Kunstmuseum Bern

Broder Crossings
North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection

Exhibition
30.04.21 – 05.09.21

Pak Yong Chol, The Missiles, 1994—2004. Oil on canvas, 152 x 272 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Pak Yong Chol, The Missiles, 1994—2004. Oil on canvas, 152 x 272 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
North Korea Collective, The Sea, 2008. Oil on canvas, 150 x 295 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
North Korea Collective, The Sea, 2008. Oil on canvas, 150 x 295 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Kyungah Ham, Chandelier, 2012—2013. North Korean embroidery on silk, 219 x 340 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Kyungah Ham, Chandelier, 2012—2013. North Korean embroidery on silk, 219 x 340 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Kyungah Ham, Sweet-Sweet & Bling-Bling, 2009—2010. North Korean embroidery on silk, 164 x 214 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Kyungah Ham, Sweet-Sweet & Bling-Bling, 2009—2010. North Korean embroidery on silk, 164 x 214 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Unkyung Hur, Scopic Image 3, 2014. Gold Leaves, Gold leaf 24K, Urush FRP, 200 x 16 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Unkyung Hur, Scopic Image 3, 2014. Gold Leaves, Gold leaf 24K, Urush FRP, 200 x 16 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Inbai Kim, Deller hon Dainy (3 Portraits), 2007. Synthetic materials, pencil. Each 80 x 50 x 45 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Inbai Kim, Deller hon Dainy (3 Portraits), 2007. Synthetic materials, pencil. Each 80 x 50 x 45 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Sea Hyun Lee, Between Red33, 2007. Oil on canvas, two parts, each 250 × 200 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Sea Hyun Lee, Between Red33, 2007. Oil on canvas, two parts, each 250 × 200 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Feng Mengbo, Two Great White Sharks, 2014. Water color on India paper, 68 x 136 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Feng Mengbo, Two Great White Sharks, 2014. Water color on India paper, 68 x 136 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Guang Tingbo, Hua Guofeng in North Korea, 1978. Oil on canvas, 250 x 174 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Guang Tingbo, Hua Guofeng in North Korea, 1978. Oil on canvas, 250 x 174 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Shen Xuezhe, Tumen River: Dooman River Broken Bridge, 2010. Gelatin silver print, framed 44.2 x 54.7 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Shen Xuezhe, Tumen River: Dooman River Broken Bridge, 2010. Gelatin silver print, framed 44.2 x 54.7 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Yee Sookyung, Translated Vases s—The Moon 3, 2007. Ceramic shards, epoxy resin, gold leaves, Diameter 34 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist
Yee Sookyung, Translated Vases s—The Moon 3, 2007. Ceramic shards, epoxy resin, gold leaves, Diameter 34 cm. Photo: Sigg Collection, Mauensee © The artist

The exhibition allows the public a close look at the Korean Peninsula, divided since 1953. A 250-kilometre border of barbed-wire fences and anti-tank barriers divides Korea into two states which could not be more different from one another. Equally divergent is the art produced simultaneously in the two countries.

Curators
Kathleen Bühler, Stefanie Marlene Wenger

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Location

Kunstmuseum Bern
Hodlerstrasse 8–12
3011 Bern
Switzerland
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Website
https://www.kunstmuseumbern.ch

Published on: 25.08.21