Leeum Museum of ArtHannam-dong, Yongsan-gu
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.
You bend down to get inside Tsuruko Yamazaki's Red, a 3.6-metre vinyl cube hung 70 cm off the floor. From outside it turns into a shadow theatre. It dates from 1956, the earliest work here.
The show rebuilds room-sized environments by women, made from light, sound, plastic and foam. Most were destroyed after their first showing, so they were reconstructed from photographs, sketches and letters. Haus der Kunst Munich conceived it; Leeum adds Korean artist Jung Kang-ja, whose 1970 Muche-jeon the government shut after three days. In Lygia Clark's The House Is the Body you take your shoes off. Judy Chicago's Feather Room holds about 136 kilograms of goose feathers, with removal tools at the exit: the lint roller you keep for black coats, scaled up.
Expect to walk into things rather than look at them. It runs to 29 November in the Black Box and Ground Gallery. Members enter free, and the museum takes reservations.
Walk-in, sensory environments by women artists including Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark and Marta Minujin, reconstructed from a strand of postwar art often left out of the canon.
Tsuruko Yamazaki, Red (1956)
A 3.6-metre red vinyl structure hung 70 cm above the floor; you bend to enter, and from outside it casts shadows.
Jung Kang-ja, Muche-jeon (1970)
Black curtains, smoke and sirens, then the artist's voice, recreated with AI, saying "You are now inside my work."
Judy Chicago, Feather Room (1966)
A white room filled with about 136 kg of goose feathers that you can scatter or lie in.
Lygia Clark, The House Is the Body
Shoes off, then a path through rubber balls, ropes and mirrors, built around the theme of birth.
Dream House
La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Choi Jung-hee's environment of continuous sound and light, shown in Asia for the first time.
Several rooms are walk-in and hands-on, and the Clark piece is done in socks or bare feet. Sources give no age guidance.