South Korea

Artist Sara van der Heide converted the German Library in Guangzhou, China, into a restaging of the Goethe-Institut's German Library and Information Centre of Pyongyang, which operated from 2004 to 2009. The publication features the original multilingual booklets, a documentation on the exhibition and a critical reader.

A three-part fiction relating the daily lives of characters at the beginning of our century: the artist alternates reality and fiction, developing themes at work in his visual practice. As usual, the author involves a series of contributors.

Collection of poems and drawings by the Korean artist.

Tracing the Parisian exile of Korean modernists painters Lee Ungno and Han Mook, this catalogue highlights the work and life of two artists who built an innovative work at the crossroads of Western and Eastern traditions.

A DVD-book which documents Korean artist Kimsooja's transfigurational installation at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, as part of the France-Korea year.

Autumnal Sisters recollects seven performances by Alessandro Bosetti, in solo and teaming up with writer Kim Taeyong and video maker Orolo. It is the first extensive document of Bosetti's work with MaskMirror, a musical instrument which takes language rather than sound as it's main material.

Having furnished solutions for Germany and Dubai, Ingo Niermann takes a new look at what nationhood can mean and accomplish today, finding inspiration, of all places, in North Korea.

This monographic publication delivers an in-depth exploration of Moon & Jeon's collaborative project “News from Nowhere” premised on a postapocalyptic scenario: humanity has been almost entirely wiped out and is forced to reconsider long-held convictions that may no longer be tenable.

Publication gathering five conference performances, written in French and English, by the Franco-Korean duo of artists and researchers Ju Hyun Lee and Ludovic Burel, whose works combine installations, performances, and publications.

Soun-Gui Kim engages her collaborators—philosophers Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, and John Cage—in conversation about contemporary art and the relationship of artists to the globalized art world and market, from the perspective of Eastern thought.

A new collaborative publication, that has evolved within the framework of two geographically separate yet collaboratively conceived exhibitions.

Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.

Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.

Various documentary approaches of Kimsooja's work (8 films).

A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.

First monograph dedicated to Korean artist's paintings.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, part of a serial project designed by Yang in which she staged additional installations in other international exhibition sites.

Soun-Gui Kim revisits her interactive installation on the stock movements, “Stock Exchange”, by adding a garden to create an absurd and ironic counterpoint between stock exchange and nature (text and interviews).

The first extensive monograph dedicated to the Korean director: moving on the edge for thirty years, Kim Ki-duk physically explored the forthcoming themes of his work as a director – wandering, escape and, especially, survival.

The first extensive monograph dedicated to the Korean director: moving on the edge for thirty years, Kim Ki-duk physically explored the forthcoming themes of his work as a director – wandering, escape and, especially, survival.

Quotes, aphorisms and stories to relate Tchouang-tseu's Eastern thought to Wittgenstein's philosophy.

First monograph.

First monograph (available in English edition).

French edition (available in English).

First monograph on Korean artist, with installations views and two critical essays.

Catalogue documenting the series of works by Soun-Gui Kim presented for her exhibition "Stock Exchange" at the Art Sonje Center, Seoul, in 2000.

Korean artist Soun-Gui Kim's first essay relates memories, anecdotes, and small timeless tales.

Jean-Luc Nancy reflects on the concept of value, around Soun-Gui Kim's “Stock exchange” project.

Conversation between six artists from six Asian countries.

New monograph.

"Two Duos" is pressed from cellist Okkyung Lee's OTO Residency; the first side a duo with Jérôme Noetinger on Revox B77 and the second with Nadia Ratsimandresy on ondes Martenot. Cut together, the two meetings seem to raise three cellos in the search for expressive voice: the cello, it's magnetic reproduction, and the dual controls of the machine invented to expand on its musical qualities.

How is the social importance of VIPs defined, and what is an art institution's attitude towards this? The Korean artist Haegue Yang addressed this issue in developing the VIP's Union project, which she started in 2001. This catalogue reviews the work's development over the years, and includes iconographic documentation, genealogy, essays and an interview with the artist.

The Korean artist's first monograph.

Artist's book (an enlarged 2nd edition of Yang's long out of print Grid Bloc from 2000).

Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.

The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).

The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.