The Arts Council Korea (ARKO) will present a range of visual and multidisciplinary art projects nationwide during the 2025 Korea Art Festival (September 1–30), aiming to broaden the value and impact of culture and the arts.
 
This year, through its 2025 Visual and Multidisciplinary Arts Workshop Support Program, ARKO has selected 98 projects in total. Collaborations with various institutions—including Art Sonje Center, Ilmin Museum of Art, Asia Culture Center (ACC), Paradise Cultural Foundation, and THILA—will further enrich the festival’s scope.
 
A representative program is 《Porous City — Where the Wind Comes From》, co-organized with THILA and curator Sohyun Park. Timed with Kiaf–Frieze Seoul, the exhibition features large-scale screenings of video works by leading Korean mid-career artists—Ji Hye Yeom, Minouk Lim, Yeondoo Jung, and Chan Sook Choi—across interior and exterior screens of COEX Mall in Samseong-dong, on view until September 7.
 
Although Seoul is home to countless media screens, it is rare to see works by such prominent mid-career artists presented on this scale.

Meanwhile, ARKO will also present 《SIMULTANEITY, Lecture Performance》 by artist Min Oh, in collaboration with the Asia Culture Center (ACC). This live lecture-performance responds to the theme of ACT Festival 2025, “Neuroverse: Sailing Through The Sentient Universe,” unfolding questions of consciousness and perception, technology and the body, connection and separation on stage.
 
Continuing its commitment to supporting artists through partnerships with diverse institutions, ARKO has also collaborated with the Paradise Cultural Foundation. Two projects selected by ARKO last year—《Sweet Spot Inaccessible》 by Youngjoo Jennifer Ryu and 《Unknown Acts》 by Kyungtaek Roh—will be reimagined in new forms at the ‘2025 Paradise Art Lab Festival, Jangchung.’ The works will be presented at 315 Seoul and Hana Bank H-ART 1 (4F) from September 19 to 28.

In addition, ARKO supports exhibitions at major art institutions both in Korea and abroad. As part of this initiative, September programs include 《Adrián Villar Rojas: The Language of the Enemy》 at Art Sonje Center; 《Figuration Circuits: Dong-A Art Festival and Its Era》 at the Ilmin Museum of Art; 《Hyung·Noona·Unni·Oppa》 at ArtSpace Hyeong; 《Pink》 at YPC SPACE; 《Poetry, Sculpture, Light, and Praise》 at the Kimsechoong Museum; and 《The Skin I Live on》 at BOAN1942.
 
Byoung-gug Choung, Chairman of ARKO, stated, “As the central hub for cultural and arts support in Korea, ARKO will continue connecting diverse institutions and resources in the field to foster artistic experimentation.” More details on supported exhibitions can be found via ARKO’s integrated platform (thearts.arko.or.kr) as well as the websites of each institution and participating artist.
 
Furthermore, during the 2025 Korea Art Festival, a variety of major art events will take place nationwide, including Frieze·Kiaf Seoul (which concluded last week), the Gwangju Design Biennale, Daegu Photo Biennale, Sea Art Festival, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, ASYAAF, and the Cheongju Craft Biennale. More information is available on the festival’s official website (k-artfestival.com).

References

• 한국문화예술위원회 보도자료 (Arts Council Korea Press Release)