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MMCA Launches ‘Project Hashtag’ Exhibition Featuring Innovative Art and Cultural Creators

MMCA Launches ‘Project Hashtag’ Exhibition Featuring Innovative Art and Cultural Creators

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 [...]

Visual Artist Jung Yeon-doo Delves into Korean Diaspora in Mexico at MMCA Exhibition

Visual Artist Jung Yeon-doo Delves into Korean Diaspora in Mexico at MMCA Exhibition

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 – [...]

MMCA, Guggenheim Team Up for Exhibition on Korean Experimental Art in 1960-70

MMCA, Guggenheim Team Up for Exhibition on Korean Experimental Art in 1960-70

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 [...]

Museum Rooftop Transformed into Garden

Museum Rooftop Transformed into Garden

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 [...]

Paik Nam-june’s Massive Video Tower at MMCA Reopens in Test Run After Four-year Hiatus

Paik Nam-june’s Massive Video Tower at MMCA Reopens in Test Run After Four-year Hiatus

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 [...]

MMCA Highlights Animation Pioneers in New Exhibition

MMCA Highlights Animation Pioneers in New Exhibition

SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Long before technicolor and computer graphic-supported animation, there were works that were created with classic techniques like using shadows and shot-by-shot images of puppets. “Movement Making Movement,” an exhibition zooming in on these traditional techniques and five early pioneers of animation, a genre that is nearly old as film, [...]