South Korea

This year’s Busan Biennale, inspired by David Graeber’s notion of ‘pirate enlightenment’, offers a glimpse into a world where progress can only be found outside the West

Nicolas Bourriaud’s theme of ‘pansori’ suggests an opera you can walk through – but this only begins to take form at the Gwangju Biennale

We spoke with the artists representing Japan and South Korea about their Venice exhibitions and the obsolescence of national divisions

Multi-media sculptures and a video work installed at the Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, create a playfully immersive environment

At P21, Seoul, a group show of intimate mixed media works draws on Byung-Chul Han’s revolutionary The Agony of Eros (2017)

How the city’s skateboarders are radically reshaping its fashion landscape

Created as a memorial to suffering, this year’s iteration sees a shift in both the exhibition and the city toward a new historiography

Marking the centenary of the artist's birth, a retrospective at MMCA Deoksugung presents a survey of his most influential paintings and abstract sculptures

Liz Kim on how the social and artistic movement of the 1980s inspired a new generation of Korean artists

At Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, the artist presents a suite of hand-sewn paintings affectionately depicting day-to-day domesticities and family life

A collaborative effort between authors, musicians and visual artists, this year’s edition presents site-specific works that focus on quotidian experiences and hidden histories 

South Korea’s Culture Minister resigns over alleged cultural blacklist; Museum of Islamic Art Cairo reopens after three years

A troupe of holographic protesters descends on Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square