MMCA Collection: Korean Contemporary Art

This exhibition is the first permanent exhibition since the opening of the Seoul branch of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) in 2013. Since beginning its acquisition activities with its original opening in 1969, MMCA has collected and researched a body of significant artwork and archival materials with a focus on art history and contemporary art trends spanning more than 50 years. Out of the museum's collection of around 11,800 pieces, this exhibition presents about 90 representative works of Korean contemporary art from the period between the 1960s and 2010s. With a selection based on subtopics representative of key themes in Korean contemporary art history, such as abstraction, experimentation, figuration, hybridity, concepts, and documentary approaches, it offers viewers a multilayered introduction to currents in Korean contemporary art through different eras.