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5th Yeosu International Art Festival

A new necessity - Community & Territory

1.     Program of Events

- Event Period 
09.04.2014 ~ 09.21.2014

- Opening Ceremony 
09.04.2014 Thursday 4:00PM @ GS Caltex Yeulmaru 4^th Floor Plaza
Consists of: (Opening Performance and Ceremony, Celebratory Show )

- Event Place 
GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Chonnam University Art Center, Chonnam University Art Gallery

- Unit Events
Fine Art Auction with Participation of Art Loving Citizens
09.05.2014 Friday 4:00PM @ GS Caltex Yeulmaru

- Host
Yeosu International Art Festival Promotion Committee
City of Yeosu, GS Caltex

- Art Director
Kim, Sun-jung

- Target Participants

30 Artists with over 15 International Exhibitions From Various Countries

213 Artists with Various Domestic Exhibitions


2. Contents

              Event Title: A New Necessity

              Secondary Name of the Event: Community & Territory

Yeosu International Art Festival is a biennial event that will be held from September 4th to September 21st 2014 at various locations (GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Chonnam University Art Center, and Chonnam University Art Gallery).

Marking 2014, as the 5th successful consecutive year to hold Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu city hopes the hosting of this festival will show the ability to dissolve rapidly developing urbanism of Yeosu and changes of our world communities at large by empathizing with the more intimate and mature Art themes. Diverse Artists will introduce to the public their new creations and masterpiece, and the crowd will respond with various proposed methodologies to the various artists work and their creations.

What does the City require from us?

The commencement topic of 5th Yeosu International Art Festival is "Ever-changing City".

The progression and overall development of a city is dependent on changes in political, economic, and social conditions. We, living in this organism like city, are at the epicenter of new change and requirements to fit in with the City's evolution. People living must understand and accept the community at large to really understand and accept the fundamental concepts of the living territory.

For a City to have its' own colors and sensitive, it takes a combination of several elements and time for it to ferment to a level of completion.

At this International Art Festival, invited artist-participants from 15 different unique countries gather around, questioning and looking for answers about the local societies that they're part of and also research into how to respond to the general standardization of different cultures, regions, genders, analyzing how to preserve the diversity and individuality within the local and global communities.

Through this meaningful, 5^th Yeosu Art Festival, we will look into new ways of progression for our local communities and territories in larger scale. Through this experiment, we hope to find new values and identities for the city of Yeosu. In addition, creating a wider world of thought, and expression through variety of genres of contemporary art, communicating with the locals and people abroad, the ultimate goal of this festival is to create an opportunity for cross cultural union.

3. Artists of Main Exhibition

Amy Jean Boebel

Annette Bohn & Anneke Dunkhase

Francisco Camacho

Ellen Cantor

Elodie Dornand

John Goto

Erdal Inci

Constantin Jaxy

Fei Jun

Takayuki Katayama

Nakazato Katsuhito

Philipp Krüger & Hyunsin Kim

Maria Loizidou

Clementine Oomes

Tu Pei-Shih

Mark Salvatus

Philipp Schmacher

Susanna Schoenberg

André Werner

Thandile Zwelibanzi

Chan-ju Kim

Won-sam Shin

Youn-seok Oh

Taek-kwan Oh

Jae-ho Yoo

Ki-bon Lee

Seung-shin Rhee

Anna Lim

Won-geun Kim