Whistle is an exhibition space established for artistic sensory experience in June 2017, located in Itaewon, Seoul. The program focuses mainly on emerging artists based in Seoul while also curating group exhibitions with international artists. Whistle organizes and completes an exhibition as a collaborator of the artist and continues to carry out various projects together.
Whistle’s inaugural exhibition Clear Confusion brought together artists Jiieh G Hur and Min ha Park in resisting the passage of time within paradox; the following year, Whistle showed artists Chihiro Mori and Teppei Kaneuji together with artist-and-musicians Noncheleee and Yoonkee Kim in Singing Pictures. Likewise, exhibitions with Eun Sun Lee and Jiieh G Hur in 2019 shrugged conventional ideas of space, incorporating installation into the environment to create an immersive experience between the visitor and the space itself.
Inviting curators to examine local and international artists and seek directions and methods of presentation, Whistle aims to act as a flexible space with active discourse.
Courtesy of Whistle and Ram Han
Case series originally produced under commission by 2020 Busan Biennale.
3rd floor, 12 Hoenamu-ro 13-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Ram Han’s digital paintings portray the state of people, animals, plants, and objects as narrative. Using graphics programs, she captures subjects connected to personal taste and experience in a singular frame. The elements constructing the image are psychedelic in colour, imposing an unrealistic and artificial read, but also serve as a clue evoking a particular scene from a faint memory. The artist borrows rendering techniques from animation to embody water, smoke, and light, guiding the viewer to fantasy experience and through memory. Born in 1989, Ram Han received her BFA from Korea National University of Art in 2014. In 2017 she held her first solo exhibition Nightcap at YOUR MANA in Seoul, and has participated in biennale and group exhibitions including the 2020 Busan Biennale; Deleted (Whistle, Seoul, 2019); Fantasia (Steve Turner Gallery, 2019, LA); I Draw (D Museum, Seoul, 2019); Phantom Arm (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2018), and more.