pecha kucha night seoul

last week the first pechakucha night seoul of this year took place in the house club m2. here are some of the highlights:








yong kwan presented a project called syllabrick, basically modular toy figures. the form of the modules is based on a linguistic research of phonemes of the korean language. he digged deeply, tracing its historical roots of hangul that at the same time represents the phonetic language and the cosmological relation between humans and the universe.









































































































kim mujun has a passion for baseball fields, swimming pools, track fields and soccer fields. in a moment of boredom he looked for baseball fields, swimming pools etc. in google earth, collected them and turned his fascination into pieces of art, strict formal abstractions of such athletic areas.


































my personal favourite was the presentation of the chill magazine, one of seoul's freshest underground magazines. so far three issues have been published, dealing with the city of seoul and the elderly. to be honest, i forgot what the last issue was about, but i love it for the diy 3d glasses...





next time we will introduce the KUNSTHALLE.seoul project so stay tuned ^^

die allianz

TONIGHT AND ONLY FOR TONIGHT!!!
all of you party freaks should keep an eye on this.


there is a wicked party at TAPE with Modeselektor, SickGirls, KRSNSKATE, Kode9, Housemeister, Pole and more... with dope visuals by Pfadfinderei.


....brought to you from the same people who rocked Berlin for the past 15 years...with that extraordinary WMF touch!


See you there!

Architectures of Survival

Spring is here ! After a cup of coffee on this nice and warm Sunday afternoon philipp and me headed over to sparwasser hq who were hosting 'Architectures of Survival' until yesterday, an exhibition curated by Brussel based collective Komplot.










After some explanations and chit chat with the curators, we strolled around in the rooms. Besides some smaller pieces of art, the results of a play-dooh explosion covering the whole room proves the open and process-oriented approach of the gallery. We like it !














A little later romanian architects ‚StudioBasar’ gave a really interesting lecture about legal housing evictions in Bucharest. (they promised to send some more pictures)

Since the fall of communism in Romania the law enables pre-communist house owners to reclaim their former property.

StudioBasars public proposal „Evicting the Ghost“ documents how law forces citizens, that moved in during communism, to evacuate their houses in order to return them to the former owners.

As a consequence and a form of protest, affected inhabitants move in so called „ghost houses“ - stacks of furniture wrapped in foil - on the sidewalks directly in front of their former domicile.

It’s quite impressive how they manage to handle this situation and improve the temporary „houses“ over time.










































Artist Yan Renand works with different objects and creates a process of transformation by mixing painting, food and growing vegetation in plastic bags. He spent most of this evening in doing a “knitting” performance in which he created small objects made by strings.

























In the basement of Sparwasser hq we found some interesting video works by Christine Woditschka , Meiya Lin and David Blandy which gave us reason to discuss our different tastes of visual art.

On top of all that, chatting with interesting people and drinking a beer in comfortable atmosphere, made it a really nice evening.

420ml street exhibition in hongdae, seoul

420ml had another street event in hongdae, seoul. for three days where they painted a wall on-spot, rocked a street party and showed some of their works on canvas. check them out!


420ml members doin their thang~








garoo's work is one piece of a series that he also shares on stickers... this a re:work of an instruction for handling emergency doors in the subway, including the warning: while doing graffiti beware of the police...
















old school korean style ^^

artists in berlin

Yesterday I read the following article in the newspaper and got me thinking, if one of the most famous artists in the world says such things. can our city be so stupid?




The danish artist olafur eliasson goes heavy against his adopted city berlin.

„ I believe the city could have profit much more from the creativity assembled over here“, said the 40 year old to the Spiegel. The museums didnt try even once to contact some of berlin´s resident artists, who are exhibiting their work worldwide, just not in berlin itself."

Eliasson, to whom MoMa dedicated a huge exhibition starting from sunday, has adopted, according to information, two african children with his wife.
He runs an atelier in berlin with around 30 employees, but leads his family life in Copenhagen. in the german capital, he said „ there is a distinct phobia towards dark-skinned people“. He wants to protect his children from that.

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chinchin´s insomnia

don´t make any plans for friday evening...Emeli Theander aka CHICHIN, terrific urban artist and master of reverie, is inviting you to yet another vernissage...

she´ll be presenting her latest paintings in an exhibition under the name of „INSOMNIA“, together with her friend Ch.mityas; a great occasion to see some of her eery indoor collections, meet some of berlin´s most wanted mischiefmaking urban artists and rediscover Neukölln as one of berlin´s most vibrant neighbourhoods.

hope to see you there!





INSOMINA -
vernissage 18.04 (from 8 o´clock)
Finissage 02.05


Total-Artspace Gallery
Lenaustr. 5
Berlin-Neukölln

1st international young artist spring art competition .2008.SEOUL.

1,032 pieces of art were presented together at the 1st International Young Artist Spring Art Competition that began in the end of Feburary 2008. The theme of this public subscription was that there is NO theme, all styles and forms of presentation were admitted for anybody. The artists' ages ranged from 4 to 67 years and people from different nationalities like Korea, France,England and America took part. Also the occupations of each one of them were so different, varying from writer, food dish model maker, railroader,celadon artisan etc..). It was the first time, that all kinds of art works like fine art painting, industrial art, works for university access, photographs, and video art etc. were permitted at the same time and this competition was success.

지난 2월 말에 개최된 ‘제1회 인터내셔널 영아티스트 춘계예술대전’작품 공모를 통해 1,032점의 작품이 모였다. 주제와 형식에 자유가 없었던 이번 공모전에는 한국, 프랑스, 영국, 미국 등 여러 나라에서 4세에서 67세 이르는 폭넓은 연령대, 기성 작가 외에도 요리 모형 제작사, 철도청 직원, 청자 장인에 이르기까지 다양한 아티스트가 참가하였다. 작품 또한 순수 회화에서 공예, “입시 미술”, 사진, 비디오 아트에 이르는 다양한 형식이 시도 되었다.






































영상, 설치, 퍼포먼스/ 혼합매체/ 174*98(cm) –performance.
시위 현장 속에 들어가 행해지는 퍼포먼스. shouting man은 어느 편에도 서지 않고 사람들의 불만을 대신 외친다.
SHOUTING MAN-for instance shouting for people in demonstration .






















































it was a very special experience for me, starting from 1st floor to the 2nd floor basement .
Over 300 different pieces of art were there ...it was little too much for getting a impresstion fromI all of them but l really enjoyed it.
Here are some of pictures that l think are special from my point of view ^^.


























it’s UDO ‚s favorite....right udo?^^.


































she is korean l think....^^.no boob job tho....?hmmmmmmmm
hehehe^^









I am not an expert for art at all but I am learning yeah~~slowly~~^^

Thank you all.