Poster image of 《The Summer We Call Ours》 © Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art
To mark its 20th anniversary, the Gyeonggi
Museum of Modern Art is presenting 《The Summer We Call
Ours》, an exhibition introducing 26 emerging artists
and collectives whose practices have gained recognition for their potential
within the contemporary art scene. The exhibition is on view through September
27, 2026.
Since its opening, the museum has expanded
the scope of contemporary art by fostering exchanges with adjacent disciplines
such as craft, design, and architecture. Today's emerging artists continue this
interdisciplinary dialogue with even greater freedom. Just as painting can
extend into sculpture and spatial practice, artistic disciplines are no longer
fixed categories but fluid territories that they move across with ease.
For these artists, their individual modes
of practice have become genres in their own right. Their works embody the
diversity of contemporary art in ways that resist conventional institutional
classifications. It is precisely this openness—the potential to evolve, expand,
and transform into something else—that lies at the heart of the exhibition.
Moving beyond disciplinary distinctions, To
Our Summer invites visitors to engage with art through the broader framework of
artistic practice. Bringing together painting, sculpture, installation, media
art, furniture, architecture, ceramics, design, textiles, and performance, the
exhibition features 26 artists and collectives whose works open new
possibilities for dialogue across media and interpretation.
The exhibition also embraces chance as a
curatorial strategy. By introducing elements of randomness into the placement
of artworks and allowing visitors to determine their own routes through the
galleries—as well as how they navigate the exhibition brochure—it encourages
each person to shape an individual viewing experience.
Keywords drawn from each artist's practice
accompany the works, offering visitors conceptual points of entry through which
they can encounter the artists on their own terms.
