Installation view of 《Call Me by My Home》 ©CNB Media. Photo: 문화경제 안용호 기자.
Busan Museum of Contemporary Art presents
2025 Busan MoCA Platform exhibition 《Call Me by My Home》, on view through March 22. Since 2023, the annual “Busan MoCA
Platform” exhibition has served as an experimental foundation for exploring the
conditions of a rapidly shifting planetary era and for sharing collective
reflections surrounding ecology, the environment, urban life, and technology
The third edition, 《Call Me by My Home》 (2025), turns its
attention to the asymmetrical realities confronting cities today: population
decline, regional extinction, the housing crisis, aging demographics, and the
restructuring of care.
Rather than engaging in speculative
futurism, the exhibition approaches urban sustainability through the lens of
the present—asking how new structures of living might be designed under these
changing social conditions.
Installation view of 《Call Me by My Home》 ©CNB Media. Photo: 문화경제 안용호 기자.
Here, the home is not merely something one
owns or occupies, but an identity that shapes the rhythms and forms of a life.
To say that “my home calls me” suggests that the relationship between place and
person is existential as much as spatial—that the ways we dwell determine how
we live, relate, and move through the world. The exhibition therefore asks how
the city calls us into being, and what kind of city we choose to call “home.”
Through an open call launched in March, ten
selected teams translated these questions into experimental spatial
propositions. Some reconfigure the smallest unit of dwelling into “small homes”
that hold independence and solidarity simultaneously. Others propose “the
distance across which care can reach” as a new metric for urban measurement.
Installation view of 《Call Me by My Home》 ©CNB Media. Photo: 문화경제 안용호 기자.
Still others explore sustainable forms of
living built from recyclable materials and architectures scaled to human
capacity. Across these projects, shrinkage is not read as decline but as an
opportunity to reclaim density, deepen relationships, and reorient urban life.
《Call Me by My Home》 ultimately reflects on how we have relied on the city to sustain
our lives, and proposes how the city might hold us differently in a time of
transformation. Instead of a bigger city, it asks for a better one; instead of
more architecture, for more appropriate architecture; instead of a mere
dwelling, for a city we can truly call “home.”
It becomes an experimental platform that
reconsiders the long myth of urban growth, explores how smaller cities can
maintain quality of life and communal density, and reframes the era of
shrinkage through the imaginative lens of right-sized urbanism.
Participating
Artists: ADHD,
Listen to the City, Haeseong Kang + Sojung Moon + Kyungtai, HanYoolim
Architects, Pozamong, Seoul Queer Collective, HyunjeJoo_Baukunst, lab.WWW,
Common Senses, The File Room
