Curatorial Team
Director and Curators of Re:Folly
Pai Hyungmin is an architectural historian, critic, and curator. He is a graduate of Seoul National University's School of Architecture and Graduate School of Environmental Studies and holds a PhD in architectural history, theory, and criticism from MIT. He has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Washington, and is currently a professor at University of Seoul's School of Architecture. He has been an exchange professor at MIT and London Metropolitan University, and a two-time Fulbright scholar. His book The Portfolio and the Diagram (2002), published by MIT Press, is required reading at leading universities around the world. His other books include Key Concepts of Korean Architecture, Sensuous Plan: The Architecture of Seung H-Sang, Architecture of Amorepacific, and Imminent Commons: Live From Seoul. He is also the founder and director of the web platform assemblage.house. As an exhibition curator, he has curated the Korean Pavilion at the Venice Biennale twice and participated as an artist in this exhibition, and was awarded the Golden Lion Award in 2014 for his exhibition Crow's Eye View: Korean Peninsula, which focused on the architecture of North and South Korea. He has been a guest curator at the Seoul Museum of Art, Asia Culture Center, Korean Cultural Center, Hungary, Aedes Architecture Forum, Berlin, Tophane-i Amire Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, and CASS Gallery, London. He was the founding director of the 2017 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, chief curator of the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale, and is currently the director of the 5th Gwangju Folly on the theme of circular economy. In 2021, he guest-curated the exhibition on climate change, titled Climate Museum: Life and Death of Our Home, at the Seoul Museum of Art. The exhibition won a Red Dot Design Award. He has served as a member of the Presidential Committee for the Hub City of Asian Culture and the Mayor’s Committee for the Future of Seoul, and since 2010, he has been working to establish Korean architectural archives as the chair of the Mokchon Architecture Archive.
Yoon Jungwon studied architecture at Seoul National University and Princeton University. She has been involved in the design of various architectural projects in the United States and the Netherlands, where she gained experience in a holistic approach to the various elements that make up architecture and in collaborating with experts from different disciplines. She is currently a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Seoul, where she runs the TAD Lab and Office, which is dedicated to transdisciplinary architectural design to further connect education, research, and design practice. As the curator of architectural production for the 5th Gwangju Folly, she coordinates the process of supply, production, and application of raw materials such as waste, natural, and traditional materials.
Dongyoung is a Korean architect who leads Architecture Office RAUM and is based in Gwangju, South Korea.He is interested in meeting people and discovering the architectural spaces that are created within that encounter.He works mainly in the field of public architecture. He lectures architecture majors at Chonnam National University and Suncheon National University, and is a barrier-free examiner for the Gwangju Metropolitan City Seo-gu Architecture Commission and the Korea Disabled People's Development Institute.He participated in the materialization process of the Gwangju River Reading Room project by Taie Selasi and David Adjaye at the 2nd Gwangju Folly.For the 5th Gwangju Poly, Kang is acting as the curator in charge of the location, selecting the sites for the artists' installations and setting up a roadmap for the realization of the works.
Lee Youngmi is the president of Collective City, a company that explores imaginative urban walks. For the 5th Gwangju Foley, Lee served as a local curator and explored sites that would enhance the local connectivity of the newly installed follies and activate the Gwangju Folly promenade. In doing so, Lee has tried to strengthen the connection between the follies installed near the Asian Culture Center and Purun-gil Park. In addition, she selected locations that do not interrupt the flow of pedestrians, so that works done through the Gwangju Folly can become a medium for connecting with the daily lives of citizens.
Cha Jeongwook is a curator specializing in craft and design. He is the co-founder of the curatorial agency ANNEX, where he works on exhibition, publication, and branding projects. He is interested in organizing venues that connect creators and producers to build a circular structure of creative activities. His activities span from organizing artworks and products to planning and management. For the 5th Gwangju Folly, Cha is supporting the research and production process of participating artists to incorporate Korean materials and techniques, craft and design into their projects.
Lee Hyewon studied art history, and curates exhibitions as part of her ongoing research and social practice while teaching students. She began her interest in water issues in 2009 and expanded it to include land, air, and food issues, making environmental issues the main focus of her research. Her major projects include Waterscapes: The Politics of Water (2014), Chronicles of a Prepper (2017), Urban Foodshed (2017), an on-site program for the 1st Seoul Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture , and the campaign-type public art project Climate Citizen 3.5 (2021). For the 5th Gwangju Folly, Lee is in charge of planning public programs.
Kim Green is a curator specializing in arts and culture projects. She currently works at the curatorial agency ANNEX, where she manages exhibition, publication, and branding projects. Kim is interested in the relationships between objects, people, and events that occur in space and place, and works in collaboration with creatives from various disciplines. For the 5th Gwangju Folly, she will create a graphic system, photo/video record, website, and publication with designers, photographers, and editors to develop an integrated branding for the theme of “Re:Folly."