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Beyond canvas bags: Museum visitors turn to premium designs, goods to connect with artists

Artist-led limited editions and high-end crafts are catering to museumgoers' growing demand for premium merchandise — and their comfort with heftier price tags.

2026.10.8

Korean artist Jung Kang-ja's ″Incorporeal Exhibition,″ seen as part of the ″Inside Other Spaces″ exhibition to open at the Leeum Museum of Art in Yongsan District, central Seoul [LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART]

Leeum's installation art exhibition explores women-led history of genre

Women primarily worked with installation art and built the genre from the ground up — a history that contextualizes and inspires the upcoming exhibition “Inside Other Spaces,” which opens at the Leeum Museum of Art on May 5.

2026.4.29

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The entrance to Tino Sehgal's solo exhibit, set to open at the Leeum Museum of Art in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on March 3 [LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART]

Artist Tino Sehgal brings 'transformation' to Leeum's collection

Berlin-based artist Tino Sehgal values transformation — the slow evolution from abstraction to organic and all stages in between — and he aims to convey just that with his exhibit at the Leeum Museum of Art in Yongsan District, central Seoul.

2026.2.25

Portrait of artist Lee Bul at the ″Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now″ exhibit in Leeum Museum of Art in Yongsan District, central Seoul [LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART]

From the Hindenburg to the DMZ, contemporary artist Lee Bul's latest exhibit explores failed utopias

Remnants of humanity’s failed utopias line the halls of Leeum Museum of Art, showcasing a comprehensive survey of Korea’s leading contemporary artist, Lee Bul.

2025.9.1

RM of boy band BTS uploaded 10 photos taken at exhibitions in multiple galleries to his Instagram on Sunday. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

BTS member RM takes time off military service to enjoy art

BTS's RM posted a series of photos on Sunday to Instagram, taking time out from his military service to enjoy the fine arts.

2024.4.1

Customers browse calendars for the new year at a Kyobo Hottracks stationery store in Gwanghwamun in Jung District, central Seoul, on Dec. 27. [NEWS1]

A guide to the top acts, exhibits in Korea for 2024

2024 will see top acts in Korea, including pianist Krystian Zimerman, Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen," and New York's Metropolitan Opera orchestra, with exhibitions of renowned artists Philippe Parreno and Do Ho Suh.

2023.12.31

'Fearless Fear' (1991) by Kim Beom [LEEUM MUSEUM OF ART]

Expect the unexpected at Kim Beom's latest exhibition

Kim Beom, the 60-year-old multimedia artist, is eclectic. He is undoubtedly one of the most representative figures of the Korean contemporary art scene, but he doesn’t hold exhibitions regularly. So it was a rare opportunity indeed when the...

2023.7.27

The evolution of the blue full moon in Kim Whanki's paintings now on view at Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin, Gyeonggi. ⓒWhanki Foundation·Whanki Museum [MOON SO-YOUNG]

A closer look at the life and inspirations of modern art master Kim Whanki

The Hoam Museum of Art in Yongin, Gyeonggi, operated by the Samsung Cultural Foundation, opened “A Dot A Sky Kim Whanki” as its first exhibition last week after a complete renovation. It is a large-scale retrospective showcasing a total of about...

2023.5.23

″Comedian″ (2019) by Maurizio Cattelan, a fresh banana duct-taped to a wall, is on view as part of the artist's solo exhibition ″WE″ at Leeum Museum of Art in Yongsan District, central Seoul. [MAURIZIO CATTELAN, LEEUM]

Korean student eats Cattelan's art installation, but artist doesn't mind

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has “no problem at all” with a Korean student who ate a banana that was part of an installation by the artist, BBC reported Monday.

2023.5.2

″Tree I″ (1963) by Ree Bong-sang [HAKGOJAE]

A look at the exhibitions to come in 2022

Some of the nation’s major museums and commercial galleries, such as Samsung’s Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Kukje Gallery and Hakgojae, all of which are located in central Seoul, have unveiled their plans for 2022. Others...

2022.1.3