An exhibition on contemporary Zimbabwean art will be held for the first time in Korea at the Korea Foundation Cultural Center from May 4 through 14. Zimbabwe, which gained independence from the U.K. in 1980, is one of the poorest countries in the world economically, but a culturally rich nation known for its contemporary art as well as the cultural relics of the medieval Kingdom of Mutapa. Featuring about 50 various works of painting, sculpture and ceramics, the exhibition will serve as an occasion to widen the scope of understanding about the contemporary art of Zimbabwe, which has been poorly known to Korea for just its “Shona sculpture.”

Special Lecture
Date: Fri. May 7, 2010 at 7 pm
Title: History of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
Speaker: H.E. Jaroslav Olša, jr, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Seoul

Gallery Talk
Date: Wed. May 12, 2010 at 3 pm
Title: Contemporary Painting of Zimbabwe
Speaker: H.E. Hans Heinsbroek, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Seoul