Arario Gallery (Cheonan)

The Arario Gallery in Cheonan, Korea, is a contemporary art gallery that features works by Korean and Asian artists.

Featured Partner Gallery: Arario Gallery, South Korea. Since reopening its doors in Cheonan in 2002, Arario Gallery runs two branches in Cheonan and Seoul, and an gallery in Shanghai. Arario Gallery has always endeavored to explore new grounds that have never previously been looked at by other institutions in Korea, promoting hybridization and diversity in regionally localized art world through its active interactions with international art world. Through its artist representing system, the gallery has been to expand out to the global audience by introducing and proclaiming the excellence of Korean contemporary art to the rest of the world. On the basis of experience in China’s art industry, the gallery currently introduces various works from India and Southeast Asia’s artists which have yet been introduced within the country. Furthermore, the gallery continuously strives to discover, support and promote artists from India and Southeast Asia, and to spread its influence throughout this region.

Since re-opening a new space at separate building in Cheonan in 2002, ARARIO Gallery has run three branches in Cheonan and Seoul in Korea and Shanghai in China. ARARIO GALLERY Cheonan opened in 2002, where can feel the president Chang-il Kim’s passion for art including ARARIO Sculpture Garden. It has led to introduce various contemporary arts to Korea by hosting a variety of important exhibitions such as the first Korea showing of work by American Pop-artist Keith Haring, a comprehensive retrospective of photos by Cindy Sherman and Vanessa Beecroft, and largest presentation of German and British artists ever staged in Korea that include Jorg Immendorff, Neo Rauch and Sigmar Polke among others. ARARIO GALLERY Seoul has branched out to Samcheong-dong from 2006 until 2011, and Cheongdam-dong from 2011until 2014. GALLERY ARARIO Seoul reopened in March 2014 in an area of Bukchon, the place known as the Mecha of Korea’s contemporary art scene. GALLERY ARARIO Seoul has hosted a wide range of exhibitions by international artists including Subodh Gupta, Keiji Uematsu, Leslie de Chavez, CHOI Byungso, KIM Kulim, Osang GWON among others. Also, It plans to present the works of brand-new artists whom we have been actively introducing and supporting, leading to new findings and trends in the Korean art world. From 2005 to 2012 in Beijing, ARARIO gallery ranked among the greatest galleries in China with groundbreaking exhibitions by various artists from across China, India and South East Asia. ARARIO gallery opened space at Hengshanfang, Shanghai from August 2014 to June 2017 and was appointed to the BEST OF SHANGHAI AWARDS. In July 2017, To continue being a pioneer of modern art, ARARIO Gallery relocated to Westbund, as the city's newest art district since 2014 and Arario secured a spacious 1,000-square-meter venue in the heart of the district.

Korean businessman and collector Ci Kim opened the flagship Arario Gallery in 1989 in Cheonan, South Korea, where he also opened several other businesses.

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