Exhibitions in Seoul

Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) · Free

A K-beauty and pop-art collaboration between skincare brand Lala Recipe and artist MeME, with four themed zones blending beauty products and character art.

MMCA Deoksugung

The first retrospective of landscape painter Lee Daiwon (1921-2005), tracing the disciplined technique behind his vivid orchards, mountains and fields.

National Museum of Korea

A thematic show on 19th-century Joseon scholar-calligrapher Kim Jeonghui, exploring his intellectual circle through letters, calligraphy and paintings. Calligraphy and Painting Gallery, 2F.

National Folk Museum of Korea · Free

North Korean folk culture through regional memories of Gaeseong, Hwanghae-do, Pyeongan-do and Hamgyeong-do, shared everyday traditions, and Geumgangsan Mountain as a common cultural memory.

Buk-Seoul Museum of Art · Free

The 13th edition of Title Match pairs artists Inhwan Oh and Seo Young Chang, reframing human imperfection as a source of creativity rather than a flaw, across installation, video and photography.

Seoul Museum of History · Free

Marking 60 years since Seoul's first 1966 master plan, tracing how early urban visions shaped the city's growth and imagining what comes next.

National Folk Museum of Korea · Free

Kerala's Onam harvest festival explored through floral arrangements, ritual objects, festive foods and the Kummattikali masked dance, drawing parallels with Korea's Chuseok.

MMCA Seoul

Sound-inspired works created by artist Kim Joon together with ten families from Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, part of MMCA's inclusive-museum programme.

SongEun Art Space · Free

Marking 25 years of the SONGEUN Art Award, nearly 180 past winners and finalists each transform an identical box of plywood sheets into a distinct work.

SongEun Art Space · Free

A solo installation by Jong Oh reimagining SONGEUN's B2 Bunker Room, a former private storage space, exploring architecture, light and material.

Lotte Museum of Art

A survey of Lee Kang So's five-decade practice across painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance, tracing where the visible and invisible, reality and image, begin to waver.

MMCA Seoul

A large-scale retrospective of Korea's leading installation artist Do Ho Suh, spanning early works, major pieces on home and migration, and ongoing projects.

Art Sonje Center

Muyeong Kim's first solo museum show, transforming the Art Hall theater into an exhibition site with photographs from Sorok Island and Seodaemun Prison, plus new sculpture.

Whanki Museum

2026 Whanki Foundation Artists show surveying four decades of Kim Joo Young's work, from hanok-lattice paintings to her Paris-period black canvases.

Hangaram Art Museum

A retrospective of Francisco Goya's prints, drawings and court paintings, centered on his "Caprichos" series and its dark social commentary.

Whanki Museum

Collection special exhibition centred on Kim Whanki's 1963-74 New York period, tracing how his wife Kim HyangAn built the museum's holdings after his death.

Whanki Museum

At Suhyangsanbang: the Korean art collection Kim HyangAn built after founding the Whanki Foundation in 1974, and what came after her.

Art Sonje Center

A long-term research project tracing how social structures, disaster and the climate crisis shape our collective narratives, rooted in a 2014 tragedy in Korea.

MMCA Seoul

Around 140 works by 28 artists, including Kim Beom, Kim Soun-Gui, Bahc Yiso, Ahn Kyuchul, and Lee Kun-Yong, tracing conceptual tendencies in Korean art from the 1970s to the 2000s.

National Museum of Korean Contemporary History · Free

Marking Constitution Day's return as a public holiday, this show uses AI-reconstructed footage and period artifacts to revisit the 1948 drafting and proclamation of Korea's founding constitution.

Photography Seoul Museum of Art (Photo SeMA) · Free

First major Asian retrospective of Martin Parr, spanning 14 series, 500+ photographs and his images of North and South Korea. With Magnum Photos and the Martin Parr Foundation.

Seoul Museum of Art · Free

A comprehensive retrospective marking the 110th birth anniversary of abstract pioneer Yoo Youngkuk, with over 170 works and archival materials spanning six decades, opening SeMA's new Korean Modern Masters series.

Seoul Museum of History · Free

How Joseon-era Seoul's soldiers and residents jointly built and repaired the city's defenses, including the Seoul City Wall, across generations of conflict.

National Museum of Korea

A special exhibition exploring Korean culinary culture and its relationship to nature and everyday life, on view in Special Exhibition Gallery 2.

National Folk Museum of Korea · Free

Over 190 folkloric cups, from ancient earthenware and celadon to modern glass and paper, shown alongside 13 contemporary artists' works on how cups connect people.

National Hangeul Museum · Free

Touring design exhibition on Hangeul, tools and perception, hosted at Gimhae's Kimyoungwon Museum of Art while the main building is closed for fire-damage repairs.

Seoul Museum of Art · Free

Works from the donated GanaArt Collection of Korean realist art examining how technology and industrialization reshaped urban life, social order and individual experience.

Arario Museum in Space

Five historic Korean folding screens by Yu Deokjang, Kim Heesoon, Kim Eunho, Park Saengkwang and Pak Nosoo, tracing bamboo, birds and dragons across centuries of ink painting.

MMCA Seoul

Second edition of the MMCA x LG OLED media-art commission, presenting Christine Sun Kim's "Have Many Dumb Fights Against Rock" on a large curved OLED screen installation in Seoul Box.

Leeum Museum of Art

Immersive, sensory environments by pioneering women artists including Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark and Marta Minujin, reconstructing a radical strand of postwar art often left out of the canon.

MMCA Seoul

Korea's leading contemporary-art award exhibition, presenting new and key earlier works by the four 2026 finalists: Lee Haemin Sun, Lee Jungwoo, Jeon Hyunsun, and Hong Jin-hwon.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)

An interactive family exhibition based on the global children's franchise Baby Shark, inviting visitors to explore a secret ocean through immersive play zones.

Seoul Museum of Art · Free

A large-scale crocheted installation by Ernesto Neto, filled with guava and tea-tree leaves, transforming the museum's lobby and public spaces with sensory forms drawn from Brazil's Neo-Concrete movement.

Seoul Museum of Craft Art · Free

Traces the journey of lacquerware craftsmanship, from cultivating lacquer trees to the artisan techniques behind finished pieces.

National Museum of Korea

A thematic display of ceramics decorated with bamboo motifs across the seasons, in the Buncheong Ware and White Porcelain Gallery, permanent exhibition hall 3F.

Seoul Museum of History · Free

The layered history of one Insa-dong site, from a Joseon yangban residence and royal quarters to a modern restaurant and the site of the 1919 Declaration of Independence.

Buk-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".

Buk-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.

Buk-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.

Seoul 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.

National 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.