Amado Art Space presents a solo exhibition 《Off-ning》 by artist Sumin Cho, on view through October 19.

Sumin Cho has been questioning the boundaries between art and everyday life by repeatedly engaging in daily labor according to self-imposed rules developed in response to specific conditions of everyday life. Since late 2023, the artist has treated Amado Art Space itself as a given condition for her practice, continuing a sustained series of responses to the space.

Her second solo exhibition, 《Off-ning》, presents the process through which she has occupied the gaps within the specific physical and institutional conditions of Amado Art Space over approximately two years, reinterpreting the space in novel ways.

The artist interprets the characteristics of Amado Art Space, which has existed for over a decade, as embodying an ambivalent will: simultaneously provoking experimentation while preserving its identity. She also notes that this will is embedded throughout the space—in its physical conditions and operational practices—and functions to position the institution as a kind of intermediary between past and future.

During her two-year project, Cho temporarily occupied gaps in the schedule, such as closed days or non-opening hours, performing repetitive labor that both adhered to and deviated from the rules of the exhibition space.

The exhibition title, “Off-ning,” is a contradictory combination of “open,” suggesting openness or exposure, and “off,” implying cessation, closure, or deviation. As the neologism suggests, the artist overlays new temporality onto the traces and trajectories of the institution through a unique mode of occupation that “leaves traces yet leaves no traces.” In doing so, she temporarily suspends existing orders and flows while simultaneously opening up new conditions and modes of operation.

“Off-ning”
2025.09.19 - 2025.10.19
Thu-Sun 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Amado Art Space
8, Itaewon-ro 54-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Korea