Program
This is the program of this year's Biennale event.
‘Shelter in the ForestⅡ’ exhibition is a project in which nature artists create shelters on the forest of Yeonmisan. This exhibition which realized by the artistic imagination of nature artists will serve as an artistic shelter that protects against the tempestuous rain and wind in the reality of today.
| Exhibition Theme | Shelter in the Forest Ⅱ |
|---|---|
| Exhibition Period | Outdoor Exhibition: August 24 - November 30, 2024 |
| Exhibition Venues | Yeonmisan Nature Art Park, Geumgang Nature Art Center |
| Artists | 18 Artists (16 Teams) from 12 Countries |
| Participating Artists | |
|---|---|
| Anni Snyman, PC Janse van Rensburg | South Africa |
| Chinzorig Ryenchin-ochir | Mongolia |
| Emanuela Camacci | Italy |
| Goran Štimac | Croatia |
| Jordi NN | Spain |
| Jung Jangjig | Korea |
| Ko Seunghyun | Korea |
| Lee Jaehwang | Korea |
| Nung Kittisak | Thailand |
| Park Injin | Korea |
| Peter Pal | Romania |
| Pierre Guilloteau | France |
| Rumen Dimitrov | Bulgaria |
| Soeine Bac | Canada |
| Tserendorj Tsogtbayar, Tuvshinjargal Lkhasuren | Mongolia |
| Vasilis Vasili | Greece/Canada |
As a symbol of nature, forest is a place where lives are conceived and growing. Forest awakes human
beings to the precious value of living together with nature. Forest provides us with endless energy and
products. The fresh air, clean water, fertile soil, trees and fruits that grow in the forest, and all sorts of
animals who inhabit there, naturally live together in harmony. In the beginning, it must be the peaceful
world where everything was growing and flourishing based on this harmony. That must be the
cosmos where everything from apex predators to subordinate invisible microorganism was complying
with the laws of nature. However, the advance of human cognitive ability, natural science, and industries
objectified nature and destroyed forest under the guise of forest development. As human’s
desire made a mistake of going against the laws of nature, human beings faced the fatal revenge from
nature in other way around. Such severe natural disasters or an unheard-of pandemic could be
self-contradiction of humans who went against the laws of nature. For some reason, the bees that
should spread pollen have recently vanished. This is the result of destroying the ecosystem. In the ecosystem,
all the lives form their own balance and homeostasis in the process of being born, growing,
and extincting. This process does not just mean simple changes in physical aspect. There is a death in
a birth while a new life dwells in an extinction. Forest has the water, air, and soil that vitalize every life,
so it not only gives a life to human, but also heals, comforts, and shelters exhausted humans. It is so
natural that we forget its value. If a single little movement is stopped, lost, or artificially manipulated,
a massive hardship would be caused in human life.
The Geumgang Nature Art Biennale has broadened the horizons of nature art by handling various
discourses on nature and ecology. The theme of this year is ‘rewilding’, which begins from a thought
of cognizing nature again as the wild state. Beyond the passive and artificial attitude of handling
nature as an object of protection or management, it aims to experience the sound of nature as it is and
also to dream of its recovery. It would be necessary to look back on our attitude of invading and locking
up nature based on our limited thinking. The destroyed forest for building a dam in a river for the
smooth supply of water for agriculture, and installing the photovoltaic power generation system for
the reduction of carbon emission, ciceronically tells us our mistake. It takes an unbelievably long time
to restore the ecosystem and lives whose habitat has been destroyed by logging or forest fire.
The tasks we have might include discovering lives from nature we destroyed, finding some unexpected
sounds or figures of lives in nature, harmonizing with nature based on them, inviting the
lives who left the forest because of human’s desire, and helping the forest conceive new and healthy
lives. Such tasks could just end up in an ideological flow, but we can simply start participating in dialogues
with nature by thinking and experiencing after stopping for a moment in the complex and busy
reality. Under this purpose, the theme of the Video Exhibition is ‘Forest and Life’. Hopefully, this could
be a chance to expand the discourse of rewilding through video languages to find, experience, and
share various secret stories of healthy lives in forest ecology and nature.
| Exhibition Period | August 27 - November 30, 2022 |
|---|---|
| Exhibition Venues | Neulbom Botanical Garden |
| Artists | 50 Teams (51 Artists) from 24 Countries |
| Artists | Ada Tsiropoulou / Greece | les Fujak_Olivier Huet, Margrit Neuendorf / France, Germany |
|---|---|---|
| Agnes Deil / Hungary | Maria Matyja-Rozpara / Poland | |
| Aleksei Martyniuk / Russia | Marine Brossard / France | |
| Alvaro Aroca Cordova / Chile | Matilde Marín / Switzerland/Argentina | |
| Anke Mellin / Germany | Merja Herzog-Hellstén / Finland/Germany | |
| Bengisu Uykusu / Turkey | Moritz Dornauf / Germany | |
| Benna Gaean Maris / Stateless | Nasim Mahdavi / Iran | |
| Bill Hill / USA | Nina Sumarac / Serbia | |
| Blond Jenny / Korea | Ong Leang Ren / Singapore | |
| Endre Gaál / Hungary | Park Juyoung / Korea | |
| Fereshteh Alamshah / Iran | Paul Druecke / USA | |
| Hael Yxxs / Germany | Paulina Seguin Luna / Mexic | |
| Hu Jiamin / China | Peter J.M. Schneider / Germany | |
| Ilse Dreher / Germany | Pierre Guilloteau / France | |
| Jean-Michel Rolland / France | Robin Lasser / USA | |
| Johannes C. Gerard / Netherlands/Germany | Sandor Nagy / Hungary | |
| Julien Masson / France | Shivkumar K V / India | |
| Karim Alahkhani / Iran | Strijdom van der Merwe / South Africa | |
| Kim Dokyoung / Korea | Than / Korea | |
| IKo Seunghyun/ Korea | Tomaz Hipólito / Portugal | |
| Laura Denning / UK | Toshihiko Shibuya / Japan | |
| Lee Jeongeun / Korea | Toûa Heinonen / Finland | |
| Lee Malyong / Korea | Wang Haoyu / China | |
| Leli Hoch/ Germany/South Africa | Ying Chen / Taiwan | |
| Leonard Rachita / France | Yu Buck / Korea |
《Nature Art Cube Exhibition》, which has been conducted as one of the indoor exhibitions of 《
Geumgang Nature Art Biennale》 since 2017, is a program that seeks to interpret and broaden
awareness of nature in various ways of thinking and expression in a 12cm cube. In fact, dealing
with nature in a limited space is not as easy as you might think, but on the other hand, because it
is a limited space, paradoxically, you may be able to show more imagination.
| Exhibition Theme | 12x12x12+Nature |
|---|---|
| Exhibition Period | August 24 - October 31, 2024 |
| Exhibition Venue | Geumgang Nature Art Center |
| Artists | 208 Artists (206 Teams) from 36 Countries |
| Artists 2024 | Aarti ZAVERI / India | LEE Kyungmee / Korea |
|---|---|---|
| AHN Hyeon Dae / Korea | LEE Sunju / Korea | |
| Alejandra COIRINI / Argentina | LEE Yearnsoon / Korea | |
| Alejandra CUERVO / Mexico | Leila FALLAH / Iran | |
| Aleksandra KMITA / Poland | Lilian COOPER / Netherlands/UK | |
| Alexander MUNKHTUYA / Mongolia | Lolita GRABAUSKIENE / Lithuania | |
| Alexandru PRIOTEASA / Romania | Loreta SVAIKAUSKIENE / Lithuania | |
| Anca ION / Spain | Lorna GREEN / UK | |
| Andrzej HOFFMAN / Poland | LYU Junghee / Korea | |
| Anja MATTILA-TOLVANEN / Finland | Maedeh VAKHIDEH / Iran | |
| Anna SLIWINSKA / Poland | Maja MAZUR / Poland | |
| Annabella HOFMANN / Germany | Malee NALEE / Thailand | |
| Arezu ZARGAR / Iran | Maria MATYJA-ROZPARA / Poland | |
| Arvydas ALIŠANKA / Lithuania | Maria TRILLIDOU / Cyprus | |
| Arzu ARBAK / Turkiye | Marielle van den BERGH / Netherlands | |
| Ayse TULAY / Turkiye | Marisa MERLIN / Italy | |
| Aysenur SARI / Turkiye | Marta Claudia PRADO / Argentina | |
| Azar KHORSHID / Iran | Martine PERUGINI / France | |
| Bara LEHMANN-SCHULZ / Germany | Marzieh GOLESTANEH / Iran | |
| Bartosz FRACZEK / Poland | Masoumeh VAHEDI / Iran | |
| Bengu Batu ERTUNG / Turkiye | Matthew CHAVEZ / Mexico | |
| Bernd HALBHERR / Germany | Mazyar MOSHTAGHGOHARI / Iran | |
| Bettina Erland JENSEN / Denmark | Melquiades ROSARIO Sastre / Puerto Rico | |
| Birgitta VOLZ / Germany | Mels DEES / Netherlands | |
| Birute SARAPIENE / Lithuania | Meymanat BOSTANI / Iran | |
| Bogdan Adrian LEFTER / Romania | MIHAILA Anca Niculina / Romania | |
| BURTEA Mihai-Catalin / Romania | Milena MILOSEVIC / Mexico | |
| Cécile HUG / France | Mohammad VAKHIDEH / Iran | |
| Cesar OLVERA / Mexico | Monika M. KORONA / Poland | |
| Chinzorig RYENCHIN-OCHIR / Mongolia | Monika ORTMANN / Germany | |
| Christine HUSS / Germany | Muaiprom SONGRIT / Thailand | |
| Dana CATONA / Romania | Narat KLINSUDJAI / Thailand | |
| Daniel AGUILAR / Mexico | Nasim AREFI / Iran | |
| Daniela GUTIERREZ / Mexico | Nasim MAHDAVI / Iran | |
| Despina OLBRICH-MARIANOU / Greece | Neringa ZUKAUSKAITE / Lithuania | |
| Edda AKKERMANN / Germany | Nina URLICHS / Germany | |
| Elahe ABDOLLAHZADEH / Iran | Nung Kittisak / Thailand | |
| Elena RONDINI / Italy | OH Euiseok / Korea | |
| Elijah SOFO / Ghana | Onongua ENKHTUR / Mongolia | |
| Emanuela CAMACCI / Italy | Orsolya ILLÉS / Hungary | |
| Erika TUMIENE / Lithuania | Ovidiu IONESCU Constantin / Romania | |
| Eva-Annamaria LIHOR LAZA / Romania | PANDELE Simona / Romania | |
| Farzaneh NAJAFI / Iran | PARK Bumseok / Korea | |
| Farzaneh SANAEI / Iran | PARK Chejoung / Korea | |
| Fateme POURZABIH / Iran | PARK Jinsun / Korea | |
| Felisa AGUIRRE / Mexico | PARK Joumok / Korea | |
| Fereshteh ALAMSHAH / Iran | PARK Kyounghee / Korea | |
| Gilles HUGUET / France | PARK Song / Korea | |
| GIM MinQ / Korea | Patrick JONES / UK | |
| GOTHÁRD Erzsébet / Hungary | Patrick TAGOETURKSON / Ghana | |
| Hamideh SOHANIFARD / Iran | Paul POPA / Romania | |
| Hanieh KHODABANDEHLOO / Iran | Paul VOCA / Poland | |
| Hanna ROZPARA / Poland | Pierre GUILLOTEAU / France | |
| Heidi MCEVOY-SWIFT / UK | Piotr PIWOWARSKI / Poland | |
| HEO Soyun / Korea | Piyanan RATTANAJAN / Thailand | |
| Himeko OTAKE / Japan | Radoslav SULTOV / Bulgaria | |
| Hiristea COSMIN / Romania | Ram BHUPAT / India | |
| Hirona MATSUDA / USA | Riccardo MATLAKAS / Italy | |
| HONG Chungi / Korea | Roberta VASILIUNIENE / Lithuania | |
| Hubert CANO / Puerto Rico | Rumen DIMITROV / Bulgaria | |
| Hundefaenger KRD / Germany | Ruta JASUTIENE / Lithuania | |
| HUR TaeJin / Korea | RYU Jisun / Korea | |
| Ilse DREHER / Germany | Sandor Zsolt NAGY / UK | |
| Ioana STELEA / Romania | Sandra JULVE / Spain | |
| Ioanna KAZAKI / Greece | Sanele SIKWANA / South Africa | |
| Irene ANTON / Germany | Sascha POHLE / Germany | |
| Irina NOVIKOVA / Belarus | Sehriban Koeksal KURT / Turkiye | |
| Iulia DANCILA Maria / Romania | SEO Yeokyoung / Korea | |
| Iulia-Adriana CARBUNARU LEFTER / Romania | Sevgi AVCI / Turkiye | |
| Iwa KRUCZKOWSKA / Poland | Shahrzad KAEDINEJAD / Iran | |
| Izabela WALCZAK / Poland | SHIMOKOGAWA Tsuyoshi / Japan | |
| Jacqueline RODRIGUEZ / Peru | SHIN Heejoung / Korea | |
| Jakub KOPACZ / Poland | Shyam Sunder SUTHAR / India | |
| JANG Ukhee / Korea | Sigute BRONICKIENE / Lithuania | |
| Jasleen SINGH / India | SIM Kyeongbo / Korea | |
| Jeffrey FRITH / Australia | Siou Ming WU / Taiwan | |
| Jelena JOVANCOV / Montenegro | SivaKumar KAPPALA / India | |
| Jerry THUNGGALTIRTA / Indonesia | SON Jeonghee / Korea | |
| Joel THEPAULT / France | SON Minkwang / Korea | |
| Johannes C. GERARD / Netherlands/Germany | SONG Inyoung / Korea | |
| Jolanta GALDIKAITE / Lithuania | SONG Sangkook / Korea | |
| Josue COLON / Puerto Rico | Sotos ALEXIOU / Greece | |
| Junchoa REN / China | Soula PETROU / Greece | |
| JUNG Jaeheon / Korea | Tania VERHASSELT / Belgium | |
| JUNG Jangjig / Korea | Tanja MAJOR / Germany | |
| Justine OTTO / Germany | Teodor LIHO / Bulgaria | |
| Kamil ODRON / Poland | Thierry TENEUL / France | |
| KANG Jeonghye / Korea | Toshihiko SHIBUYA / Japan | |
| Katarzyna GOLEBIOWSKA / Poland | Tzvetelina MAXIMOVA / Bulgaria | |
| KIM DoKyoung / Korea | UM Miyoung / Korea | |
| KIM Eunjee / Korea | Uros USCEBRKA / Mexico | |
| KIM Gowan / Korea | Ursula PAHNKE-FELDER / Netherlands | |
| KIM Jaeyeon / Korea | Valentin BAKARDJIEV / Netherlands/Bulgaria | |
| KIM Namhee / Korea | Valentina STEFANESCU / Romania | |
| KIM Sangjin / Korea | Vassiliki FALKEHAG / USA | |
| KIM Soonsun / Korea | Waltraud MUNZ-HEILIGER / Germany | |
| KIM Yujung / Korea | Weronika PENKIN / Poland | |
| Klaudia BORZECKA / Poland | WOO Soonlee / Korea | |
| Laetitia BARBU / Japan | Yannis KOUTSOURADIS / Netherlands/Greece | |
| LEE Chuun / Korea | YEO Heeone / Korea | |
| LEE Haei / Korea | Yves SADURNI / France | |
| LEE Jeongeun / Korea | Zhaobo YANG / China | |
| LEE Jiyoung / Korea | Ziba PASHANG / Iran | |
| Lee Jongok / Korea | Zofia KEMPFI / Poland | |
| LEE Joonhyung / Korea | Zoltán BALÁZS / Romania | |
| LEE Jungdong / Korea | ||
| Period | January 1 - November 30 |
|---|---|
| Place | Geumgang River and so on, Okcheon Daecheong Lake, West coast etc. |
| Content | Nature Art Workshop based on the methodology of YATOO’s Nature Art |
| Period | August 10 - 17 |
|---|---|
| Place | Supsokmaru at Yeonmisan Nature Art Park |
| Content | Artists’ presentation and discussion during the artwork production period |
| Date | in October, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Place | Supsokmaru at Yeonmisan Nature Art Park |
| Topic | Artists’ presentation and discussion during the artwork production period |
| Topic | YATOO Nature Art 40 Years |
| Presentation | Undecided |
| Discussion | Undecided |
| Moderator | Undecided |
※ 주관 : (사)한국자연미술가협회-야투/ 주최 : 공주시 / 후원 : 충청남도
