Exhibitions in Seoul

National Hangeul MuseumFree

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 Museum of Korean Contemporary HistoryFree

Marks 100 years of Hangul Day, from the first Gagyanal ceremony in 1926 to today, through the history of learning and celebrating the Korean alphabet.

Kansong Art Museum

Marking Jeon Hyeong-pil's 120th birth anniversary, a show reading the Kansong Collection through the records inscribed on its paulownia storage boxes and the history of its preservation.

Seoul Museum of Craft Art

Baek Jaewon and Oh Serin combine metal, clay, concrete and plastic to show how objects change through hiding, adding and accumulating, in the Show Window Gallery.

Seoul Museum of ArtFree

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.

National Museum of Korea

Four Buddhist manuscripts from Dunhuang's Library Cave, bought by the Yi Royal Family Museum, shown with the results of the museum's 2025 research report. Central Asia Gallery.

Seoul Museum of Craft Art

54 new works by 35 resident artists of Sindang Creative Arcade (17th cohort), read through five qualities: generation, transformation, accumulation, structure and connection.

Art Sonje Center

A 90-minute sound play with no projected image: three linked plays set in a fictional underground club, heard from the Art Hall's basement theatre before an empty screen.

Art Sonje Center

A group sculpture show across The Ground, the hanok garden and the rooftop garden, asking how verticality, a core principle of sculpture and architecture, became a metaphor for masculinity.

Art Sonje Center

Sculptor Haneyl Choi on the body's involuntary rhythms and moments when body and consciousness fall out of sync, such as hypnic jerks, drunken lurching and sleepwalking.

Art Sonje Center

Japanese artist Meiro Koizumi's first institutional solo show in Korea, in charcoal, sculpture, three-channel video and VR, on the afterlives of war and nationalism in postwar Japan.

SongEun Art SpaceFree

Exhibition at SONGEUN setting Roman heritage in dialogue with Korean contemporary art.

Hangaram Art MuseumFree

Annual showcase of new work by visual artists from the Seoul Disability Arts Creation Center, co-hosted with the Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture since 2023.

Art Sonje CenterPast

Muyeong Kim's first solo museum show, transforming the Art Hall theater into an exhibition site with photographs from Sorok Island and Seodaemun Prison, plus new sculpture.

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.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)FreePast

A design exhibition reinterpreting the soban, Korea's traditional low dining table, exploring how a historic craft object can be reimagined for contemporary life.

SongEun Art SpaceFreePast

Marking 25 years of the SONGEUN Art Award, nearly 180 past winners and finalists each transform an identical box of plywood sheets into a distinct work.

SongEun Art SpaceFreePast

A solo installation by Jong Oh reimagining SONGEUN's B2 Bunker Room, a former private storage space, exploring architecture, light and material.

Seoul Museum of Craft ArtFreePast

A contemporary craft exhibition featuring works in ceramic, fiber and mixed media.

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.

Seoul Museum of Craft ArtFreePast

Award-winning contemporary craft works from the Seoul Yoolizzy Craft Award, spanning ceramics, metal, fiber, wood, lacquer and glass.

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.

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.

MMCA SeoulPast

Sound-inspired works created by artist Kim Joon together with ten families from Seoul Metropolitan Children's Hospital, part of MMCA's inclusive-museum programme.

Buk-Seoul Museum of ArtFreePast

The 13th edition of Title Match pairs artists Inhwan Oh and Seo Young Chang, reframing human imperfection as a source of creativity rather than a flaw, across installation, video and photography.

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.

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.

Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)FreePast

The 9th Promenade Design Exhibition, presenting nine artists and designers working across ceramics, sculpture, product design and visual art under the theme "the prism of creativity."

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.

Lotte Museum of ArtPast

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.

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.

MMCA DeoksugungPast

The first retrospective of landscape painter Lee Daiwon (1921-2005), tracing the disciplined technique behind his vivid orchards, mountains and fields.

Seoul Museum of HistoryFreePast

Marking 60 years since Seoul's first 1966 master plan, tracing how early urban visions shaped the city's growth and imagining what comes next.

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.

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.

National Museum of Korea

A thematic show on 19th-century Joseon scholar-calligrapher Kim Jeonghui, exploring his intellectual circle through letters, calligraphy and paintings. Calligraphy and Painting Gallery, 2F.

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.

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.

War Memorial of KoreaFree

Special exhibition on ordinary people's lives in the Korean War, told through small everyday objects such as rusty tableware, scavenged food and worn belongings.

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.

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.

National Folk Museum of KoreaFree

Kerala's Onam harvest festival explored through floral arrangements, ritual objects, festive foods and the Kummattikali masked dance, drawing parallels with Korea's Chuseok.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 Folk Museum of KoreaFree

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.

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 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.

Seoul Museum of Craft ArtFree

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

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.