The local government has poured money into the biennial enterprise -- a reported $8 million in 2004 -- in hopes of catapulting Gwangju to a new status as an Asian arts capital. At this years opening ...

The Gwangju Biennale, the most high-profile recurring art festival in Asia, has revealed the artists that will take part in the 2024 show, due to open in the South Korean city on September 7.

“A biennale that does not introduce new discourse on contemporary art has fallen short of its potential,” he told Observer, ...

As Geunnam-ro, a historic street in Gwangju symbolizing South Korea’s democracy movement, filled with rival protesters Saturday -- one side supporting and the other opposing suspended President ...

A photograph held in private hands for 40 years shows two Asahi Shimbun reporters relaxing in a candle-lit room at an inn in the South Korean city of Gwangju while covering a popular uprising that ...

The Gwangju Uprising is considered a pivotal moment in South Korea’s move away from military dictatorship to democracy. In the uprising that began on May 18, 1980, about 240 people were either ...