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Exterior view of Lotte World Tower, home to the Lotte Museum of Art, in Seoul

Lotte Museum of ArtJamsil, Songpa-gu

Lee Kang So: Emergence and Dissolution

Ended21 August 2026 – 1 November 2026₩20,000

This exhibition has ended.

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.

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The works aren't sorted by medium. Paintings, sculpture, photographs, video and performance run together in one continuous flow across five decades of Lee Kang So's practice. The museum says it isn't a greatest-hits retrospective: it follows the currents of experimentation and philosophical reflection that shaped Korean contemporary art.

The idea running through it is process. In the museum's words, an artwork is "never a fixed conclusion, but a space where time, action, relationships, and perception accumulate". If your to-do list in Jamsil has never once reached "done", this is the show that makes that look deliberate.

It is on the 7th floor of Lotte World Tower and open daily 10:30 to 19:00, with last entry at 18:30. Adults pay ₩20,000, and visitors aged 3 to 18 pay ₩13,000. Discounted earlybird and super-earlybird tiers are listed on the museum's ticket page. It closes on 1 November, and it coincides with Frieze Seoul.

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Lee Kang So once ran a working tavern inside a Myeongdong gallery and let a live chicken make the marks at the 1975 Paris Biennale. Five decades of his painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance follow.

Good for

  • Nerding Out
  • Out-Of-Town Guests

With kids

Ages 3 to 18 pay ₩13,000 and under-3s are free. The sources give no family programme or interactive content.

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