The 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, which concluded to great acclaim on November 23, has been selected for Artforum’s ‘TOP TEN 2025,’ the annual list published by the leading American contemporary art magazine.
 
Each year, Artforum invites influential artists, curators, writers, and other art-world figures to select and highlight ten of the most notable global art events from the past year for its “TOP TEN” feature.

This year, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale was included in the “TOP TEN” list contributed by Daniel Muzyczuk, director of Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź. Muzyczuk noted that the biennial framed media as séance, thereby displacing technological discourse from innovation to invocation.
 
Led by artistic directors Anton Vidokle, Hallie Ayres, and Lukas Brasiskis, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale began from the premise that “humans are surrounded by phenomena and worlds beyond the habitual limits of perception,” regarding art as a form of “technology” that enables access to these unseen realms.

Daniel Muzyczuk commented that works by Suzanne Treister, Hiwa K, Georgiana Houghton, and Aki Onda “demonstrated how networks summon, channel, and entrap forces beyond visibility,” and added that “in Seoul’s hyperconnected environment, the show insisted that every interface is already an occult device.”

Meanwhile, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale concluded, surpassing a total of 100,000 visitors. Not only in terms of numbers but also in the diversity of age and nationality, visitor engagement was notable. Visitors aged 20 to 39 accounted for 70.2% of the total, while foreign visitors made up 19.3%, highlighting the Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s position as an international cultural platform that spans generations.

References

• Artforum, Best of 2025 TOP TEN by Daniel Muzyczuk