June 17 to July 6, 2025 – Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea.
Pillar Bookshop, located at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul, suggested displaying all of John Berger’s books for three weeks. They also proposed lectures by Sulla Lee and Hyunwoo Kim. They also printed a poster with all John Berger’s titles and a series of cards with quotations.
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.