MAGIC NIGHT IN DAYLIGHT!
SWEDEN
15 JUNE - 29 JUNE, 2022

Every year in Sweden, on the Friday that falls between June 19 and June 25, folks celebrate the start of a unique national holiday kicking off the beginning of the country’s unusually long 5-month summer. It’s a night festival characterized by bright lights, large pillars decorated with beautiful green grass and colorful flowers, and no shortage of great food, music and dancing with friends and family. This summer - GalleryO is proud to announce a special exhibition where we invite four distinguished Swedish contemporary jewelry artists to share their work with the people of Korea. We aim to create a safe place for the pandemic- exhausted Korean audience to interact freely with the artists’ work, in effect taking the same energy from the Magic Night in Daylight and recreating it in Seoul.

<MIND · TEARS> DONGCHUN LEE
KOREA
26 MAY - 8 JUNE, 2021

Mind · Tears

Tears soothe sorrow, heal wounds, and control anger. 
Tears calm joy. 
Tears release surplus feelings and purify the mind.

I gather tears in my heart again today. 
When emotions fill my heart, I empty it with tears.

<JOURNEY OF VERA SIEMUND> VERA SIEMUND
GERMANY
6 NOVEMBER - 26 NOVEMBER, 2020

As I never before showed work at Korea, except at the Cheongju Craft Biennale in 2013, I decided to show a kind of summary of my work, a selection of round 15 years including newly-made necklaces. All pieces have in common my way of quoting shapes and topics from long ago, items of art history and daily life which I regard worth to be remembered.
While I was very much interested in classicism a couple of years, more recent work quotes from the gothic architecture. Apart from high arts I also consider more trivial designs to be quite attractive as Wilhelminian balconies or the lamps from the seventies. I try to capture its’ associative and narrative power.

Vera Siemund
Von-Ancklen-Straße 12
21029 Hamburg