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GROUP EXHIBITION

Liquid Modernity BB&M 22 November 2025–10 January 2026 Seoul
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BB&M is pleased to present Liquid Modernity, a group exhibition featuring Jo Jae, Haevan Lee, and Sikyung Sung, three Korean painters born in the final decade of the previous century whose practices have gained increasing recognition. Having come of age in a bewildering globalized environment inundated by information and a ubiquitous culture of consumption, these artists have developed perceptual systems attuned to a contemporary world shaped by accelerated structural shifts.

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman proposed the concept liquid modernity to describe the increasingly fluid and precarious condition of modern society in the decades immediately preceding the present moment, a time when existing societal institutions, norms, and relationships began to undergo a profound dislocation.

Shaped by these foundational shifts, the three artists turn away from predetermined formal vocabularies, devising instead adaptable structures and exploratory methods that register the velocity, unpredictability, and fragmentation of contemporary experience. Working through the ostensibly traditional medium of painting, they reinterpret sensation, materiality, memory, and image-making that constitute today’s visual field while probing the unstable ontology confronted by the individual subject.

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Jo Jae contemporary artist
Jo Jae b. 1991 Follow +
Haevan Lee contemporary artist
Haevan Lee b. 1990 Follow +
Sikyung Sung contemporary artist
Sikyung Sung b. 1991 Follow +
About the Gallery

Since its inception in 2009 as an art consultancy in Seoul, BB&M has been instrumental in the rise of some of the most acclaimed contemporary Korean artists on the international stage. BB&M’s current iteration as an independent gallery is a collaboration between James B. Lee (Founding Principal) and Si Young Hur (Principal), who brings extensive experience as director and partner in Seoul’s leading galleries, where she was responsible for exhibitions of such artists as Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, and Yun Hyong-keun, a key figure in Dansaekhwa.

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Seoul 10, Seongbuk-ro 23-gil, Seongbuk-gu
BBM contemporary art gallery in Seoul South Korea
BB&M
10, Seongbuk-ro 23-gil, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, South Korea
+82 2 3674 7773
http://www.gallerybbm.com

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Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm
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