- 26th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2014
- Graphic Design, Education & Schools
- 19.6.–26.10.2014
- 21.6.201415:00–21.6.201416:00Lecture
Sulki & Min Choi (KR)
Off-White Talk on the Brno Biennial and Education
Off-White Paper. On the Brno Biennial and Education was made as a reference for the Biennial's 2014 edition, Graphic Design, Education & Schools. Looking back into the past ten years of the Biennial, the publication presents statistical data related to the accepted designers' educational profiles. While the book and the accompanying exhibition are intentionally kept factual, without offering any analysis or explanations, in the lecture Sulki & Min will be talking about what they felt and discovered in the process of making them and the outcomes.
Sulki & Min Choi (KR)
Sulki & Min are Seoul-based graphic designers. Sulki Choi studied communication design at Chungang University, Korea, and Min Choi at Seoul National University, Korea. Both earned their MFA degrees in graphic design at Yale University, New Haven, US. They worked as researchers in design at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 2003 until 2005. Since they came back to Seoul, Sulki & Min have worked mainly in cultural area, collaborating with institutions and individuals for the design of graphic identities, marketing materials and publications. In 2006, they held their first exclusive exhibition at the Gallery Factory in Seoul, for which they received the Art Award of the Year from the Arts Council Korea. They have participated in many exhibitions at institutions including Frankfurter Kunstverein, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Ningbo Graphic Design Biennale, Anyang Public Art Project, Arko Art Center, Platform Seoul, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. They also make and publish books through their own Specter Press, often collaborating with contemporary Korean artists and writers. Sulki & Min worked as graphic designers for the BMW Guggenheim Lab, a collaborative project initiated by the Guggenheim Foundation and BMW, during its three-year operation in New York, Berlin and Mumbai, for which they created an interactive graphic identity system based on on-line participation. In 2013, Min Choi curated Typojanchi, an international biennial of typography in Seoul, as the curatorial director. Both Sulki Choi and Min Choi teach graphic design and typography, at Kaywon School of Art & Design and the University of Seoul, respectively.Related articles
Biennial Talks
20.–22.6.2014
The Biennial will open on 20 June 2014 with three days of lectures and presentations by world-famous designers and design theoreticians.
This symposium will provide an opportunity to become acquainted with some of the leading figures in international graphic design, their work, and their opinions. There will also be space for personal discussion and critical debate. The official languages are Czech and English.
Moderated by James Langdon (designer, GB)James Langdon is an independent designer. He is one of six directors of the artist-run gallery Eastside Projects in Birmingham, UK; and founder of the itinerant School for Design Fiction. In 2012 he received the Inform International Award for Conceptual Design, presented by Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany. He has worked as a designer for numerous artists, and for institutions including Book Works, London; Sternberg Press, Berlin; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and OCA, Oslo. Curatorial initiatives include ‘Arefin & Arefin: The Graphic Design of Tony Arefin’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2012); ‘Construction School’, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2012); Norman Potter’s ‘In:quest of Icarus’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2012); and ‘Book Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2010). He has lectured internationally at institutions including Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden; Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK; Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, Netherlands; HFG Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands.
Fri 20.6.2014
- 20.6.201410:30–20.6.201411:00Lecture
introduction by the director of the Moravian Gallery in Brno
introduction by the curators of the 26th Brno Biennial 2014
- 20.6.201411:00–20.6.201412:00Lecture
Radana Lencová (CZ)
Comenia Script – a script not only for children
- 20.6.201412:00–20.6.201413:00Lecture
Barbara Steiner (AT)
Intricate Relationships
- 20.6.201415:00–20.6.201416:00Lecture
Rostislav Vaněk (CZ)
Graphic Design | Type Design
- 20.6.201416:00–20.6.201417:00Lecture
Åbäke (GB)
Seriously Forks X, a talk about talks
Sat 21.6.2014
- 21.6.201411:00–21.6.201412:00Lecture
Nina Paim (BR) with Emilia Bergmark (SE) and Corinne Gisel (CH)
Taking a Line for a Walk
- 21.6.201412:00–21.6.201413:00Lecture
Kurt Finsten (DK)
A Utopian Idea
- 21.6.201415:00–21.6.201416:00Lecture
Sulki & Min Choi (KR)
Off-White Talk on the Brno Biennial and Education
- 21.6.201416:00–21.6.201417:00Lecture
Mevis & Van Deursen (NL) with Moritz Küng (CH)
Our Art
Sun 22.6.2014
- 22.6.201411:00–22.6.201412:00Lecture
Tom Vandeputte (NL)
Beyond the Institution
- 22.6.201412:00–22.6.201413:00Lecture
Koenraad Dedobbeleer (BE)
Exhibit A: An Associative Travel Through Learning from a Formatted Space
- 22.6.201415:00–22.6.201416:00Lecture
Fraser Muggeridge (GB)
Typography with Words
- 22.6.201416:00–22.6.201417:00Lecture
Vladimír Kokolia (CZ)
Design = Crime
- 22.6.201417:00–22.6.201417:30Presentation
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