Panorama

AfroAsia Collective, Goen Choi, Ikkibawikrrr, Minae Kim, Byungjun Kwon, Min Ha Park, Jewyo Rhii, Sun Woo

Songeun is pleased to present Panorama. Organized as part of the Korea Arts Management Service's “Korean Artists Today” initiative, this exhibition brings together a bold and diverse group of artists who continue to challenge the limits of contemporary art and, true to its title, offers an insightful glimpse into the vitality of Korea’s current art scene. Rather than following a fixed theme or format, the exhibition adopts a group show structure that foregrounds each artist’s distinct voice and supports the development of an international platform for their ongoing practices.

This year’s participating artists engage with the world through individual frameworks of perception. The frictions, gaps, and nuances that emerge in the process are articulated across diverse media including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, and video. Their works reframe the familiar, drawing from spatial memory, cultural narrative, and personal experience to create new relationships that are at times reflective, ironic, archival, or politically engaged. Material presence is shaped through elements such as light, sound, and architectural gesture.

Upon entering the first-floor lobby, Goen Choi’s installation monumentalizes the city’s hidden infrastructure by reconfiguring fragments of discarded air conditioners into new scales and arrangements, revealing the often unseen foundations that sustain urban life. In the auditorium video and second-floor gallery, Jewyo Rhii’s art depot brings together closely interconnected works and the shared proximity among contemporary artists. Once housed in a public outdoor storage system for over four years, these works now inhabit the SONGEUN exhibition space. Minae Kim’s sculptures gently subvert the paradoxes embedded in firmly established social structures or sentiments of closure, creating a site-specific encounter with estrangement, while Min Ha Park’s paintings explore perceptual disjunctions by reimagining the possibilities of painting through light, color, plane, and line.

On the third floor, Sun Woo reflects on estrangement within the void between reality and virtuality, as well as on hierarchies shaped by structural oppression, through an uncanny fusion of the body, everyday objects, historical imagery, and machinery. Facing this installation, the AfroAsia Collective weaves intersecting narratives of migration, solidarity, technology, and memory into the postcolonial geopolitics and liminal spatialities that inform their vision of Afro-Asian Futurism.

In the basement level space, Byungjun Kwon employs a location-based sound system and personalized listening environment to orchestrate an auditory form of solidarity, guiding the movement of perception and fostering resonance with otherness among fragmented voices. The exhibition culminates with ikkibawiKrrr’s installation, which distills the symbolism of Maitreya into an ontology of time-accumulated objects and ecological existence, sensitively engaging with the responsive relationships among nonhuman agents that inhabit the tensions between care and neglect, life and extinction.