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Admission: 2,000 KRW
The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA; Director Kim Sunghee), in collaboration with the SBS Foundation, presents the exhibition Korea Artist Prize 2026 at MMCA Seoul from 24 July to 6 December 2026.
Jointly organized by the MMCA and the SBS Foundation since 2012, the Korea Artist Prize is one of Korea's leading support programs for contemporary artists. Each year, four artists (individuals or teams) are selected to receive funding for the production of new works, the Korea Artist Prize exhibition at the MMCA, and continued support for their international projects.
The four artists selected to participate in Korea Artist Prize 2026βLee Hai Min Sun, Lee Jungwoo, Jeon Hyunsun, and Hong Jin-hwonβeach explore the ways in which we perceive our contemporary world and the conditions under which images are produced through their own specific artistic media and individual methodologies. Although their practices have significant differences, they move beyond focusing purely on representation itself and pursue a common interest in critically delving into the structures and systems shaping our understanding of the world. Through traces of time embedded in disappearing landscapes, histories reconstructed through generative artificial intelligence, painterly spaces within which multiple narratives coexist, and the social and political power embedded within images, these four artists each offer distinct perspectives on some of the most pressing questions of our time.
Lee Hai Min Sun has developed a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting and installation, closely observing the traces of time accumulated in objects and environments as she explores states of being suspended between endurance and disappearance. Her new painting Lingering Snow (2026) focuses on snow that has not yet completely melted, investigating the relationship between absence and lingering trace. Rather than depicting snow itself, Lee accumulates the stains, dust, and signs of melting left behind on the surface of her canvas, evoking forms of existence that are no longer apparent. Additional new works, including Outside (2026) and Plant Erectus_The Mass (2026), examine landscapes shaped by impermanent conditions that unexpectedly endure, as well as relationships between beings that sustain one another. When taken as a whole, these works reveal the temporal and existential conditions that continually operate even within absence.
Lee Jungwoo critically investigates the ways in which generative artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies construct reality and history, examining both the possibilities and limitations of contemporary technological systems. His new project In Writing "Hurrah for Freedom": Cinema and History (2025β2026) traces histories of censorship, erasure, and distortion while reconstructing missing scenes from the Korean liberation-era film Hurrah for Freedom (1946) using generative AI. Drawing parallels between historical censorship and contemporary online platform regulations, content moderation, and algorithmic bias, Lee questions the evolving relationship between history, technology, and freedom. The Left Handed Gun (2026), a new video installation, further investigates biases embedded within AI video generation models, exposing the limitations of technological systems when interpreting and classifying the world while simultaneously reflecting on image production in the age of AI.
Jeon Hyunsun has reimagined painting as an immersive spatial environment through the interplay of geometric order and narratives of random chance. Her new work, Even Rabbits Dig a Second Burrow (2026), is a large-scale painterly installation composed of 30 canvases. Bringing to mind the appearance of an indoor rock climbing wall, the installation invites visitors to navigate the images by following their own paths, constructing individual perspectives and modes of viewing. Instead of converging toward a single, fixed conclusion, Jeon juxtaposes multiple layers of lived experience within the pictorial field, fashioning an open-ended narrative in which diverse beings, events, and temporalities coexist. Sculptural elements interspersed throughout the gallery expand the paintings into three-dimensional space, as though images have acquired material form and stepped out of their canvases. Together, these paintings and sculptures encourage visitors to move fluidly between two and three dimensions, and image and object, expanding the possibilities of spatial perception.
Hong Jin-hwon has long explored the power dynamics and visual regimes embedded within images through a multidisciplinary practice spanning photography, film, and web programming. His new video work The Highest Form of Image Is Armed Struggle (2026), juxtaposes declarations from revolutionary movements of the past with contemporary protest culture, reflecting on the ways in which social movements are consumed, circulated, and reconfigured as images. The new installations Dark Adaptation (2026) and Light Adaptation (2026) investigate the innate power of contemporary visual systems through the stark contrast of darkness and light, questioning the boundaries between visibility and invisibility, while the photographic series Exactly Speaking, the Milky Way is a Phantom (2026) places images of political landscapes and historical sites side by side to examine the relationships between landscape, memory, and acts of witnessing, suggesting that images have the potential to move beyond their function as records and act as sites within which to contemplate absence and silence.
Through the unique perspectives of four artists who challenge familiar ways of seeing the world, Korea Artist Prize 2026 offers a compelling overview of contemporary artistic practice. Although they work with different media and artistic languages, all four artists share a commitment to questioning the structures and conditions that shape our understanding of the world and laying bare the spaces in which those systems begin to unravel. This exhibition invites visitors to reconsider the relationships between image and memory, history and reality, and humanity and the environment, proffering new avenues for critical reflection through contemporary art.
Press Release: MMCA
Image: Poster, MMCA