Gallery Hyundai, celebrating its 55th anniversary this year, has announced its exhibition plans for 2025.

The gallery's first exhibition of the year will be a solo show by the late Shin Sung Hy (1948–2009), titled “Couturage, Nouage,” opening on February 5. Known for constructing multidimensional spaces on flat canvases, Shin’s retrospective will feature 35 key works, offering a comprehensive look at his 40-year artistic journey.

In April, a special exhibition commemorating Gallery Hyundai’s 55th anniversary will take place. The gallery describes this event as “an opportunity to reflect on the major currents of Korean contemporary art through the works of artists who have collaborated with Gallery Hyundai over the past half-century, while imagining the next 50 years.”

In June, the gallery will present a special exhibition, followed by a solo exhibition by Minjung Kim in August at the Annex. Kim has spent over three decades exploring the traditions of East Asian calligraphy and ink painting, expanding them into the vocabulary of contemporary abstraction.

During the same period, the Main Building will host a two-person exhibition featuring Kang Seung Lee and Candice Lin. Kang Seung Lee, known for uncovering the legacies of marginalized queer histories and rewriting the narratives of minorities, garnered attention with his participation in the main exhibition of last year’s Venice Biennale. Candice Lin explores themes such as colonialism, diaspora, queerness, and feminism through research-based installations that utilize transformative materials like microorganisms.

At Gallery Hyundai's Gangnam space, a solo exhibition by Tomás Saraceno will be held for the first time in six years since 2019. Saraceno’s works envision "feasible utopias" where humans and various forms of non-humans coexist symbiotically, offering an opportunity to collectively reflect on today’s environmental and climate issues.

The final exhibition of 2025 will be a solo show by Woosung Lee. Known for exploring themes like youth, solidarity, and queerness on canvas while examining the relationship between life and art, Lee will present new works that have not been previously exhibited.

References

• 갤러리현대 (Gallery Hyundai)
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Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.