As part of its exhibition program supporting mid-career artists, Seongbuk Museum of Art is presenting a solo exhibition by HUH, Yun-hee, titled 《HUH, Yun-hee: The Eternal within a Moment》, on view through September 7.

This exhibition highlights the artistic practice of the accomplished artist HUH, Yun-hee—recipient of the 2024 LEEINSUNG ART PRIZE—and explores the beauty and profundity of life and nature through the lens of ecological art, one of the key discourses in contemporary art today.

In Exhibition Hall 1 (3rd floor), the museum presents over 110 works from HUH, Yun-hee’s ongoing series ‘Sunrise Diary’, which she began painting daily in October 2023 after relocating her studio to Jeju Island to fully immerse herself in her practice. These paintings depict the rising sun over the Jeju sea, capturing the eternal quality found in moments of complete embrace and healing by nature. Accompanying the series is the first screening of the artist’s new documentary video Seasonal Ritual (2025), which records her painting process through changing seasons in Jeju.

Exhibition Hall 2 (2nd floor) features the artist’s signature charcoal drawings and mural performance videos, as well as her ‘Leaf Diary’ series and project works from Germany. These earlier works offer contextual grounding for the artist’s long-standing artistic themes, now further developed in connection with her latest ‘Sunrise Diary’ series.

The artist uses charcoal—created by burning wood at the end of its life—to draw large-scale murals, leaving behind its powder as a trace of the moment. Through performative gestures of intentionally erasing parts of these drawings, she reflects on the passage of time and the inevitable disappearance it brings. Her interest in vanishing glaciers and endangered plants further conveys a deep contemplation of nature’s impermanence, prompting reflection on enduring beauty and value.

The ‘Leaf Diary’ series, which began in 2008, originated from walks near her studio around Bukhansan Mountain, where the artist collected fallen leaves. These leaves—traces of life that has ended—were brought back to life through drawing, breathing new existence into what once was. This entire process centers around a consistent force in her work: the cycle of life and a yearning for eternity.

Through HUH, Yun-hee’s quietly profound and sincere body of work, expressed in the traditional medium of drawing, viewers are invited to experience the beauty of life, the comfort of nature, and the emotional resonance of solidarity.

“HUH, Yun-hee: The Eternal within a Moment”
2025.07.08 - 2025.09.07
Tue-Sun 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Seongbuk Museum of Art
134, Seongbuk-ro, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul, Korea