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			Seo-Seoul Museum of Art Opening Exhibition
SeMA Performance Breathing

3. 12. 2026 – 4. 12. 2026
Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, Geumnarae Art Gallery

The Seo-Seoul Museum of Art will begin SeMA performance "Breathing" on March 12, 2026 as a special opening exhibition. To be held annually at the art museum, SeMA performance will introduce contemporary artists who have created performance-based works through profound reflection on time and space and human action and support new creations and experiments. Posing the question “What is performance?” it will imagine new uses for the space of the art museum through artistic movements, sounds, lighting, voices, and objets that reflect nature, culture, and history.

Heralding the start of the Seo-Seoul Museum of Art, SeMA performance "Breathing" will involve the participation of a total of 25 artists/teams, understanding humans and the environment as media and exploring intersections of the body, society, and the arts under the topic of breathing, which is an organic movement. Seeing air as a medium that sustains movement, cognition, and life, it will examine beings and lives in the atmospheric environment and mutually connected relations.

In the space of the art museum, where air drifts, the body, the basis and habitat of human existence, becomes an index sensing invisible changes as an ecological and ontological medium. Movements to measure and coordinate states, and variable emotions and voices simultaneously execute the scores of performances as physical and emotional actions and reveal nonlinear and polyphonic time and space.

Participating Artists
Donghwan Kam, Sojin Kwak, GRAYCODE, jiiiiin, KIMON, Jung Hyun Nam, Ro Kyung Ae, Dappertutto Studio, Eunju Park, AN Chorong, Jeamin Cha, Min Oh, Sun Oh, HYEONTAEK OH, Jae Pil Eun, Minjae Lee, Shinhoo Yhi, Yunjung Lee, Jee-Ae Lim, Su-Mi Jang, Jeong Seyoung, Seungho Jo, Ikjung Cho, Jo Hyunjin, Jimin Hah, Young-jun Tak, F-A-E Archive(KWON YOHAN, KANG DANIEL, KIM SOONA), Hwang Soo Hyun

Host
Seoul Museum of Art
Eunju Choi, General Director

Overall Supervision
So-La Jung, Director of Curatorial Bureau

Nawoon Park
Director of Curatorial Bureau

Curator and Producer
Sungmin Lee Jeong

Curatorial and Production Team
Somin Kwak, Soona Kim, Soojeong PARK, Lee So Young, jiyoun lee, Daul RHEEM, Lee dohyun

Graphic Design
Chris Ro, Gowaseo(Seokyung Kim, Goeun Park)