William Wegman is a world-renowned and pioneering multi-media artist. A key figure in the West Coast Conceptual art movement, Wegman has been recognized internationally for his videos, photographs, paintings and drawings. A major and long-lasting body of his work has centered on photographs of his Weimaraners—Man Ray, Fay Ray, their descendants and relatives. These patient and willing subjects have made their way into Wegman’s exhibitions and books over the years, yet until now, his rich archive has never been explored in depth. This exhibition features 100 of the finest works drawn from the entire oeuvre, chosen in close collaboration with the artist himself. More than one-half are being exhibited for the first time.

Wegman’s earlier exhibitions have toyed with the purposely ambiguous canine/human interface, but have never fully embraced the idea that his work is essentially about the human condition. Being Human looks at his oeuvre through this lens.

– Foundation for the exhibition of photography

<Infinity> is a work in which an image is projected on a precisely designed screen, and the light is partially transmitted, absorbed, and reflected on the circular screen, and extends throughout the space. 

The image projected on the infinitely rotating screen changes by reflecting the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere for a total of 150 years from 1880 to the present. 

The video, which is gradually accelerated to 1 minute, 30 seconds, and 15 seconds, expresses carbon emissions that have increased rapidly over human history, and the interior of the exhibition hall that changes every minute as a result suggests a changing environment. 

In this way, the artist reveals the causal relationship between human behavior and climate change through her work, and reminds us of the fact that finite humans are located in the eternal interaction.

– PKM Gallery

This immersive sensory experience is part of the exhibition “Beyond the Road,” where the mix of sounds and visual effects highlights the displayed paintings, sculptures, videos and installations. Since its debut in London’s Saatchi Gallery in 2019, Seoul has stepped up as its first host in Asia.

The exhibition is presented in an interactive format, where the visitors get to be the ones choosing their own route and interpretation of the nameless visual arts and media pieces. The only guiding element is the music of British electronic musician James Lavelle and his band UNKLE.

For the last two decades, the show’s creatives ― producer Colin Nightingale and director Stephen Dobbie ― have been a part of Punchdrunk, the British theater company that ushered in the genre of “immersive theater.” One of their most popular works is “Sleep No More,” a reimagining of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy “Macbeth,” where spectators are given free rein to choose where to go and what scene to watch.

– Korea TImes

This exhibition focuses on objects that have been discarded for being old or used resulting in producing greenhouse gases. The concept “VINTAGE” in the exhibition expands beyond the scope of furniture or household goods bearing traces of time; rather, it reflects all objects that inspire artists in new ways to be reborn in new forms of artworks through the artists’ creativity. The exhibition title “TONG’s VINTAGE” literally translates as “Tongui Vintage” in Korean, which is taken from the address of the museum in Tongui-dong. The exhibition space provokes the audience’s curiosity and presents various fantastic spectacles, transforming into an oddity shop where old items are granted a new life through the hands of the participating artists.

– Daelim Museum

The exhibition The Chronicle of Lost Time was organized as an introspective reading of Korean contemporary art, which has dashed through the radiant, turbulent times of modern and contemporary history, and continues to speed on. In its early stage, when “Western art” had mythological influence, Korean contemporary art saw Western art sometimes as a mirror and sometimes as a milestone, which also caused difficulties in representing or expressing “life here and now,” and in the prospects of interpretation and criticism. Today those times have moved a step back, and are being poured into a smelting furnace of intense interpretation and discourse. Now we place that time upon the interpreter’s desk.

– Seoul National University Museum Of Art

Jason Haam is pleased to present Jonathan Gardner: Horizon, the artist’s first introduction in Asia and solo exhibition with the gallery. The artist’s signature style of flattened pictorial space, hyper-stylized compositions, and depictions of dream-like worlds come together in familiar, yet imaginary scenes that are drawn from Gardner’s own personal experience and collective memory. The presentation will feature five new paintings that highlight Gardner’s virtuosity of composition, form, and color. The title of the exhibition—Horizon—references the division of space in Gardner’s works, which create’a theatrical, stage-like space in which his figures occupy’. Gardner gives all figures, objects, and landscapes the same compositional value by bringing them to the forefront of the visual plane. Though Gardner flattens perspective, the placement of these forms within this space suggests a distant horizon.

– Jason Haam

This exhibition was designed and arranged with the theme of “Max Dalton’s creative illustrations of moments in the film.” In particular, commission posters created from motifs of the Korean film Parasite and the fantasy saga Lord of the Rings as well as eight unreleased series of artworks, and sketches will be available on view for the first time at My Art Museum. Dalton’s illustrations portray a film’s entire narrative into one canvas, offering viewers the kind of fun one may feel when playing Where’s Waldo, or I spy. The exhibition is divided into five Acts according to the theme of the artworks; in each Act, the viewers are invited to “watch” films via artworks and enjoy a variety of genres of illustrations ranging from children’s book illustrations to LP covers made in honor of great musical artists such as The Beatles and Bob Dylan. Moreover, part of the posters displayed at the exhibition will be available for purchase in special limited editions. Dalton’s playful illustrations will present the viewers the entertaining opportunity to rediscover films and possibly, the love for certain genres. 

– My Art Museum

I express relationships between individuals, individuals and society, and societies as a whole. I find these relationships difficult to comprehend, yet compelling. My works are symbolic visualizations of social relationships, feelings, and my perspectives of these experiences, like a pictorial record. They are the process of analyzing and understanding relationships in my surroundings. Furthermore, they are also devices to capture moments of everyday life which I believe are too meaningful to let pass by.

The themes come from my interpersonal problems. I have always wanted to be social and to get along with people, though it has always been difficult for me. Social psychologist David Myers said that proper self-disclosure (the extent to which one person reveals himself to another through communication) is necessary for maintaining good relationships with others. In that respect, knowing one’s self accurately is important, but it’s something I still have not figured out. Therefore, I appropriate well-known images and concepts that exist in society and compose them with my surroundings onto a canvas. This is a reflective act and a way for me to see myself, as if looking in a mirror.

– Sung-Kook Kim, Royal College of Art

The exhibition will serve as a road sign directing viewers to the flip side of Kim’s imaginary world – The Other Side. On a canvas overlaid with various images of pop culture, numerous figures and forms from all different time and space follow a well-scripted anecdotal structure to complete a composite narrative. The few thousand sheets of drawings allude well to Kim’s love for the act of drawing and his tenacious focus towards his subjects. Through a special live drawing performance given by the artist himself inside the exhibition hall, viewers will have a chance to witness his visual memory being transferred on to paper with precision through the tip of his pen.

– Lotte Museum

I paint forms as I think, not as I see

Pablo Picasso

Lee Bul’s work prominently uses symbols captured through exploring the inside and the outside of the body, the androcentric legacy of modernism and ideologies of Korean modernization. These motives reveal the clash of meanings between beauty, ugliness, life, death, mind, body, light and shadow. By projecting biased external gazes on society, politics, gender, class and ethnicity, her works traverse given borders. The exhibition revisits the artist’s starting point to create a new tension between two perspectives anchored in the past and the present. This narrative of return not only enriches the interpretation of Lee Bul’s artistic practice but also projects our current view over it so as to pose a few questions still valid to us.

– SeMA

Over 50 works of various genres, including paintings, installations, photography, media, and crafts, are displayed in the seven exhibition rooms. Works by artists who are actively active both at home and abroad were selected, and the production period of the works was encompassed from the 1960s to 2020, allowing you to look at the current trends of major contemporary art as well as the latest trends.

– APMA

The exhibition includes 153 works including Marilyn Monroe, representative of Andy Warhol, an icon of popular art, and signature prints such as flowers, as well as his drawings that were not easily seen, is released. […] This exhibition, which visits Korea for the first time after a successful tour of Italy’s major art museums, is expected to give visitors a fresh stimulus with the intensity of Andy Warhol’s peculiar intensity to daily life that is helpless due to the corona pandemic.

– Newsin

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of various specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and architects whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world.

teamLab aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new perceptions through art.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perception of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity of life.

– DDP