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Flowing Life: 2025 Eco Art Fair Opens in Chuncheon
Creatrip Team
2 months ago
The 2025 Eco Art Fair FLOW opened on April 21 at the Gangwon Design Center in Chuncheon, marking its fourth edition and now the largest art market in Gangwon Province. The show features over 300 works by 62 artists across ceramics, painting, sculpture and installation. More than 20 ceramic artists participate, and the fair includes both internationally exhibited creators and those less seen at major fairs. The exhibition centers on regeneration and flow, rooted in local materials — notably Yanggu white clay (Yanggu baekto, a traditional white clay used for Joseon white porcelain) — with the Yanggu Baekto Museum lending artifacts to the venue. Highlights include Chun-wook Hwan’s reinterpretation of white clay blended with regional soils; Gu Da-young’s ceramic objects topped with hundreds of ant sculptures exploring collective behavior; Lee Ye-seon’s human forms made from thousands of rice grains symbolizing life’s origins; Park Si-wol’s etched glass layers evoking memory; and Kim Ryun-a’s explosive, instinct-driven color pieces. Works addressing regional memory and history, like Kim Jong-sook’s thick, weathered canvases reflecting displacement, also feature. The fair offers works ranging from affordable to high-end prices, and organizers emphasize authenticity and a unique cultural experience in Chuncheon.
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