Exhibitions in Seoul

January 2027

January at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 16 more on view across the city.

Do Ho Suh, Nest/s, 2024, polyester and stainless steel, 410.1 x 2148.7 x 375.4 cm, courtesy the artist; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London; Victoria Miro

FROM 1926 TO INFINITY exhibition banner

ZERO: The North Korea exhibition display at the National Folk Museum of Korea

Lynn Hershman Leeson: First Person Plural, at SeMA Seosomun

Promotional image for Sol LeWitt: Open Structure at Amorepacific Museum of Art

Closing in January

Evergreen Bamboo Through the Four Seasons Embodied in Ceramics31 Jan
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.

Also on through January

Do Ho Suhto 9 Feb
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.
FROM 1926 TO INFINITYto 9 Feb
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.
ZERO: The North Koreato 14 Feb
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.
Lynn Hershman Leeson: First Person Pluralto 21 Feb
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.
Hyundai Card Culture Project 31: Wayne Thiebaud [The Order of Things]to 21 Feb
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.
Sol LeWitt: Open Structureto 28 Feb
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.
Taehwagwan: A Space Weaving Together Timeto 7 Mar
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.
Equinoxto 7 Mar
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.
Marie Antoinette Styleto 31 Mar
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.
The Way of Reading: From Paper to Pixelto 4 Apr
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.
You, As You Are — SimLee Da Eunto 11 Apr
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".
Korean Artists in France 1950s-1970sto 9 May
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.
Kwon Byungjun: I Embrace Youto 16 May
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.
Beyond project: Somatic Ground — Small Studio Semito 30 May
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.
Folded Time, Unfolded Memory—Andong Palaceto 29 Aug
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.
Twinkle Twinkle, Hippity-Hopto 31 Dec
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.

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