23. Has Korea Survived the Hype? Frieze Seoul, Gwangju Biennale (with Vivienne Chow)

This week, Georgina and Tom are joined by journalist Vivienne Chow, for a look at the Korean and wider Asian art markets.
They discuss Frieze Seoul after 5 editions, and how perhaps now after the boom in 2022, galleries are increasingly playing the long game, opening spaces, hiring local teams and staging pop-ups rather than parachuting in to sell.
Vivienne also reports from the Gwangju Biennale, and the row over the naming of Taiwan's pavilion that led China to withdraw.
And finally, quiet spread of Russian galleries into Korean fairs...
Enjoy!
Check out Vivienne's new Substack, Cultural Fulcrum (culturalfulcrum.substack.com), where she is making sense of the forces shaping art, culture and power, with Asia at the centre of the global conversation.
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