SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) on Tuesday announced the four finalists for the 2024 Korea Artist Prize. The four finalists — Kwon Ha-yoon, Yang Jung-uk, Yoon Ji-young and Jane Jin Kaisen — are active both in Korea and abroad, employing diverse media, such as sculpture, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Wednesday it published a catalog book on the collection donated by late Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee after two years of thorough research. The book contains information on the 1,494 artworks donated by the late businessman’s family in 2021, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), will host the ‘Project Hashtag’ exhibition, supporting interdisciplinary collaboration beyond the boundaries of the arts, starting on Friday. ‘Project Hashtag,’ which began with the sponsorship of Hyundai Motor and celebrates its fourth anniversary this year, is a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean visual artist Jung Yeon-doo is known for weaving stories of ordinary people in historical context in multimedia content, and his new exhibition brings a fresh eye to narratives of Korean immigrants in Mexico in the early 1900s. The exhibition, titled “MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023: Jung Yeon-doo – [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) said Thursday it will hold an exhibition focused on Korean experimental art in the 1960s and 1970s jointly with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Titled “Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s,” the exhibition will explore experimental artistic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The National Museum of Modern Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Tuesday it will expand collaborations with major galleries and museums abroad to promote major Korean artworks in the global market. The MMCA said it will join hands with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to present over 100 artworks by Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) said Wednesday it had selected the winner of the MMCA Gwacheon Project 2022: Rooftop Garden. The project was launched by the museum last year to collaborate with artists to turn various spaces around the MMCA’s Gwacheon branch into experiential chambers [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean American artist Paik Nam-june’s biggest video artwork, “The More The Better,” has reopened in a test run for the next six months after four years of hiatus, a state museum said Thursday. The six-tier conical tower consists of 1,003 cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitors emitting a cascade of light [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — A series of specially designed bus stops have been set up at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, south of Seoul. As part of an artwork by architect Kim Sa-ra from Diagonal Thoughts studios, the three bus stops surrounding the art museum have been [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — To what extent does a pandemic affect a society and its individuals? How can art capture this process? Can art be a means to reflect upon and heal the scars from a pandemic? “Catastrophe and Recovery,” a new exhibition taking place at the Seoul wing of the National Museum [...]