National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
313 Gwangmyeong-ro
13829 Gwacheon
South Korea

Hours:
Tuesday–Sunday 10am–5pm,
Saturday 10am–9pm

T +82 2 2188 6000
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February 25, 2019

Cover of IM Heung-soon: Toward a Poetics of Opacity and Hauntology. Design: Na Kim.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Book release: IM Heung-soon: Toward a Poetics of Opacity and Hauntology

February 9, 2019

Tang Da Wu, They Poach the Rhino, Chop Off His Horn and Make This Drink, 1989. Linen rhino, plastic bottles and axe, dimensions variable. Collection of National Gallery Singapore. Documentation of performance at National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore, 1989. Performance © Tang Da Wu. Photo: Koh Nguang How. Courtesy of Koh Nguang How.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia, 1960s–1990s

January 12, 2019

Marcel Duchamp, from or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise), 1935–41, 1964–65(contents). 1966 edition, red leather valise containing various media on various supports: collotype, relief halftone, screenprint, offset lithograph, photograph with surface coating, printed color and hand coloring on paper, cardboard, clear acetate, vinyl, glass, and ceramic, 41.3 x 38.4 x 9.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art: Gift of Mme Marcel Duchamp, 1994. © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris - SACK, Seoul, 2018.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Marcel Duchamp
The Essential Duchamp

December 9, 2018

Harun Farocki, Inextinguishable Fire, 1969.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Harun Farocki
What Ought to Be Done? Work and Life

November 25, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Art of the Korean Empire-The Emergence of Modern Art

November 18, 2018

Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

What Do Museums Collect?

November 1, 2018

CHOIJEONGHWA, Dandelion, 2018. Used kitchenware, steel structure, steel frame, dimension variable.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

CHOIJEONGHWA
Blooming Matrix

October 15, 2018

Wang Qingsong, Work, Work, Work, 2012. © Wang Qingsong.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Civilization: The Way We Live Now

August 27, 2018

Konkuk University Library (The present Konkuk University Language Institute), 1956. Courtesy of Kimchungup Architecture Museum.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Kim Chung-up
Dialogue

August 14, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korea Artist Prize 2018

July 31, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Yun Hyong-keun

July 20, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Bahc Yiso
Memos and Memories

May 23, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology): Open-ended

May 21, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Symposium, “From Vertical to Horizontal: The Changed Conditions of Art Production”

May 8, 2018

Installation view of Akram Zaatari, Against Photography.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Akram Zaatari
Against Photography An annotated history of the Arab Image Foundation

April 26, 2018

Photo of completed construction of museum in 1938. Courtesy MMCA, Korea.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Birth of the Modern Art Museum

April 7, 2018

Martha Atienza, our islands11°16'58.4_N 123°45'07.0_E.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

HOW LITTLE YOU KNOW ABOUT ME

March 28, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Symposium, “What Do Museums Research”

March 12, 2018

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Rhee Seundja
Road to the Antipodes

December 19, 2017

New Women, September 1933, Kwon Jinkyu Museum.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

The Arrival of New Women

December 5, 2017

Im Heung-soon, Things that Do Us Part (still), 2017. Film.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Im Heung-soon
Things that Do Us Part: Belief, Faith, Love, Betrayal, Hatred, Fear, Ghost

November 21, 2017

Jonas Mekas, Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Jonas Mekas
Again, Again It All Comes Back to Me in Brief Glimpses

November 7, 2017

Richard Hamilton, Swinging London 67 (d), 1968-69. Oil on canvas, 67.31 x 84.46 cm. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Richard Hamilton: Serial Obsessions

October 24, 2017

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

"Superhumanity: Post-Labor, Psychopathology, Plasticity"

October 11, 2017

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Papers and Concrete: Modern Architecture in Korea 1987-1997

September 27, 2017

Allora & Calzadilla, Half Mast, Full Mast, 2010. 2-channel HD video projection, color, 21:11 minutes. Courtesy of the artists and Lisson Gallery, London. Photo: Ken Adlard. © Allora & Calzadilla.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Reenacting History_Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures

September 11, 2017

Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korea Artist Prize 2017

August 28, 2017

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Deoksugung Outdoor Project: Light·Sound·Landscape

July 10, 2017

Lifethings (Soo-in Yang), Centreefugal Park, 2017. Pavilion. Photo: Kyungsub Shin.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Young Architects Program MMCA 2017

June 26, 2017

Krzysztof Wodiczko displaying Personal Instrument (1969), Warsaw, 1972.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Instruments, Monuments, Projections

June 14, 2017

Walid Raad, Preface to the ninth edition: On Marwan Kassab-Bachi (1934-2016), 2017. Commissioned by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Walid Raad, Ho Tzu Nyen, Zachary Formwalt, and Hayoun Kwon
The Principle of Uncertainty

April 20, 2017

Kamal Youssef, Noble, 1940. Oil on board. Courtesy Sharjah Art Foundation.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938–1965)

April 10, 2017

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Lesson Ø

March 18, 2017

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

International symposium

March 4, 2017

Kim Whanki, Dawn #3, 1964–65. Oil on canvas, 176.9 x 109.6 cm.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Samramansang

October 9, 2016

View of Colisseum of the Consumed, Frieze London, 2012.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korean Air Box Project 2016: Yangjiang Group
Calligraphy Is the Way to Communicate with the Most Primal Power

August 29, 2016

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korea Artist Prize 2016

July 18, 2016

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

MMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2016: Kimsooja
Archive of Mind

May 4, 2016

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Public to Private

November 25, 2015

Julius Popp, bit.fall pulse, 2015. Mixed media, dimensions variable.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korean Air Box Project 2015: Julius Popp

November 14, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

The Future is Now! in France

October 4, 2015

Performance & installation of Stelarc’s Extended Arm at MMCA, Seoul.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korea-Australia partnership exhibition New Romance

August 20, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korea Artist Prize 2015

July 31, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Public open call for the position of Director

May 26, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

World of Xijing

April 27, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Interplay

February 20, 2015

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Park Hyun-Ki

December 14, 2014

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Leandro Erlich

November 15, 2014

Lee Bul, Civitas Solis II, 2014. Polycarbonate sheet, acrylic mirror, LED lighting, electronic wiring, 330 x 3325 x 1850 cm as
installed. Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol. Courtesy National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

MMCA Hyundai Motor series 2014: Lee Bul

August 15, 2014

Clockwise from top left: Chang Jia, Beautiful Instruments 3 (Breaking Wheel), 2014. Mixed media installation, dimensions variable. Noh Suntag, Sneaky snakes in Scenes of Incompetence #P-XIV010601, 2014. Pigment print, 100 x 147 cm. Kim Shinil, Mind, Belief, Ism, 2014. ABS, Photograph print on translucent panel, dimensions variable. Koo Donghee, Way of Replay, 2014. Mixed media installation, dimensions variable.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

2014 Korea Artist Prize

July 29, 2014

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Hyundai Card Culture Project_15 Young Architects Program

July 1, 2014

Hyun Sook Song, 2 Strokes, 1997. Tempera on canvas, 160 x 240 cm. © MMCA.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature

November 14, 2013

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Inauguration of MMCA Seoul

August 9, 2013

Clockwise from top left: Sung-Hun Kong, A dog, 2010. Oil on canvas, 115 x 218 cm. Meekyoung Shin, Translation Series, 2013. Soap. Yang Ah Ham, The Nonsense Factor, 2013. Video. Haejun Jo, DPRK: North Korea Reflected upon form without, 2011. Pencil on paper, wood and acrylic frame, 120 x 290 x 40 cm.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

2013 Korea Artist Prize

June 13, 2013

Xoo-ang Choi, The Wing, 2008. Oil on resin, 56 x 172 x 48 cm. © MMCA.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Who is Alice?

May 21, 2013

Shin Il Kim, Invisible Masterpiece, 2004. 708 pressed line drawings on paper, 3 video monitors, installation size variable. Courtesy the artist.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

White & White: Dialogue between Korea and Italy

October 23, 2012

Lyu Jaeha, Time, 2012. Junghwajeon of Deoksugung. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Commission.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Deoksugung Project

September 22, 2012

1. Gimhongsok, People Objective-Wrong Interpretations. 2. MOON Kyungwon/JEON Joonho, Voice of Metanoia. 3. Yeesookyung, Constellation Gemini. 4. Minouk Lim, The Possibility of Half. Photos: Yongkwan Kim.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

2012 Korea Artist Prize

February 12, 2012

Chanjoong Kim, “Cubrick,” 2012.
Fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP)&LED, 4x4x4m.
Photographs by YongKwan Kim.

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Art Folly 2012_Cubrick

January 7, 2012

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

UUL, Seoul branch

December 20, 2011

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

NMOCA_KOREA presents TELL ME TELL ME: Australian and Korean Art 1976–2011

August 28, 2010

Still from ‘Agua de Aire / Water of Air’ from Earth – Water – Fire – Air series, 2009-2010
8 channel video projection
Courtesy of Kimsooja Studio

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

Kimsooja’s Earth-Water-Fire-Air: A Nuclear Power Plant Art Project

July 31, 2009

Kang-hyun Ahn
Song of the Son of the Sun
2005
Single channel video
5’30″

National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea

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