September 7, 2021
Gladstone Seoul. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery
New York-based Gladstone Gallery has announced that it will open a branch in Seoul. The outpost will be the sixth location for the modern and contemporary art gallery, which only this summer launched an office in Los Angeles in addition to its three galleries in New York and its space in Brussels.
The gallery’s founder, Barbara
Gladstone, said “We are very happy to share the news that Gladstone will officially
begin to expand its physical footprint to Asia. We have a long history of
artists showing at some of Korea’s most prestigious institutions, including a
significant exhibition for Matthew Barney at the Leeum in 2005, and many more.”
Gladstone Seoul. Courtesy Gladstone Gallery
The venture will be helmed by HeeJin
Park, an alum of Seoul’s heavyweight Kukje Gallery who has worked for Gladstone
out of South Korea for more than a year. “This is an exciting moment for the
gallery and the greater Seoul art world,” said Park. “The Gangnam area of the
city is a vibrant location with its own burgeoning art scene, so we are happy
to embed ourselves into the fabric of this neighborhood at this significant
moment of growth.”
The news comes as top-tier dealers
from abroad have been racing to open and expand in the capital city. No date
has yet been attached to the gallery’s launch. In establishing a presence in
Seoul, Gladstone joins other Western galleries such as Lehmann Maupin, König
Galerie, Perrotin, Thaddeus Ropac, and Various Small Fires, all of which have
opened branches in the city in recent years, signifying a belief in the
sustained viability of the art market there.
And then
there is Frieze, the London art fair giant, which has said it will collaborate
with the Galleries Association of Korea to start its first Asian fair next
September at the COEX convention center, which is also in Gangnam.
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