Poster concept designer: Robin Eberwein, Studio 11×1
An international curatorial programme of exhibitions by a group of 44 2020 graduates from The Glasgow School of Art was announced today, Tuesday 5 October 2021. Launching in Fargfabriken Gallery, Stockholm, on 13 October Wunderkammer runs until February 2022 with shows in Seoul, Phuket, London and Glasgow. The overall project curator and pioneer is Painting and Printmaking graduate, Seoul-based artist Aeji Seo, with each exhibition co-curated by one of the local artists.
“Project Wunderkammer is an effort by a group of new artists to create an ecology which preserves the movements, exchanges, and intertwining within the community that was built up at the art school,” says Aeji Seo.
“It has no single unified style, but rather it is fuelled by the youthful energy of artists who have come together to create an action and a ripple across the vast surface of the world, especially during this moment of the pandemic.
“Wunderkammer’ is another name for curiosity rooms presented in many Bourgeois homes during the Renaissance era,” she explains. “They are the beginnings of what we now know as curatorial practice – displaying the personal structures and systems of the homeowner’s interests.
“In this project, each exhibition is an individual Wunderkammer.
““The GSA is delighted to support Wunderkammer and our graduates showing their work as professional artists now that Covid restrictions allow it,” says Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art
“This ambitious project illustrates the energy and drive of GSA graduates and their creative approach to the presentation of their work, harnessing the power of digital technology to link a global programme of in person events,”
“This a wonderful opportunity for audiences in Sweden, Thailand, South Korea and here in the UK to enjoy the physicality of new works exhibited by this new generation of artists, and for an international audience to engage with important issues facing the world today through the prism of artistic practice.”
For full details of the exhibitions in Wunderkammer see Notes for Editors
Website: Wunderkammer Exhibition (wunderkammer-exhibition.com)
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Notes for Editors
Wunderkammer
Vertical Stance 13 – 17 October 2021
Fargfabriken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Curator – Aeji Seo, Co-Curator – Flat-Octopus
Exhibiting artists: Aeji Seo, Malin Cederlund, Fanny Arnesen
Open Cut
24 – 28 November 2021 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Curator – Aeji Seo, Co-Curator – Robert McCormack
Exhibiting artists: Ailish MacDonald, Antonina Kulmasova, Annie Graham, Chao-Ying Rao, Emma Clark, Gaia Tretmanis. Greta Martyniuk, Hannah Kate Absalom, Isla West, Louise Reynolds, Ramona Lindsay, Tabitha Hall, Sean Robertson
On the Other Side 24 – 28 November 2021
Hoxton 235 Art Project Space, London
Curator – Aeji Seo. Co-Curator – Antonio Parker-Reese
Exhibiting artists: Angus Macdonald, Benjamin Hall, Flora Robson, Gabriella Day, Jackie Hoefnagels, Lisa Fabin, Luca Guarino, Nell Mitchell, Rosa Day, Viktoria Szaboova.
Still Water 26 Nov 2021 – 27 Feb 2022
The Living Gallery Phuket, Thailand
Curator s– Aeji Seo + Demi Zatumatmetee
Exhibiting artists: Chloe Charlton, Demi Zatumatmetee, Joe O’Brien, Maxine Keenan, Rapha Taylor, Rosa Sawyers.
Re Bounding
26 – 31 December 2021
Keep in Touch Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Curator – Aeji Seo
Exhibiting Graduates: Antonio Parker-Rees, Jennifer Cuthill, Olivia Leven, Rosa Park, Robert McCormack
Walking Through the Place 5 – 7 Jan 2022
CCA, Glasgow
Curator – Aeji Seo
Exhibiting artists: Aeji Seo, Alistair Bamforth, Amy Gardner, Antonio Parker-Rees, Jennifer Cuthill, Olivia Leven, Emma Lawrance, Emma Boiston, Rachy Macewan, Rosa Park, Robyn Sands, Robert McCormack, Sam M Harley.