With the goal of introducing promising new artists and investigating issues surrounding contemporary art, the Seoul Museum of Art has held the SeMA Youth exhibitions in alternate years since 2004. This year’s exhibition, the fifth such event, was planned in a new form in order to explore a new developmental direction based on previous accomplishments, which have succeeded instimulating discussion about contemporary art through artworks by young artists. 

This exhibition will shed light on aspects of artworks by young contemporary artists who are actively working at home and overseas in various genres. Amid a situation where the boundaries of art itself, as well as the media and genres of art, have become blurred, this exhibition will provide an opportunity for visitors, artists, and the art museum to communicate with each other and appreciate a new flow of our art, by providing a space in which young artists can freely think and explore. 

This exhibition of works by twelve young artists will encompass every field of modern art including painting, video, photography, installation art, and sound. The works on which the young artists are currently concentrating are the theme of this exhibition. Accordingly, twelve events, which will be held in twelve rooms, will show the current direction of each young artist, and the exhibitions displayed in twelve rooms become one connected exhibition revealing diverse aspects of Korean modern art as created by young contemporary artists. The twelve rooms of the twelve artists are each successively connected with each other while serving as twelve independent stages on which a unique artistic incident occurs, and each room serves as a scene to form one big stage within the topology of contemporary art. 

The new form adopted by this exhibition is designed to shed light on artworks by young artists through its open composition. It will serve as a venue which generates points of discussion about contemporary art, as well as future development, by enhancing the public’s understanding and appreciation of the meaning and diversity of modern art. 

Viewing Points: A simultaneous presentation of twelve exhibition rooms and twelve events showing aspects of the art world of young contemporary artists. 

Attending artists:Hyungmin Moon, Kijong Zin, Part-time Suite, Kira Kim, Ha Tae-Bum, Sangdon Kim, Kyung Woo Han, KIM, YONGKWAN, Young-Sup Kim, Roh, Jinah,UNG-PIL BYEN, Jinjoon Lee