INTRODUCTION OF PLATFORM-L 2023

Founded

Platform-L Contemporary Art Center opened to the public in May 2016 establishing itself as a locus for diverse and noteworthy creative perspectives which connect contemporary artists to audiences in Korea and beyond. Creators in visual art, performance and film cultivate an ongoing cultural dialogue with visitors to Platform-L’s spaces and work to diminish the cultural distance between audiences while fostering a wider appreciation for contemporary art. Thus, Platform-L aims to operate as a platform for cooperation and exchanges for artists and institutions that becomes a space for learning and exploration open to those create art and those who enjoy it.

Platform-L is run by Taejin Culture Foundation, established by Taejin International and its global fashion brand Louis Quatorze, who has been supporting numerous art and cultural activities over the last 20 years.

Founded & Supported by

2007–2015 SELECTED OFFICIAL SPONSORSHIPS

• «Elizabeth Vidal» Concert, Seoul Arts Center

• «Modigliani» Exhibition, Hangaram Museum

• «Pompidou Exhibition», Seoul Museum of Art

• «Musee d’Orsay» Exhibition, National Museum of Korea

• «Masters in Photography in the 20th century» Exhbition, Seoul Arts Center

• «Versailles Exhibition», Hangaram Museum

• «Jurgen Teller Exhibition» Daelim Museum

• «George Braque Exhibition» Imperial City Art Museum, Beijing

• «Laura Figy Live in Korea» Sejong Cultural Center

• «Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibtion» Aram Museum

• «Digital Peace» Platoon Kunsthalle

• «Busan International Film Festival»

• «Talk and Concert» Seoul Arts Center

• «Random Access» Nam June Paik Art Center

AWARDS

• The «Ordre des Arts et des Lettres» (Order of Arts and Letters) from French Government

CONTENTS

I. INTRO

II. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

III. OPEN CALL PROGRAMS

IV. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

V. COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS

VI. EVENTS

I. INTRO

· Introduction · Museum Identity

· Achitecture

· Spaces · Visitor Stats

Introduction

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

· Shin Jungseung (Chairman)

– Director of Center for Chinese Studies, Dongseo University

– (Former) Ambassador of South Korea to China

· Jeon Sangun (Director)

– Director of Platform-L Contemporary Art Center

Park Heungsin

– Kim & Chang Law Firm

– (Former) Ambassador of South Korea to France

Choe Youngjeen

– Professor of English Language and Literature, Chung-Ang University

Kim Sanghoon

– Professor of Business School, Seoul National University

Kang Aeran

– Artist / Professor of Painting, Ewha Womans University

Jung kyungyeon

– Artist / Professor of Textile Art and Fashion Design, Hongik University

· Kim Naree

– Head of Design & Management of Platform-L Contemporary Art Center

– Adjunct Professor of Design, Ewha Womans University

· Jeon Eunkyung

– Business Director of Designhouse Inc.

– (Former) Chief Editor of Designhouse Inc.

· Christopher J. Ro

– Artist / Professor of Visual Communication Design, Hongik University

·

Whang Chanyeon (Auditor)

– Kim & Chang Law Firm

Museum Identity

Platform-L was established with the mission to function as a “Platform for upcoming artists to exchange ideas and discourses around the realm of contemporary arts. Platform-L’s logotype represents its “contemporariness” which is conceived by its architecture, giving a geometrically moderate impression. The Big-L system performs as a frame to hold artists’ works and related contents alongside the logotype. It symbolizes Platform-L’s curatorial framing of its diverse programs.

Achitecture

— Concept

The Geometrical Pattern

This geometry implies Louis XIV’s wishes to be recognized as an absolute royal entity rather than a mediator between god and man. The circle, square and octagon were utilized extensively in the geometric plan of the famed Gardens of Versailles executed during Louis XIV’s reign. The exterior façade of Platform-L reinterprets the historical notion of absolute authority, particularly with regard to the site’s unconventional plan and its surrounding roads on three sides. The application of this concept is the transformation of the octagon into widened lattices which highlight the building’s horizontality and imply infinite expansion toward the horizon.

Awards

• Architecture of The Year, 39th Korean Institution of Architects Award, 2016

• Excellence Award, Korean Architecture Award, 2016

• Bronze Award, American Architecture Prize, 2016

• iF Design Award, 2016

• Runners-Up & Special Award Selected by Citizens, 35th Seoul Architecture Award, 2017

• Final Winner, 35th The International Architecture Award, The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, 2017

• Honorable Mention, The Architecture MasterPrize, 2018

• Grand Prize, Beautiful Architecture Prize Gangnam-gu 2019

Jeonghoon LEE (Architect) Jeonghoon Lee studied at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul and majored in Architecture and Philosophy. He has acquired D.E.S.S (M.A.) in Architectural materials at Nancy school of architecture and C.E.A (M.A.) in Architectural theory and a qualified architect at Paris Lavillette School of Architecture. He has worked at Shigeru Ban Architects Europe, Agence Moattie et Riviere in Paris and Zaha Hadid Architects in London. Lee has achieved multiple prestigious awards including the Korean Young Architects Award 2010 from Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the government of South Korea, and One of the World's Top 10 Architects for the Next Generation, Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award 2013 in USA. Recently, he won Red Dot Design ‘Spatial Communication’ Award in Germany, International Property Award in UK and IF Design Award in Germany.

1. Link Yard (courtyard)

“Louis Quatorze Link Yard”, a void space in the form of a courtyard set in the center of the building visually resembles a Western courtyard, though from a functional standpoint it operates more like a traditional Korean courtyard— namely, as a buffer zone and resting place. This space performs a key role in the overall design of Platform-L, connecting the building’s two separate wings and providing a shared free space. Using a pioneering 250 inch outside screen system, this Opera-house-like space can perform as a outside screening zone with various programs.

2. Gallery & Annex

— Gallery 2, 3

Gallery 2, 3 located on the 2nd and 3rd floor of Platform-L building are structured to have exhibitions for contemporary visual arts. The dimension of the entire gallery spaces is 329m², as Gallery 2 on second floor is 151m² and Gallery 3 on the 3rd floor, 177m². Gallery Spaces of Platform-L are designed to host various forms of solo and group exhibitions of contemporary visual arts including original exhibitions organized by Platform-L.

— Gallery Annex 2, 3

Gallery Annex 2, 3, situated on the second and third floor of Platform-L, are the spaces for various programs and exhibitions along with Gallery 2 & 3. Gallery Annex spaces could be connected to Gallery 2, 3 through link bridges, and each of the spaces is around 34m².

Gallery Annex 2

Gallery 3 Gallery Annex 3

3. Platform Live

Multi-purpose platform for various forms of programs

‘Platform Live’ situated in the 2nd basement is a creation platform for contemporary art with interdisciplinary genres and media. With the size of 288m² the space can accommodate 172 seats and be restructured diversely with moving walls installed in the space. The ‘Platform Live’ is also equipped with sound facilities, lightings, screening systems of high qualities.

4. Machine Room Laboratory of Diverse Performances

Located on the 3rd Basement at Platform-L, Machine Room has transformed itself into a laboratory of diverse performances for young artists, although it has been originally designed as a storage space. With a comparatively high ceiling, 87sqm space of Machine Room can be utilised for multi-purpose.

5. Lecture Room

Discursive, approachable platform of art and culture

Lecture room on the 4th floor is a space for education programs related to Platform-L’s exhibitions and performances as well as academic research and exchanges of contemporary art in general. With the dimension of the space as 109m², various discursive programs such as artist talk, seminars, lectures, workshops, roundtables etc. will be occurred here.

6. Platform-L Store

A multi-layered store with products and works from exhibitions and contemporary books

Situated in the lobby of the building, the Platform-L Store has a wide range of objects and lifestyle goods from Platform-L programs and artist collaborations. While high quality art books from both Korea and overseas are also introduced among the selection, carefully curated print works and art objects are central to the range of assortment. Platform-L is always searching for new opportunities to collaborate, not only with the emerging artists and designers, but also with anyone who has the brightest ideas.

[Contact Platform-L Store: store@platform-L.org]

II. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1. Bae Young-Whan: Pagus Avium

2. Yang Fudong–The Coloured Sky: New Women II

3. ISAAC JULIEN: PLAYTIME

4. The Dialectic of the Stars: Extinction Dancefloor

5. Vacationland

6. Karel Martens: Still Moving

7. A Story of French Umbrellas: Summer Bloom

8. Min Oh: Invitee, Attendee, Absentee

II. Selected Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The exhibition program at Platform-L includes four to five exhibitions per year by Korean and international artists. It is our mission to provide a dynamic platform for the distinct visual languages of a wide range of artists through solo presentations as well as curated exhibitions examining the issues and challenges facing our society today. By linking with diverse genres such as design, architecture and film, Platform-L endeavors to broaden the boundaries of the field of visual art and elevate public awareness of contemporary art and creative culture. The exhibition program is informed and enriched by active collaboration with curators and cultural institutions both in Korea and abroad, and seeks to continuously develop these organic networks into the future.

1. Bae Young-Whan: Pagus Avium

2016.05.12.–2016.08.07.

Artist Bae Young-Whan has been dealing with reserved topics of contemplation on civilization, crossing over various disciplines, such as painting, sculpture, installation and video work. He received international attention in the 2000s with a series of works including Pop Song,The Way of Man, Insomnia, and Autonumina. He has participated in main international exhibitions and solo exhibitions like the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. His major exhibitions include a solo exhibition «Song for Nobody»(Plateau, Seoul, 2012), group exhibition «Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers» (SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul,

2014), «Re:emerge-Towards a New Cultural Cartography»(11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, 2013), «All You Need is Love: From Chagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku»(Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2013), «Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea in Seoul»(Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of Argentina, National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007-2009) and «Medi(t)ation»(The 3rd Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan, 2011). He is currently preparing for group exhibition «Land of Happiness»(Buk-Seoul Museum of Art) in 2016.

• Bae Young-Whan

2. The Coloured Sky: New Women II

2016.05.12.–2016.08.07.

Yang Fudong is an artist who lives and works in Shanghai. He was born in Beijing, 1971 and graduated from the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, 1995. Yang is one of China’s best known contemporary artists, having gained a major international reputation for his films and video installations, which have been shown regularly as part of major international survey exhibitions and one-person gallery shows across the globe. Yang Fudong has had more than 60 solo shows at most acclaimed institutions and galleries during the past years besides other 300 group exhibitions in the world. Yang Fudong’s artworks articulate multiple perspectives; his works investigate the structure and formation of identity through myth, personal memory and

lived experience. Each of his works is a dramatic existential experience and a challenge to take on.

«Yang Fudong has participated in prestigious international art events including: What About the Art? Contemporary Art from China» (QM Gallery Al Riwaq, Qatar Museums, Doha, 2016)); «La Biennale de Lyon» (2013); «Sharjah Biennial 11 of Sharjah Art Foundation» (2013); «The First Kyiv International Biennial of Contemporary» (2012); «Moving Image In China: 1988–2011» (Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, 2011); «17th Biennale of Sydney» (2010); «Rehearsal: 8th Shanghai Biennale» (2010); «The 52nd Venice Biennale» (2007), etc.

• Yang Fudong

JULIEN: PLAYTIME

2017.02.22.–2017.04.30.

Filmmaker and installation artist, Isaac Julien was born in 1960 in London, where he currently lives and works. His multi-screen film installations and photographs incorporate different artistic disciplines to create a poetic and unique visual language. His 1989 documentary-drama exploring author Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance titled ‹Looking for Langston› garnered Julien a cult following while his 1991 debut feature Young Soul Rebels won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

‹Ten Thousand Waves›, more recent work acclaimed around the globe, premiered at the 2010 Sydney Biennale and has gone on to be exhibited extensively - namely at Museum of

Modern Art, New York, and more recently at the Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2016). Isaac Julien has been exhibited in the 7th Gwangju Biennial, South Korea (2008); Prospect 1, New Orleans (2008); and Performa 07, New York (2004). He has had one-person exhibitions at: the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston (2011); L’Atelier Hermès, Seoul (2011); Kunstnernes Hus. Oslo (2011); The Bass Museum, Miami (2010); Helsinki Festival, Kunsthalle Helsinki (2010); Museum Brandhorst, Munich (2008); Kestnergesellschart, Hannover, (2006) Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2005); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2005).

• Isaac Julien

6. Karel Martens: Still Moving

2018.10.11.–2019.01.20.

Karel Martens (born in 1939 in the Netherlands) is a worldacclaimed graphic designer who is engaged not only in the traditional print media such as posters, prints, and architectural graphic designs but also videos and interactive digital media. He is well-known for designing letterpress monoprints made with collected objects, along with Dutch coins, stamps, and phone cards. He has been lauded for designing OASE architectural magazine and SUN publications. He has cofounded the Werkplaats Typografie, a renowned Master course for typography in Arnhem, Netherlands, in 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Yale since 1997. He held solo exhibitions

worldwide including «Karel Martens, OASE» at MADA Gallery in Melbourne, Australia in 2011, «KK Karel Martens» Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo, Japan in 2013, «Reprint» at the Royal Academy of Arts, the Hague in Netherlands in 2015, «Karel Martens: Monoprints» at Havard CCCA in the same year, «Recent Works» at p! Gallery in New York in 2016, «Motion» at Kunstverein in Munich, Germany in 2017, and «Karel Martens: Motion» at Design Museum Gent in Belgium in the same year. He has also published Printed Matter (1996, 2001, 2010), Counterprint (2004), and Full Color (2013).

• Karel Martens

7. A Story of French Umbrellas: Summer Bloom

8. Min Oh: Invitee, Attendee, Absentee

Min Oh, based in Seoul and Amsterdam, focuses on the ways the body senses, operates, consumes and generates time at the junction of visual art and music and of video and live performance. Applying the language and structure of music acquired by Oh during her piano training in childhood, the artist has been creating works expressing movements of players and dancers and the inside and outside of the stage. As focusing on seeing music beyond listening to music, she creates a sophisticated score that organizes the relationship among time, space, body, movement, sound, and image, and it becomes the source of constructing works for her. Her works including scores are dealing with the sensation and movement of anxiety triggered by time, and the boundaries and interactions between specific scenes and abstract relationships surrounding them.

Oh received bachelor’s degrees in piano performance (1998) and graphic design (2000) at Seoul National University and received her MFA (2008) at Yale University, New Haven. Her work has been presented at Morsbroich Museum (Leverkusen, 2020), Platform-L Contemporary Art Center (Seoul, 2019), Pohang Museum of Steel Art (Pohang, 2019), Art Sonje Center (Seoul, 2018), Atelier Hermès (Seoul, 2018), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, 2018), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (Gwacheon, 2018, 2014), Museum De Domijnen (Sittard, 2018), Daegu Art Museum (Daegu, 2017), Doosan Gallery (New York, 2017, and Seoul, 2016), Arko Art Center (Seoul, 2017, 2016), Kukje Gallery (Seoul, 2016), Suwon Museum of Art (Suwon, 2016), Nam June Paik Art Center (Yongin, 2015), and Kunsthalle Erfurt (Erfurt, 2011).

• Min Oh

III. OPEN CALL PROGRAMS

· Platform-L Live Arts Program

· Platform-L Pavilion Project

Platform-L Live Arts Program (PLAP)

Platform-L Live Arts Program (PLAP) has become a major program of Platform-L since 2017, organized to discover and support diverse forms of art. Platform-L supports the space, technical guide and promotion for teams who are selected through the annual open call. The most outstanding work of the year gets selected and awarded a prize and supported the overall production to present a commissioned sequel for the following year.

PLAP 2022

Winning Work

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• AHACOLLECTIVE × OURPERCUSSION

• 2022.08.10.–2022.08.13.

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

PLAP 2017–18 Winning Work

Performance History

• Junghyun Kim, Juho Song, Seyoung Jeong

• 2017.11.24.–2017.11.26.

PLAP 2018 Commission Work

Skaters on Frozen Canal

• Junghyun Kim, Diorama Vivant Theatre

• 2019.01.25.–2019.01.27.

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

SYNCH07 - Movements that move the movements that move the movements

• Yulhyul Arts Group

• 2018.10.19.–2018.10.21.

EQUILIBRIUM 01 - Two Body With Tension

• Yulhyul Arts Group

• 2020.01.10.–2020.01.12

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

PLAP 2018 Winning Work

PLAP 2019 Commission Work

Birds Eye View

• Band Bower (Goyoson, Shy Asian, Seungtaek)

• 2019.10.15.–2019.10.22.

Space Birds

• Band Bower (Goyoson, Shy Asian, Seungtaek)

• 2020.8.20.–2020.8.23.

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

PLAP 2019 Winning Work

PLAP 2020 Commission Work

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• Myungwoo Jung

• 2020.10.24.–2020.10.25.

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• Myungwoo Jung

• 2021.10.30.–2021.10.31.

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

PLAP 2020 Winning Work

PLAP 2021 Commission Work

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• Jade Sujin Lee / Sunyoung Yang

• 2021.09.18.–2021.09.19.

CHANGE OR TRANS-HIKING

• JADE SUJIN LEE

• 2022.09.16.–2022.09.25.

III. / Platform-L Live Arts Program

PLAP 2021 Winning Work

PLAP 2022 Commission Work

Platform-L Pavilion Project

Platform-L Pavilion Project (PPP) commissions a pavilion at the link yard of Platform-L, expecting for young architects to present experimental ideas. The project concentrates on the function of the link yard that connects different facilities and cultural programs taking place at Platform-L. The pavilion hosts various events, including screening programs, performative works by artists and also provides resting areas for visitors.

ArchiWorkshop (Selected Team)

ArchiWorkshop has been established in 2013 by two architects, Hee-Jun Sim and Su-Jeong Park. They are architects who think, create, enjoy and share everyday architecture. ‘ArchiWorkshop’ has two meanings, namely ‘workshop of artisans’ and ‘attacking and defending to each other through discussion’. This leads to their philosophy to create an ‘everyday architecture’ with healthy environment and expansion of architecture culture to more people to share.

III. / Platform-L Pavilion Project

III. / Platform-L Pavilion Project

‹Stage L Chandlier› designed by ArchiWorkshop

IV. EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

L-Viator

L-VIATOR, a series of special senior programs, designates a single nation each semester, and brings the best lecturers on the history and the humanities of the chosen culture.

2020

On the Way to Paris

• Lecturer: Kim Jaeyeol, Yoo

Gyeonghui, Yoo Jeongu, Lee

Hyeon, Yang Jeongmu

• Dates: 2020.04.02.–2020.08.27.

• Venue: Lecture Room

2021

Russia, Thousand Years of Life, and Art

• Lecturer: Lee Juheon and another

• Dates: 2020.04.02.–2020.08.27.

• Venue: Lecture Room

2022

K-Culture becomes the center of the world!

• Lecturer: Moon Soyeong, Kim

Hyeonhui, Cho Sangin, Yoo

Jeongu, Kim Daegyun, Kathleen

E. Kim, Son Cheolju

• Dates: 2022.02.24.–2022.06.23.

• Venue: Lecture Room

Art, meet German cities

• Lecturer: Jeon Wongyeong, Yoo

Jeongu, Lee Hyeon, Oh Sunhui

• Dates: 2020.09.17.–2021.01.21.

• Venue: Lecture Room

A trip to Northern Europe where Solvaige’s song flows

• Lecturer: eon Won Gyeong, Hwang

Woo Chang, In Eui Sik etc.

• Dates: 2022.09.01.–2022.12.215.

• Venue: Lecture Room

LITTLE L , a children’s education program, consists of self-development program. In addition, Little L is composed exhibition, related programs of Platform-L, and other programs cooperated with partner organizations.

L-Talk

A primary goal of Platform-L is to narrow the cultural distance between creators and the public. Located on the fourth floor, the Lecture Room is a 110-square meter space built to accommodate a variety of users, including education programs related to ongoing exhibitions and performances as well as independent research on contemporary art, in addition to public programs such as artist talks, lectures, workshops and seminars. With both the capacity and ambition to organize symposia highlighting the unique perspectives of creators worldwide, Platform-L aspires to act as a forum for public discourse on contemporary art and stimulate wider public engagement with contemporary art.

L-Make

L-MAKE, proposes various programs encouraging participants to make things with their own hands, create something new based on their own creativity, combining special craftsmanship from local lifestyle partners.

V. COMMISSIONS & COLLECTIONS

· Platform-L Commission

· Platform-L Collection

Conference Table for Platform-L Design: Normal Studio

Wood Fabrication: Hwa Shin Cho 2016 (Platform-L Commission)

Hwa Shin Cho (Master Wood Carpenter)

Humans since 1982

Million Times for Platform-L 2016 (Platform-L Commission)

Jang minseung, Ipsuk Bugeun

Single channel video, 2K Digital color film, Stereo sound, 43min, 2016 (Platform-L Commission)

Platform-L Collection (Selected)

Platform-L attempts to establish its collections as research references for contemporary art and manages archives from our own projects. In so doing, we hope to focus on the essential purpose of an art center which supports contemporary artists and researches related documents. In 2015, we collected a wide range of works by the artists who started their careers since 1990s. More than 100 works including painting, sculpture, installation, video, photographs and etc. We seek to continue to collect works especially for those commissioned through different types of projects and exhibitions.

Nam Hwayeon, Field Recording Single channel video, 7’ 26”, 2015

Nam Hwayeon, Field Recording Single channel video, 7’ 26”, 2015

Song Sanghee, This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper

Drawing on the tile, Each 13 × 13 cm, 143 × 91 cm × (77pcs), 2015

Digital archival Print, 65 × 50 cm, 2011

Kim Gisoo, Uncles Print on photographic paper, 93cm x 73 cm, 2012

Sisan Lee, Stone Pagoda-5 level Raw Steel, Basalt, 2021

Koo Donghee, Shelter LED panel, digital print on OHP film, black and white objects, 90 × 90 × 4 cm, 2012

Kim Ayoung, 12 Races from Tales of a City

VI. EVENTS

· Seoul Art Book Fair «Unlimited Edition 100»

· Performance & Screening

· Workshop