Special Exhibition "The Rise of B-Grade Films" to be Held at Jeonbuk Provincial Museum
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Lee ByungJae(2025-08-01 12:33:01)
- Shedding light on entities considered B-grade in art and everyday life
The Jeonbuk Provincial Museum of Art (Director Lee Ae-seon, hereinafter referred to as the 'Provincial Museum of Art'), which aims for an open art museum for enjoyment and sharing, will hold a special exhibition titled "Advancing B-Grades" in galleries 1-5 of the main building from the 1st onwards.
Last year, the Provincial Museum of Art proposed a sustainable world through the intersection of art and 'trash' in a special exhibition titled "An Exhibition with Nothing to Discard," bringing together domestic and international works in one place to create a space for communication, meeting with over 46,000 visitors.
The 2025 special exhibition "Advancing B-Grades" captures the intersection of visual language classified as B-grade in contemporary art and entities considered 'second-class citizens' in reality. Through works that give visual art forms to various portraits of life, this exhibition deals with the stories of entities excluded by the 'conditions of capitalist life' and questions the contradiction of the attitude of 'aesthetic observation of the subject' in the special space of an art museum.
This exhibition, featuring 23 teams of domestic and international artists, includes the British-Italian artist group 'Claire Fontaine,' who gained attention with the slogan and artwork 'Foreigners everywhere,' which was also the slogan of the previous year's Venice Biennale. In addition, artists such as Jung Yeon-doo, who was selected as the by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2007, Bang Jung-ah, a past recipient of the revamped with the support of the SBS Culture Foundation since 2012, Lee Kang-seung, and award-winning artist Jung Eun-young will be present. Furthermore, young artists from Jeonbuk, such as So Boram and Eom Su-hyun, will join to share messages about broad meanings of equality beyond anthropocentrism.
The exhibition "Advancing B-Grades," featuring 72 works created by artists of various nationalities and media, will run from August 1 (Friday) to November 2 (Sunday), and can be viewed for free from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Additionally, guided tours will be conducted daily at 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m. to provide a more enriching viewing experience.
