Gwangju Folly III

View Folly is located in the proximity of the newly opened Asia Culture Center. Designed as an observatory, the folly will be specially built to overlook the media art installations and scenery related to Gwangju.

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Tim Edler & Jan Edler

Germany

2016	1st Prize Public Art for “Haus der Zukunft”, Berlin
2015	1st Prize Public Art for Rogers Place Arena, Edmonton
2013	Exhibition at Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein
2012	Bronce of Global Holcim Award (Flussbad)
2011	Exibition at MoMA, New York
2011	1st Prize Amageforbraending Waste to Energy Plant Copenhagen with Bjarke Ingels
2009	Art Price Berlin

Moon, Hoon

Korea

2015	Exhibition: “Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula”, Arko Art Center
2014	Exhibition: “Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula”, The Korean / Pavilion of the 2014 Venice Biennale / Designed Wind House. Jeju Island, Korea
2013	Designed K_POP Curve. Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do, Korea / Designed Roll House. Miryang, Korea
2012	Designed Lollipop House. Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2009	Exhibition: “Terra Incognita”. Cheonggye Creative Studio, Seoul, Korea

Cook Folly, in a nutshell, will function as a restaurant. As a work of art, however, it is expected to become a bottom-up model for urban regeneration in a run-down part of the city in desperate need of revitalization.

Jang, Jinwoo

Korea

2015	Opened NIKITA PASTA & BURGER /Opened SPINDLE MARKET (Food Court) /Opened KAHLO&DIEGO (Café and Bar) / Opened FRANK in Galleria Department Store in Apgujeong-dong, Korea / Opened MARINE TACOS (Mexican Restaurant)
2014	Opened MATHILDA (Italian/French Restaurant) / Opened Jang Jin Woo Entrepreneurship School
2005	Majored in Korean Classical Orchestral Music and Commercial Photography, Chung-Ang University, Korea

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the Netherlands Creative Industries Fund will collaborate on the Gwangju Dutch folly through which “The Critique of Everyday Life” can be experienced from a new perspective based on the urban research conducted on the architects of the two countries.

Winy Maas
MVRDV

Netherlands

2016	Received GCSC Award for European Innovation. Markthal, Rotterdam, NL
2015	Received Rotterdam Architecture Award. Markthal, Rotterdam, NL / Received European Steel Construction Award of Merit. / DNB Bank HQ, Oslo, NO / Designed Shanghai Hongqiao Airport Flower Building. Shanghai, China
2014	Designed Market Hall in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2013	Designed Chungha Building. Seoul, Korea
2012	Designed PUSHED SLAB (Book Mountain). Spijkenisse, the Netherlands

Cho, ByoungSoo

Korea

2015	Master planning, designing, supervising and CM for “South Cape Housing Complex”, Korea
2014	Received an award by Korean Institute of Architects / Designed 5.18 Gwangju Democracy, Human Rights and Peace Memorial Center. Gwangju, Korea (Work in progress)
2013	Received AIA Montana Honor Award
2011	Won the design competition for Louis Vuitton / Designed “Maison Louis Vuitton” in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Korea
2010	Received Soo Kum Kim Prize for Earth House
2005	Selected as one of 100 architects by Britain’s Phaeton Press

Mini Folly is a folly for pleasure and entertainment of sort. Korean architect Kook Hyoung-gul, Syn Sue-Gyeong and Leif Høgfeldt Hansen, architect and professor at Aarhus University, are leading the project. Overcoming the innate limit coming from the site of a folly, it will be traveling around various places from the Biennale Square to others, allowing flexibility in its function and usage and connectivity with other works.

Kook, Hyoung-Gul

Korea

2015	Exhibition: Urban Menifesto Archive, Art Council Korea, Seoul, Korea/ Book Publishing: Re: thinking locality in architecture
2014	Exhibition: “Part to Whole” – MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2013	Exhibition: “Bilateral Theatre II” – Animamix Biennale at Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2012	Exhibition: “Opening Chronometry” – Campus Pavilion at Ewha University, Seoul, Korea
2011	Exhibition: “Plis/Replis” – La Fabrique Sonore at Pommery Champaign factory, Reims, France

Syn, Sue Gyeong

Korea

2016	Curated Han River Emotion. Seoul Architecture Festival. Seoul. Korea
2015	Curated Han River Emotion. Seoul Architecture Festival. Seoul. Korea
2013	Exhibition: “INTER. Act Reciprocity in Media”. BRIC Media Museum. Brooklyn. New York. US.
2012	Governor’s Island Art Fair Artist Selection. Governor’s Island. New York. US.
2011	Exhibition: “All-Light”. Digital Media. Seo Art Gallery. Brooklyn. US. Exhibition: “Anxiety and Desire”. Artgate Gallery. New York. US.
2010	ACM SIGGRAPH. LA. US.
2008	ACM SIGGRAPH Asia. Singapore.

Leif Høgfeldt Hansen
Denmark
Present Associate professor, Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark. / Running Studio CONTEXT in Denmark, Italy and India./ Vice-president, the Board of DOCOMOMO, Denmark

This FUN(Fun Urban Networking), PUN(Positive Urban arratives) Folly is a participatory project and includes a plan for crowd-sourcing. Initially, a nation-wide competition was held to collect various ideas.

Kim, Chanjoong

Korea

2015	Received Korea Remodeling Award, Korea Remodeling Association / Exhibition: “Skid Art for Sharing.” National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2013-2014	Received Seoul Special City Architecture Award
2013	Guest exhibition: Korean Cultural Centre India. New Delhi, India
2012	Designed SK Happiness Foundation Office Building. Seoul, Korea
2011	Designed Paul Smith Flagship Store. Seoul, Korea / Designed Cubric, Art Folly 2012_Cubrick. National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. Seoul, Korea
2010	Exhibition: “12 Contemporary Architects of Korea: Exhibition by Harvard University.” Cambridge, U.S.

Jin, Siyon

Korea

2015	Exhibition: “Light Club.” E-land Space. E-land Headquarters. Seoul, Korea / Exhibition: “Humans are a Type of A Star,,,FLOW.” Logos Pastoral Gallery. Uiwang, Korea
2013-2015	Adjunct Professor, Department of Fine Arts, College of Arts, Chung-Ang University
2011	Received Gwangju Art Prize. Gwangju Art Prize Committee
2010	Exhibition: “JIN SIYON Video & LED Installation.” Crown Haitai Gallery. Seoul, Korea
2008	Exhibition: “Two Wheels.” Taipei Artist Village Gallery. Taipei, Taiwan
2005	Received Ha Jungwoong Young Artists’ Prize. Gwangju Museum of Art

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