Heyri Art Valley

Heyri Art Valley
Hangul 헤이리예술마을
Revised Romanization Heyrimaeul

Heyri Art Valley (Korean: 헤이리 마을) is an art town in the unification hill district of Tanhyeon-myeon Paju Gyeonggi Province South Korea. It was constructed by artists, writers, painters and other people in creative industries.

The Heyri Art Valley is Korea's largest art town. Heyri’s area is about 495,868 m². In 1997, Heyri was built in its current form. It began with an inaugural meeting in 1998, in which 380 cultural artists participated. The Heyri Art Valley derives its name from the traditional Nongyo (Farmers’ Song) ‘Heyri sound’ in Paju Gyeonggi Province. The Heyri Art Valley is a unique community village of integrated concepts that coexist in the fields of production, exhibit, sales, and habitation of cultural art. From a functional perspective, the Heyri Art Valley was planned in an urban form that focused on the cultural business.[1] The Heyri Art Valley is home to many galleries, museums, exhibit halls, concert halls, small theaters, cafes, restaurants, bookstores, guest houses, art shops, and creative living spaces for artists. Every building was designed by dozens of nationally and internationally renowned architects, who also designed features within the natural landscape, such as mountains, hills, swamps, or brooks.[2]

History

In 1969, as part of the "Unification Land Development Project", the Heyri Art Village was envisioned as a "book village" that would connect to the nearby Paju Book City. As development began, the village attracted many artists who contributed ideas to the original concept. Their contributions led to the project's expansion into a broader "cultural art village" which is now known as Heyri Art Valley.[3]

Space

Buildings in Heyri are differentiated by purpose. For example, there is a concert hall, an experience place, a space for commercial exhibit, a cafe, a restaurant, a guesthouse, and a space for lectures. Each space has one or more cultural purposes. In Heyri, there are no buildings taller than three stories.[4]
There are various spaces in the Heyri.[5]

  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 artworks 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

Entrance to Heyri is free, however, some of its spaces may charge admission fees. Most of its spaces are generally closed on Mondays.[6]

Festival

There are various festivals of varying sizes held in Heyri throughout the year.

Management of events and festivals is done by Heyri or individual cultural spaces.

Heyri Pan Art Festival

Since 1997, the Pan Art Festival has been the primary festival at Heyri. Various visual art festivals, performance art festivals and participatory events are held each day during the Pan Festival.[7] Art Road 77 is one of the significant parts of Pan Art Festival. Since 2009, Art Road 77 has been an Art Fair as well as a shared an event that donates the proceeds from the art product sales to Save the Children.[8]


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

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