SKKU Department of Fine Art Participates in 

University Collaborated Public Art Project, ‘2022 Seoul is Art Gallery’

SKKU Department of Fine Art, Team Sasao (Adviser Professor. Yeondoo Chung) announced their participation in the public art project, ‘2022 Seoul is Art Gallery’, on Sep. 16^th. The project is held starting from November 15^th to 21^st on Nodeul Island.

Project ‘Seoul is Art Gallery’ is a public art project hosted by Seoul City since 2017 with the theme of ‘making the whole city an art gallery’. This project promotes to change of the concurrent commercial, efficiency-centered city into a cultural venue where citizens could stay and commune. This aims to construct a city space in Seoul where citizens feel stability and intimacy by painting fresh artistic imagination and human flavor, along with preserving the history and memory of places disappearing into time.

The project ‘Seoul is Art Gallery’ had been launching public art masterpieces that fuse into Seoul’s daily landscape considering its local culture, environment, and historical context. The pieces are installed in daily spaces without interfering with citizens’ lives but rather induce their empathy, providing fresh artistic experiences and a favorite venue for them.

This year’s public art project involves 5 universities including SKKU, which are: Seoul National University, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, and the University of Seoul, etc. SKKU Team Sasao is the only participant from the School of Arts among other universities, who differentiated from other teams by displaying the project’s theme of nature and the history of Nodeul Island in an unusual performance type.

The Department of Fine Art's Team Sasao exhibits their performance with dance with music that represents the history and symbolism of Nodeul Island. In the stage of team Sasao, the previous Han river’s sandbank reappeared using sands, and the dance that contains the history of the island is performed on upcoming Tuesday at 7 pm at Nodeul Island.