GMOMA Hoh Woojung’s Social Fiction – Quantum Jump 2017, 4 Artists Relay Show Close

• Period/ 2017.07.13(Thu) ~ 2017.08.27(Sun)

Hoh Woojung takes the politics and social issues in Korea as the theme of his work. Based on scandals, corruption, and lies of upper-class figures that are known through the mass media and the internet along with the stories of the individuals who are oppressed in the capitalistic system, the artist creates on canvas a dangerous, urgent, and mysterious scene.

NJP Special Exhibition Our Bright Future–Cybernetic Fantasy Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center
• Period/ 2017.07.20(Thu) ~ 2017.11.05(Sun)

The exhibition features contemporary artists’ thoughts and reflections on the rapidly changing technological environment. Since the Great Exhibition in 1851 at Crystal Palace, London, the rosy future promised by the state-driven technological development has brought about today’s fourth industrial revolution led by the internet and digital information technology. However, the belief that technological advance will open a new world for human beings has, in return, produced the fear that the very technology will also take away jobs from humans and even their identity .

GCM Fantastic Theater

• Venue/ GCM 3rd Floor

The Colorful Jungle, an interactive media exhibition, is held in the Fantastic Theater. This exhibition is about endangered animals, organized in order to teach children the value of the environment and life.

NJP LOOP Festival 《Radical Video》 Close

• Venue/ Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya
• Period/ 2017.05.18(Thu) ~ 2017.06.18(Sun)

Radical Video represents the combined effort to create new artistic representations, for the artists, producers, and audiences. They personify the way to defy the political gravity by demonstrating new possibilities of embodied relationships between humans and technology. Nam June Paik once confessed that more and more he worked with TV, he thought of Neolith. Hence, our focus on Radical video-free and nonlinear art.

JGPM 《The Prehistoric VENUS, her Songs》 Special Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Yeoncheon Paleolithic Festival Close

• Period/ 2017.05.02(Tue) ~ 2018.02.28(Wed)

The Prehistoric VENUS, her Songs is about the art of the Upper Palaeolithic, which was part of the ice age. During the period, people survived harsh weather and made their art blossom using such materials as the ivory of mammoth, bones of animals, stone, and earth. Among others, they made numerous sculptures, especially the female form statues that we call ‘Venus’. They also left a large number of animal-shaped sculptures, as they cherished as their resources, objects of admiration, and companions living together in nature.

NJP Nam June Paik Exhibition 《Extraordinary Phenomenon, Nam June Paik》 Close

• Venue/ Nam June Paik Art Center 1F
• Period/ 2017.05.02(Tue) ~ 2018.02.04(Sun)

Nam June Paik ruptured the authoritarianism of music and the auteurism of visual art, by establishing a new relationship with the audience.