Busan Biennale
The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
2014 cTattoo 65-4
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Oil and plaster on linen
146×106cm
Tattoo 65-4
Beyond the Wall
Unlike a movement, there was rank like first, second prize, president's prize, minister prize, specially selected and selected in National Art Exhibition. I thought it was contradiction that there was rank in art. In the year when I graduated from Seoul National University, professors advised me to submit works to the National Art Exhibition but I started anti-National Art Exhibition movement. I didn't insist on any action for the movement but it was based on "Let's not submit our work to the Exhibition." With friends who graduated from and still were in Hongik and Seoul National University, I founded 1960 Fine Artist Association. Most of them have already passed away except for me, Bongtae Kim and Youngryeol Yu. There were a lot of members at the beginning. It is still vivid in my memory. There was a coffee house near the city hall, where we made the association. We discussed opening an exhibition when the National Art Exhibition was held and we had our exhibition on Deoksugung's stonewall at the entrance of British Embassy.