Exhibitions in Seoul
April 2027
April at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 2 closing, and 5 more on view across the city.
Closing in April
The Way of Reading: From Paper to Pixel4 AprMMCA Seoul
An exhibition reinterpreting the relationship between text and image amid the shift from analog to digital reading, drawing on the MMCA collection and graphic design/publishing works.
You, As You Are — SimLee Da Eun11 AprBuk-Seoul Museum of Art · Free
A sound installation in which visitors turn handles to blend live audio streamed from around Nowon-gu with the imagined footsteps of a fictional stray cat, exploring whose sensory experience of the city counts as "normal".
Also on through April
Korean Artists in France 1950s-1970sto 9 MayMMCA Deoksugung
Marking 140 years of Korea-France diplomatic ties, tracing roughly 50 Korean artists, including Lee Ufan and Kim Tschang-yeul, who worked in Paris from the 1950s to 1970s.
Kwon Byungjun: I Embrace Youto 16 MayBuk-Seoul Museum of Art · Free
A media-art show of imperfect, experimental humanoid robots and sound works by Kwon Byungjun, inviting visitors to reconsider how they welcome "strangers" and difference.
Beyond project: Somatic Ground — Small Studio Semito 30 MayBuk-Seoul Museum of Art · Free
Woodworking sculptures and geometric installations by Small Studio Semi that engage senses beyond sight, inviting visitors to experience the museum's spaces through their bodies rather than in silence.
Folded Time, Unfolded Memory—Andong Palaceto 29 AugSeoul Museum of Craft Art · Free
A collaboration with the Oryundae Korean Martyrs Museum exploring how craft mediates the memories of the site's people and places across eras.
Twinkle Twinkle, Hippity-Hopto 31 DecNational Folk Museum of Korea · Free
Interactive Children's Museum exhibition following a bunny doll into the museum's collection, with hands-on excavation, cleaning, conservation and packing activities.
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