Life Pieces to A Masterpiece
Starting with the Asian Open Art Fair in 2007, the 2022 Busan International Art Fair (2022 BIAF), which celebrates its 21st anniversary this year. As Asia's leading art fair, it is a new form of direct transaction between domestic and foreign contemporary artists and consumers. It is a direct trade art market and a grand festival of Asian art that artists and visitors can enjoy together.
Starting with the 22 New Wave Emerging Artists Exhibition, which will become a new wave of Korean contemporary art, the previous year’s outstanding artists and major invited artists, as well as contemporary art from Korea, Dubai, India, Mongolia, Netherlands, Brunei, Venezuela, Japan, etc. Meet the current and future of contemporary art along with the flow of world art with over 3,000 works by 250 artists. We invite art lovers to the 2022 Busan International Art Fair, a journey of color that can hold its value.
So far BIAF has given viewers opportunities to see artworks by great artists (such as Pablo Picasso, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and Nam June Paik), and at the same time has supported bold new artists who defy conventional order. BIAS, where Korean contemporary art communes with the contemporary art of other countries, showcases various artworks in a wide spectrum of art forms and imagery to introduce viewers to the trends of the contemporary art, and to offer them a profound insight into them.
BIAF has invited great artists who reflect the tradition and uniqueness of Korean beauty in their work, grasping the properties of the present time, and simultaneously has tried to find promising new artists. What it has pursued is to break down borders that existed in the art world and to promote open communications among artists and consumers.
BIAF has also introduced Koreans to attention-grabbing non-Western art by showing eminent artists from Japan, China, India, and Vietnam (such as Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda and Indian artist RM Palaniappan). And it has continued making ties with art circles in other countries. BIAF commits itself to making valuable opportunities that will help viewers understand contemporary art that crosses all forms of art.
BIAF supports reasonable and transparent direct transactions between artists and customers, and at the same time takes the lead in serving international communities through donations. As it provides a convenient and reliable art market for overseas collectors, BIAF naturally becomes a base on which artists can rely for making their work continuously. As mentioned above, BIAF uses some of its profits for international art exchange projects for students, and some is donated to the public good, including the donation to the UNICEF. These activities of the K-ART International Exchange Association are favorably received as desirable and reasonable programs in both home and foreign art markets, which contributes to major overseas buyers and dealers revisiting to the BIAF.
Up to now BIAF has been able to be held thanks to K-ART International Exchange Association that has tried to expand the base of art culture in difficult circumstances, other institutions involving art and culture, and art lovers who support the show. We will continue to do our best to build BIAF as a cultural horizon for Asian art in the city of Busan, and to establish it as one of Asia's representative art markets. We deeply appreciate all viewers who visit and cherish BIAF. And we expect art lovers to continuously encourage and support BIAF that is hosted and supervised by the K-Art International Exchange Association.
