Yeondoo Jung is giving an artist talk on February 23rd at the Offsite Art Sonje. The artist will talk particularly about the production process of his recent solo exhibition in Japan’s Art Tower Mito, the art museum only 100km away from the site of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. He will share stories about the place, the exhibition theme of hope, and his collaborators including the curator Mizuki Takahashi.

About the Artist
Yeondoo Jung is an artist based in Seoul. He was born in 1969 in Jinju, Korea, and graduated from Seoul National University (BFA) and Goldsmiths, University of London (MFA). The youngest recipient of the “Artist of the Year” award by the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul in 2007, Jung has exhibited at the Shanghai Biennale 2002, the Venice Biennale 2005, the Platform Seoul 2009, Performa 2009, and the Seoul International Media Art Biennale 2012, in addition to solo shows at Plateau Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2014), Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea (2014), and Art Tower Mito, Japan (2014). He is currently preparing for exhibitions at Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL) in Paris and at the Seattle Art Museum.

About the Offsite Art Sonje Program
The Art Sonje Center initiates the Offsite Art Sonje Program in January 2016 to continue the museum’s educational role and extend its program venue while the Center is temporarily closed for renovation. Located near the Center, the Offsite Art Sonje hosts talk events on the last Wednesday of each month until the Center reopens in the fall. Its large window wall permits passersby to peer inside the space, blurring the line between inside and outside. The Offsite Art Sonje Program hopes to offer unique and meaningful experiences of museum programs to both the participants and the onlookers.

* Due to the Art Sonje Center’s renovation, this program will be held in the Offsite Art Sonje.

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