Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Museum open at 12:00pm
Cinema is closed now
Watching the Unseen – The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image
Program 5: Themes in Contemporary Korea — Popular Culture, Games, New Media
The three-day program devoted to video and art film from South Korea was prepared in cooperation with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul (MMCA). Divided into six chapters, the program opens with a presentation of rarely shown works of early Korean video art from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including works by Hyunki Park and Soungui Kim. Most of the program is devoted to the younger generation of Korean artists. They use new technologies and popular culture, boldly experiment with AI, and at the same time draw heavily on animism and folklore, as well as being inspired by activist movements. Selected films reflect dramatic historical events, the political turbulence of recent years, and a belief in the therapeutic, healing power of art.
KIM Ayoung, Al-Mather Plot 1991, 2025, Artist’s Collection
Program 5: Themes in Contemporary Korea — Popular Culture, Games, New Media
It consists of films by young artists Yeoreum Jung, Ayoung Kim, and the Yagwang collective, whose work intertwines animation, gaming, pop culture tropes, and current socio-political content—testing contemporary media, which can also be an area of reflection, resistance, and new possibilities.
Program:
Introduction: Yi Soojung
JeongYeorum, Graeae, A Stationed God (2020), 33’, courtesy of the artist
Yagwang, Dark Ride (2025), 19’, courtesy of the artists
Kim Ayoung, Delivery Dancer’s Sphere (2022), 25’, courtesy of the artist
Kim Ayoung, Al Mather Plot 1991 (2025), 28’30”, courtesy of the artist
The program “Watching the Unseen – The Showcase of South Korean Moving Image” was developed in dialogue between Soojung YI, curator at MMCA in Seoul, and Sebastian Cichocki, curator at MSN. It heralds a program exchange between MMCA and MSN, in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, in the coming years.
