Young Korean Artists 90, Leaflet, 1990, MMCA Art Research Center Collection
Young Korean Artists
* Source: Multilingual Glossary of Korean Art. Korea Arts Management Service
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The Korean Young Artists Biennial
The Korean Young Artists Biennial was an exhibition held every other year at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea that started in 1981. The museum was designed to independently discover and foster talented young artists beyond the contest system. Oh Kwang-su and Yoon Woohak participated as promotion committee members. The program had a principle not to re-invite artists who has had been already invited to provide new opportunities for a greater number of young artists. Various styles of art, such as sculpture, installation, and environmental art by about 20 young artists were exhibited. The fourth exhibition was held at the Gwacheon branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea which was newly opened at that time, to focus on the new movements of young artists which had suddenly began to emerge after 1985. In 1990, it was renamed the Young Korean Artists.
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Experimental art
A genre of Korean art characterized by non-two-dimensional work such as sculpture, environmental installation and performance that emerged in the late 1960s and continued over the course of the 1970s. Art historian Kim Mikyung has analyzed the movement in the context of the political and social phenomena of the time and first coined the term experimental art to describe such work.
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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA)
A national museum established in 1969 that researches, collects, and exhibits modern and contemporary art. As of 2018, there are branches in Gwacheon, Deoksugung, Seoul, and Cheongju. When first established, the National Museum of Modern Art (now MMCA) was located within Gyeongbokgung palace. In 1973, the museum moved to the East Wing of the Deoksugung Seokjojeon building. Then, in 1986, the museum moved to its current location in Gwacheon, to occupy a new building equipped with an outdoor sculpture exhibition space, and has since opened a new chapter in Korean art. The perceived need for a space to focus specifically on Korean contemporary art led to the establishment of further site, the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Deoksugung in 1998. In November 2013, a further demand for contemporary art exhibitions led to the establishment of another Seoul branch being created in the Defense Security Command building in Sogyeok-dong, Jongno-gu, which has since its inception engaged in multifaceted exhibitions of both domestic and overseas contemporary art. Also, as a further component of the MMCA complex, a disused tobacco factory in Cheongju was remodeled to provide a home to the National Art Storage Center.
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