Exhibitions in Seoul

National Museum of KoreaPast

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

Seoul Museum of HistoryFreePast

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 Korean Contemporary HistoryFreePast

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)FreePast

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.

National Folk Museum of KoreaFreePast

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.

Whanki MuseumPast

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

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.

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.

National Museum of Korea

Second display of newly donated artifacts, on calligraphy shared between calligrapher and donor: works by Hwang Gi-ro, Kim Gu and Yi Gi-u, and a poem album. Donation Room 4.

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.

Art Sonje CenterPast

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

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.

Hangaram Art MuseumPast

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

MMCA SeoulPast

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.

Seoul Museum of ArtFreePast

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.

National Hangeul MuseumFreePast

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 ArtFree

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

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.

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 ArtFree

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 ArtFree

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 HistoryFree

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 ArtFree

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 ArtFree

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 ArtFree

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 ArtFree

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 KoreaFree

Interactive Children's Museum exhibition following a bunny doll into the museum's collection, with hands-on excavation, cleaning, conservation and packing activities.