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 [...]
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 [...]