Visiting SeMA
Paik Ground Seoul Museum of Art
Paik Ground Seoul Museum of Art
Paik Ground Seoul Museum of Art is a space created through the renovation of a traditional Korean house that was built in 1960 on the site of Nam June Paik’s former home in Changsin-dong, where he lived from 1937 to 1950. Opened in March 2017, the space serves as a site exploring the artist’s life, art, and intellectual legacy while presenting exhibitions and programs featuring contemporary artists who continue Paik’s experimental spirit.
For the Paik Ground SeMA building, deteriorated parts were carefully dismantled, repaired, and reassembled to preserve the original form of the single-story hanok constructed in 1960. It also aimed to express respect to the memories of the time and space of Changsin-dong in the past while trying to avoid any intentional creation of old architectural features. The grid pattern floor linking the central courtyard with the interior of the house is designed to stimulate the imagination of the viewers to easily accept various changes of the geometrical pattern.
Architect: Choi Wook (101 architects)
Visitors are free to view the exhibition Megatron Rhapsody, which opened on June 17, 2025.
Run by a cooperative of local residents, the Nam June Paik Cafe provides somewhere for visitors to relax and houses a collection of books on Nam June Paik to help them understand the artist.
61, Deoksugung-gil, Jung-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea (04515)
82-2-2124-8800