What’s Showing at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art in 2024?
Korea's leading contemporary art museum has announced its exhibitions for next year, including solo presentations by Anicka Yi and Philippe Parreno.
Philippe Parreno, My Room Is Another Fish Bowl (2018). Helium-filled Mylar balloons, adhesive foil, air-columns. Variable dimensions. Exhibition view: Philippe Parreno, Gropius Bau, Berlin (25 May–5 August 2018). Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul. Photo: Andrea Rossetti.
The Leeum Museum of Art, which celebrates its 20th anniversary next year, has announced its exhibition lineup for 2024.
From 28 February to 7 July, the museum will open a solo exhibition by French artist Philippe Parreno that they say will be their biggest exhibition yet.
According to the museum, it will be 'a synaesthetic exhibition of meticulously choreographed scenography combining datas equencing, DMX, and artificial intelligence that will expand perceptions on how to view and experience art and exhibitions.'
Parreno is best known for collaborations including No Ghost Just a Shell (1999–2002), in which he and Pierre Huyghe purchased the rights to a manga character named AnnLee to create a series of videos.
In 2006, he teamed up with Douglas Gordon to create the documentary film Zidane, a 21st century portrait, and he worked with artist Liam Gillick and composers Nicolas Becker and Cengiz Hartlap to create Anywhen, an installation of helium-filled fish balloons that debuted at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall in 2016.
Korean-American artist Anicka Yi, who also floated creatures in the Turbine Hall, will also present a solo show at the Leeum from 5 September to 29 December. Yi created jellyfish-like machines called 'aerobes' for her 2021 commission In Love With the World.
The exhibition is Yi's first museum solo show in Asia. It is organised in concert with Beijing's UCCA, where it will be presented in spring 2025.
The museum will also present its biennial group show, Art Spectrum, which historically sought to nurture up-and-coming Korean artists.
Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija will guest-curate Art Spectrum 2024, which expands to all of Asia this year. One of the 20 or so exhibiting artists will also receive the KRW 30 million (U.S. $23,000) Art Spectrum prize, which was won in 2022 by Cha Jea-min.
The Leeum also announced that from 1 January 2024, soldiers, police, and firefighters will receive free admission to the museum 'as a gesture of gratitude and respect'. —[O]
