The Top 10 Exhibitions in South Korea in July 2024

July is approaching! From traditional Korean crafts exhibitions to exhibitions featuring artists from Germany, the United States, the UK, and more, there are diverse exhibitions to explore.

1. REAL BANKSY

✔ May 10 – October 20, 2024
✔ Ground Seoul

The British graffiti artist, known as the faceless celebrity and the art terrorist for peace, remains unidentified. Encounter the real 25-year archive of his work. If you’re curious about the Real Message from the Real Banksy, visit this exhibition!

2. HARIBO Happy World in Jeju

✔ July 4 – December 31, 2024
✔ HARIBO Happy World

The first large-scale media experience exhibition of top-tier jelly brand HARIBO is being held in Jeju. HARIBO is a confectionery company founded in 1920 by Hans Riegel Sr. in Germany and is also widely loved in Korea.

3. An Eternal Flower

✔ May 24 – July 14, 2024
✔ Seoul Museum of Craft Art

The ‘Citizen Communication Craft Program’ at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art is one of the contest-winning projects that receive direct content proposals from craft artists. ‘An Eternal Flower’ exhibition symbolizes the process of flowers blooming and withering, forming seeds, and reaching a conclusion as a metaphor for the splendor and transience of life. Countless petals spiraling outward become a mandala that envelops the ceramics. The ceramics, as ‘eternal flowers,’ aim to convey the message of self-love and encouragement, shining brightly like flowers enduring the arduous journey of life.

4. EDVARD MUNICH: BEYOND THE SCREAM

✔ May 22 – September 19, 2024
✔ Hangaram Art Museum

This exhibition goes beyond Edvard Munch’s (1863–1944) iconic work, The Scream, to explore the artist’s life, examining his painterly expressionism and radical experimentation. Throughout his life, Munch focused intensely on profound human emotions and experiences such as life and death, love, anxiety, and loneliness.

5. Javier Calleja Special Exhibition

✔ July 12 – October 27, 2024
✔ Hangaram Art Museum

A naive boy with colorful hair and large, moist, deep eyes looks at you. His works contain a straightforward but irresistible humor and irony filled with truth. Experience the irony hidden within the wit and humor!

6. The Masters of American Pop Art

✔ May 1 – September 18, 2024
✔ Insa Central Museum

The Masters of American Pop Art is being held in Seoul for the first time in Asia. This exhibition features around 280 works, including mixed media pieces created by eight pop art masters who established New York as the center of contemporary art, as well as works by twelve top Korean pop art artists.

7. Playmobil Mansion

✔ April 19 – August 11, 2024
✔ NEWS MUSEUM Yeonhui

Playmobil is a German toy brand known for its figurines designed for young children. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Playmobil, which has brought the world of imagination to children worldwide with its innocent smiles, a commemorative exhibition is being held. Experience the world of Playmobil and become a resident of its village!

8. What Things Dream

✔ May 17 – September 18, 2024
✔ National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul

For a long time, humans have regarded objects (things) as tools to make life more convenient, continuously designing and producing new things by sourcing materials from nature. This modern design thinking has filled the world with discarded items and led people to equate objects with mere things. This exhibition challenges this notion by expanding the concept of objects through contemporary art and design practices.

9. CAT-ch me if you can

✔ May 3 – August 18, 2024
✔ National Folk Musuem of Korea

Cats have long known how to capture human hearts. With a appearance and build similar to human babies, cats evoke our protective instincts. They live wild in the wilderness and when necessary, they approach humans to act cute and skillfully manipulate them.

10. Human and Nature: from Romance to Horror

✔ May 24 – August 24, 2024
✔ National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Film & Video 2024 observes the issues arising from our relationships with nature, community, and others, highlighting various efforts to establish new connections. Much has changed in our lives over the past two years amid global pandemics and ongoing concerns. What was once taken for granted has become uncertain, and priorities in life have been redefined.

The most profound impact has been the uncontrollable power of nature, from the threat of invisible viruses to ongoing climate disasters, confronting us with ‘nature as a threatening object of fear’ akin to the Romantic era artists facing the sublime. Concurrently, as time spent indoors increases, there is a growing tendency to experience the vitality of nature up close by cultivating plants and gardens. In 2024, the first program “Nature and Humans: From Romance to Horror” explores the relationship between nature and humans through the perspectives of eight artists.

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