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7 Must-See Collectible Design Shows in November

November 4th, 2024
Minjae Kim pictured with Everglades Table, Tray of Oysters, Radar Lamp, Chair for Two, and Big Fan Lamp (From Left to Right).

By Jesse Dorris

From a major retrospective honoring the late steel savant Maria Pergay to a husband and wife duo’s first solo exhibition at London’s Gallery Fumi.

“Minjae Kim: Ba-Da” at Nina Johnson Gallery | Miami

Fresh off “Residual Energies,” this fall’s triumphant curatorial debut by Camille Okio, Nina Johnson Gallery takes a trip to the sea with its second show by Minjae Kim, on view in the upstairs gallery through November 23rd. Multi-functional furniture brings tidal waves of associations: a console is shaped like a hull and protects a variety of lighting fixtures cloaked in Kim’s signature quilted fibreglass, while a table is both a place for plates and a plate itself, offering ersatz “oysters.” And Boy at the sea, his recent foray into figurative work, is oceanic in emotion, embodying a young boy made of resin, foam, and plaster, who stoops on a load-bearing wood pedestal as if waiting, expectantly if anxiously, for what will wash up next.

Read the full article online on Galerie Magazine.

  • Minjae Kim pictured with Everglades Table, Tray of Oysters, Radar Lamp, Chair for Two, and Big Fan Lamp (From Left to Right).