Total Prize Money of 50 Million KRW... Bando Construction 'Exhibition Planning Contest' Award Ceremony

Kim Hee-jung and Kim Yu-bin Named Curators of the Year

The winners of the 1st "Bando Exhibition Planning Contest," sponsored by Bando Construction, are taking a commemorative photo with the judges.

On the 25th, Bando Cultural Foundation announced on the 26th that it held the award ceremony for the 1st 'Bando Exhibition Planning Contest' at the 'Bando Ivy Lounge' gallery located in Dongtan, Gyeonggi-do.

This contest, organized to nurture emerging exhibition planners (curators) and provide opportunities for creative exhibitions, received various proposals reflecting the COVID-19 era situation and the identity of the Bando Cultural Foundation. After the first round of document screening and the second round of interviews conducted by a panel of external experts, four final winning works were selected.

The grand prize winners, who will receive a prize of 20 million KRW and an exhibition opportunity, were curator Kim Hee-jung's "Spatial Exploration: Home," which examines the relationship between space and people through the concept of rhythm, and curator Kim Yoo-bin's "The Great Comfort," which explores the meaning of family in the COVID-19 era. The grand prize works will be exhibited in the second half of the year at the Bando Cultural Foundation Ivy Lounge Gallery.

Curators Na Kwang-ho (Wooeumdo Project: Pictures Looking Up to Blessings) and Bang Ji-yoon (Some Tomorrow) were also selected as outstanding works with favorable evaluations and were awarded 2.5 million KRW each.

Curator Kim Hee-jung expressed her gratitude, saying, "Through the exhibition, I will repay with good works so that citizens exhausted by COVID-19 can be healed."

The award ceremony was attended by Park Hyun-il, CEO of Bando Construction; Park Nam-hee, chairperson of the judging panel (professor at Hongik University Graduate School); Kim Eun-jin, director of Bando Cultural Foundation (professor at Hanyang University Graduate School); and the winners. The event was held with a minimal number of attendees in compliance with COVID-19 prevention guidelines.

Meanwhile, the Bando Cultural Foundation is a nonprofit public corporation sponsored by Bando Construction, operating the complex cultural space Ivy Lounge in Karim Avenue Phase 2 shopping district in Dongtan, Hwaseong City. It supports various cultural and artistic programs, including providing free rental of the Ivy Lounge Gallery to visual artists. On the 26th, it plans to conduct an online live broadcast of "Online World Cultural Tour with Adventurer Do Yong-bok" via Naver TV.

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