Leekyung Kang, Guardian of Underground,
2025, graphite, airbrush, and acrylic on linen, 96x80in each ©Busan Museum of
ArtThe Busan Museum of Art is presenting its
Project for a Balanced Art Ecosystem, titled 《Vision
and Perspective 2025》, at Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul
through July 6, 2025. Launched alongside the founding of the Busan Museum of
Art, the 《Vision and Perspective》 exhibition has been held regularly to discover and support emerging
regional artists.
This year’s edition is being held in Seoul,
rather than Busan, to offer broader exposure to Busan-based artists during the
museum’s temporary closure for renovation. To further globalize the regional
art scene, the museum has differentiated every stage of the project—from artist
selection to support programs.
After a three-stage review process over two
months by curators and both domestic and international art experts, eight
finalists were selected. These artists will receive continued support,
including exhibition opportunities and network-building programs, over the next
two to three years.
Hyunsung Park,
Airborne Fantasy, 2024/2025, Fabric, stainless steel, PVC,
hose, Dimensions variable ©Busan Museum
of ArtThe exhibition unfolds across three floors,
developed in close collaboration with the selected artists. The ground level
presents works by Leekyung Kang, Mirae Kim, Kim Taesung, and Hyunsung Park.
Leekyung Kang visually investigates the structure of hidden or unrevealed
spaces and their incomplete conditions through painting, experimental
printmaking, and installation. Mirae Kim visualizes emotional states through
drawing and continues her exploration of their fluidity and narrative
potential.
Kim Taesung expands the expressive
possibilities of painting, reconfiguring the medium’s language within a
contemporary context. Hyunsung Park explores the relationship between the body
and its external environment, conceptualizing the skin as a boundary of
sensation and stimulus.
Jangwoo You,
A Certain Sadness, 2024/2025, FULL HD multi-channel video,
color, silent, 01:23:27 ©Busan Museum of ArtOn the second floor, works by Mirae Kim,
Hyunsung Park, Jangwoo You, and Hana Yoo are on view. Jangwoo You analyzes the
socio-psychological structures shaped by capitalism and technology, using video
to examine how sensation and concept are formed and consumed. Hana Yoo engages
themes of otherness, as well as the political contexts and psychological
fragmentation that surround it, crafting experimental narratives that trace the
instability of identity within contemporary society.
The final floor showcases works by Jaewon
Kim, Jihye Park, and Kim Taesung. Jaewon Kim explores the expansiveness of
identity, disease, and memory through video, photography, and language,
reconstructing narratives surrounding queer identity and HIV/AIDS. Jihye Park
uses sculpture, installation, and performance to visualize contradictions and
missteps within human relationships, amplifying the lives and voices of unseen
or overlooked figures.
Participating Artists: Leekyung Kang, Mirae Kim, Jaewon Kim, Kim Taesung, Jihye Park,
Hyunsung Park, Hyunsung Park, Jangwoo You, Hana Yoo
