SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is set to hold an exhibition dedicated to artworks of the four finalists for the 2025 Korea Artist Award. This year’s finalists are Kim Young-eun, who uses sound to explore how politics and history affect what people hear; Kim Ji-pyeong, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) is set to unveil a new exhibition by genre-bending artist TZUSOO on Friday, transforming the open, central Seoul Box exhibition space with a physical manifestation of her intricate digital world. TZUSOO is the inaugural artist featured in the museum’s new, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced Monday the four finalists for the 2025 Korea Artist Award. The finalists are Kim Young-eun, who explores sound as a medium shaped by political and historical contexts; Kim Ji-pyeong, who critiques traditional perspectives in oriental brush-and-ink paintings; Im Young-zoo, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Artist Yang Jung-uk has been named the winner of the Korea Artist Prize 2024 by the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), the museum said Thursday. Through his kinetic sculptures crafted from wood, motors, lamps and threads, he creates movements that are both individual and perfectly rhythmic, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Company announced on November 14 that it will launch “Project Hashtag 2024,” an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul’s Jongno district, running from December 15 through April next year. Project Hashtag, now in its fifth year since its inception in 2019 [...]
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 [...]