Heyri Art Valley

Heyri Art Valley
Hangul 헤이리예술마을
Revised Romanization Heyrimaeul

Heyri Art Valley is a living and cultural spaces of artists in unification hill district Tanhyeon-myeon Paju Gyeonggi Province South Korea


Overview

Heyri Art Valley is a Korea's largest art town. Heyri’s area is about 495,868 m². In 1997, Heyri was built as a current form. As a beginning of inaugural meeting in 1998, about 380 cultural artists participated in that meeting as a member. Heyri Art Valleyderived its name from the traditional Nongyo(Farmers’ Song) ‘Heyri sound’ in Paju Gyeonggi Province. Heyri is a unique community village of integrated concept that coexist with production, exhibit, sales, habitation of cultural art. In functional perspective, Heyri was planned in urban form that focused on the cultural business.[1] In Heyri, there are a lot of galleries, museums, exhibit halls, concert halls, little theaters, cafes, restaurants, bookstores, guest houses, art shops and creative, living space of artists. Every building was designed by dozens of nationally and internationally renowned architects, and also designed utilizing the natural environment such as a mountain, hill, swamp and brook.[2]

History

In 1997, as part of the “Unification Land Development Project”, Heyri Art Village was initially envisioned as a “book village” that connected to the nearby Paju Book City. However, as development began, it attracted many artists to the area where they contributed to its original concept, that later expanded to the “cultural art village” known as Heyri Art Valley today. [3]

Community

In addition to being an artistic haven for creatives where they could live and produce their work; its founding vision was to develop a community, which is also in harmony with its natural surroundings. To preserve and enhance the natural elements, its community architects designed the integrity of village's buildings, which sets it apart from Insa-dong and Chungdam-dong (the two gallery districts in South Korea).

Kim Jongkyu of Maru and Kim JunSung of architecture studio HIMMA, played a major role in the construction of flat roof buildings, developed in proportion to the human scale, no higher than three floors. Surrounding the buildings are rolling hills, winding rivers, trees, wild flowers, and human-made bridges. [4]

Founding member of Heyri, Ansoo Lee, described it in Lonely Planet: " “We chose Heyri as it is a clean place, right in nature. There are no factories in North Korea just across the border so we knew there would be clean air. We have dreams of unification one day and then Heyri, will be the centre of the Korean peninsula – close to Seoul and even closer to North Korea.” The village stands as a symbol of peace in a region known for anything but that. " [5]

Space

Buildings in Heyri are classified by purpose. For example, there are concert hall, experience place, space for commercial exhibit, cafe, restaurant, guesthouse and space for lecture. Each space has one or more cultural purpose. In Heyri, there are no buildings taller than three stories.[6]
There are various spaces in the Heyri.[7]

  1. The creation space: About 380 cultural artists who work in art, music, video, picture, literature and so on are in residence at this space.
  2. The exhibit space: Many compositions of not only the Heyri’s cultural artists but also lots of native and foreign artists are on display all the time at the space.
  3. The performance space: Multi-purpose concert hall and outdoor stage for the performing arts are in the space.
  4. The festival space: A variety of cultural art festivals are held of year in the space.
  5. The education space: The Heyri is a cultural art school. There are various teaching creation institutions in the space.
  6. The discussion space: A lot of seminars and lectures for the art, culture, study and idea are conducted in this space.
  7. The sale space: Many cultural art works are sold in this space.
  8. The international exchange space: A lot of world cultural art lovers visit to the Heyri. Also many Korean artists enter the global art market.
  9. The creation dwelling space: The Heyri is an ecological space for the cultural artists who concentrate on the creation.

Tourism

Access

The Heyri is opening their doors for free. But, some spaces in the Heyri have an admission fee. Most of spaces generally are closed at Monday. But some spaces open at Monday.[8]

Festival

There are various festival, big and small events held throughout the Heyri all year long.

Management of event and festival is Heyri or each cultural space.

Heyri Pan Art Festival

Since 1997, Heyri Pan Art Festival has been most typical festival of Heyri. Various visual art festival, performance art festival and participatory events held every day during the Pan Festival. Pan Art Festival is so characteristic of Heyri Art Valley.[9] Art Road 77 is a part of Pan Art Festival. Since 2009, Art Road 77 has been an Art Fair and also being shared an event that donates the proceeds from the art product sales to Save the Children.[10]

Check the festival and events schedule at Heyri website

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Outline". Heyri Website.
  2. ↑ "Introduction of Heyri". Visit Korea Website.
  3. ↑ Curley, Gregory. "Heyri Art Village: South Korea's melting pot of creativity". CNN Travel. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  4. ↑ Park, Hong, Jinhee, John. Convergent Flux: Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in Korea. pp. p. 30.
  5. ↑ Morgan, Kate. "Make art not war in South Korea artists' village". Loney Planet. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  6. ↑ 김하정 (2014-09-02). "헤이리, 자연 속의 예술 마을".
  7. ↑ "What is Heyri Doing?". Heyri Website.
  8. ↑ "Monday open spaces". Heyri Website.
  9. ↑ 하성인 (2015-05-09). "파주 헤이리 판 아트 페스티벌 열려". 국제뉴스.
  10. ↑ 김정선 (2015-05-12). "헤이리에서 기부형 미술장터 '아트로드 77 아트페어'". 연합뉴스.

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