CURATOR’S TOUR
Second Nature
Organized by Next Korea: Galleries
Led by Oriane Durand & Jiwon Yu (Co-curators)
A first collaboration with Korea Arts Management Service (KAMS) brings seven emerging Korean galleries to Paris through NEXT KOREA: GALLERIES.
WHEN?
Wednesday, October 21th at 5pm
WHERE?
Meeting point at at Next Korea: Galleries booth
Oriane Durand is a French independent curator and writer working at the forefront of emerging and experimental artistic practices. She has directed Kunstverein Dortmund and Kunstverein Bielefeld, following earlier curatorial positions at Kunstverein Nürnberg and Bonner Kunstverein. Her practice champions underrepresented perspectives and artists who challenge established narratives. She regularly contributes to international art magazines and artists’ publications.
Jiwon Yu is a Seoul-based independent curator, writer, and translator whose practice explores cultural infrastructures, queer-crip epistemologies, and situated forms of knowledge production through artistic practices and networks across Asia. She was Assistant Curator of the 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale and Curator at Leeum Museum of Art. She is co-director of YPC SPACE (@ypc.seoul) a collectively run exhibition and program space in Seoul, and teaches art history and theory at Seoul National University of Science and Technology.