Lim Jongeun

Independent curator

Basic profile

She is currently working as an independent curator. She is teaching art criti-cism, art History at Incheon National University, She has worked for Alternative space Loop as a curator and Daejeon Museum . of Art.as a Guest Cura-tor. She’ s interested in Asia contemporary art and traditional theory. And she’s interested in traditional values and ideologies recreated in contemporary art to redefine where contemporary Asian art practices is located in the globalized art fields. Concept of her main works is study of reinterpretation on Asian traditions in the contemporary art. She started her research on Western influence over Korean culture in general and continued, it with focus on various political, post-colonial aspects including positions from Orientalism, identity politics to post-modern individualist stance.