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North and South Korean Art from the Sigg Collection Courtesy of Kunstmuseum Bern. This event is for Asia Society Members only.Become a Member The exhibition "Border Crossings" at the Kunstmuseum Bern 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. The North fosters a socialist-realist tradition of painting, while in the South a vital contempora...

A rare exhibition, at a museum in Switzerland, brings together works that, despite sharing a common cultural tradition, come from different worlds.

How to cross the border between South and North Korea? Via Switzerland! The Missiles, 1994 (original) - 2004 (sanctioned copy), by Pak Yong Chol. Swiss collector Uli Sigg's privileged access to North Korea's leadership granted him the exclusive right of acquiring artworks depicting its leaders (in the picture: Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, sitting, with his son Kim Jong-il), usually forbidden to foreign collectors. Images of the three generations of leaders are only permitted on official sites. The individual authorship of the painting is also a rare case, as North Korean artworks ar...

How to cross the border between South and North Korea? Via Switzerland! The Missiles, 1994 (original) - 2004 (sanctioned copy), by Pak Yong Chol. Swiss collector Uli Sigg's privileged access to North Korea's leadership granted him the exclusive right of acquiring artworks depicting its leaders (in the picture: Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, sitting, with his son Kim Jong-il), usually forbidden to foreign collectors. Images of the three generations of leaders are only permitted on official sites. The individual authorship of the painting is also a rare case, as North Korean artworks ar...

24 Apr — 30 May 2021 at the Mizuma Gallery in Singapore, Singapore 28 April 2021 Agan Harahap, I'll Follow the Sun, 2021, C-print on photo paper, 110 × 140 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Mizuma Gallery Mizuma Gallery is pleased to announce There’s a Fun in Funeral, a solo exhibition by Indonesian artist Agan Harahap. Responding to the challenges brought about by the pandemic, Agan Harahap created a new series of works which explores the absurdity of our new reality. Juxtaposing various images from his archives and those procured from the web, Agan composed photographs of disturbing ...