Yonghee Sung ^(KR)

Yonghee Sung (born in 1977, Yeosu) has curated exhibitions, projects, and festivals that emphasize contemporaneity in Asia, the performativity of art (institutions), and new aspects of performing. After joining the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art(MMCA) in 2018, he is in charge of performing arts at the MMCA and is working on a variety of projects, including as Space Elevator (2024) in which he explored questions of physicality through performing arts, Museum-Carbon-Project (2022), which proposes the role of museums in the Anthropocene, and A Museum for All, A Museum for Dogs (2020) in which he invited dogs as the actual audience to the museum. He was the artistic director of Gwangju Media Art Festival (2017) and curator of Singapore Often Media Art Festival (2016-2018), where he sought the ontological position and performativity of technical objects. Sung worked previously at the Asian Art Theater (2013-2015) questioning “What is Asia” and “What is contemporaneity in Asia,” and for Festival Bo:m (2009-2013), an annual international festival of interdisciplinary and performing arts that wished creative interactions between contemporary art genres. He was also curator at Alternative Space LOOP (2007-2009), where he aimed at producing alternative Asian art and culture by confronting Western-oriented globalization.

This profile was last updated on 17 March 2025.