Art in Society–Land of Happiness is based on the warp and woof of historical universality and the artists’ attitudes towards the society and art, who are in the specific political and social circumstances of Korea. The exhibition sheds new lights on ‘Minjung Art' which was an avant-garde art movement in the period of socio-political transformation of the 1980s, based on themes timely to the contemporary society we are living in. Also, focusing on the works of contemporary artists that try experiments that are aesthetic but also social, and carry messages of resistance, the exhibition also looks into the avant-garde attitude that passes through generations.
Presenting the historic works of Minjung Art that autonomously emerged under the socio-political circumstances of Korea in the 1980s along with the new trend found in the works of the group of artists who concern the epistemology and ontology of art with social consciousness since the 1990s. The exhibition provides understanding of what the title names “Art in Society” which includes art of life, participatory art, communicative art, resistant art and political art.
As much as the age and generation of the artists or media and forms they take differ, the works resented in the exhibition aries considerably. Yet, at a closer look, heir works imply a bond of sympathy that hrough social intervention, critical utterance and alternative suggestions, art can play a role in seeking universal coexistence. This ould be what the exhibition title, “Land of
Happiness,” eventually implicates.
Participating Artists
Kang Sang-Hun,Kang Hong Goo, Koh Seung Wook, Kong Sunghun, Kim Kyong In, Kim Dong-won, Kim Sang-don, Kim In Soon, Kim Jeong-heon, Kim Jipyeong, Noh Suntag, Rho Jae Oon, Listen to the City, mixrice, Min Joung-Ki, Park Bul Dong, Bahc Yiso, Park Chan-Kyong, BaeYoung-whan, Sasa[44], Suh Yong-Sun, Son Kihwan, Son Jangsup, Song Sang-hee, Shin Hak-chul, Kyuchul Ahn, Ahn Chang Hong, Yangachi, Oh Won-Bae, Oh Yoon, Okin Collective, Yun Suknam, Lee Myoung-Bok, Lee Jong-gu, Lim Ok Sang, Im Heung-soon, Jung Dongsuk, Jung Yoonsuk, Jung Jungyeob, Joseub, Jo Haejun, Joo Jae Hwan, Choi Min-Hwa, Onejoon CHE, Choi Jeong Hwa, Choi Gene-Uk, flyingCity, Ham Kyung Ah, Hong Sung Dam, Hong Sung min, Hong Jinhwon, Hwang Sejun, Hwang Jae-Hyung
