Lehmann Maupin Seoul presents 《Sublime Simulacra》, a group exhibition curated by Andy St. Louis, on view through March 15.

Featuring works by Kim Yun Shin, Kim Chang Euk, Hong Soun, and Scott Kahn, the exhibition speculates on the potential for landscape paintings to generate shifts in the ways that images mediate our experience of the natural environment.

This exhibition explores how art intervenes in landscapes by broadly interpreting the concept of simulacra, in which representation becomes so vivid that it creates its own reality or surreality, disrupting the hegemony of the real and redefining the cognitive connection between perception and belief.

Through the visual languages of organic abstraction, geometric figuration, realism and surrealism, the paintings on view propose variable relationships between images and the realities they represent, in direct correlation to each artist’s conceptual stance and creative process. By reexamining the dialectics of simulacra through the lens of the landscape, this exhibition spotlights depictions of the ineffable as consummate expressions of authenticity.

Participating Artists: Kim Yun Shin, Kim Chang Euk, Hong Soun, Scott Kahn

“Sublime Simulacra”
2025.01.22 - 2025.03.15
Tue-Sat 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Lehmann Maupin Seoul
213 Itaewon-ro, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea

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.