2025 Kiaf SEOUL x KAMS x Frieze Seoul Talks

The international conference, co-hosted by Kiaf SEOUL, Frieze Seoul, and the Korea Arts Management Service, will delve into key issues concerning the current standing of Korean art in the global art scene.

Title
2025 Kiaf SEOUL x KAMS x Frieze Seoul Talks
Date
September 4 (Thu) - 6 (Sat), 2025, 11:30 / 14:00 / 16:30
Venue
Studio 159, COEX
Host
Organizers
Talk Program Schedule

※ Note: The program and speakers are subject to change.

DAY1Sep 4 (Thu), 2025
Art Foundations and the Ecology of the Art World
11:30
-
12:30
Moderator

Gabriel Ritter (Director of the UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum and Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Art & Architecture)

Speakers

Laurencina Farrant (Director, Songeun Art Center)

Zoe Butt (Founder, in-tangible institute)

Grace Oh (the Board at Creative Capital)

Patrick Sun (SUNPRIDE Foundation, Executive Director)

Queer Asian Art and the Technology of Re-membering
14:00
-
15:00
Moderator

Yongwoo Lee (Curator and Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Speakers

Candice Lin (Artist)

Sin Wai Kin (Artist)

Sung Hwan Kim (Artist)

Artistic Imagination between Reality and Virtua
16:30
-
17:30
Moderator

Sunjung Kim (Artistic Director, Art Sonje Center)

Speakers

Ayoung Kim (Artist)

Adrián Villar Rojas (Artist)

DAY2Sep 5 (Fri), 2025
Socially Engaged Art Across Asia
11:30
-
12:30
Moderator

Sohl C. Lee (Associate Processor, Modern and Contepomrary East Asian Art, Stony Brook University, State University of New York)

Speakers

Patrick Flores (Chief Curator, National Gallery Singapore(NGS))

Amy Cheng (Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum)

Bo Zheng (Associate Professor of Media Art, City University, Hong Kong)

Engines of Change: How Seoul’s Emerging Galleries Are Shaping the Scene
14:00
-
15:00
Moderator

Jaesuk Kim (Director, xlarge)

Speakers

Nahyung Kim (Director, ThisWeekened Room)

Hyejin Jee (Director, Sangheeut)

Seung Min Lee (Director, A Lounge)

Inseon Kim (Director, willingndealing)

KAMS × AAP Book Talk: Contingent Worlds
16:30
-
17:30
Moderator

Michelle Chan (Editor, ArtAsiaPacific)

Speakers

CHE Onejoon (Artist, AfroAsia Collecitve)

Gyeol Ko (Artist, ikkibawiKrrr)

DAY3Sep 6 (Sat), 2025
Global Perspectives on the Korean Art Market
11:30
-
12:30
Moderator

Sanghoon Kim (Professor of Marketing at Seoul National University Business School)

Speakers

Jiseon Lee Isbara (President, School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

Vivienne Chow (London Correspondent, Artnet)

Mami Kataoka (Director, Mori Art Museum)

Questioning Creativity: Art and the New Frontier
14:00
-
15:00
Moderator

Iain Robertson (Professor, Arts and Cultural Management Department, The Graduate School of Business, Hongik University)

Speakers

Jinjoon Lee (Artist, Professor at KAIST)

Alfredo Cramerotti (Director, mm:museum at Northwestern Quatar)

Hyojung Seo (Artist, Professor at SADI)

Special Exhibition Talk: A Mind on Display
16:30
-
17:30
Moderator

Yuli Yoon (Chief Curator, Ilmin Museum of Art)

Speakers

Tomoya Iwata (Director, The 5th floor)

Ju-mi Park (Psychiatrist and Collector)

Purat(Chang) Ostahanugrah (Collector, Chairman & Founder of Dib Bangkok)

Bryant Chao (Collector)