Gathering Being: On Collecting and Making. Part 2 of 5: The Drive to Collect
Published: 08.07.2021

In March/April 2020, an exhibition of works by ten artists was hosted by Gallery Meme in Seoul, seven of them from Korea and three from Denmark. The exhibition was curated by Bogki Min, Professor at the Seoul National University College of Fine Arts, who was also one of the participating artists. The curatorial concept was to reveal the role of collecting in the process of making. In the following, I would like to unfold some thoughts on collecting as an inherently human practice and explore, how such an ancient practice, which persists unabated in contemporary societies, is interpreted in this rather exceptional curatorial experiment.
The text will be presented in five successive parts, starting out with a few theoretical observations in the first two sections: Part I and Part II, and proceeding to discuss the exhibits and their makers from Part III, Part IV and Part V.
At this point, I would like to thank Amador Bertomeu and Leo Caballero of Klimt02 for their unwavering generosity and support throughout the years of our cooperation. Working with them has been practically indistinguishable from friendship.
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Lifu Zhou. Pforzheim University School of Design. New Talents Award Nominee 2022
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14Dec2022 -
Yuting Chen. Nanjing University of the Arts. New Talents Award Nominee 2022
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Funlola Coker. State University of New York at New Paltz. New Talents Award Nominee 2022
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