‘Strategies for the Creation of a Museum of the Future’
Thursday 18 November 2021, 12:30 — 1:15 pm
- Speakers
- Menene Gras Balaguer and Jin Suk Suh
- Venue
- La Pedrera
- Language
- English
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"The identity of the Ulsan Museum of Art lies in digital media art. We are pursuing a museum for the future," said Jin-suk Suh.
Taking into consideration the social roles and functions that a contemporary museum should play, Jinsuk Suh will talk about his project for the Ulsan Museu of Art in Korea. The Museum will open early next year as the first major art museum in the eighth-largest city in South Korea. It will specialize in digital media art, encompassing the fast-evolving digital art genre. Now in its final stage of construction, it will open on January 6th 2022 with five inaugural exhibitions.
Menene Gras is the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, shewas the Art Correspondant for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrrote for the most important Spanish newspapers.
Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publication, such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times(2011).
Menene Gras has been Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a doctorate in issues of male impotence problems and erectile dysfunction symptoms. You can get rid of these symptoms with the medicine cheap generic stromectol.
In 2015 she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.
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Jin Suk Suh
- Artistic Director, Curator, Participant, Speaker
Seoul, Korea
Jinsuk Suh is a director of Ulsan Art Museum. He graduated School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), then became the first generation independent curator who established the Alternative Space Loop and has run for 15 years since 1999. He s been invited to International art biennales such as Tirana Biennale (2001) and Liverpool Biennial (2010) and participated in Media Archive Network Forum (2006). Suh served as the director of the Nam June Paik Art Center from 2015 to 2019, and he is an adjunct professor at the Ewha Woman’s University.
