Kira Kim, Floating Village_Government_Consumer_ Individual_The sole in Seoul, 2015, Installation view of “Korea Artist Prize 2015” (MMCA, 2015) ©MMCA

Greeting its fourth year, ‘Korea Artist Prize’ is a system co-organized by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA, Korea) and the SBS Foundation adhering to the mission of promoting artists with great possibilities, vision and new alternative to Korean contemporary art. From the year 2015, ‘Korea Artist Prize’ will be held at the Seoul branch of MMCA, Korea.

For the fair operation of 《2015 Korea Artist Prize》, a steering committee (5 members) was established and the steering committee appointed separate recommendation (10 members) and judging committee (5 members). Each recommendation committee member endorsed an artist/a group, and through strict evaluation process by the judging committee composed of international art professionals, four artists were selected to participate in Korea Artist Prize 2015.

The shortlist for this year includes Kira Kim (b.1974), Na Hyun (b.1970), Inhwan Oh (b.1965) and Tae Bum Ha (b.1974) and these four artists will present their latest projects in this exhibition. Henceforth, one artist will be awarded as the ‘2015 Artist of the Year’ through the final evaluation process during the exhibition period.


김기라, ‘플로팅 빌리지’, 전시 전경 ©국립현대미술관

For this exhibition, Kira Kim’s tells the story of ordinary lives surviving the insecure today and Na Hyun’s displays the archaeological study of historical experience and city development of Seoul and Berlin in a solid way. Inhwan Oh extends the spatial significance of blind spot to the context of society and culture whereas Tae Bum Ha reinterprets the attitude of mass media in delivering the scenes of accidents and incidents.

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