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Exhibition Tour of Korean Artifacts Slated in Germany

In cooperation with the Stuttgart-Linden Museum, the Korea Foundation is organizing a special exhibition of Korean art works, which will be shown at museums in four cities of Germany, from November 2009 through May 2012.


In Germany, ten museums maintain collections of Korean art works: East Asian Museum, Berlin; Ethnological Museum, Berlin; Ethnological Museum, Hamburg; Museum of Art and Crafts, Hamburg; East Asian Art Museum, Cologne; Stuttgart-Linden Museum; Grassi Museum for Ethnology; Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt; Gutenberg Museum, Mainz; and Missionary Museum St. Ottilien. All of these museums have agreed to participate in the Foundation’s exhibition project, except for East Asian Museum of Berlin, due in part to a vacancy of its directorship position.



Korean Works in Germany
A preparatory meeting was held in Berlin on August 21, which was attended by representatives from each of the nine participant German museums, along with three project advisers: Prof. Junghee Lee-Kalisch, of the Institute of East Asian Art History, Free University of Berlin; Dr. Ken Vos, former Curator of the Ethological Museum of Leiden; and Dr. Charlotte Horlyck, Lecturer of Korean Art History, at SOAS, University of London. The participants agreed on various matters, including the selection of 100 representative works from the nine German museums that would best demonstrate the uniqueness and excellence of Korea’s culture and arts. In addition, it was decided that the exhibition tour would be shown in the four museums of Stuttgart-Linden Museum (November 2009-January 2010), East Asian Art Museum, in Cologne (May- June 2010), Museum of Art and Crafts, in Hamburg (September-November 2010), and Grassi Museum for Ethnology (March-May 2012).
During the meeting, the museum representatives each presented an overview of their Korean collection, which included photo images of various notable works. For example, Adele Schloms, of the East Asian Art Museum in Cologne, introduced noteworthy Buddhist paintings and Buddhist art works, along with painting and ceramic works from the Goryeo Period, while Dr. Utah Werlich, of the Stuttgart-Linden Museum, described 19th-century Korean furniture and ceramics works acquired in the 1970s. Dr. Susanne Knoedel, of the Ethnological Museum in Hamburg, attracted considerable attention when she discussed the 2,200 items of shamanism-related items and folding screens of her museum’s collection.
In addition, Dr. Nora von Achenbach, of the Museum of Art and Crafts in Hamburg, highlighted her museum’s impressive array of Korean art works, including ceramics and mother-of-pearl wares from the Three-Kingdom Period. Curator Dieter Grundmann, of the Grassi Museum for Ethnology in Leipzig, also attracted attention when he introduced his museum’s collection of 2,000 pieces, of mainly ceramics, furniture, and folk-craft works.
Finally, Dr. Stephan Graf von der Schulenburg, of the Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt; Director Cornelia Schneider, of the Gutenberg Museum, in Mainz; and Dr. Angelika Schuster-Fox, of the Missionary Museum St. Ottilien; were also eager to introduce their Korean collections. Although the scale of their Korean collections was not especially large, at about 30-300 items, they included numerous works of notable value. Based on this data, it was determined that some 6,000 items of Korean artifacts were collectively housed by the German museums, including a significant number of high quality art works.



Noteworthy Exhibition
Following the overview of Korean collections in Germany, the three project advisers presented their thoughts on an exhibition concept and theme, and details of this endeavor. An overall theme of “Korea Seen through the Eyes of Germans,” which was suggested by Dr. Horlyck, was the most well-received proposal among the participants. She suggested that the exhibition feature Korean artifacts accompanied by storytelling accounts of German people’s interaction with Korea since the early 19th century, and details about the acquisition of Korean art works. There was broad consensus that such an approach would tend to arouse interest among those in Germany with an interest in Korea, and the general public as well.
This exhibition project, which is being overseen by the Korea Foundation’s Berlin Office, will serve as an occasion to heighten awareness of the Korean art collections in Germany, and provide German viewers with a fresh opportunity to appreciate Korea’s culture and arts. It also seeks to introduce Korean culture and the creativity of Korean arts to the German general public. Professor Charlotte Horlyck, of SOAS, University of London, will serve as the lead curator of the exhibition project.

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