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The Artlab Editors discuss how artists are transforming technology into a space for intimacy, connection, and poetic reflection. undefined

For her Hyundai Commission at Tate’s Turbine Hall, artist Mire Lee turned the former power station inside out, transforming the space into a site of shifting contrasts—combining grotesque elements with an unexpected beauty.

On the occasion of Kiaf Seoul and Frieze Seoul, Andrew Russeth shares some can't-miss exhibitions, institutions, and cultural destinations in the bustling Korean capital.

Take a hike with Artlab Editorial to explore a new exhibition by artist Sarah Rosalena, a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant recipient.

Writer and artist Gary Zhexi Zhang explores how the Korean Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale uses scent to deconstruct concrete notions of identity.

In her review of MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023: Jung Yeondoo – One Hundred Years of Travels, Minji Chun explores how Jung’s work addresses the overlooked history of Korea’s diaspora in Mexico to reveal a web of global interconnectedness.

Dean Kissick travels through Yunchul Kim’s journey of body and soul—and takes us along for the ride.

From gold robes to laboratory flasks to smashed glass, the artists across The Space Between: The Modern in Korean Art provide a glimpse into the path from Modern toward Contemporary Korea. Writer Scarlet Cheng interviews exhibition curator Dr. Virginia Moon, and reviews the exhibition through selections of oil paintings, works on paper, photographs, and sculptures.

Claire L. Evans on the speculative visions of three thought-provoking artists.

In a conversation with the artist, Monica Uszerowicz traces the myriad layers and imaginings of Yunchul Kim, who is representing South Korea at this year’s Venice Biennale.

Throughout Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon, the moon plays a starring role, acting as a symbol of the complexity and cyclicality of human history, in all of its darkness and light. Art historian Melissa Baksh reflects on the artist’s interest in Earth’s celestial companion, a poignant metaphor for the ebb and flow of civilizations, cultures, and individual lives.

From the first Biennale di Venezia in 1895 to the OVRs of today, the ways we view art have changed—but perhaps not quite as much as we think.

A new destination for critical engagement with contemporary art from around the globe.

Aindrea Emelife on how the works in Hyundai Commission: El Anatsui: Behind the Red Moon are charged by the lives and communities of the people it took to build them.

An interview with Lawrence Lek about the worlds he creates—both virtual and real—where humans and machines live together.

Charlotte Kent on how Nancy Baker Cahill’s “Slipstream Times Square” transformed the busy commercial hub into a space of meditation.

Where do we come from, and where are we going? Inside a cavernous gallery at MMCA, writer Shannon Lee reflects upon Choe U-Ram’s newest exhibition, Little Ark, and questions how we define progress—both cultural and personal.

Maria Balshaw, Frances Morris, Catherine Wood, and Fiontán Moran discuss Cecilia Vicuña’s path to her Hyundai Commission, Brain Forest Quipu, at Tate Modern.

Samantha Culp traces the origins of a singular program—and hints at what's to come.

How three different artists use experimental media to critique and celebrate the many possibilities of our shared future.

Sharing the same interest in poetry, writer Barry Schwabsky unspools Vicuña’s own vocabulary, from her words to her works, to consider how her quipus read like “three-dimensional script that cannot in the end be read, but whose effect is felt.”

“Listening is her medium,” writes Julie Baumgardner of artist Cecilia Vicuña, one of the great contemporary Chilean artists. On the occasion of Vicuña’s Hyundai Commission at Tate’s Turbine Hall, Baumgardner traces Vicuña’s career from her earliest moments sensing the wind, water, tar, and sand from the Chilean coast.

Blockchain is changing how we care for art. Critic Orit Gat discusses how technology reframes the creation, conservation, and curation of artworks online.

Wendy Vogel digs into the politics and power of Barbara Kruger, whose work has blasted through boundaries for more than thirty years.

As Surrealism moved across oceans and continents, a commitment to social progress remained a core, yet little recognized, tenet of the movement.