two floors of the gallery, forms one large narrative during the actions of other narratives within the whole frame, just like a story within a story. Comprising various media such as painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation, electronic-light, sound, and cyborg show, the twelve narratives reflected on the twelve rooms are about what the participants are concentrating on in the present time. As if twelve independent stories are gathered to complete an undecided plot, twelve artistic events held in twelve rooms eventually project an artistic topography of Korean contemporary art.
This open-ended setting of the exhibition invites everyone to explore, discuss, understand, and suggest the various possibilities of Korean contemporary art across boundaries.
