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Background

Organization and building

The Korean Pavilion, designed by Seok Chul Kim and Franco Mancuso, was built between 1994 and 1995. South Korea has participated in the Venice Biennale since 1995.

Representation by year

Art

* 1995 — Yoon Hyong Keun, Kwak Hoon, Kim In Kyum, Jheon Soocheon (Commissioner: Il Lee) * 1997 — Hyungwoo Lee, Ik-joong Kang (Curator: Oh Kwang Soo) * 1999 —

Lee Bul Lee Bul ( Korean: 이불; 李昢; born 1964) is a South Korean artist who works in various mediums, including performance, sculpture, installation, architecture, and media art. As curators such as Stephanie Rosenthal and art historians such as ...

, Noh Sang-Kyoon (Curator: Misook Song) * 2001 — Michael Joo,

Do-Ho Suh Do Ho Suh (; born 1962) is a South Korean artist who works primarily in sculpture, Installation art, installation, and drawing. Suh is well known for re-creating architectural structures and objects using fabric in what the artist describes as an ...

(Commissioner: Kyung-mee Park) * 2003 — Whang In Kie, Bahc Yiso, Chung Seoyoung (Commissioner: Kim Hong-Hee) * 2007 — Hyungkoo Lee (Commissioner: Soyeon Ahn) * 2009 —

Haegue Yang Haegue Yang (; born December 12, 1971) is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where she now teaches as ...

(Commissioner: Eungie Joo) * 2011 — Lee Yong-baek (Commissioner: Yun Chea-gab) * 2013 —

Kimsooja Kimsooja (; born 1957) was born in Daegu, South Korea. Kimsooja is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist who travels between her three homes and places of work in New York City, Paris, and Seoul. In 1980 Kim graduated with a B.F.A in Painting ...

(Curator:

Kim Seung-duk Seungduk Kim (born in Seoul, Korea & lives and works in Paris, France) is a curator & exhibition organizer in the field of contemporary art. She is currently working for Le Consortium in Dijon (Burgundy, based in Paris) as co-director and associ ...

) * 2015 —

Moon Kyungwon Moon Kyungwon (; born 1969) is a Seoul-based artist who received her Masters of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and Ph.D in Visual Communication from Yonsei University, South Korea. Moon held her solo exhibition at ...

Jeon Joonho Jeon Joonho (; born 1969) is a South Korean artist. Education Jeon received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dong-eui University in Busan, South Korea and Master of Arts from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, United Kingdom. Exhibi ...

(Curator: Sook-Kyung Lee) * 2017 — Cody Choi, Lee Wan (Curator: Lee Daehyung) * 2019 – Hwayeon Nam,

Siren Eun Young Jung siren eun young jung (, born in 1974 in Incheon, South Korea) is a South Korean contemporary artist working in video, performance, installation, and photography. The Seoul-based artist explores issues around gender and sexuality in relation to ...

Jane Jin Kaisen Jane Jin Kaisen (born 28 May 1980) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Biography Kaisen was born in Jeju Island, South Korea and adopted to Denmark in 1980. She is a Professor at the School of Media Arts at The Royal Da ...

(Curator: Hyunjin Kim) * 2024 – Koo Jeong A (Curators: Jacob Fabricius, Seolhui Lee)Alex Greenberger (28 March 2023)
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References

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External links

* {{Portal bar, South Korea, Visual arts National pavilions South Korean art