National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art ^(KR)

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) is South Korea’s leading institution dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Established in 1969, it has evolved into a multi-venue museum with four locations: Gwacheon (opened 1986), Deoksugung (opened 1998), Seoul (opened 2013), and Cheongju (opened 2018).

MMCA collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits modern and contemporary art with a focus on Korean art history while also showcasing international trends. The museum offers diverse exhibition programs, educational activities, and cultural events that bridge traditional and experimental art forms.
As a cultural hub, MMCA has been instrumental in promoting Korean artists internationally while bringing global art perspectives to domestic audiences. The museum actively engages with contemporary issues through special exhibitions, interdisciplinary programs, and community outreach initiatives.

MMCA Performing Arts
The MMCA Performing Arts goes beyond exhibition-based visual arts, attempting to combine various genres, media, interdisciplinary convergence and fusion. The vision of MMCA Seoul, which opened in 2013, is to contribute to the development of dynamic future art, the acceptance of diverse art fields, and the formation of productive contemporary art discourse, which the Performing Arts with its black box theater and the Film and Video with cinema theater are putting into practice. Sung interprets and critically practices this “MMCA Performing Arts” in a much more unique way of his own. He thinks about and practices this performing arts as more than simply having dance or theater take place in a museum, or attempting interdisciplinary or multi- media approaches. He expands the concept of performing to include the performing of diverse subjects such as objects, and non-human beings, as well as the performativity of MMCA, the institutional subject to which he belongs, and curates projects accordingly. Through this, he aims to reveal the excess and discord in the arts and societies that can no longer be explained nor defined through a single perspective or a standardized form.

This profile was last updated on the 17 March 2025.