Exhibitions at Leeum Samsung Museum of Art

Louise Bourgeois – Maman (Spider), 1999, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, 2018

Louise Bourgeois’ iconic spider Maman – Everything you need to know

Sculptures / 7 minutes of reading

Introduction Louise Bourgeois’ art has always been inspired by her upbringing and childhood. As an artist, Bourgeois remained at the forefront of successive new developments for over six decades that she had been in the industry. She always did so in her own powerful and inventively ingenious terms. In 1982, at the age of 71, […]

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Lee Bul’s shiny, giant metal Zeppelin – Willing To Be Vulnerable

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Lee Bul’s installation that saw the transformation of the Southbank Centre’s Hayward Gallery took place in 2018 between May and August. Occupying the entire art space, this exhibition was the artist’s first-ever solo show in London. In it, more than 118 other pieces created from the late 1980s to now were also showcased. However, it

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Meekyoung Shin’s beautiful sculptures – Made entirely from soap

Sculptures, Statues / 2 minutes of reading

Meekyoung Shin, a South Korean sculptor, became popular for her Translation series, using soap as her medium of art. Trained in the tradition of European sculpture, her statuettes are made factoring in the Western and Eastern styles of relief. Her works are usually made from palm oil, a vegetarian soap. Her technique The free-standing ancient

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Exhibitions at Leeum Samsung Museum of Art

Louise Bourgeois’ iconic spider Maman – Everything you need to know

Lee Bul’s shiny, giant metal Zeppelin – Willing To Be Vulnerable

Meekyoung Shin’s beautiful sculptures – Made entirely from soap

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