Art Spectrum 2026

Lêna Bùi, Ruofan Chen, Musquiqui Chihying, Rai Choi, dgp78, Halominium, Aerin Hong, Jasleen Kaur, Jisu Kim, Dong Hyun Lee, Elia Nurvista, Wunggyu Park, Michele Chang Qin, Seendosi, Lieko Shiga, Side Core, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Martin Wong, Suzuko Yamada, Yuichi Yokoyama, Rachel Youn, Zhang Xu Zhan

Launched by Leeum Museum of Art in 2001, Art Spectrum has served as a platform for discovering and supporting emerging Korean artists. In 2024, the program entered a new phase, expanding its scope to include artists from across Asia and fostering new forms of international collaboration. Presented at Hoam Museum of Art for the first time, 2026 Art Spectrum is co-curated with Palais de Tokyo (est. 2002). 

The 2026 edition of Art Spectrum critically reflects on the symbolic significance and institutional conventions of Hoam Museum of Art, as well as the conditions that have shaped Art Spectrum itself. It explores what might emerge when different practices are brought into proximity without being bound to a single voice. To this end, the exhibition brings together artists and collectives working across visual art, film, performance, architecture, design, music, fashion, and publishing. Extending across the museum's interior and exterior spaces, the exhibition creates a dynamic and multilayered field of energy, exploring how artistic practices from different parts of Asia might resonate with one another without being subsumed under a fixed identity.

The exhibition ARoomWhereEveryRadiolsTunedtoDifferentStations evokes an undivided space filled with many different sounds and frequencies, some recognizable, others barely perceptible. Frequencies cross, leak, and mutate, at times piercing the air or returning like phantom signals. The exhibition follows the rhythms of these oscillations and residual frequencies, of infrasound and ultrasound, tracing unforeseen trajectories through slippages and overlapping echoes. Emerging from distinct linguistic, historical, technological, sensory, political, and social positions, the participating artists maintain their singularity while remaining open to hearing one another. Their practices bring forth dreams with layers of history and culture; frustrated heroes; broken windows; diasporic vessels with wheels and sprays; machines as extensions of the body; intestines and holes; artificial natures; fences and leaps; fogs, bubbles and dust.

Along with works and architectural projects across the museum, music performances, an art shop project, a new uniform design for museum invigilators, food workshops, and a series of talks unfold as part of the exhibition, continually expanding its boundaries while opening up new possibilities. As viewers move among the works, they pick up distinct signals at different moments. There is no master frequency, no final transmission. The exhibition continues to vibrate at the edge of control, leaving open the possibility that, somewhere within this multiplicity, something unseen might suddenly become audible.

Co-curated by Hyo Gyoung Jeon (Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art Department I, Leeum Museum of Art and Hoam Museum of Art), June Young Kwak (Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Department I, Leeum Museum of Art and Hoam Museum of Art), Hugo Vitrani (Curator, Palais de Tokyo)

In Collaboration with Palais de Tokyo
In Partnership with Samsung Fire &Marine Insurance

Press Contact: Billy Kim, sj0114.kim@samsung.com / Michelle Park, daeunm.park@samsung.com