Exhibition Information

			A new branch of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, which is under construction and scheduled to open in 2025, hold a pre-opening public program  “A Habitat Where the sun sets”.

A new branch of the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art is under construction and scheduled to open in 2025. Prior to the opening of the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has held a pre-opening public program annually since 2020. 

In its fourth year, the 2023 Seo-Seoul Museum of Art pre-opening public program “A Habitat where the sun sets” will explore various aspects of cities, which are complexes combining the natural environment and artificial objects, and search for methodological reflections on and solidarity regarding artistic production to think about a sustainable future on the base of cultural diversity. 

The international forum “Art Museums in Multicultural Cities” (Diversity and Art Museums) will discuss whether art museums can be turned into spaces for new forms of cultural production based on institutional diversity regarding and from an equal approach to disparate cultures while examining the cultural topography of southwestern Seoul. 

Arts research “Production and Interpretation” will share artists’ research methods and creative processes in an artists’ lab the process in which artists’ praxis through artistic research and works is reified and materialized amid various thoughts on materials and reality. Discussing experimentation with and expansion of technological changes, formal variations, and aesthetic experiences appearing in the current of evolving from media in an analogue environment to those in a digital environment, we will talk about discursive changes aiming at affect and performativity such as ethicality and visuality and self-theorization as feminist praxis.

Arts research “The Arts and Education” will ask questions about the roles of the arts for new ideas, the kind of knowledge for the next generations to shape the future, and reexamine activities and experiences of diverse layers regarding the learning that the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art has shared from 2000 to 2023 in collaboration with adolescents, educators, experience designers, and artists. 

The intermedia lab at the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art will be planned as an analogue and digital platform through which discussions on trans-locality and community and digital culture and media with people from diverse fields can be expanded while the complexity of cities can be interpreted, and new artworks can be created. Held this year as a pilot program, the intermedia lab’s “Climate Media”, will be operated as a convergent program exploring cities, which are complex habitats where diverse natural elements and artificial objects, traditional bases of life and digital facilities coexist, and addressing the possibility of the coexistence of the past, present, and potential future from a variety of perspectives including space, culture, technology, media, ecology, local society, and environment. 


LJ SUNGMIN
Curator-at-large, Pre-opening Public Program, Seo-Seoul Museum of Art
Seoul Metropolitan Government Culture Headquarters

Hosted by Seoul Metropolitan Government Culture Headquarters, Seoul Museum of Art