By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter

The National Museum of Contemporary Art is gearing up for another busy year with a full slate of exhibitions from Korean and international artists.

Bae Soon-hoon, director of the National Museum of Contemporary Art, said the museum hopes to attract 1.5 million visitors this year, a 36 percent increase over the 1.1 million in 2009.

The museum unveiled a lineup of 15 exhibitions that will be held at the museums in Gwacheon, Deoksu Palace and other venues, including one that will go abroad.

The ``Floating Hours'' exhibition, which features works by renowned Korean artists such as Paik Nam-june, Kim Ho-duck and Kang Ik-joong, will be held at the Deoksu Palace Museum from May 5 to July 4. The exhibition will then travel to museums in the Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria, starting September to early 2011.

 

"떠있는 시간들" 전이라는 주제로 강익중, 김호덕,백남준 등 한국에 널리알려진 작가의 작품들이 5월 5일부터 7월4일까지 덕수궁 미술관에서 열릴 예정이며, 이후 이전시는 오는 9월부터 2011년 초까지 불가리아,루마니아, 체코의 미술관들을 두루 여행하며 전시될 예정이다.

Installation artist Park Ki-won, who was recently named the museum's Artist of the Year, will also be the focus of a solo exhibition, from April 7 to May 30 in Gwacheon.

 

설치작가 박기원은 최근 제정된 "올해의 미술관 작가"로 선정되어 과천 미술관에서 4월 7일 부터 5월30일까지 개인전이 열릴예정이다.

Also in Gwacheon, pop Art lovers will be able to enjoy the ``Pop, Pop, Pop'' exhibition from Nov. 10 to March 2011. It will showcase representative works by some of the best contemporary Pop artists from East Asia.

 

또한 과천에서는 팝아트 애호가들이 "Pop Pop Pop" 이라는 전시를 11월10일부터 2011년 3월까지 즐길수 있다, 이전시는 동아시아의 가장 뛰어난 현대 팝아트 작가들이 그들의 대표작을 선보인다. 

A retrospective of American artist and composer John Cage (1912-2002) will also be held, July 14 to Oct. 3 in Gwacheon. Cage and his experimental music was a big influence on the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s.

At the National Museum of Contemporary Art at Deoksu Palace, the ``Asian Realism'' exhibition will run from July 28 to Oct. 10. Organized together with the Singapore Art Museum, it aims to examine the Realism movement in Asia from the 19th century to the 1980s. It will feature over 100 works by 80 Realism masters from 10 Asian countries.

Around 90 pieces from the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria will be shown from Oct. 25 to Feb. 2011. The museum is known for having one of the largest print collections in the world, with around 65,000 drawings and one million old master prints.

There will also be retrospectives on Korean artists such Park No-soo, March 17 to April 18 at the museum in Deoksu Palace; Chung Chang-sup, Aug. 4 to Oct. 17, and sculptor Song Yung-su (1930-1970) Sept. 8 to Nov. 14, both at the museum in Gwacheon.

The exhibitions are part of the museum's efforts to appeal to a broader audience, Bae said. The museum is also stepping up its marketing and promotion campaign and improving its services for museum-goers.

Meanwhile, plans to convert the former Defense Security Command site in Sogyeok-dong, Seoul into a museum are underway. The architect to transform the building, popularly known as ``Gimusa,'' will be chosen by May. Demolition of the old building is scheduled for September.

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