Korea–Poland textile crafts exhibition
August 26–October 19, 2025
Artists: Alicja Bielawska, Kim Minsoo, Aleksandra Kędziorek, Hyeerim Hwang, Young Kim, Onnubi, Somi Ko, Youngchul Jang,Małgorzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Iacobis
The Clothed Home exhibition, organized by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, recalls the historical role of textiles in home interiors that helped humans adapt to seasonal transitions. This exhibition echoes the Polish exhibition “The Clothed Home: Tuning in to the Seasonal Imagination,” which explored how textiles used indoors once played an active role in mediating between the interior and the external world.
Composed of Polish and Korean sections that share a common philosophical foundation—a “reappraisal of discomfort”—the exhibition seeks to illuminate ways of living that are finely attuned to the rhythms of nature. It also aims to reveal how textiles—far from mere decorative elements—have long served as sensory mediators, bringing together people, space, and the environment.
Emerging from opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, this collaboration seeks to recover a forgotten language of seasonality. In tracing the intersection of two cultures shaped by different latitudes, climates, and views on seasons, the exhibition goes beyond comparative cultural study. It invites a new perspective on our relationship with nature, and proposes a tactile, sensory and imaginative practice of reconnection—through the medium of textile.
The project draws on the Polish exhibition The Clothed Home: Tuning in to the Seasonal Imagination, created by Centrala, Alicja Bielawska, and Aleksandra Kędziorek for the Polish Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2021. It has since been presented at the National Museum in Krakow, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, and during Vilnius Gallery Weekend and Gdynia Design Days; and featured at the BIO27–Biennial of Design in Ljubljana and the Slovenian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.
For the Seoul edition, the Polish section has been extended with a new, specially commissioned work by Minsoo Kim. The Korean section is curated by Hyerim Hwang and features works by artists Young Kim, Onnubi (Eunju Kim, Gangrye Bae), Somi Ko and architect Youngchul Jang.
The exhibition runs until October 19, 2025.
