South Korean artist siren eun young jung, winner of the 2018 Korea Artist Prize, talks about her practice in an SBS Foundation short documentary dedicated to the Prize. The artist is representing Korea at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
Korea Artist Prize was established by SBS Foundation in partnership with MMCA, Korea to promote contemporary art. This award follows in the footsteps of MMCA’s Artist of the Year exhibitions, which were held from 1995 to 2010. The Prize re-establishes the exhibition series’ mission to discover and sponsor outstanding Korean artists, thus providing an avenue for the advancement of Korean contemporary art.
Korea Artist Prize selects a maximum of four artists (or teams of artists) as ‘SBS Foundation sponsored Artists’ with latent potential through the first-round evaluation process. These exhibiting artists will receive 40 million won as exhibition support to participate in the Korea Artist Prize exhibition held at MMCA, Korea. In the second-round evaluation, a final winner will be announced based on the exhibition. Additionally, SBS will air documentaries to illuminate the oeuvres of the participating artists.
