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-Location: 34, Baramdeuri-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul (Pungnap-dong 142-1)  -Contact: 050-6646-5201

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Open-Air Museum_Pungnap 

Welcome to Open-Air Museum_Pungnap. 

Here is Pungnaptoseong, an earthen mound built by the people of the Hanseong Baekje period to defend their city along the windy Han River. Over time, a city has been built within the fortress, burying traces of past eras underground. With relics buried one to two meters below the surface, the inside of the fortress itself becomes a vast, hidden museum.

Now, please take a moment to imagine this immense museum, and remember that a museum has exhibition halls where relics or artworks are displayed. This exhibition envisions the excavation sites within the fortress as exhibition halls. That said, these halls come to be sites where visitors encounter contemporary artworks while walking along the streets or turning a corner, thus blending the past with the present.

So, what kind of works would you expect to encounter in such a museum? This exhibition consists of “reappearing” works that can metaphorically represent the characteristics of space and time. You will encounter the emergence of traditional media experiments, historical works, images, and others. In today’s time of immense interest in nonlinear temporality, the exhibition showcases works by artists who have meticulously experimented with and restructured the content, form, and structure of traditional media in the Korean art scene; these works metaphorically and materially represent the layers of time and space in contemporary Pungnap-dong. Additionally, it explores the spatial boundaries of art and museums by installing mediums such as Korean painting, painting, video, photography, and ceramics, which are usually exhibited indoors, outdoors.

These works by the mound are realized like small openings to a portal to another time and space, with even the flow of the wind between them becoming visible. Artist Seung-taek Lee, who has established a unique artistic practice through the concept of “non-art,” presents another track in this exhibition by circulating through the city. Lee’s bicycle carrying the earth symbolizes the reappearance of historical works and becomes a ritual of circulation. To add, Lee’s wind extends beyond the city to the fortress; the red cloth flying across the wind, along with the earth running through the fortress, reaches back to a time older than the Hanseong Baekje period, older than ancient times, making one perceive the planet Earth and its life.

How did you feel after walking through this vast museum and discovering the hidden artworks? We hope this exhibition provides an opportunity for you to transform your view of Pungnaptoseong, a historical yet everyday space, and discover new possibilities within the city. 

□ Performance information

Open Air Museum_Pungnap is pleased to present renactments of Seung-taek Lee's iconic reproduced works, Wind-Folk Amusement (1971) and Earth Play (1994). These are visualizations of "Wind," a red cloth that forms the shape of a bicycle and wind carrying an PVC balloon.

It will be held four times on August 24, August 31, October 4, and October 11, and anyone can watch Earth, Let's Play from 15:00 to 16:00 and Wind, Let's Play from 16:00 to 16:30 at the Pungnaptoseong Namseong-Wall.