Galerie Vazieux

Galerie Vazieux Galerie à Paris spécialisée en art moderne et contemporain européen et asiatique

Fondée en 1999 par Sabine Vazieux, la galerie se spécialise dans la peinture abstraite d’après-guerre occidentale et asiatique. En 2018, la galerie change de lieu et s’installe rue du Louvre – à deux pas de la Collection Pinault et du Musée du Louvre. Sabine Vazieux expose aujourd’hui des artistes asiatiques historiques, ainsi que des artistes contemporains, qu’elle rencontre dans le monde entier.

Persuadée que les ponts entre les galeries et les institutions renforcent l’objectif commun de faire mieux connaître les artistes au public et aux collectionneurs, elle s’investit aussi dans le commissariat d’expositions. Elle a, entre autres, organisé l’exposition « From China to Taiwan » au musée d’Ixelles en 2017 et plus récemment « Les Paysages de l’âme » au musée des Arts asiatiques de Nice en 2021. La galerie est aussi présente sur les foires européennes et asiatiques (Art Basel Hong Kong, Taipei Dangdai, Kiaf Seoul…). Grâce à ses choix artistiques sans concession, la Galerie Vazieux a fait entrer des œuvres d’artistes majeurs dans les collections des musées internationaux comme celles du Centre Pompidou et du M+ Museum.

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |Last days to discover our presentation at Kiaf SEOUL. « Korean Artists in Paris: Trajectories of Abst...
05/09/2026

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |

Last days to discover our presentation at Kiaf SEOUL. « Korean Artists in Paris: Trajectories of Abstraction, 1957–2024 » spans nearly seven decades of abstract practice — from Rhee Seund Ja’s 1950s works and Nam Kwan’s representative pieces from his Paris period in the 1960s, through to Lee Ungno’s works across the 1960s–1980s and Lee Young-sé’s early works from the 1980s, to Park In-kyung’s recent pieces from 2024. Together, these works trace how the Korean artists in Paris developed their own approaches to abstraction in a new artistic environment, and how these practices continued across generations.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

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| ARTIST |In the 1950s, Korean artists began to take a growing interest in the Western art world. Many were drawn to Par...
05/09/2026

| ARTIST |

In the 1950s, Korean artists began to take a growing interest in the Western art world. Many were drawn to Paris, a major center of international art. Rhee Seund Ja was the first to arrive, in 1951. She initially moved to France for personal reasons following her divorce, but she began to pursue art after enrolling in the fashion design department at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in 1953 and taking painting classes there. In 1957, she moved away from her early figurative paintings and turned to abstraction.
She was a prolific artist with more than 1,000 paintings, 700 prints, 250 ceramics, and numerous drawings. She exhibited mainly in France and in South Korea, with 84 solo exhibitions and almost 300 group exhibitions during her lifetime.
She remained active in France until her death in 2009, exploring themes ranging from women and the earth to the cosmos and the balance of yin and yang.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

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| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |Dive into Seund Ja Rhee’s ‘Untitled’ (c. 1957) presented at Kiaf Seoul 2026. This oil on canvas, with...
05/09/2026

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |

Dive into Seund Ja Rhee’s ‘Untitled’ (c. 1957) presented at Kiaf Seoul 2026. This oil on canvas, with overlapping white rectangular forms set against a blue ground, is a striking example of the “Abstract Period” of the artist.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

Artwork:
Rhee Seund Ja, ‘Untitled’, circa 1957, Oil on canvas, 54 x 73.8 cm

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| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |In the 1970s, Lee Ungno produced a variety of semi-abstract works. The works from 1974 presented at K...
04/09/2026

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |

In the 1970s, Lee Ungno produced a variety of semi-abstract works. The works from 1974 presented at Kiaf SEOUL 2026 draw inspiration from Korean traditions, including obangsaek, the traditional five-color system, and decorative motifs. Their bright colors and forms suggestive of people, animals, and plants convey the sense of playfulness that runs throughout Lee Ungno’s artistic practice.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

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| ARTIST |‘Abstraction stems from expressive freedom’. This quotation from Lee Ungno (이응노) reflects the key to his artis...
04/09/2026

| ARTIST |

‘Abstraction stems from expressive freedom’. This quotation from Lee Ungno (이응노) reflects the key to his artistic approach.

Born in 1904 in Korea, he began learning the art of calligraphy at a very young age. He perfected the technique in Japan where he lived between 1937 and the end of the Second World War. When he returned to his native country in 1945, he taught calligraphy until he moved to France. Fascinated by abstract art, he began experimenting with new pictorial vocabularies in 1960 in Paris. His abstract collages were exhibited in Seoul in 1962; local critics saw his work as a revival of traditional Korean painting. His approach, which straddled Eastern and Western art, breathed new life into Korean art in the 1960s, which was very traditional.

Lee Ungno exhibited his work in Germany, the United States, Switzerland, France, Belgium, England, Korea, Japan, Brazil, and so on. His works are in many public collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the M+ Museum in Hong Kong, and the National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Pompidou in Paris. A museum dedicated to his life and creative career opened in Daejeon in 2007.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

#이응노

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |Lee Ungno (1904-1989) settled in Paris in 1960 where he was able to encounter the latest developments...
03/09/2026

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |

Lee Ungno (1904-1989) settled in Paris in 1960 where he was able to encounter the latest developments in abstract art at close range. Within this environment, he continued to work with traditional East Asian materials such as ink and hanji while actively exploring Western abstraction and searching for a new abstract language of his own.
His ‘Abstract Letter’ series, which began in the 1960s, became one of his most representative bodies of work, exploring the abstract and formal qualities of writing through forms suggestive of Chinese characters, Hangeul, and pictographs.
In the 1970s, he explored the composition of letters across a wide range of media, including sculpture, printmaking, and ceramics, while his ‘Abstract Letter’ series evolved toward more angular and structured forms.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

Artworks:
Lee Ungno, ‘Composition’, 1974, 67 x 32 cm
Lee Ungno, ‘Composition’, 1979, 49 x 29 cm
Lee Ungno, ‘Composition’, 1963, Colors on hanji paper, 42 x 21 cm
Lee Ungno, ‘Composition’, circa 1962-1964, Ink and colors on hanji paper, 36 x 55 cm
Lee Ungno, ‘Composition’, 1969, Colors on hanji paper, 49 x 30 cm

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| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |Dive into the works by Nam Kwan (1911–1990), one of the first-generation Korean artists who moved to ...
03/09/2026

| KIAF SEOUL 2026 |

Dive into the works by Nam Kwan (1911–1990), one of the first-generation Korean artists who moved to Paris where he explored abstraction.

The three pieces presented at Kiaf SEOUL 2026 clearly show the defining characteristics of Nam Kwan’s work from this period, which introduce forms suggestive of ancient ruins, rocks, and pictographs in dark tones and time-worn textures.

Artworks:
Nam Kwan, Jardin Blanc, 1965, Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 65 cm
Nam Kwan, Très ancien, 1967, Oil on canvas, 49.5 x 61 cm
Nam Kwan, Rythme oriental, 1966, Oil on canvas, 50 x 73 cm

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

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| ARTIST |Nam Kwan (1911–1990) was already a celebrated artist in Korea when a transformative encounter with the Salon d...
02/09/2026

| ARTIST |

Nam Kwan (1911–1990) was already a celebrated artist in Korea when a transformative encounter with the Salon de Mai exhibition in Tokyo inspired his move to Paris in search of a new visual language. From 1962, his work began to feature forms evoking ancient ruins, rocks, and pictographs — symbols he linked to his own war memories, rendered in dark tones and time-worn textures. By infusing the ancient and natural with human memory and spirit, Nam Kwan captured the attention of the French art scene. In 1966, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Biennale Internationale d’Art de Menton, France. The three works from 1965–1967 presented by Galerie Vazieux at Kiaf SEOUL 2026 exemplify the defining traits of his art from this pivotal period.

• Galerie Vazieux, Booth A77
• Kiaf SEOUL, COEX Hall A, Seoul, Korea
• 2-6 September 2026
• Inquiry: [email protected]

#남관

Nam Kwan Rythme oriental, 196650 x 73 cm
02/09/2026

Nam Kwan
Rythme oriental, 1966
50 x 73 cm

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