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Wonseok Koh, Supplied

Overview

Join us for a free public talk with Wonseok Koh, Chief Curator and Head of Exhibition Division at Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, as he discusses past projects and highlights from throughout his career. Koh will speak specifically about recent curatorial projects, as well as his experiences working within institutions and as a freelance writer and curator. Koh will be joined in conversation with Artspace Executive Director Alexie Glass-Kantor.

Wonseok Koh is Chief Curator and Head of Exhibition Division at Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea. Prior to this, Koh worked at Busan Museum of Art as the Chief Curator, Asia Culture Center, Arko Art Center, Gallery SPACE, and with Space Pool: a non-profit art organisation in Seoul initiated and founded collectively by artists, artists-curators, and art critics in 1999. He has held roles within academia as a researcher at SOAS University of London, lecturer at the Korea University of Arts and Professor at Seoul Digital University. Koh was awarded the ‘Minister’s Award of Korea’ in 2015, ‘Dong-A Curatorial Award’ in 2009 and has participated in numerous international programs.