ISKAI Art – Creative Agency

 

ISKAI Contemporary Art is creative agency, UK Limited company but works across Asia and Europe. We commission and produces unique public and commercial art projects by outstanding contemporary artists and designers. We serve as a ‘cultural accelerator’ by providing innovative outcomes which can contribute to culture, and are made up of experts from various culture and arts fields that strive for collaboration between corporate/government sectors. As a result, we have so far collaborated with more than 450 artists, many of them on multiple occassions proving the trust and friendship we have built over the years. From curating blockbuster exhibitions to making documentary films, from producing an ost album to planning strategy for the corporates’ new headquarters, we build content and create within physical spaces to create unique moments. For IP projects, ISKAI Contemporary Art operates Sleepers Summit.

DIRECTOR – DR. STEPHANIE SEUNGMIN KIM

 
Stephanie Seungmin Kim is founder and CEO of Iskai Contemporary Art, a curatorial research centre, and Sleepers summit incorporation, and works with the public sector since 2006. She was the founding Curator of the Korean Cultural Centre UK, Embassy of the Republic of Korea from 2007 to 2011. 
 
She founded Iskai Art and directed shows including Liverpool Biennial City States Terra Galaxia (Liverpool 2010 & 2012), A Soldier’s Tale (London Asia House 2013), Sleepers in Venice (Parallel event for Venice Biennale 2015), Heritage exhibition at Unesco (Paris 2014), Singapore Open Media Festival (Singapore2015), Jikji Korea International Festival (Cheongju 2016), United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD) COP 13 exhibition (Ordos 2017), Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism (Seoul, 2017). 
 
She also produced Sleepers in Venice documentary film in 2018. The film converges art and music by collaborating with Fluxus Music to produce an ost album under the same title. 

She received Doctor of Philosophy in Royal College of Art(RCA). She also received a Master’s degree from University College London(UCL) and Honours BA from Sotheby’s Institute. 

OPERATIONS MANAGER – YEONHEE DO

 

Yeony Do is Centrepreneur.‘ C’entrpeneur is a phrase coined by Sleepers Summit & ISKAI Art to refer to her role as an active entrepreneur linking industry with sustainable culture.

Yeony combines Iskai Art’s cultural expertise with business knowledge to turn creative ideas into products and businesses. Yeony graduated from University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management. Since then, she has gained experience creating cultural projects, events and e-commerce businesses including founding online brands and crowdfunding project for an independent film ‘Sleepers in Venice’. Through this, she is able to critically assess businesses and quickly gain an understanding of their needs including, planning, sales and marketing. 

Yeony specialises in analysing art and cultural projects from cultural and economic perspectives. she went on to complete Master’s degree at Goldsmiths University London with a distinction. Her dissertation titled ‘Why cultural and art entrepreneurship is valuable for creative enterprise: A case study of the Sleepers in Venice project’ focused on the cultural and economic perspective of entrepreneurship and concluded that the success of the project was dependent on the creativity of the people involved.


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