MOSCOW — SEOUL: COMMON IDEAS

August 13 — November 7, 2021
The Museum of Moscow together with Triumph Gallery, the Moscow City Tourism Committee, the official tourist information portal of Moscow Discovermoscow.com, and RUSSPASS digital travel service

The project will mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Republic of Korea and twinning relations between Moscow and Seoul.

The Museum of Moscow together with Triumph Gallery, the Moscow City Tourism Committee, the official tourist information portal of Moscow Discovermoscow.com, and RUSSPASS digital travel service are pleased to announce Moscow-Seoul: Common Ideas, a group exhibition showcasing the works of Russian and South Korean contemporary artists, whose creative paths are closely connected with the two capitals. The project will mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Republic of Korea and twinning relations between Moscow and Seoul.

Moscow-Seoul: Common Ideas examines works by Russian and Korean artists exhibited in pairs. Within the museum space, representatives of the two art scenes enter dialogues on topics close to them: the relationship between global and local, personal and national identities, space and memory, traditions and modernity. Artists of each pair are united by being in the shared semantic field of contemporary culture and life. At the same time, there are clear technical and genre differences between their works. The result of a close spatial and semantic comparison of works are new connections between them, new optics for the perception of each work and art scene. Interestingly, this optics of correlations turns out to be complimentary for the Moscow art scene—it successfully withstands comparison with the Seoul art scene, traditionally recognized as among the brightest in the world.

Amidst the growing interest towards the national and local in art, the vernacular of contemporary culture remains undivided. In addition, there is a common problem space that challenges artists throughout world. Metropolitan areas continue to retain their positions and functions as "hubs" that allow artists to develop, expand audiences, and achieve domestic and international recognition. At the same time, Moscow and Seoul, being the capitals of states with deeply rooted traditions, not only have the necessary infrastructure, but are also a kind of "places of power". Living there, or temporarily returning there, "charges" the artists—this is especially true for those that have relocated. Years spent in Seoul or Moscow inevitably influence the works of artists of different generations and career stages. The show, subtitled Common Ideas, aims to explore this influence and identify cross-cultural parallels in the issues, ideas, and techniques embraced by artists in Russia and South Korea.

Fan Series
2017
Bamboo, tracing paper, electric motor, wood, stainless steel, lead
Sizes vary

Amidst the growing interest towards the national and local in art, the vernacular of contemporary culture remains undivided. In addition, there is a common problem space that challenges artists throughout world. Metropolitan areas continue to retain their positions and functions as "hubs" that allow artists to develop, expand audiences, and achieve domestic and international recognition. At the same time, Moscow and Seoul, being the capitals of states with deeply rooted traditions, not only have the necessary infrastructure, but are also a kind of "places of power". Living there, or temporarily returning there, "charges" the artists—this is especially true for those that have relocated. Years spent in Seoul or Moscow inevitably influence the works of artists of different generations and career stages. The show, subtitled Common Ideas, aims to explore this influence and identify cross-cultural parallels in the issues, ideas, and techniques embraced by artists in Russia and South Korea.

The forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Moscow offers a preliminary conclusion of a long-term project in which Triumph Gallery, in collaboration with other institutions, presented exhibitions of Korean contemporary art to the Moscow audience. Then, most of the Korean artists were shown in Russia for the first time, and for some those exhibitions became their museum debuts—an important milestone for a conservative, highly hierarchical society. Korean contemporary art is close and clear to the Moscow audience. It is commercially successful as well—almost all the exhibits are part of prominent private collections of contemporary art in the city. Thus, the MOSCOW-SEOUL: Common Ideas exhibition creates an interesting precedent by offering a look at Korean art, the very concentration of Korean culture, that has made its way into collections of a foreign, albeit sometimes similar, country.

Chakra-2552-a
2008
Metal, mechanism, electronics (CPU board, motor)
80 × 80 × 35 cm

The forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Moscow offers a preliminary conclusion of a long-term project in which Triumph Gallery, in collaboration with other institutions, presented exhibitions of Korean contemporary art to the Moscow audience. Then, most of the Korean artists were shown in Russia for the first time, and for some those exhibitions became their museum debuts—an important milestone for a conservative, highly hierarchical society. Korean contemporary art is close and clear to the Moscow audience. It is commercially successful as well—almost all the exhibits are part of prominent private collections of contemporary art in the city. Thus, the MOSCOW-SEOUL: Common Ideas exhibition creates an interesting precedent by offering a look at Korean art, the very concentration of Korean culture, that has made its way into collections of a foreign, albeit sometimes similar, country.

Аrtists:
AES+F, crocodilePOWER, Recycle Group, Anka Akhalaia, Gyungsu An, Daniil Antropov, Aleksey Dubinsky, Kibeom Kwon, Jae Yong Kim, Тaisia Korotkova, Maksim Ksuta, Alex Kuznetsov, Jeongwoong Lee, Jung Yeon Min, Vladimir Martirosov, Pavel Otdelnov, Kwang Young Chun, Lee Jinju, Yun Kyung Jeong, Xooang Choi, U-Ram Choe, Kyunchul Shin

Сurators: Kristina Romanova, Nail Farkhatdinov

Ruins #4
2016
Oil on canvas
180 × 260 cm

Аrtists:
AES+F, crocodilePOWER, Recycle Group, Anka Akhalaia, Gyungsu An, Daniil Antropov, Aleksey Dubinsky, Kibeom Kwon, Jae Yong Kim, Тaisia Korotkova, Maksim Ksuta, Alex Kuznetsov, Jeongwoong Lee, Jung Yeon Min, Vladimir Martirosov, Pavel Otdelnov, Kwang Young Chun, Lee Jinju, Yun Kyung Jeong, Xooang Choi, U-Ram Choe, Kyunchul Shin

Сurators: Kristina Romanova, Nail Farkhatdinov