Art Pulse of Seoul & Hong Kong with Gagosian

Seoul’s September is Packed with Events

Feel the art beat of autumn in Seoul and Hong Kong with Gagosian!

Frieze Seoul 2024, September 5–7, 2024, COEX, Seoul, Gagosian will present paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by an international group of gallery artists at booth 9 (C9).

In the fall, Seoul thrives with worthwhile contemporary art events. The director of the Gwangju Biennale is Nicolas Bourriaud. Experience the start of a vibrant autumn with a tour of Seoul and Hong Kong, the art capitals of Asia.

Kiaf SEOUL 2024, Sep 4-8 at COEX

Busan Biennale 2024, current- October 20 at Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.

Gwangju Biennale 2024, September 7- December 1, Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall in Yongbong-dong and the surrounding area of Yangnim-dong

Inaugural Exhibition in Korea: Derrick Adams

Preceding the fair, Gagosian will open its inaugural exhibition in Korea, featuring work by Derrick Adams, at the Amorepacific Headquarters in the center of Seoul.

According to Gagosian’s website, Derrick Adams celebrates and expands the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness with a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects. Adams synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience.

What can I reveal that has not been shown? Black people—not entertaining, just being, living. Letting people deal with that as reality.
—Derrick Adams

The Strip
Opening reception: Tuesday, September 3, 3–6pm
September 3–October 12, 2024
APMA Cabinet
Amorepacific Headquarters
100 Hangang-daero, 1/F, Yongsan-gu, Seoul

Abstraction to Address Culture, Perception, and Our Place in the Universe

The following week on September 10, Gagosian Hong Kong will open Social Abstraction, the second exhibition in a two-part group show curated by Antwaun Sargent. 

Social Abstraction
September 10 – November 2, 2024
Gagosian, 7/F, 12 Pedder St, Hong Kong