December 23, 2021
Sook-Kyung
Lee, senior curator of international art at Tate Modern, has been named
artistic director of the 2023 edition of South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale, which
is among the most well-respected biennials in Asia. The biennial is set to open
in April of that year.
Her
appointment marks the first time one curator has helmed the biennial solo since
2006, when Seoul Museum of Modern Art director Kim Hong-hee organized the
exhibition. It’s also the first time a person born in Korea has organized the
biennial since Kim’s edition.
For much of
her career, Lee has been based outside South Korea, the country where she was
born. Prior to working at Tate Modern, she held posts at Tate Liverpool and the
Tate Research Centre. At Tate Modern, she recently curated a celebrated Nam
June Paik retrospective, as well as “A Year in Art: Australia 1992,” a survey
focused on Indigenous art and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land
rights.
Although the theme for this
edition is yet to be announced, Lee said in a statement it will aim to draw out
the ‘spirits of the city’ with a ‘commitment to a non-Western perspective’.
‘The role of art is to address our shared crisis and to propose future
directions: race and class conflicts, climate emergency and environmental
concerns, and the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 are such crises on a planetary
dimension that artists of our time are exploring.’
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