Highlights of Frieze Seoul 2024, taking place September 4-7 at COEX, Gangnam, Seoul, have been revealed. The world's leading galleries participating in Frieze Seoul 2024 are highlighting a wide range of distinguished artists in the Solo, Group, Frieze Masters, and Focus Asia sections.
 
Solo Presentation Highlights
Solo highlights from the Galleries section include, among many others, the first solo presentation of Jeon Joonho (Gallery Hyundai) in a decade, showcasing new works that use computer programs. American artist Honor Titus (Timothy Taylor) also presents six new paintings that comment on privilege, leisure, class and race in reimaginings of Western portraiture. New sculptures by Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Galerie Quynh) use brass shell cases from the Vietnam War.
 

Oil paintings by Rute Merk at Gallery Vacancy interrogate the blurring of work and leisure and the construction of identity via mass media; new works by painter Kohei Yamada (Taka Ishii Gallery); and Filipino artist Mark Justiniani presents works with The Drawing Room that resemble nested wormholes.

Group Presentation Highlights
Arario Gallery’s group show pays special attention to Park Youngsook. Kukje Gallery highlights Korea’s 1960s dansaekhwa movement, including Ha Chong-Hyun, Kwon Young-Woo and Park Seo-Bo, alongside contemporary artists Suki Seokyong Kang, Lee Kwang-Ho and Haegue Yang.
 
Lehmann Maupin gallery's booth will celebrate four groundbreaking Korean artists: Kim Yun Shin, featured in this year’s Venice Biennale; Lee Bul, recipient of the Met’s 2024 Façade Commission; Do Ho Suh, opening a solo exhibition at Art Sonje Center in August; and Sung Neung Kyung, who will have his first solo show outside Korea at Lehmann Maupin in New York this October.
 
Gagosian is presenting a wide-reaching display including Derrick Adams, Maurizio Cattelan, Hao Liang, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Rick Lowe, Albert Oehlen and Nam June Paik. Hauser & Wirth is showing Rita Ackermann, Louise Bourgeois, Ed Clark, Nicolas Party and Pat Steir, plus others.
 
Pace has a major 1980s painting by Lee Ufan, alongside works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Robert Indiana and Kylie Manning. John Baldessari, George Condo, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Mire Lee and Rosemarie Trockel, all feature on Sprüth Magers’s stand, alongside works by Sterling Ruby.
 
A curated presentation by neugerriemschneider considers the moon as a subject of scientific, spiritual and artistic inquiry, with works by Olafur Eliasson, Tomás Saraceno, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Ai Weiwei. Mariane Ibrahim’s group presentation features Patrick Eugéne, Salah Elmur, Yukimasa Ida, Carmen Neely and Sol Kordich.

Frieze Masters Highlights
In the ‘Frieze Masters’ section, which spans artworks from various periods, Wooson Gallery will present a solo stand of Korean artist Myungmi Lee. Hakgojae Gallery showcases a group exhibition featuring Byun Wol-ryong, Chung Chang-Sup, Kim Whanki, Lee Joon, Nam June Paik, Park Young-Ha and Ryu Kyung Chai. Gana Art showcases Chang Ucchin, Choi Jongtae and Oh Sufan. Tokyo Gallery + BTAP's presentation bridges the gap between the 1960s and today, featuring works by Park Seo-Bo, alongside Choi Myoung Young and Lee Jin Woo.
 
International Masters highlights include Niki de Saint Phalle’s 1960s sculptures which are the focus of the presentation at Galerie Mitterrand. Les Enluminures specialists in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, will present a curated display of illuminated manuscripts and period jewelry.
 
Focus Asia Highlights
Focus Asia sees ten solo artist presentations from galleries in the region 12 years or younger. Highlights include Jonghwan Lee who uses drawing and engraving to create undulating skins on conventionally flat paintings at Cylinder; new works by Hwang Sueyon at G Gallery manipulate sculptural materials.
 
Sojung Jun’s 2023 video work Syncope, presented by Barakat Contemporary. Parcel has a solo by Lu Yang, who creates post-apocalyptic realms fusing Japanese pop culture with Buddhist spirituality. And Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s ongoing series of paintings referencing works by Agnes Martin are presented by Kayokoyuki

References

• 프리즈 서울 (Frieze Seoul)