SEOUL.- At the 2024 edition of Frieze Seoul, Pace’s booth (#A10) will situate its contemporary program in lively conversation with 20th century icons, bringing together works by Lee Ufan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kylie Manning, Robert Indiana, Lee Kun-Yong, Yin Xiuzhen, and Alejandro Piñeiro Bello.

Concurrent with the fair, Pace will present two major exhibitions opening at its Seoul gallery on September 4: a dual exhibition of work by Lee Ufan and Mark Rothko, and a focused presentation of newly created paintings by Wang Guangle.

Beyond the gallery, Elmgreen & Dragset and Kylie Manning will mount major solo exhibitions in the Korean capital this fall.

Pace Gallery at Frieze Seoul

A 1988 painting by Lee Kun-Yong—who is presenting a sculpture exhibition in the gardens of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam through October 27—will be featured on the booth, nodding to Pace’s coinciding exhibition of his work at its Seoul gallery. Just before Frieze Seoul, on August 31, Lee will open an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

In the way of figurative painting, a 2024 canvas by Kylie Manning, titled Haenyeo, will showcase her ability to imbue two-dimensional compositions with a sense of constant motion and flux.

Did I Grow? (2024), a new figurative sculpture of a young boy by Elmgreen & Dragset, will also figure prominently in the presentation. This work, rendered in marble and brushed steel, reflects the duo’s deep and enduring interest in questions of identity and belonging.

Another highlight will be a small-scale polished bronze LOVE sculpture by Robert Indiana, one of the most inventive artists of the 20th century. Concurrent with Frieze Seoul, Robert Indiana: The Sweet Mystery—an official Collateral Event of the 60th Venice Biennale—is on view at the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice’s Piazza San Marco through November 24.

Also on Pace’s booth, a new painting by Alejandro Piñeiro Bello, who joined the gallery’s program this year, will bring contemporary abstraction to the fore of the presentation. Using traditional materials such as oil on raw linen or burlap, Piñeiro Bello creates striking layers of color in his paintings, evoking the natural landscapes and folkloric traditions of the Caribbean.

Furthermore, a recent Bodyscape painting by Lee and a mixed media sculpture composed of porcelain and used clothes by Yin Xiuzhen—whose work is included in the group exhibition Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists, opening at the MMCA in Seoul on September 3—will also feature in this intergenerational exchange.

On View at Pace Gallery in Seoul

Lee Ufan and Mark Rothko

This exhibition will bring a suite of paintings from Lee Ufan’s Dialogue and Response series, made between 2018 and 2023, into conversation with major works by Mark Rothko from the 1950s and 1960s. Curated by Lee in collaboration with the Rothko family, the presentation will occupy two discrete constellations on two floors of Pace’s Seoul gallery, drawing out the many resonances and intersections that cut across the artists’ practices.

Wang Guangle

In this focused exhibition, Wang Guangle will present three new, never-before-seen paintings at Pace’s Seoul gallery. For one of these works, a colorful composition from his Coffin Paint series, the artist experimented with a new technique. Exploring temporality and physicality in his process-based paintings, Wang has long been interested in the tension between form and meaning, a relationship that informs his unique syntax of abstraction.

Institutional Presentations in Seoul

Yellow Sea, a solo exhibition by Kylie Manning, will be on view at Space K Seoul from August 9 to November 10. For this presentation, Manning has produced a new installation specifically for Space K, drawing inspiration from the tides of the Yellow Sea between China and the Korean Peninsula. The three 18 x 24-foot hand-painted silk scrims, created as homages to Manning’s collaboration with the New York City Ballet in 2023, will also serve as the backdrop for a special performance by Korean choreographer Lee Kyungeun on September 3 during Frieze Seoul.

The duo Elmgreen & Dragset will open Spaces, a sprawling exhibition of large-scale works at Seoul’s Amorepacific Museum of Art, on September 3. An expansive survey of the artists’ spatial practice, this show, running through February 23, 2025, will see the interior of the museum transformed into five immersive installations: a family house, a public swimming pool, a restaurant, a kitchen, and an artist’s studio.