Exhibition Information

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

			Seoul Botanic Park has organized varying genres of contemporary art exhibitions to reflect upon botanical culture and promote ecological awareness. In our 2025 special exhibition, Our Nature, Planetary Coexistence, we aimed to present novel perspectives and viewpoints on nature. Specifically, this exhibition aspired to present a singular “we” within the planet we inhabit, Earth, without drawing lines between life and non-life, or human and non-human, and to view nature not as the other but as the entity that constitutes the world.

The theme of Our Nature, Planetary Coexistence was inspired by “hyperobjects,” a concept proposed by the English scholar and ecological theorist Timothy Morton. Instead of classifying things through the dichotomy of nature vs. non-nature, Morton’s ecological perspective proposes that we view the world as a compound entity intertwined into an ensemble and perceive the entire universe as a large relational mesh. Our Nature, Planetary Coexistence features Kim Joohyun, Yang Jiyoon, Chang Hanna, and Choi Sungim: artists who contemplate and experiment with the relationships nature, ecology, and art can have with one another. As for the venue, the exhibition spans four locations that each have distinct spatial characteristics — a lobby-type exhibition hall, a greenhouse, an outdoor garden, and a state-designated cultural heritage building — and in each of these locations, the artists endeavored to contrive spaces where art and nature coexist.

Our Nature, Planetary Coexistence wishes to knock down the wall separating natural and artificial entities and to remind ourselves that we are all ecological beings interconnected on a single planet. We hope this exhibition encourages you to pause and reflect on our condition of interconnectedness.