Inside South Korea's booming gallery scene.
“It’s made a huge step,” Ropac says of Seoul’s status, describing its cultural infrastructure as “almost unparalleled in Asia.” Noting that it takes more than size or wealth to emerge as an art capital, Ropac lists artists, art schools,, curators, collectors, critics and writers as essential elements. “The art world demands a big infrastructure. Many places that arrive on the scene now, they sometimes have one of these tools—you know, like cheap studios or great collectors.
Paula Tsai, a partner at Gladstone, also credits Seoul with a dynamic energy: “It’s got such a mature ecosystem for art already. In the past few years since I’ve been going there, new things were popping up all the time. There was a lot of momentum.”.
, which joins editions in London, New York and Los Angeles. “Korea stood out because in all the arts—film, music, fashion, design and art, of course—it was very attractive.”Courtesy of Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Photo Chunho An The gallerists all note that Seoul’s museums are unusually strong—not only the National Museum but also those springing from corporate collections, such as the
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