INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: "KOREAN ART IN THE WEST: TRACING OBJECTS FROM CREATION TO COLLECTION"

International Symposium:
"Korean Art in the West: Tracing Objects from Creation to Collection" 

(26-27 June 2019, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

The Section for East Asian Art (Institute of Art History, University of Zurich, Switzerland) cordially invites everyone interested in the art history of Korea to the international symposium "Korean Art in the West: Tracing Objects from Creation to Collection". The symposium will be held on 26 and 27 June 2019 in the auditorium of the RAA building, University of Zurich.

The symposium aims to represent various case studies of Korean art in the West to create an overview of the state of research and methodologies in the field. It seeks to explore the trajectories of movement of Korean art in the past centuries and its reception outside of Korea. The focus lies on the collecting practices, museum displays and cultural mediation, appropriations and uses of Korean art in the West, and on the comparative perspectives on similar processes in Korea. The origin of this project lies in the efforts to include Korea more deeply in the study of East Asian art. Another purpose is to encourage further academic studies in Korean art, history and culture at the university level.

The symposium is planned as part of a larger research project that includes an exhibition at the Historical and Ethnological Museum in St. Gallen entitled "Poesie der Farben", which was co-organised by the University of Zurich. 

As the first symposium of its kind in bringing together Korean art scholars to Switzerland, it attempts to give a deeper insight into the collections of Korean art in Switzerland and other countries as well as to open a new field of public and academic interest in the study of Korea. The symposium can be seen as a keystone in Korean art studies in Switzerland. Furthermore, it seeks to make Korean art accessible to a wider audience and so to raise public interest and awareness of Korean art and culture.

The symposium is free and open to the public. No prior registration is required. Most presentations will be held in English. For presentations held in other languages English translations will be provided.

Please find a detailed description of the symposium as well as the individual presentations’ abstracts on the symposium website: click here

 

For questions, please contact the Section for East Asian Art: kgoa@khist.uzh.ch

The symposium is organized by the Section for East Asian Art, University of Zurich and is supported by the Korea Foundation and the University of Zurich Foundation (Hochschulstiftung). The organizers also thank the Bern Historical Museums for their kind permission to use the image for the conference.