My bicycle wheels meet the corners of alleys,
Carving the paths into smooth, round shapes.
Each time, an apple, as large as my hometown I returned to,
Peels away without a sound.
Excerpt from “A Well-Ripened Apple” by Kim Hyesoon, 2001
Translated by Jack Saebyok Jung
The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024
silent apple
2024. 9. 27. - 11. 10.
Seongsan Art Hall
Weekdays · weekends 10AM - 7PM
Seongsan Shell Mound
Weekdays·weekends 10AM - 6PM (Closes on every Monday)
Changwon Cultural Complex Dongnam Ground
Weekdays·weekends 10AM - 6PM
ChangwonCity Masan MoonShin Art Museum
Weekdays·weekends 10AM - 6PM (Closes on every Monday)
Taking its title, silent apple, from a line in Ripe Apple, a poem by acclaimed poet Kim Hyesoon, the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024 lays the vertically erected sculptures of the city on a horizontal plane, bringing them down closer to the ground. This newfound horizontality moves freely between existing systems, offering a new mode of seeing the world around us even as it invites questions around the relationship between sculpture and language, labor and industry, local and regional. Just barely embedding itself into the backdrop of the city, sculptures outlast the given populations of a particular era and continue to evolve with the passage of time. With a spirit of excavation and attitude of connection, this approach reaches for a new perspective on what we have long understood to be the language of sculpture.
Scul, the etymological root of “sculpture,” means to carve or engrave, and shares valence with the act of “writing.” And it is the spirit of “writing,” in turn, that documents and preserves any city, summoning the countless beings who have lived in it through time. Taking on the multilayered temporal strata and locality built up by the sculptures and city of Changwon as its subject, the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024 actively explores and rewrites the traces that remain embedded in space. The participating artists work across a variety of forms that speak to sculpture, movement, and locality. Driving topics like sculptural horizontality, industrial change, women and labor, and community movements appear alongside landscapes in and around the exhibition, spanning intersections between factory floors and athletic fields, building terraces and tracks, trees and artificial waterfalls. Inside the exhibition hall, one can hear the sound being sent out into the world, and the zeitgeist of Masanmunhwa — a 1980s progressive periodical, mook — together with the knives in the kitchen, busy cooking, provide a stark contrast to the monumental sculptures of the public plaza.
silent apple claims four distinct spaces as both its “big apple” and its exhibition map, marking “viewing points” from which to gaze upon the sculptures that populate their surroundings. From the perspective of space-making, the biennale also invites visitors to move at their own pace to enact this gaze from different heights. The exhibition lays new paths across the city between those better worn, creating connections between Seongsan Art Hall, located at the heart of the planned city’s radial street system; the Changwon Cultural Complex Dongnam Ground, a base of literal movement for Changwon’s laborers; the Seongsan Shell Mound, discovered while surveying different sites for the National Industrial Complex; and the ChangwonCity Masan MoonShin Art Museum, which preserves both the ideals and works of the sculptor Moon Shin. Much like the apple peel in the poet’s imagination, creating a spiral path in the wake of its own carving, the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024 builds a horizontal sense of solidarity as city, sculpture, and visitors all create paths of their own, seeing and encountering anew, moment to moment.
Organized.Hosted by Changwon Special City/Changwon Cultural Foundation
Supported by Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism; Gyeongsangnam-do; Korea Industrial Complex Corporation (Gyeongnam Regional Headquarters); BNK Gyeongnam Bank; Gyeongnam Mecenat Association
Artists
Nevin Aladağ
Rosario Aninat
Micaela Benedicto
Cho Jeonhwan
Choi Goen
CHUNG Hyun
Chung Seoyoung
Soyoung Chung
Michael Dean
Diagram Game
Ebb and Flow
Ikhyun Gim
GWON Osang
HA CHA YOUN
Hong Seung-Hye
Young In Hong
Riku Iioka
Kei Imazu
Jeilyeogaeg
Jeuno JE Kim & Ewa Einhorn
Joo Jae Hwan
Donghwan Kam
Kim Chongyung
Kim Chungsook
Kim Jung Hye
Kyeok Kim
Myong Hi Kim
Kim Sungwhoi·Park Chankeuk·Suk Jongsoo·Sin Yongsik
Daisuke Kuroda
Hyun bhin Kwon
Eusung Lee
Luo Jr Shin
Marie Cool Fabio Balducci
Joiri Minaya
Moon Shin
Hwayeon Nam
Sooncheon No
Songhee Noh
Aki Onda
Paik Nam June
MeeNa Park
Nara Park
Park Suk Won
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
Chris Ro
Ro Kyung Ae
Martha Rosler
Sarim153
Shim Jung-soo
SHIN Min
Fuyuka Shindo
Sim Yi-Sueng
Dolorosa Sinaga
Robert Smithson
Tangerine Collective
Tong Wenmin
Transfield Studio
Jason Wee
Mette Winckelmann
Woo Ahreum
Jiyoung Yoon
Yun Jeong-ui
Symposium
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Seed and Peel
Speakers & Moderators: Soyeon Ahn, Patrick Flores, Dong-Wan Gimm, Gim Jonggil, Seewon Hyun, Jang Jihan, Ki Hye-kyung, Kim Seong Eun, Lee Sohl, Lim Sejin, Geun-jun Lim, LJ Sungmin, Carol Yinghua Lu, Park Chunho, Park Seongtae, Yi Mi Young, Jason Wee
Saturday, September 28- Sunday, September 29, 2024
Small Theater, Seongsan Art Hall
Programs
* Dates of the program may change.
* Further information and registration will be announced over coming months.
AVP X Muhayu
Artists: Sooncheon No, Jeuno JE Kim & Ewa Einhorn
Exhibition
Monday, July 15 - Sunday, July 28, 2024
Performance workshop
Thursday, July 18, July 25, 2024
Seoul: Audio Visual Pavilion (AVP)
Changwon: Muhayu
Paper and Sea and Message in a Bottle
Artists: Donghwan Kam(artist), Soyeon Kim(poet)
Wednesday, September 11th - Thursday, September 12th
10AM - 1PM
Friday, September 13th - Saturday, September 14th
6:30PM - 9:30PM
Changwon City Masan Literature Museum Seminar room
58-8, Sangnam-dong, Masanhappo-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do
The 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024, silent apple is pleased to introduce the newly commissioned work by artist Dongwan Kam, Between Paper and Rock which explores the relationship between poem and sculpture. As part of this work, the artist will host a poetry-writing class entitled Paper and Sea and Message in a Bottle for the citizens of Changwon, in collaboration with poet Soyeon Kim. The class will take place at the Changwon City Masan Literature Museum from September 11th to September 14th.
Bells
Artists: Aki Onda, featuring Park Jiha
Performance
Friday, September 27, 2024
2F Exhibition Room, Seongsan Art Hall
Good Transportation Day to Changwon
Artists: Good Transportation Day to Changwon
September 27 (fri) - September 29 (sun), 2024
Friday, September 27 - Sunday, September 29, 2024
Friday, October 18 - Sunday, October 20, 2024
Thursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024
Changwon
Elevation, Central
Artists: Transfield Studio
Tour performance
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Seongsan Shell Mound
Troll - The voice leaks out of house
Artists: Tangerine Collective
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Changwon Cultural Complex Dongnam Ground
Soul of Earth, Soul of Water
Artists: Ebb and Flow
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
1F gudeul, Seongsan Art Hall
Hand-Well-Sculpture, Length Length
Artists: Ro Kyung Ae with performer Myoung Shin Kim
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Saturday, October 26, 2024
Seongsan Art Hall
Galapagos Tortoises: Timeline of Sarim153
Artists: Sarim 153
Saturday, October 12, 2024
1F gudeul, Seongsan Art Hall
Image Hands Out: Sarim153 Peer Critic
Artists: Sarim 153
October 26 (sat), 2024
1F gudeul, Seongsan Art Hall
Dreams of Local and Contemporary
Artists: Sarim 153
Saturday, November 9, 2024
1F gudeul, Seongsan Art Hall
Pre-Program:
AVP X Muhayu
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Looking ahead to the opening of silent apple this September, the 7th Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2024 is delighted to present AVP X Muhayu, a two-week pre-exhibition program running from July 15th to July 28th. Seoul events for AVP X Muhayu will take place at AVP (Audio Visual Pavilion), known for publications and exhibitions dealing with the ins and outs of visual culture and its associated realities; Changwon events will be held at Muhayu, frequent host to a diverse array of gatherings and events showcasing everything from clothes, salvaged objects, and books to a single work of art.
By connecting one locality (Changwon, via Muhayu) to another (Seoul, via AVP), these events are designed to create points of intersection that facilitate the exchange of sound and sculpture — and also mutual learning. Krabstadt Educational Center: Summer Session, a learning center for the marginalized run by artists Jeuno JE Kim & Ewa Einhorn, and Sculpture Band (2022-2024), a series of sound sculptures by Sooncheon No, will be held across the two locations for the duration of the program.
As part of the pre-exhibition program, the Krabstadt Educational Center offers an open course each Thursday in the form of a performance workshop. For these courses, artists Jeuno JE Kim and Ewa Einhorn invite the sculptural work of Sooncheon No to the Krabstadt Educational Center as a “visiting professor,” guiding participants through a “listening” session in which they lend an ear to objects that are rarely listened to, including sculpture, place, image, and the unit of the day.
Dates:
Monday, July 15 - Sunday, July 28, 2024
Hours:
Daily, 12-6PM
Venue:
Seoul, Audio Visual Pavilion (AVP)
1F, 38-118 Yongmun-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul
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Changwon, Muhayu
61, Bieum-ro, Seongsan-gu, Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do
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Artists:
Sooncheon No, Jeuno JE Kim & Ewa Einhorn
* Exhibitions at both venues are open to visitors throughout the duration of the program.
** Performance workshops require separate registration; for further information, please see the register link below.
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inquiry:
Changwon Cultural Foundation
changwonsbiennale@gmail.com
+82 (0)55-714-1983
(51435) 181 Jungang-daero, Seongsan-gu,
Changwon-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
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