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 [...]
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, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The 1930s were a bleak time in South Korea. The country was under Japanese colonial rule, and everything seemed to be sparse and undersupplied. But even in this era, writers, poets and painters continued to write and paint as they became artistic inspirations for one another over the next [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — At the heart of Seoul is Jongchinbu, a historic building that was used as the headquarters of an office overseeing royal family affairs during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The building, which had been relocated to several different places near the royal palace of Gyeongbok, returned to its original spot [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) announced Thursday that it will hold free exhibitions in three locations throughout the country, taking masterpieces owned by the museum to areas that suffer from a lack of access to cultural content. An elementary and middle school in North [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s national museum of modern and contemporary art on Tuesday announced plans to hold exchange exhibitions with key art museums and galleries around the world over the next two years. Under the plan, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) will be opening exhibitions at the [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) on Tuesday announced two experimental art projects that will be put on display under the inaugural Project Hashtag program, the museum’s art exhibit-sponsorship project co-founded with Hyundai Motor Co. The Project Hashtag 2020 exhibition will showcase works from two teams [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Hyo-jin, a 30-year-old job seeker, quietly kept her gaze on a masterpiece by South Korean monochrome painter Lee Ufan inside an exhibition hall at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s (MMCA) Seoul branch on Thursday. It was her first artistic expedition after an over two-month coronavirus [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — What started as a humble national art museum with a four-person staff in the backyard of the Gyeongbok royal palace in central Seoul in 1969 has grown into arguably the biggest art space in Asia half a century later. Now in possession of more than 8,000 art pieces, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Measuring 18.5 meters in height and 11 m in diameter, a massive pagoda of TV monitors has been the symbol of South Korea’s National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, south of Seoul, and the quintessence of Korean-American artist Paik Nam-june’s (1932-2006) pioneering video art career. [...]