The exhibition Brilliant Collaborators focuses on collaborative artists who have proven to be notable interlocutors and partners in the production of contemporary art. It revisits the intricate subject of collaboration and the often-unseen processes of collaborative artists. With collaboration being a generally established feature of contemporary art production, this exhibition investigates the subject of collective creativity that is generated by collaborative production. It furthermore examines the concept of authorship; though art was traditionally the domain of single or individual artists, we can now re-evaluate authorship through the complexities produced by the collaborative working process that have been introduced into art.

This exhibition features the artists Kwon Byungjun, David Michael DiGregorio(a.k.a dogr), Jang Young Gyu, Jung Young Doo, and Choi Choon. Over the past several years these five artists—who have produced superlative work in areas including music, performance, architecture, and choreography—have not only expanded their fields through their flexible and mutual conversations and collaboration with visual artists but are also achieving distinction in their own areas of work. The exhibition constructs an archive, bringing together for the first time individual works by these artists as well as products of their collaborations.

The exhibition seeks to gain insight into the artists’ process of creation through displaying archival materials showing the artists’ methods and results of collaboration. Through these artists’ collaborative projects one can also encounter the works of other contemporary artists, directors, and choreographers—including Kim Sung Hwan, Kim Sora, Kim Jee Hyun, Park Chanwook, Do Ho Suh, Ahn Eun Me, Yun Sabi, Rhii Jewyo, and Lim Minouk—who demonstrate the vibrant practices of the contemporary visual arts scene. Through this exhibition the Ilmin Museum of Art offers a chance for visitors to further understand and investigate how artists’ practices are met, embraced, translated, applied, combined and intermixed in this complex domain.
- Hyun Jin Kim, Ilmin Museum of Art

*image (left)
Hamnyeongjeon Project-The 3 Mattresses, 2012
National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Commission
© Do Ho Suh, Young Doo Jung

Courtesy of Ilmin Museum of Art