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The Leeum Museum of Art is launching a new public programme with CHANEL Culture Fund based on research titled Idea Museum: Ecological Turns. In the first year of this long-term project, the programme will include symposiums, film screenings, and public projects from December 1.
Idea Museum will be a multi-year initiative convening leading international and Korean artists, philosophers, and researchers. The inaugural symposium titled Ecological Turns: What Should We Then Notice? features discussions on the climate crisis and sustainability by globally renowned scholars, coinciding with curated film screenings of works by visionary artists. A printed anthology of essays will be published annually, and a dedicated online platform will launch in 2024.
Within the overarching theme of 'Ecological Turns,' the multi-year programme will capture the points where social and cultural paradigms shift, focusing on the climate crisis, (un)sustainability, ecology, women, care, and education.
The Idea Museum will explore the diverse ecosystems between the environment and technology, investigating a discourse that imagines symbiosis among multispecies, including humans and non-humans. There will be further contemplation to consider how these parallels can be addressed within the practical context of the art museum.
Thematic symposiums, film screenings, seminars, and public projects will be arranged throughout the programme. This comprehensive approach includes participation from diverse artists and cultural contributors, engaging domestic and international figures such as philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, designers, and curators. Collectively, they will collaborate to navigate and explore practical pathways for the future.
This year, in response to the contemporary condition of the climate crisis, a programme is initiated from December 1 to the 3, 2023, which aims to preserve the Earth's cultural heritage and explore solidarity with diverse ecosystems. It includes symposiums and a film screening programme on view to the public from December 1 to 24, 2023. A public project with the artist Tomás Saraceno will launch in 2024.
Symposium: December 1–3, with Cary Wolfe (Founding Editor, Posthumanities Series), Chus Martínez (Head of the Institute Art Gender Nature, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and Associate Curator of TBA21), Dongshin Yi (Seoul National University), Emanuele Coccia (Philosopher), Feifei Zhou (Spatial and Visual Designer), Hang Kim (Yonsei University), Hongjung Kim (Sociologist), Hyoeun Kim (Curatorial Director, Society of Architecture), Liam Young (Designer and Director, SCI Arc), Mårten Spångberg(Choreographer), Myung-Ae Choi (Yonsei University), Saito Kohei (Philosopher), Sanha Kim (Primatologist and President, The Biodiversity Foundation), Sunjung Kim (Artistic Director, Art Sonje Center and Real DMZ Project), Tomás Saraceno
Film screening: December 1–24, by Isadora Neves Marques, Jeamin Cha, Jonas Staal, Jumana Manna, Karrabing Film Collective, Liam Young, Rory Pilgrim, Sophia Al-Maria, Sunmin Park, Tomás Saraceno & Maximiliano Laina
Idea Museum Ecological Turns: What Should We Then Notice? is curated by Helen Jungyeon Ku (Head of Research and Public Programs, Leeum Museum of Art) with the assistance of Minjoo Lee, Anna Dongmin Shin, and Taerim Kim.
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About the CHANEL Culture Fund
The CHANEL Culture Fund promotes the singular approach of the House, which has been committed to the arts for more than a century. Global, multidisciplinary, and collaborative in spirit, the CHANEL Culture Fund endeavours to support artists and nurture the conditions where creativity can thrive.
Significant initiatives honour and enable the work of creative individuals and cultural institutions, often at pivotal inflexion points. Key philanthropic partnerships include the National Portrait Gallery, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul; and the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, among others, as well as the CHANEL Next Prize, which celebrates creators and accelerates their future successes, and the podcast CHANEL Connects, featuring thought leaders and game changers across culture.
