Curators
Anca Mihuleț and Seolhui Lee
Seolhui Lee (b. 1987, lives and works in South Korea and Denmark) is the artistic director for the Korean Pavilion at the 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale together with Jacob Fabricius and a curator at Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark (2023–present). She previously served as the head of the exhibition team for the Busan Biennale 2020, was a curator at the Seoul Museum of Art (2018–2019) and worked for the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea (2012–2013). Lee has also served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts (2019–2022).
Anca Mihuleț worked in the curatorial team of Singapore Biennale 2019. In 2021, she curated the exhibition Chronicles of the Future Superheroes at Kunsthalle Bega in Timișoara, Romania; the second edition of the exhibition was presented in 2023 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. Recently, Anca Mihuleț and Irena Bekić co-curated Andreja Kulunčić’s research project You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka (2022) and the Vargas Museum in Manila (2023). This year, she will curate the exhibition Ghost Dancer at the Art Pavilion in Zagreb.
Artists: Irina Botea-Bucan & Jon Dean, Choi Yun, Lena Constante, Jang Pa, kinema ikon, Elena Haschke Marinescu, Nho Wonhee, Ada Pistiner
19.09-20.10.2024
ARAC, Anca Poterașu Gallery
26 Popa Soare Street, Bucharest
Anca Poterașu Gallery presents an exhibition that revolves around the similar histories of domestic and community life in the two countries; influenced by current processes of social and political restoration, the discussion and research reflects among other things how perceptions of women have been shaped by different intercultural contexts. Featuring artists from different historical periods, the project explores on the one hand systems of representation of women in visual culture, and on the other hand contextualizes narratives and personal histories relevant to the shaping of the idea of family and community in South-East Europe and East Asia.
My Brilliant Friend is a project born out of the curatorial friendship between Seolhui Lee and Anca Mihuleț. The two curators met in 2019 while working for the Busan Biennale and Singapore Biennale, respectively, trying to solve the mystery around a video work by the Romanian-Cuban artist Sandu Darie. Their conversations and curatorial exchanges expanded over the past years, with comparisons between Romania and South Korea taking precedence. In the meantime, Seolhui visited Romania twice, developing a strong interest in post-conceptualism and local architecture.
We selected three Korean and five Romanian artistic positions in an attempt to delineate a milieu of stances that render both familiarity and a sense of belonging, together with moments of care and tension. The displayed projects talk about the everyday life of the artists and the people around them, as much as they talk about the dreams, memories and possibilities of a generation.
here you can find more details on the exhibition
The project Prietena mea genială is co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration. The content and outcome of the project are the sole responsibility of the grantee and do not necessarily reflect the views of AFCN.
Event organized with the support of DACIN SARA.
Partners: Muzeul Național al Taranului Roman, Revista Arta, LG Romania
Credit graphic design: Andrei Reg