Seoul Colloquium in Korean Studies
(Organized by the Seoul Center of the ÉFEO and RAS Korea)

We would like to inform you of the April 2021 Colloquium, which will be held as a Zoom event

Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021. 6:00PM (Seoul)
Speaker: Mael Bellec
Venue: Online Zoom

All who wish to participate MUST register in advance by sending an email to efeoseoul@hotmail.com and a link to the Zoom event will then be sent to them

*the image caption above: ‘Kim Whanki in his studio in Paris in 1957 Ó Whanki Foundation’

Korean artists in France: Why they went there and what they did there.

This lecture will be dedicated to an overview of the History of Korean artists in France from the 1920s onwards. The aims of these artists, their art, their interactions with the French art scene and their personalities differed greatly one from another. But, from the first few arrivals in the twenties to the waves of students attending fine arts schools in France in the last decades, these artists followed patterns and trends which make a good case for the establishing of a periodization and a study of transcultural artistic exchanges.

Mael Bellec is the curator in charge of Chinese and Korean collections at the Cernuschi museum, the museum of Asian arts of the city of Paris. He curated several shows on modern and contemporary art, including “Seoul-Paris-Seoul: Korean artists in France” in 2015, “Lee Ungno: man of the crowds” in 2017, both in the Cernuschi museum, and “Lee Ungno: a stranger at home” in the Lee Ungno museum in Daejeon in 2018.

We hope that as many as possible of you can come to this event.

Elisabeth Chabanol
Brother Anthony