Past
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Wael Shawky: Telematch and Other Stories
February 28 - April 27, 2025 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present Wael Shawky’s (b. 1971, Egypt) second solo exhibition at the gallery, on view from February 28 to April 27, 2025. Wael Shawky has established a distinctive narrative world that blurs the lines between reality and fiction through a diverse range of media, including video... Read more -
Nicky Nodjoumi: Someone is coming with a flower
November 13, 2024 - January 12, 2025 Barakat Contemporary proudly presents Iranian-born American artist Nicky Nodjoumi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Someone is coming with a flower from November 13th, 2024 to January 12th, 2025. The exhibition comprises three works created before the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the first public unveiling of over sixty monotypes on... Read more -
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Zifzafa
September 3 - November 3, 2024 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present Zifzafa , Lawrence Abu Hamdan's first solo exhibition in Korea, from September 3 to November 3. Abu Hamdan is a researcher, filmmaker, writer, and activist who describes himself as a “Private Ear” using sound to shape his artistic practice. He has conducted sonic investigations... Read more -
Farah Al Qasimi: Blue Desert Online
June 12 - August 11, 2024 Barakat Contemporary presents Blue Desert Online , the first Korean solo exhibition by New York- and UAE-based photographer Farah Al Qasimi. The exhibition, opening June 12 - August 11, 2024, features Al Qasimi's representative body of work from the past five years (2018 - 2023), characterized by her multifaceted observation... Read more -
Pratchaya Phinthong: Today will take care of tomorrow
March 28 - May 26, 2024 Thai-born artist Pratchaya Phinthong’s first solo exhibition in Korea: Today will take care of tomorrow at Barakat Contemporary provides a comprehensive view of the artist’s practice that brings together heterogeneous social, economic, and geographical systems into constructive yet open-ended friction. Primarily through extensive traveling and dialogues, Phinthong finds and gathers objects, materials, and narratives for his art projects, allowing them to interplay in both ironic juxtaposition and fateful harmony. Particularly, the new works produced for this exhibition are an extension of his project that reprocesses in collaboration with the local community unexploded ordnances left in Laos from the intense bombing by the US military between 1964 and 1973. The work draws connections to the current situation in the Korean DMZ and implies the global significance of this issue beyond Laos. Read more -
Sojung Jun: Overtone
November 8, 2023 - January 7, 2024 Barakat Contemporary is proud to present a solo exhibition of new works by Sojung Jun, Overtone , from November 8 to January 7, 2024. Probing into Sojung Jun’s ongoing investigation of ‘sound’, the artist launches Syncope for the first time, an AR application developed especially for her first exhibition for... Read more -
Jewyo Rhii: Of Hundred Carts and On
August 31 - October 27, 2023 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present Jewyo Rhii’s first solo exhibition at the gallery: Of Hundred Carts and On from August 31st to October 27th, 2023. Centered around the project Love Your Depot , to which Rhii has been dedicated since 2019, the exhibition engages in Jewyo Rhii’s undertaking to... Read more -
Michael Rakowitz: The invisible enemy should not exist
(Northwest Palace of Kalhu, Room F, Southeast Entrance; Room S, Southwest Entrance) May 10 - July 30, 2023 Barakat Contemporary cordially invites you to Michael Rakowitz’s first solo exhibition in Korea: The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Kalhu, Room F, Southeast Entrance; Room S, Southwest Entrance) from May 10 to July 30, 2023. The exhibition presents key works that Michael Rakowitz has been dedicated to... Read more -
Shezad Dawood: Integrations
March 15 - April 23, 2023 The surfaces of intense fluorescent colors geometrically divide the space, then reintegrate the space back into an axis of sensations. From the abstract backdrop into which the color planes seep, protrude figurative architectural forms; and together they fragment and unify the painting surface irregularly. The way the layers are captured... Read more -
El Anatsui: Day after Night
November 29, 2022 - January 29, 2023 Barakat Contemporary proudly presents El Anatsui: Day after Night . The exhibition, which will run from Nov 29th, 2022 to Jan 29th, 2023, is a compelling study on the materiality of light. El Anatsui returns to Korea after his first exhibition in the country in 2017, El Anatsui: Topology of... Read more -
Sung Hwan Kim: Night Crazing
August 30 - October 30, 2022 Barakat Contemporary presents Night Crazing , a solo exhibition by New York and Honolulu-based artist Sung Hwan Kim, from Tuesday, August 30, to Sunday, October 30, 2022. Based on a critical stance toward issues of modern and contemporary history, social structures, cultural practices, and education systems, Sung Hwan Kim weaves... Read more -
Alex Verhaest: The Archive of Unattained Futures
June 8 - July 31, 2022 Barakat Contemporary is proud to present The Archive of Unattained Futures , the solo exhibition of Alex Verhaest (b.1985, Belgium) from June 8th to July 31st, 2022 at the Barakat Seoul location. It is Verhaest’s first solo exhibition in Korea and Asia at large, after her two-person exhibition in the... Read more -
Nevin Aladağ: Motion Lines
May 25 - July 24, 2022 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present international artist Nevin Aladağ’s very first exhibition Motion lines in Korea, from 25th May (Wed) to 24th July (Sun) 2022. The “motion lines” in the exhibition title are used in animation to represent the movements of characters and objects; they serve to express sounds,... Read more -
James Barnor: Ever Young
March 17 - May 8, 2022 On March 17, Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present Ever Young , the first solo exhibition of James Barnor in Korea. The exhibition introduces Barnor’s major works spanning the 1950s to 1980s which embraces various fields of portraiture, photojournalism, fashion and music photography, captured by an African photographer across two... Read more -
Emma Hart: BIG MOUTH
November 24, 2021 - February 6, 2022 Barakat Contemporary presents BIG MOUTH , a solo exhibition by British artist Emma Hart (b. 1974), from November 24 (Wed), 2021 to January 23(Sun), 2022. This is the first solo exhibition in Korea by Hart, a winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2016). Bringing together a series... Read more -
Mark Dion: The Sea Life of South Korea and Other Curious Tales
September 8 - November 7, 2021 From 8th September to 7th November 2021, Barakat Contemporary holds an American artist Mark Dion's first solo exhibition in Korea, The Sea Life of South Korea and Other Curious Tales . As an amateur ecologist, archaeologist, and sometimes ornithologist, naturalist, and avid collector who has explored the world since the... Read more -
Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press: Pranayama Typhoon
June 16 - August 15, 2021 Barakat Contemporary is proud to present Pranayama Typhoon , the first solo exhibition by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press in Asia from 16th June to 15th August 2021. Banner first gained attention in the mid-1990s for her “wordscapes” and “still films”, which explored the relationships of primitive human desire... Read more -
Michael Dean: Garden of Delete
March 31 - May 30, 2021 Barakat Contemporary presents Garden of Delete , the first exhibition of the British sculptor Michael Dean (b. 1977, UK) in Korea from 31st March to 30th May 2021. Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, Michael Dean has studied at the Goldsmiths University of London and has since gained international stature as one... Read more -
Yangachi: Galaxy Express
October 15 - December 27, 2020 Barakat Contemporary is delighted to present Galaxy Express, a solo exhibition of pioneering Korean media artist Yangachi, from 15th October to 27th December 2020. In Galaxy Express, Yangachi posits that digital art is a psychic medium allowing for communication with other universes. This exhibition presents a realization of such a... Read more -
Hassan Hajjaj: A Taste of Things To Come
August 5 - September 27, 2020 Barakat Contemporary presents a solo exhibition of the artist Hassan Hajjaj, A Taste of Things to Come, from 5th August to 27th September 2020. Hassan Hajjaj moved to England with his family at a young age and is an artist who lives and works in Morocco and England, using photography... Read more -
Chung Seoyoung: Knocking Air
May 12 - July 5, 2020 Barakat Contemporary will present Chung Seoyoung’s solo exhibition, Knocking Air, from 12th May to 5th July 2020. Chung Seoyoung is an artist who played a leading role in establishing ‘Contemporary Art’ as a new category within the Korean art world in the 1990s. Focusing on sculptural elements, Chung Seoyoung began... Read more -
Peles Empire: Even here, I exist
March 12 - April 26, 2020 Barakat Contemporary is delighted to present the German artist group Peles Empire with the exhibition Even here, I exist from 12th March to 26th April 2020 for the gallery’s first show in 2020. Peles Empire is a collaborative duo consisting of the artists Katharina Stoever and Barbara Wolff. In 2005,... Read more -
Wael Shawky: Al Araba Al Madfuna
November 29, 2019 - January 31, 2020 Barakat Contemporary presents Al Araba Al Madfuna , an exhibition by Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, from 29th November 2019 to 31st January 2020. Considered one of the most important artists in the Middle East, Wael Shawky attempts to reinterpret established historical narratives through film and a range of other media... Read more -
Yunchul Kim: GLARE
September 19 - November 17, 2019 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to present the artist Yunchul Kim in its most recent exhibition, GLARE , running from 19th September to 17th November 2019. Yunchul Kim majored in electronic music in Korea and media art in Germany. Throughout his research on material substance, the artist has been examining the... Read more -
Gary Hume: Looking and Seeing
June 5 - August 11, 2019 Barakat Contemporary is delighted to hold the first solo exhibition in Korea by British artist Gary Hume from 5th June to 4th August 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... Read more -
Robert Motherwell: Elegy
March 6 - May 12, 2019 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to announce Robert Motherwell – Elegy on view from 6th March to 12th May 2019. Robert Motherwell was one of the leaders in Abstract Expressionism, the most revolutionary movement in 20th century contemporary art. He was one of the first-generation of Abstract Expressionist group known as... Read more -
Nicky Nodjoumi: Please Sit Down
November 21, 2018 - January 13, 2019 Barakat Contemporary is pleased to host the exhibition Please Sit Down by Iranian-American artist Nicky Nodjoumi from 21st November 2018 to 13th January 2019. For over 40 years, Nodjoumi has built a very political and profound artistic world whose theme is the relationship between power and violence. Nodjoumi’s works are... Read more -
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan - On Sunspots and Whales
September 1 - November 4, 2018 Leviathan is an ambitious art project that examines urgent issues of the contemporary era. Through linkages with experts from different fields, it explores the connections among various contemporary issues that remain insoluble or not fully understood including climate change, marine welfare, democracy, migration, and mental health. Consisting of ten episodic... Read more -
El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity
September 27 - November 26, 2017 El Anatsui: Topology of Generosity , presented by Barakat Seoul from 27th September to 26th November 2017, sheds light on the potential of change that a single artist can generate. El Anatsui’s most representative works are large-scale installations reminiscent of tapestries, created by processing and connecting with copper wire thousands... Read more -
Alex Verhaest, Cho Moon Ki: The Absence of Paterfamilias
June 1 - August 6, 2017 The exhibition, The Absence of Paterfamilias , from 1st June to 6th August 2017 offers the possibility to compare the two artists’ dissimilar methodologies as they approach family portraits that may reflect reality though appear nonetheless strange. Respectively using painting and interactive film in the distant and quite dissimilar cultural... Read more
