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BARAKAT CONTEMPORARY
Based in Seoul Barakat Contemporary is Barakat Gallery's new space devoted to exceptional contemporary art drawn from around the globe.
Barakat Contemporary will actively implement research-based projects to continue to explore the points of contact and conflict among diverse cultures through Barakat Gallery’s extensive collection and archives, which encompass the humanities and anthropology. In collaboration with artists who cross-cross the humanity and civilizations, Barakat Contemporary will showcase exhibitions that open up new horizons for contemporary art and will introduce internationally noteworthy artists to Korea, thus supporting artists’ long-term growth.
Barakat Contemporary will produce knowledge and discourse and lead the art scene by not only planning professional exhibitions but also creating arenas for exchange with experts from various fields.
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RECENT EXHIBITIONS
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Gary Hume: Looking and Seeing
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 5 June - 21 July 2019 Hume is considered one of the most important painters among the “YBAs” who studied at Goldsmiths, University of London in the late 1980s. Hume is well known for the brilliant... -
Robert Motherwell: Elergy
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 6 March - 12 May 2019 Robert Motherwell was one of the leaders in Abstract Expressionism, the most revolutionary movement in 20thcentury contemporary art. He was one of the first-generation of Abstract Expressionist group known as the New York School alongside Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko. Motherwell is also known as an artist who have made a milestone beyond his work by introducing American to European contemporary art, Dadaism in particular. -
Nicky Nodjoumi - Please Sit Down
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 21 November 2018 - 13 January 2019 Barakat Contemporary presents Please Sit Down by Iranian-American artist Nicky Nodjoumi from Wednesday, 21st November 2018 until Sunday, 13th January 2019. For over 40 years, Nodjoumi has built a very... -
Shezad Dawood - Leviathan On Sunspots and Whales
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 1 September - 4 November 2018 Barakat Contemporary is proud to announce the solo exhibition Leviathan: On Sunspots and Whales by Shezad Dawood, with newly commissioned works including the new film Leviathan Cycle, Episode 4: Jamila,... -
Jorge Mañes Rubio - Peak of Eternal Light
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 2 May - 10 June 2018 The Exhibition Barakat Seoul is proudly presenting Peak of Eternal Light, a solo exhibition by the Spanish artist Jorge Mañes Rubio (b.1984). Jorge Mañes Rubio considers from an ethnographic point... -
The Absence of Paterfamilias - Alex Verhaest, Cho Moon Ki
Barakat Contemporary, Seoul 1 June - 6 August 2017 The exhibition, The Absence of Paterfamilias, offers the possibility to compare the two artists’ dissimilar methodologies as they approach family portraits that may reflect reality though appear nonetheless strange. Respectively...
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Barakat Contemporary - RECENT PRESS COVERAGE
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Nicky Nodjoumi challenges power with art
December 12, 2018 Currently at the Barakat Contemporary - a new space near the Blue House in central Seoul opened by the Barakat Gallery Seoul - hang large-scale paintings that are simultaneously interesting... -
Robert Motherwell
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Robert Motherwell At Barakat Seoul
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Robert Motherwell’s ‘Elegy’ series to be shown in Seoul
March 3, 2019 Barakat Contemporary, Seoul-based Barakat Gallery’s modern and contemporary art venue, is introducing works by artist Robert Motherwell. The exhibition kicking off Wednesday will feature 23 artworks that Motherwell produced between... -
Nicky Nodjoumi at Barakat Contemporary
November 21, 2018
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