Where Are Good Exhibitions to See During the Seol Holiday?

The exhibition "Collection Open Hacking Mining" held at the Seosomun Main Building of the Seoul Museum of Art until April 11.

[Asia Economy Reporter Donghyun Choi] Various exhibitions will be held for homebodies in the Seoul metropolitan area who do not return to their hometowns during the Lunar New Year holiday.

According to the cultural and arts community on the 11th, the Seoul Museum of Art will hold various exhibition programs at locations such as the Seosomun Main Building, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, and SeMA Warehouse during the Lunar New Year holiday for citizens staying in Seoul due to COVID-19. Visits are possible by making a reservation in advance through the Seoul public service reservation site.

First, at the Seosomun Main Building, the collection exhibition titled "Collection Open Hacking Mining," themed on the museum's owned artworks, will be on display until April 11. It introduces various participatory works that allow appreciation of the collection of owned artworks in a non-face-to-face and online environment. Visitors can participate by visiting the museum directly or through the exhibition homepage and smartphones.

The Place Where the Wave Passed, held at Buk Seoul Museum of Art.

At the Buk Seoul Museum of Art, the exhibition "Where the Wave Passed" will be held until the 14th. This is a media art jointly planned by the Seoul Museum of Art and the Spain-based Hannefken Foundation. The Hannefken Foundation, established in 2009 in Barcelona, Spain, is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting production in the field of video art and promoting artists. Also, the 2020 Title Match "To the Shaking People" by Ham Yang-ah vs. Seo Dong-jin will be held until March 1 in the exhibition hall and project gallery of the Buk Seoul Museum of Art. Since 2014, the Buk Seoul Museum of Art has been planning exhibitions inviting two artists under the name "Title Match." Additionally, the exhibition "Wadangtangtungtang" for children will be held until September 9.

Waiting Room Project 'Simple Sincerity: 51 Lives' held at Namseoul Museum of Art.

At the Nam Seoul Museum of Art, "Simple Sincerity: 51 Lives," part of the Waiting Room Project, continues until April 11. This exhibition showcases portrait projects by artist Yooah Park, based in New York, centered on the theme of "family," featuring the "Ubermensch" series that focuses on the history and traces found in the faces of Korean overseas adoptees.

At the Seoul Museum of Art SeMA Warehouse (located in Seoul Innovation Park, Eunpyeong-gu), works by selected emerging artists from the "Emerging Artist Exhibition Support Program" are on display until March 7, including "Living Silver - Hairtail" by artist Sanghwan Byun and "Fyka Foretold" by artist Heyum Bae.

The first planned exhibition of the year at Suwon City Museum of Art, 'A New Way of Living for □'.

The Suwon Museum of Art also opened its first planned exhibition of the year, titled "□ A New Way of Living," starting the day before and running until June 20 at the Suwon I-Park Museum of Art. The exhibition focuses on the way objects are created and transformed in ways suitable for life in the current era, highlighting how objects live anew amid large and small changes. It aims to provide a space to expand recognition and thinking about objects by examining the characteristics of "objects" in modern society centered on their relationship with "humans," discovering new perspectives on the intersection of daily life and art. It also seeks to experience a new system of objects that are familiar or transformed into unfamiliar forms, containing various traces connected to human life in this era. The exhibition title uses a "□" instead of a specific word in the subject to offer the joy of embedding one's own definition.

This exhibition features a total of 11 artists (teams) who discuss the diverse relationships between "objects" and "humans" in modern society through 62 works including paintings, photographs, installations, and media art. The exhibition is composed of two sections.