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 an 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]

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.[3]
There are various spaces in the Heyri.[4]

  1. The creation space: About 380 cultural artists who work in a 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 a 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 a admission fee. Most of spaces generally are closed at Monday. But some spaces open at Monday.[5]

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.[6] Art Road 77 is a part of Pan Art Festival. Since 2009, Art Road 77 has been a Art Fair and also beeing shared a event that donates the proceeds from the art product sales to Save the Children.[7]

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. ↑ 김하정 (2014-09-02). "헤이리, 자연 속의 예술 마을".
  4. ↑ "What is Heyri Doing?". Heyri Website.
  5. ↑ "Monday open spaces". Heyri Website.
  6. ↑ 하성인 (2015-05-09). "파주 헤이리 판 아트 페스티벌 열려". 국제뉴스.
  7. ↑ 김정선 (2015-05-12). "헤이리에서 기부형 미술장터 '아트로드 77 아트페어'". 연합뉴스.

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