Exhibitions in Seoul

MMCA 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.

National Museum of Korea

A collaboration with London's V&A tracing how Marie Antoinette shaped 18th-century fashion, interiors and taste, and how her image has been reinterpreted since. Special Exhibition Gallery 2.

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

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.

Horim Museum (Sinsa)

A special exhibition on traditional East Asian concepts of time, examining cyclical time, astronomical observation and the rhythms of daily life through the museum's collection, across three galleries.

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.

Leeum Museum of Art

Koo Jeong A's largest solo show in Korea to date, spanning three decades of work with phosphorescence, magnets, scent and skatepark architecture spread through the M2 galleries, lobby and grounds.

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.

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.

National Hangeul Museum · Free

Special exhibition marking Hangeul Day's 100th anniversary and the 580th anniversary of the Hunminjeongeum's promulgation, held off-site at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History.

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.

Seoul Museum of Art · Free

Asia's first museum survey of American media-art pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson, tracing six decades of work on identity, surveillance and the human-technology interface.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)

Korea's first major retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud, one of the 20th century's leading artists, known for his distinctive paintings of everyday objects.

Amorepacific Museum of Art (APMA)

Korea's first major retrospective of conceptual art pioneer Sol LeWitt, with roughly 45 works including 13 wall drawings realised anew within APMA's galleries.

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.

Seoul Museum of Craft Art · Free

Designer Chang Eungbok reinterprets the aesthetics of Korean gyubang craft and folk art as contemporary patterns across textiles, furniture and artisan techniques.

MMCA 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.

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.