Postcard from Seoul 2024

As a first-timer to Seoul, here is ArtsHub's take on the city's arts and culture scene during its 2024 art fair week.
'Platypuses and Unicorns', installation view at BOAN1942, Seoul. Several paintings installed inside a traditional Korean resident that appears abandoned.

Collaboration was part of the deal when Frieze and the Korean International Art Fair (Kiaf) Seoul entered into a partnership in 2022 that saw the two fairs presented side by side with overlapping dates and a shared venue.

Instead of Frieze’s international fair chain cannibalising the local arts ecology, the two fairs have bolstered each other by sharing foot traffic and expanding their offerings at different price points.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_